I'm a current Dish customer and on the fence regarding this Hopper/Autohop upgrade.

Primary issues:

Dish has said for the upgrade to Hopper, all my existing equipment (some of which is owned by ME) must be thrown off my account. I can't add a Hopper and keep some of my older 311 units to say, play some Sirius music in the basement. Strike One.

In addition, the Hopper has three tuners. However, Autohop sucks up one tuner all the time. This makes the Hopper/Joey combo less useful, given the issues I have with one DVR with two tuners serving only the main TV. Strike Two.

Time to stand up and hit Dish, you listening?

Manually tagging of ads is actually required due to the advertisers acting strongly to break DVR use in the first place.

Such as:

* Shows start and stop at times other than the top of the hour, in terms of several minutes.

* Ads displayed DURING the show (really hate that).

* Poor communication of schedule time, especially changes.

Agree, the annoying ads on DURING the show is what is making me consider getting rid of Dishnetwork period.

Dish, you get that? Get rid of that crap, I might consider staying.

Selling to my eyeballs that don't want your crap in the first place: dumb. It simply pisses me off MORE towards your company and products.

I'm not a fan of having the home page constantly refresh. I prefer to do that when I'm ready. You know, the way it worked for years. ;)

Unfortunately, with the way it is currently working, I actually end up reading slashdot less, as I lose my place.

And no, I don't RSS or other feed junk, have always hated that.

ISCABBS was where I spent a lot of time, pre-ISP, pre-browser.

And it still exists and yes, I still visit on a regular basis.

bbs.iscabbs.com (that's telnet to get there, kids!).

The good old days of 600+ simultaneous online users. Ah!

Today's forums are a lot harder to read.

Tracking who is not tracked while not tracking them.

Hmm.

Oh, right, it's that stupid day when I should stay away from Slashdot, whoops.

As others have noted, if you can't afford AT LEAST another drive, serious problem right off the bat. One wonders what the data is worth given this.

I'll move on, assume the data is worth AT LEAST another drive or two (we're talking a couple hundred bucks at most, come on):

1. drbd: raid to a low cost, remote machine with similar sized drive. Dead drive is now recoverable.

2. amanda or similar backup to drive on remote machine. No, not tape, just virtual on disk. Now have a backup history as well in case one needs that file that one deleted 6 months ago.

Yes, cost is a couple hundred and some older machines, but really, what is your data worth in the first place?

Thanks for this!

Make sure to NOT see this movie, check!
Skip any movie associated with Michael Bay, check!
Keep my money away from Hollywood idiots, check!

My 9th grade social studies teacher showed us the movie "Shane" in class. No, I don't know why. Anyone complain? No. Well, I was taken aback that I saw some guy get shot in the face in school, but whatever.

My local school showed my kid Trojans around the same grade. Did I complain? No. Thought it was dumb (what does English have to do with movies? Heh.), but not a stoning offense.

Some people are just ready to bitch and squeak to get their way, no matter what.

Gamefly is not the cat's meow, but I'd rather pay them and cycle through games than pay $60 for something I play for a couple of hours before deciding I hate it.

Of course, this just means the next step publishers will do is rent the game only. Too bad, that will be the end of my console days.