We have Dish Network satellite TV service here at the Case House. The HD service costs a little less than the equivalent DirecTV or Comcast HD cable service, and I’ve really liked the DISH DVR functionality. (There is an ongoing patent dispute between Dish Network and TiVo regarding Dish’s DVR software, which has been dragging on in the courts for several years now, but that’s not what this is about.)
We’ve had a Dish Vip622 DVR running for several years now. The 622 is an HD DVR, which can record standard definition and high definition content. The day after Christmas, we were watching a DVD when the audio was almost completely drowned out fan noise. Have you ever heard a PC graphics card when its fan spun up to full speed? That’s similar to what we were hearing.
I paused the Blu-ray player and discovered that the Dish Vip622’s fan was spinning at full speed. Using the Logitech Harmony One to switch to TV mode revealed… nothing. No picture, no audio, nada. The Vip622 had bit the big one.
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