I will soon be receiving my 4th remanufactured replacement vip722 over a two-month period. After two years or so my original unit had the hard drive burn out and I lost nearly the full contents of the DVR.
The 1st replacement unit randomly switched channels on its own. Three different frequency settings made no difference.
The 2nd replacement unit re-booted on its own, sometimes several times a day and often blocked the transfer of files to an external hard drive.
The 3rd replacement unit had program recording issues. It would say that it was recording two shows at once but only recorded one, or would start a scheduled recording in the middle of the show. Today while I had a tech on the line we did a power cord reboot and then started recording two channels at once, utilizing both satellite tuners. After a minute or so one of the shows stopped recording and there was no record of the partial recording that it had supposedly made prior to stopping on its own.
The fourth replacement unit is inbound and I can see by the R00 number that is another rebuilt unit (R01 would be a new unit).
