Sorry if this has been posted before: Press "TV" button or "VCR" and you get a colorful floating message to push "SAT" to change channels, etc.
New 622 Remote Feature?
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It is very annoying when you are watching the tv using a reciever. I need to be on aux to control the volume but when I do that I can't see the bloody show. Also we have some toddlers that like the remote and I put it on aux or vcr so they won't mess with what we are watching and now I can't do that either. I just bought a harmony universal remote so that will fix the problem.
Mind if I ask why you like it ? I have my opinion on why Dish added this but I'll refrain from posting that for now....
Actually I don't mind having it and I understand why it's there. I also understand that people that know how to use the remote control should have the option to turn the feature off.
It reduces the number of calls to customer service centers and in my case the calls from my relatives and friends so I'm glad it's there.
When I had my Dish system installed last Spring, the installer told me the same thing, that you had to use Aux to control the receiver volume. I got a replacement remote a few weeks ago and was reading the manual, and it tells you how to control the receiver volume while in SAT mode.
I don't know if it's a new feature or not, but it's so much nicer to not have to punch AUX to adjust the volume, and then go back to SAT.
I like it because I know I just have to push SAT if someone else, or myself, pushed another button by mistake.
This feature needs an off option. I'm now in the habit of blocking the end of the remote anytime I change the source.
Dish has acknowledged that "advanced" users don't need/like this and want the ability to turn it off and do have plans to add this. When ? No comment.... No doubt it will still be "on" by default but most of us can manage to find the setting to turn it off ! Hehe, we know how to use our remotes.
