I bought the 922 the day it came out and so far... it's cool, but it's the buggiest DVR i've ever had. Dish has done some minor upgrades a few times the system has downloaded overnight, but no major changes since it's come out.
The features and interface is way better than my old 622, but the trade off is having to reboot the DVR a few times a week. I hardly ever had to reboot the 622 (but damn the interface was ugly... not comcast ugly, but ugly).
The Sling feature is great... when it works. I tried watching the Tour De France from work and Dish was having all kinds of problems with the Sling system. The problem is that in order to access your box you have to log into your account on Dish's website (an excessive button clicking/password entering log in process) and Dish's website ALWAYS has problems. Sometimes it tells me that my DVR is not connected to the internet but i KNOW it is because i can see all the stuff on my DVR it just won't play back anything on it. The fix... restart your computer... go through the excessive log in process... and then MAYBE it will work the second time.
So you're logged into your Slingbox (YAY! finally) only for it to be occasionally buggy and slow. One thing i learned is that if you are watching something FULL screen you should learn the hotkeys for FF, REW and PAUSE/PLAY. Multiple times i would exit out of full screen (to go back to the remote and the screen would go blank... but i could still hear the audio. Then guess what... restart your computer... go through the excessive login process.. and then MAYBE it will work.
Luckily if you are having problems getting the Sling to work you can reboot your DVR remotely in the Settings (i think...) tab. After about 10 minutes you can login again, BUT you are always at the mercy of DISH's website running properly, which in my experience is shoddy at best. One Dish representative told me that they 'just updated their website and have been having problems with the Sling feature ever since.' I tried for 3 days to log into my DVR and they finally got it fixed on their end.
All that said, the potential of the 922 is amazing. It's by far the slickest DVR i've had... it's just buggy. I'm sure the 922 will get better over time as with all new Dish products, but it's a slow process.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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I bought the 922 the day it came out and so far... it's cool, but it's the buggiest DVR i've ever had. Dish has done some minor upgrades a few times the system has downloaded overnight, but no major changes since it's come out.
The features and interface is way better than my old 622, but the trade off is having to reboot the DVR a few times a week. I hardly ever had to reboot the 622 (but damn the interface was ugly... not comcast ugly, but ugly).
The Sling feature is great... when it works. I tried watching the Tour De France from work and Dish was having all kinds of problems with the Sling system. The problem is that in order to access your box you have to log into your account on Dish's website (an excessive button clicking/password entering log in process) and Dish's website ALWAYS has problems. Sometimes it tells me that my DVR is not connected to the internet but i KNOW it is because i can see all the stuff on my DVR it just won't play back anything on it. The fix... restart your computer... go through the excessive log in process... and then MAYBE it will work the second time.
So you're logged into your Slingbox (YAY! finally) only for it to be occasionally buggy and slow. One thing i learned is that if you are watching something FULL screen you should learn the hotkeys for FF, REW and PAUSE/PLAY. Multiple times i would exit out of full screen (to go back to the remote and the screen would go blank... but i could still hear the audio. Then guess what... restart your computer... go through the excessive login process.. and then MAYBE it will work.
Luckily if you are having problems getting the Sling to work you can reboot your DVR remotely in the Settings (i think...) tab. After about 10 minutes you can login again, BUT you are always at the mercy of DISH's website running properly, which in my experience is shoddy at best. One Dish representative told me that they 'just updated their website and have been having problems with the Sling feature ever since.' I tried for 3 days to log into my DVR and they finally got it fixed on their end.
All that said, the potential of the 922 is amazing. It's by far the slickest DVR i've had... it's just buggy. I'm sure the 922 will get better over time as with all new Dish products, but it's a slow process.