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steveh27
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Dec 13, 2016

DISH 'downgrades' dishanywhere

I've been a DISH customer for 16 years. I use it at home with a 211k box. When on the road I take my box and tailgater.

At home I used to binge watch some shows or watch an episode I missed. I recently tried to do that and it would not work. It said something like I needed to download a new slingplayer. Which does not download. I called DISH and the 3rd tech help I spoke to told me it now only works with hoppers. I had to keep repeating that I was NOT trying to watch recordings on my dvr or anything live, just the old shows. I'm not going to change my 211k as I need that for the tailgater.

Sad that they took this away. It doesn't make sense with the need for the 211 for the Tailgater.

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  • Technology changes. Just like a computer a few years old is soon no longer supported. Software and programming techniques change. And old equipment and software often cannot be upgraded to keep up with current programming and memory requirements. You have to go with the flow or accept the limitations of the old.

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