FROM DISH: New 942 Information
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caesar gdi said:
The difference would be that a digital tuner hooked up to quality antenna will often yield digital (or even HDTV) broadcasts that are superior, far superior in the case of HDTV, of the same content that a lot of Dish subscribers are paying $5 a month for.
I agree that it would be stupid of Dish to not include HD over the air tuners in the high-end receivers, for competitive reasons. However, when one does a direct picture-quality comparison between Dish's locals and what the OTA tuner pulls in the contrast is stark. The fact is, the compressed Dish signal looks awful. The best thing about the Dish local package is it allows one to see stations in different directions without fiddling with a rotor. Meager praise indeed. Like I really need to see the Modesto PBS station.
NO E* box has an analog tuner. Most have an OTA passthrough - which is not analog or digital - it's neither/both.caesar gdi said:
EDIT: Above information is WRONG. Corrections over the next several posts.
SimpleSimon said:
Actually the model 5000 has an analog tuner. I also thought the model with the digital tape player in it also had an analog tuner. It would have been great for Dish to have one with their DVRs so you could record your locals but after Dish started providing LILs to most of the country, it wouldn't make sense since Dish wants you to get your locals through them.
Ah crap - mark it on your calendar - I was wrong.
Misunderstood what I was writing and forgot about the HD and Legacy boxes.
Misunderstood what I was writing and forgot about the HD and Legacy boxes.
I guess, you did think that time about ATSC signal, then you're right: the SD receivers doesn't support it.
It amazes me how many people can't wait to piss away $250 for the ability to RENT this thing. Especially considering MPEG4 is getting so close, well maybe for D* anyway . I guess it's still a better deal than a $950 921 when it first came out.
. I guess it's still a better deal than a $950 921 when it first came out.kbohip said:It amazes me how many people can't wait to piss away $250 for the ability to RENT this thing. Especially considering MPEG4 is getting so close, well maybe for D* anyway
Possibly people are looking that they can get the 942 and when Mpeg4 arrives E* will have an upgrade path for them. When you are under their lease pgm does the plan not allow you to do one upgrade a year or something like that?
I do wonder why someone would put out $250 up front (about 1/3 the retail and after 1 year rent 1/2 the cost of buying) for the privilage of renting. You can bet that if this works for E* you are going to see more upfront charges like that for hardware, which in my view is a crock.
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Its all about the market.
In my mind $250 plus rent is cheaper than $750 to buy.
Plus the key word is -lease-
2 Years from now when my city (Im not in the top 100 markets), is Mpeg4, I would be glad to drop an other $250 and lease a new one. Or maybe they will just let me get a free upgrade since I am leasing and I already bought into the lease program.
Either way, its still better than $750 now and an other $750 two years from now.
I must have a HDTV solution so I see no other option. Even the HD Tivo is $750.
In my mind $250 plus rent is cheaper than $750 to buy.
Plus the key word is -lease-
2 Years from now when my city (Im not in the top 100 markets), is Mpeg4, I would be glad to drop an other $250 and lease a new one. Or maybe they will just let me get a free upgrade since I am leasing and I already bought into the lease program.
Either way, its still better than $750 now and an other $750 two years from now.
I must have a HDTV solution so I see no other option. Even the HD Tivo is $750.
ScottChez said:
I was thinking more about this and with renting the 942 at an upfront cost of $250 then another $5-10 a month thereafter it is a better deal than buying it. I mean if you bought a 942 for $750 and then kept it a year and ended up selling it on Ebay I'd doubt you would get more than $500 for it tops. This isn't even taking into consideration that Dish will have cut the price of it in half by then either, so you might end up only getting $300 for it.
Does the 942 have to be plugged into a phone line? It said somewhere on the spec sheet that it uses some sort of thing that runs off the house electrical wiring.
kbohip said:
Take the $250 upfront and we will use the $5 mth fee, that is another $60 so in the first year you have paid $310 for nothingm at $10 that is $370. I would agree that the lease would be an option if there was no upfront fee...seems that E* want's you to pay for the Mpeg4 upgrade well before it's time (I do not see E* coming out with a Mpeg4 receiver for well over a year).
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Yes, it or another receiver with DishCOMM does have to be. The DishCOMM feature allows you to have just one receiver connected to the phone, then your other DishCOMM-enabled receivers report to it over the the electrical lines.kbohip said:
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