Having gone through several replacement Hoppers in just a matter of months, I can definitely vouch for this. You have to think about all of the shows and movies over numerous networks and how it needs time to download all of that information to generate search results. I'm surprised the DISH tech didn't tell you it would need at least 24 hours before the search will work once they prepared to send the replacement. I was told this every time. The search can also stop working once you are towards the end of the week since they have been recently introduced. You can see a show or movie in the Guide but a search results in 'No Results Found' -- One problem I always have whenever they have a free preview weekend for a premium movie channel (such as Showtime) is the search results won't produce any results for the Showtime channels once the preview is active. That still requires a day. Since this particular preview was only for three days, I wasn't able to get any Showtime searches until the final day.
The reasons for replacements were because random episodes and movies stored on my HWS were disappearing for no reason as if they were deleted (although I know they were recorded and were once there), or every recording from specific channels (Chiller, Syfy, Showtime Beyond) or up to a certain date (January 20, 2014) were rendered as if I had already watched them to 100% but unplayable. I also bought another External Hard Drive since my other one was mainly filled with the contents of my old ViP 722K receiver.
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