jsanders said:
You need to ask how???
Why not just start a thead, "What items would you like to see voted on in a poll to prioritise our concerns with dish?"
This board isn't about everyone "making their own". The point is for us all to work together. Try something like, step one, everyone list concerns. Step two, everyone prioritise concerns. Step three everyone list possible courses of action. Step four, everyone prioritise and and decide on courses of action with contingency plans in place. That is a loose framework of how we can all work together. I voted in your poll because I am trying to work with you. However, your list does lack elements (I'm not saying mine would be much better). Two heads are better than one, and many people making contributions can make a much more solid list.
Would you like to start a list like that? If you haven't noticed, I already made the list investigation I was talking about in this thread:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=39756
In this thread, every time someone has made a suggestion, I have added it to the list found in the first post on the thead. If you want me to add the items in your list, I will be more than willing to do that, you have some very good ideas. From your poll results so far, I think it would be prudent to break your list up into sections, generate a list on what HDTV programming is most importnat, a list on most important bugs to be fixed, a list on what are the most important features to add, etc.. My list is about bugs and features added.
The choice is yours. What would you like to do?
That is what I am trying to do, and that is what I am trying to communicate to you and others. I am going to make a post in a week or two, (after everyone gets a chance to vote) and I will go down through my answers in my poll, and the majority will win, I will then ask everyone to list for instance what HD channel, or what catagory of HD channels they want, or I will ask, what area of Software QC is of most importance to them, why do you think having Dish Home on your 921 and etc. receiver should be done, why does it matter to have NBR, and etc... But to me at least, if you don't know where to begin, you won't have any idea of what is most important to people. We both are trying to do it, it is just you've taken a different direction than I have. I am not trying to step on anyone's toes, nor am I denying the importance of working together. If the majority of everyone that votes on this poll says HD channels, then that tells me, that NBR isn't that big of a issue, whether or not we feel like we are getting screwed on MPEG4 is of no concern of mine in this poll because I know everyone (myself included) is going to say that we are, I already know this, so I didn't need to make it an answer to the poll. But it will be benificial to everyone to know that a majority is concerned with HD channels, not software quality control, not Fav list on 811, and not Dish Home on the 921. (or what ever way this poll shakes out) Then after we find out that the majority wants more HD channels for instance, I am going find out what kind of HD channels. (please note I am using this as a example) It would be pointless for me to make a post asking people what bugs them the most about SW control, because a majority isn't concerned with it. Do you understand where I am going here, I am taking the pulse of people to find out what issue is most important, then I will find out why, or what, and then try to give a picture of what most concerns people at satelliteguys.us about Dish Network.
You, from what I can tell are trying to come up with a list of concerns, then vote on which is most important, then find out why, and then figure out the course of action. And I am trying to get my list of concerns from this poll, I'll miss stuff and you'll miss stuff, but hopefully we will be able to come together in the middle somewhere. Your right, two heads are better than one, and perhaps I will be able to add to your list of concerns, then we (everyone) can continue on to the next step. If for instance I find that fifty people are concerned with new HD, but you find out sixty are concerned with Dish Home on the 921, we now have a list from most important (dish home) to second most important (more HD). And in the end, both of us contributed to the measage to dish. We want Dish Home on the 921, then we want more HD, and then .... And of course some things in my poll can be then sub-divided further (ie 1st HD movie channels, 2nd General entertainment, etc.) and some of the concerns that you come up with could be sub-divided as well, (ie 921 owners want NBR most, 721 are less interested, and etc...)
You, and anyone that wants to use this poll to better come up with a consistant measage to deliver Dish, use it, help me come up with a better poll, use my poll to make your own that is better so that it helps everyone here. That is what I meant when I said make your own, if there is something I didn't do right, fix it, make it better, that is what I was talking about. Make it better so that everyone can get a measage togther and send it to Dish. My feeling won't get hurt, this isn't about me, it is about US vs DISH.
Thank you for working with me, lets continue that, and anytime that I am needed I am willing to work with anyone on getting a message to Dish, I am there 100%!
