Future receviers
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What we may be able to expect in the future is the following: view/share recordings in any room of the house, all rooms share the same hard drive, television shows/movies on demand will become more popular, more hard drive capacity, additional store solutions (already launched on the 622).
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My ultimate wish would be to be able to watch stuff from the 622, on the other 211s on the house in HD over the LAN. The 622 is back-fed into my in-home coax distribution system, but that is just SD and looks bad compared to HD on the other Plasma and LCD tvs. I was looking for a sling-box type device, but it seems nothing really does HD, unless you have a media center PC, and extenders (which I do) but it doesn't work with Dish as far as I can see.
Oh well, the 622 is bet best solution for now, Comcast nor D* have any better options. *sigh*
Rumours still going around and has some substance to it, a quad reciever is one that I hope to see come to fruition.
"Future" receiver?
I'd like to see a little future on the ones I have now- ViP622, 721 & 508.
I'd like to be able to plug into VOIP or the internet and not have a land line when I move next month. Let all the receivers communicate with each other and use the one link. Dish Comm, anyone?
I'd like to see a little future on the ones I have now- ViP622, 721 & 508.
I'd like to be able to plug into VOIP or the internet and not have a land line when I move next month. Let all the receivers communicate with each other and use the one link. Dish Comm, anyone?
Dish Comm is certainly capable of doing this. It's just a HomePlug IC inside your set top box. You'd need a HomePlug adapter plugged into your router and of course software from E* to turn the Dish Comm circuitry on inside your set top box.navychop said:
You can use VOIP already. I think you just need an adapter. Someone who has done it can chime in on that.
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I hope you're right, Scott.
My ISP stated some combinations of adapters and Dish boxes may work, but the odds are against it and they recommend against it. Something about there are always a few lost packets. OK for voice, but.....
I will be installing a dedicated line for DSL (14,410' from CO), and after that is set up and works OK, I'd love to get their VOIP pkg- it's less than $28. It includes free long distance and free international calls to something like 27 countries. And caller ID, call forwarding, and stuff I've never heard of. The only reason I'm keeping a land line is for Dish. So if we get this VOIP/Dish Comm going good, for all 3 of my receivers, I can drop Verizon and go VOIP and cell, pay less and get more.
Yes, Dish, please bring it on. And support my older units too.
My ISP stated some combinations of adapters and Dish boxes may work, but the odds are against it and they recommend against it. Something about there are always a few lost packets. OK for voice, but.....
I will be installing a dedicated line for DSL (14,410' from CO), and after that is set up and works OK, I'd love to get their VOIP pkg- it's less than $28. It includes free long distance and free international calls to something like 27 countries. And caller ID, call forwarding, and stuff I've never heard of. The only reason I'm keeping a land line is for Dish. So if we get this VOIP/Dish Comm going good, for all 3 of my receivers, I can drop Verizon and go VOIP and cell, pay less and get more.
Yes, Dish, please bring it on. And support my older units too.
I'd never keep a landline just for Dish. I would drop Dish and get a service that would not require one first. I thought the VOIP services worked with Dish now.
Exactly what features would something like DishCOMM provide us?Scott Greczkowski said:I believe we will be hearing about DishCOMM this June.
"... Has anyone ever gotten a XP Media Center PC to work with Dish?..."
Not without feeding it from a Dish STB.
Not without feeding it from a Dish STB.
