721 Software History

The Dish Network User's Resource

L326, 5-29-07

Flubs
- Bug: Loss of EEPG (loads, but goes away)
  Workaround: Smart card reset
  Status: Resolved L326
Source (DBSTalk)

Features
- Side-by-side PIP²
Flubs
- Bug: Loss of EEPG
  Workaround 1: Change setup menu from Dish 300 back to Dish 500
  Workaround 2: Smart card reset
  Status: Resolved L326
Source (DBSTalk)

Features
- New data provider for the Linux weather application¹
- Additional DVR record time added to user partition of HDD¹
Source (DBSTalk)

Features
- Warning prompt when you press the "Stop" button during recording²
Fixes
- VCR/auto-tune event timer/Inactivity (screen saver)¹
- Caller ID message in power off state¹
- Browse banner from Inactivity (screen saver) state¹
- Discreet power off/on key handling¹
Source and Discussion (DBSTalk)

Features
- Graphics / Menu Updates¹
- Further support for the 118.7 location¹
- Check switch identification of the upcoming DPP1K.2 LNB¹
- Point-dish / signal 'Satellite' menu changes for the 129 and 118.7 sats¹
- Minor updates to the Inactivity Standby (Screen Saver) function¹
- Screen saver²
Fixes
- 1/4 screen video display in menus¹
- Improvements in tuning for activation pop-up 129¹
Flubs
- Discrete OFF code does not work with screen saver (report)²
- CallerID turns the receiver On from Standby²
  Status: resolved L322
- Freezes when you select a channel from the Dish Home mosaic²
Source and Discussion (DBSTalk)

Features
- EchoStar X satellite expanded services support¹
- Alternate audio updates¹
- * and # phone prefix support in telephone setup menu¹
- New DISH logo¹
- Can now select Info and/or Title independently in the Search criteria²
Fixes
- ITV improvements¹
- DVR 4X fast forward performance improvement¹
- CD audio skip back enhancements¹
- Blackout pop-up robustness changes¹
- Checkswitch robustness changes¹
- Season ticket sports free preview¹
- Jump back 10 seconds from live program has up to a 10 second stall²
- Single-frame advance²
- Pause of live programming can take a second or two to establish²
- Reset of PVR could take up to 1/2 hour to fully return to normal including guide²
- Pressing VIEW button to catch up was often slow to go LIVE²
Flubs
- Spontaneous reboot possibly related to receiving the update²
- Sorting your timers by any of the 4 methods available does nothing²
Source and Discussion: DBSTalk, SatelliteGuys, more discussion (SatelliteGuys)

Fixes
- Daylight Saving Time
- Stops "Need new access card" message when changing channels or setting a timer from the guide

Fixes
- Time corrected after end of DST
- Recording timer programs for 721s that have a yellow smart card
Flubs
- Loss of EPG
  Workaround: reset

Features
- return of screensaver
- Support for "discrete remote on"
Fixes (from SatelliteGuys.US)
- 'Pause, quick skip back, pause to resume, get kicked back to the start' bug
- Fix for occasional run away timers
- Fix for 1-min only recordings
- Fix for can not delete recorded event after play back over
- Fix for can not change channels after play back over
- Fix for very long channel change time after leaving DP721 on a single channel with no channel change or recordings for a long time.
- Fix for unit crash after leaving DP721 on a single channel with no channel change or recordings for a very long time
- Fix for missing or incorrect weather data for some PA cites
- Change to allow extension of start and/ or end of a DVR timer to 90 min. Currently 29 min
- Weird HBO recording bug fixed. When watching a recorded HBO show the remote response would be sluggish and would occasionally hang for a few seconds.I have noticed a couple of new problems.
- Searching from the guide now seems to work.
Flubs
- During playback, skipping forward several times, skip back once or twice. No audio. Skip back again, audio comes back. (1 report)
- Delete a show after watching it, the selected item is the first show in the list, not the closest item to the one deleted.

Features
- interactive weather
- SuperDISH support
- Discrete power codes were added. However the receiver responds to the power on command by toggling the power state instead of turning or staying on. It does respond to the power off command correctly.
- remove the temperature reading
Fixes
- lot of bugs
- 65 timer bug
Flubs
- Certain combinations of pause and FF causes skips and resets a PVR show to the beginning.
  Status: resolved L116
- Audio pops
- Black screen tuners
- Slow remote response
- skip forward sluggsih
- triple conflict fails to delete on command
- play results in black screen and then wait and then pop comes the video

Fixes
- cleans up some things, speed should be faster
- sound lag problem should be fixed
- guide comes up faster
- smoother slo-mo

Notes

Do you know what's new or different? Tell the EKB