This is a really annoying problem. I want to record all indycar races on my hopper, so I have a Dish Pass timer set up to "new" "All channels" keyword: "Indycar". This search has worked just fine for several years on my old tuner and now my hopper. Now, dish is running a looping infomercial for a Verizon indycar mobile app on channel 095. This infomercial has the word "indycar" in it, so the timers are trying to record the same 4 hour infomercial over, and over, and over.... I though that I could just go into parental controls and block that channel. Nope. The receiver continues to record the show as a "locked event". I called Dish and there is nothing that they can do. I have several problems here.
1. Why is it recording a channel that I blocked? If I block a channel, that should mean that it is blocked. Period. Don't access it, don't show it, don't record anything from it, just ignore it like it isn't there.
2. It is crazy that Dish Pass search isn't sophisticated enough to allow for exclusions after this many years. I should be able to edit the timer to keyword: "indycar -verizon" and fix the problem.
3. Why isn't dish setting the status of all of the reruns of this infomercial to "rerun"? That way the DVR would have recorded it the first time, and ignored it after that. This final issue is the one that has me most annoyed. This is just sloppy. Dish controls the infomercial tagging completely, and should do so correctly.
1. Why is it recording a channel that I blocked? If I block a channel, that should mean that it is blocked. Period. Don't access it, don't show it, don't record anything from it, just ignore it like it isn't there.
2. It is crazy that Dish Pass search isn't sophisticated enough to allow for exclusions after this many years. I should be able to edit the timer to keyword: "indycar -verizon" and fix the problem.
3. Why isn't dish setting the status of all of the reruns of this infomercial to "rerun"? That way the DVR would have recorded it the first time, and ignored it after that. This final issue is the one that has me most annoyed. This is just sloppy. Dish controls the infomercial tagging completely, and should do so correctly.