SatelliteGuys November 19th Live Dish Retailer Chat Recap

[Hemi 6.1]

A 500 will not work for 72.5 & 77, the spacing from the lnb's is closer together. Pretty much have to use a 1000.4 to get both 72.5 & 77 on a single dish.

Or 3 seperate Dishes ,which is kind of dumb right?

 

[Poke]

Ok so does the DVR feature work on 411's just like the 211's? Does the one time fee of 39.99 included both of my receivers or do I need to pay a fee for the 411 and the 211?
There is NO Monthly DVR fee correct so its the one time $39.99 fee and that's it?

I have been thinking about getting a DVR but I might wait for this new 922 that they have been talking about some.

 

[Smith P.]

yes; yes; yes

922 ? - in couple years

 

[mruk69]

You mean SOON.

 

[bnewt]

Louisville is now officially an Eastern Arc preferred setup. Cheap and easy to add a wing dish to the existing customer's 1000.2 dish. New HD customers will get the EA dish as well as existing ones willing to pay for it themselves. I installed a 77 wing dish and all nine locals are now on 77 except there are no SD versions of the three HD locals.

But who wants a 2nd dish on their house? Not me. In my situation, 10 years ago, they mounted the dish on my chimney, which at first I didn't really care for. But it has grown on me. The problem is that to get the EA, the dish would have to be mounted on the opposite side of the chimney & would probably require all new cabling from the dish to the receivers. No thanks. I ran the cabling myself because I did not want installers falling through my ceilings or screwing up things in the crawl space. Now I am too old to crawl around on my stomach & duck walk in the attic.

 

[teamw]

When do the new remotes go on sale?

 

[Smith P.]

Soon.

 

[teamw]

Is that before or after our 50 new hd channels?

 

[Smith P.]

Before.

 

[teamw]

Good, 'cause we all know they're coming SOON.

 

[wlwgampa]

VIP 222

I don't recall, but isn't there supposed to be the same EHD support for the 222 receiver as well as the 211?

 

[Smith P.]

Yes, but try to activate it. Dish can't sort out 411 EHD activation yet, after a few days of beginning.

 

[Jim5506]

I thought I read that the 222 would not be supported at this time, maybe I'm wrong.

222 is already buggy enough.

 

[Stargazer]

Perhaps the software words differently for the 222 than it will on the 211 due to the dual tuners. It is going to be more complex.

 

[Jim5506]

The 222 will have to have three more streams, an extra buffer stream, an extra record stream and an extra play stream, all for the extra tuner and output on the 222.

 

[Smith P.]

SAT/OTA channel is not buffering if you not tune on it. So, only two delay buffers.