Good post. Soon the rate of "innovation" to stay ahead of the competition will speed up so fast the only viable sales will be snake oil.
Good post. Soon the rate of "innovation" to stay ahead of the competition will speed up so fast the only viable sales will be snake oil.IMHO, this is the cost of the rate at which we innovate. Business wants things to change fast to build revenue which is sometimes at odds with the stability users crave. Of course users also want new features and things to look nicer, etc. If users were more sensitive to changes, perhaps big changes like the CUI would cause them to leave in droves, which would indicate to the business that a fast rate of innovation was unacceptable. Then software engineers would have more time to get the software to run correctly and performantly on the older hardware, which has far fewer resources than the platform for which the software was originally designed.
The reality as I see it is the business is going to compete to get new customers and keep existing customers with the minimum investment possible. If they take too long, the risk is someone else will win their customers. If they ship crap because they didn't take long enough, the risk is the customers will leave. The balance point is shipping something as good as possible to attract and keep customers while being not so crappy as to alienate customers. This is the case for almost all software in my experience.
The pace at which this happens unfortunately obsoletes old hardware. It is just a sad fact of life in a technological world.
Nothing wrong with that. Have you considered just using a streaming service for a while and signing back up for Dish later if you need to?
But then he would lose his year or two programming on his EHDs...
But he has years worth of programming on his multiple EHDs. Most of that programming is, probably, no longer available....I was in this boat when I went from Wally with EHD to Hopper 3. However, with the 16 tuners, I was able to find and record 85% of the shows that were on my old Wally EHD within a week.
But he has years worth of programming on his multiple EHDs. Most of that programming is, probably, no longer available....
We're talking years worth of programming. It would take an enormous amount of time to burn all that, not to mention the amount of discs it would take.He could burn it off onto DVD's or Blu rays. This can be done with an HDMI card and blu ray burner in your PC. Less than $100 investment.
We're talking years worth of programming. It would take an enormous amount of time to burn all that, not to mention the amount of discs it would take.
I must consider that maybe the H3 does not have such problems as I see on the HWS.
I plan to write down a list of all problems and concerns. That might put them in perspective, and I decide to just live with them. But they hardly will encourage me to go with an H3.
I must consider that maybe the H3 does not have such problems as I see on the HWS.
I plan to write down a list of all problems and concerns. That might put them in perspective, and I decide to just live with them. But they hardly will encourage me to go with an H3.
but it IS possible. and you can store quite a bit on a single blu ray. Just sayin'.
Can I triple like that!It would be faster and cheaper to get an H3.
The bonus is he would find out the H3 isn't broken as rumored.
Pffft, it's just TV....Most of that programming is, probably, no longer available....
It would be faster and cheaper to get an H3.
The bonus is he would find out the H3 isn't broken as rumored.
But TV that seems important to him....Pffft, it's just TV....
There is no doubt a lot of shared code. Hell, it could be 90% shared and just have a small amount of unique stuff. There have been bugs that show up on the H3, then a few weeks later, after a s/w update, it shows up on the H2.... Then later it gets fixed on the H3 and a while later, fixed on the H2.It's hard for me to consider that the CUI code base isn't the same on both HWS and H3. But I suppose it's possible. But that would cut into the value of having a single code base to maintain.
I use an HD PVR Rocket connected to the component out from the DVR.He could burn it off onto DVD's or Blu rays. This can be done with an HDMI card and blu ray burner in your PC. Less than $100 investment.
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