Re: Dish network -- What happens when you fall asleep?

spud_g00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :
>I have had Directv for several years but am considering switching.
>Here's one of the reasons:
>
>Last night I fell asleep watching a program recorded earlier in the
>week on Tivo. At the end of the program, if there is no user input,
>the Tivo DVR switches to live TV.
>
>Well, my daughter was still up, and what was on live TV was deemed
>"inappropriate" by my wife... Now if I had chosen the program I would
>defend my choice, and if my daughter had chosen it I would talk to her
>about it, but this choice was made, annoyingly, by the Tivo unit
>itself.
>
>My old Ultimatetv unit used to just pause at the end of a recorded
>program.
>
>So if I go get a new Dish Network DVR, what will it do in this
>situation?
The model I have, Dish network 721, at theend of a recording will bring up
the screen where you can start the program, delete it, protect it, etc.
and stays there. After 20 minutes a screensaver kicks in.
>
>Second question -- do the Dish Network DVR's have a 30-second-skip
>button? The old Directv unit had one, but on the newer unit you have
>to fast-forward. (It does have a ~7 second skip-back button but no
>skip-forward). It seems to me that the features are being skewed away
>from consumer interests and toward those of advertisers.
My unit has the 30 second skip. The 721 is an older model and I don't
know how the newest models work.
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