Went to open a new 301 today and found a red smart card....
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Excuse me- a new 301? I thought the 311 replaced them quite some time ago. Surely they're not still making or keeping stock of new 301s?
You can still purchase 301's mostly as remanufactured receivers. I bought a remanufactured 2800 for the guest bedroom. It's basically brand new. I don't doubt that there are still brand new 301's sitting in a warehouse.
It's beginning to look like there's a whole lot more STBs that are gonna die than I thought, when 8PSK & MPEG-4 spread. 2800? Why? Cheap?
Hopefully there is a card swap coming, but since the "cardless" (those with cards on the mainboard) receivers are already compromised, what card will they be using? It is a new card with the new slogan for Dish.
I hope dish doesn't swap cards again. It took around a month for them to get the stinking yellow card to work with my Dishplayer 7100. Just love how they incapacitated my receiver with next to no warning. They shipped me 3 separate yellow cards before we got one that allowed the receiver to actually tune and stay on.
Checking Around
I have asked around, and NO ONE ELSE has ever seen this card. Even dealers with remanufactured 301s that arrived yesterday.
I have asked around, and NO ONE ELSE has ever seen this card. Even dealers with remanufactured 301s that arrived yesterday.
It might just be a different package of the card. The real way to find out if it is a new card is to fire up the receiver and look at the info screen and see the card type and card version.
Yeah, Claude - fire up the receiver and show us that System screen.
Elsewhere it could be a red herring
I see copyright of 1996, could be it FIRST Dish card and someone put it there by mistake or as a joke.
Elsewhere it could be a red herring
I see copyright of 1996, could be it FIRST Dish card and someone put it there by mistake or as a joke.
My Question Is
Are they only one reciever with this card? Could it be a dealer card? I am hearing it is a ROM 206 card.
Are they only one reciever with this card? Could it be a dealer card? I am hearing it is a ROM 206 card.
Besides that, I should have taken a picture of the system info screen last night.
The only problem now is that I do not have the receiver anymore, its actually out on my installers truck and he is installing it for a customer as we speak.
I did call him and he said he is going to bring up the system info screen before he installs it!
The rest of the units I have in stock have YELLOW cards.
The only problem now is that I do not have the receiver anymore, its actually out on my installers truck and he is installing it for a customer as we speak.
I did call him and he said he is going to bring up the system info screen before he installs it!
The rest of the units I have in stock have YELLOW cards.
