Dish works to make sure that nothing works with their service or equipment.
The real reason is not copyright but is because Dish loses money. Remember,
they charge extra for recording, multiple receivers, their little portable
devices, etc. The copyright excuse is BS, it is Dish's loss of revenue that
they are trying to protect. Imagine if 10 million customers quit paying them
$5/mo for DVR and $5/mo per extra receiver.
I've been researching and think I'm going to switch to Directv. I'd prefer
using the serial or possibly the USB to control the channel changes on the
receivers.
Steve
"fotobo" wrote:
> I just bought a Sony Vaio loaded with Windows XP Media Edition. I was excited
> to hook up my existing Dish Network service to it and watch live tv while I
> worked on the computer. All went well for about three minutes. The live tv
> display stopped and a message appeared that said that the content was blocked
> by producer from being shown on this PC.
>
> I called Dish Network and was told matter of factly that Dish Network
> doesn't allow its use with Windows XP Media Edition due to copyright laws.
> Now I can't believe that you can't use the Dish Network to play through your
> computer.
>
> Has anyone been successful in using the Dish Network with WME?
>
> Thank you for your help. >> Stay informed about: Dish Network won't allow use with Media Center Edition 
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