I am sick to death of the buggy VIP222K-HD receiver I have. It is the second one, and it does the same thing as the first. Whenever you have not touched the remote for a while, it decides ON IT'S OWN what channel it wants you to see. It always changes to a channel with infomercials. I schedule a show for an hour, and tape it, I come back and find it got 10 minutes of my show and 40 minutes of "Cindy Crawford's skin secrets". I get rain fade BEFORE there is any rain, because a the slightest hint of dark colds, the receiver starts seeking satellite(s) again. I am 20 months in to a 24 month contract and as soon as I can, I am going with another provider. They have sent me new receiver unit on time, and new remotes, and the damn thing keeps sending me to the infomercial channel, the same one each time.
Signal fade, and channel changing, as well as having a USB port that DOES NOT WORK mean I was promised WAY MORE than Dish Network delivered. I can't really post my opinion here, as it's pretty low! The service stinks, and the channels you get on the basic package are not so great.
Anyone else have a receiver with a mind of it's own?
The one and only advantage is I know about 5 minuted before it will rain, because my signal goes away.