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Going on a year ago, I posted and reported (to Dish) about an issue where, using dish anywhere, outside of the home, you cannot record any OTA channels.
It's still a problem and an issue for me because I travel a lot and if I want to set a recording for something that is on an OTA channel, I cannot. I have to wait until I'm at home in front of the Hopper/Joey.
Sucks.
Is it because:
A) All support related emails to Dish go straight to their junk folder?
B) Dish doesn't want you to have the luxury of recording OTA's out of home; they want you to buy the locals to stream? (anything streaming will record OOH)
C) They don't really give a $hit?
D) They just don't know and are stumped?
E) all of the above.
 
marklyn said:
Going on a year ago, I posted and reported (to Dish) about an issue where, using dish anywhere, outside of the home, you cannot record any OTA channels.
It's still a problem and an issue for me because I travel a lot and if I want to set a recording for something that is on an OTA channel, I cannot. I have to wait until I'm at home in front of the Hopper/Joey.
Sucks.
Is it because:
A) All support related emails to Dish go straight to their junk folder?
B) Dish doesn't want you to have the luxury of recording OTA's out of home; they want you to buy the locals to stream? (anything streaming will record OOH)
C) They don't really give a $hit?
D) They just don't know and are stumped?
E) all of the above.
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Buy yourself an Air TV 2 tuner or 4 tuner Air TV Anywhere ota dvr that will intergrate the ota channels into a free Sling TV account. The 2 tuner device requires you to add an external hard drive or usb hard drive to record shows. The 4 tuner device has a built in 1tb hard drive and doesn't work with an external or usb hard drive.

Sign up for a FREE Sling TV account - you don't have to pay for any programming at all to get a free account. Then you can watch anywhere you want the ota channels and it will come with a more complete guide information then DISH provides on the ota channels. Same parent company Echostar and DISH and Sling Tv and Air TV are all under them.

You can watch You Tube and see videos on how the Air TV device works and how it works for free with Sling TV. I have a Sling TV account and a 4 tuner Air Tv Anywhere ota dvr. It works well and I can watch the shows anywhere there is wifi.
 
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MikeD-C05 said:
Buy yourself an Air TV 2 tuner or 4 tuner Air TV Anywhere ota dvr that will intergrate the ota channels into a free Sling TV account. The 2 tuner device requires you to add an external hard drive or usb hard drive to record shows. The 4 tuner device has a built in 1tb hard drive and doesn't work with an external or usb hard drive.

Sign up for a FREE Sling TV account - you don't have to pay for any programming at all to get a free account. Then you can watch anywhere you want the ota channels and it will come with a more complete guide information then DISH provides on the ota channels. Same parent company Echostar and DISH and Sling Tv and Air TV are all under them.

You can watch You Tube and see videos on how the Air TV device works and how it works for free with Sling TV. I have a Sling TV account and a 4 tuner Air Tv Anywhere ota dvr. It works well and I can watch the shows anywhere there is wifi.
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That is an interesting thought and I might consider it down the road. I was hoping to keep everything on one ecosystem to make it easier and one less thing to fiddle with. Honestly if Dish never 'fixes' this I can live with it grudgingly but I appreciate the suggestion.
 
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Not found in available apps, but the search function works for both shows & apps, so I typed 'sling' and at first got a voice message "Opening Sling...live TV...shows & movies." Then the words "Sling Freestream" appeared. However I can access no cable channels and what this seems to feature are limited-content "canned" versions of channels such as Fox News, ABC and AMC. I also see nowhere to do the signup, and any misstep with the remote dumps me out of the app, and then It's still not shown in my available apps and I have to re-do the search to get back on it. Will explore it a little more....
 
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