Scott's Team Summit Photo Dump

[Scott Greczkowski]

Man its been a LONG day today! Lots of meetings and I met a lot of SatelliteGuys members as well! (Way cool!)

So before I go to bed here is my Team Summit photo dump for today.

 

[yaz96]

Vin Diesel was singing?

 

[TG2]

To be brief ... looks awesome (no, I mean seriously it does) ... but I think I'll skip the cool-aid

... hopefully you'll get some answers about Dish's sluggish response to buggy technology they already sold to us as the latest and greatest.

 

[csmith5111]

As I am sure most of the people on here are lovers of new technologies. I am truly excited about these devices shown here. I really really am. I'm going to go into this fall wanting something great but i do know it might be later but it will come (i hope anyway) and i have a feeling that it will be really cool. Again i am really excited about this coming out.

 

[satjay]

Very Cool, did not know "The Mouth of the South" was a dish fan...lol

 

[riffjim4069]

Nice pics...

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[Frank7004]

As I am sure most of the people on here are lovers of new technologies. I am truly excited about these devices shown here. I really really am. I'm going to go into this fall wanting something great but i do know it might be later but it will come (i hope anyway) and i have a feeling that it will be really cool. Again i am really excited about this coming out.

+1

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[lakebum431]

A couple things that would be helpful to understand. In looking at the house wiring diagram it looks like you need to connect the MoCA bridge to your router. Is this how all the receivers (the 813 and the 110s) will connect to online content or will you need to connect internet to each TV location to access DishONLINE? Second with all this "traffic" on the RG6 is it still possible to diplex an OTA or cable internet over the same cables that you are passing this information?

 

[lakebum431]

I'm somewhat disappointed by the 1TB hard drive. I'm assuming (I know that is dangerous) that they will treat that just like the 922 where approximately half of the 1TB is used by Dish for VOD and whatever else they put on there. 500GB for the entire house doesn't seem large enough to me. I think it should really be a full TB for the user's use and then 500GB (or whatever they feel necessary) for the use of E*.

 

[CK SatGuy]

Photos 4-7 show the sling extender so I guess it might be still coming out after all?

 

[parp]

I really like the looks of the 813/110 setup. Hopefully by the time they are released, Dish will add some sort of OTA option via USB or like the current module. Also hoping it supports multiple EHDs (or even a RAID setup).

(Still waiting for multiple EHD support for the 622/722/722K, as promised by Mark "rack 'em & stack 'em" Jackson...)

 

[Bradtothebone]

Thanks for the pics, Scott. A couple of comments/questions on the shot of the back panel of the 813:
1. It looks like there might be a spot next to the power cord blocked out for a "future" OTA module. Did E* say anything about this?
2. Why two ethernet ports?
3. Will HDMI and Component outputs be live at the same time, like current receivers?

Brad

 

[CK SatGuy]

I also noticed the 813 has an eSATA port so could you connect an EHD that way as well as through USB?

 

[parp]

I also noticed the 813 has an eSATA port so could you connect an EHD that way as well as through USB?

I didn't notice that! Nice!

 

[TheKrell]

I'm not only surprised by the eSATA port, but also by the singular antenna input / MOCA output port. At first I thought this meant the 3 tuners referred to 2 sat and 1 OTA, but there are 2 DPP cables going into the XIP Solo node in the diagram. This suggests the 813 might have 4 sat tuners. But then there is the XIP Duo node which (presumably) takes all 3 DPP antenna signals and farms them out to 2 XIP 813 receivers, for a total of 6 separate tuners as advertised. I guess they are just throwing away the 4th tuner input on the XIP Solo node. BTW there is NO WAY RG59 will support all those signals on the same cable.

Am I the only one confused by these XIP nodes and the wiring diagram?

 

[MikeD-C05]

What about ota module? PLEASE ANSWER that one . I really want to know if I can still get ota and if not then stay with the 722k and a sling adapter/extender or tv 2 in hd in the master bedroom.

 

[mike123abc]

Odd things about the XIP 813:

1. 3 Sat tuners? Why an odd number when DPP tech is 2 sats per drop... We know current DVRs can record 4 streams
2. 2 Ethernet connections?
3. Why is the router off the moca bridge when there are 2 ethernet ports?

They show 4 TVs on their drawing (3 remote and one local), yet only 3 sat tuners?

So many questions needing answers. We at least there will be plenty of time to discuss if it takes 6 months to ship...

 

[TG2]

Am I the only one confused by these XIP nodes and the wiring diagram?

you mean the wiring diagram imprinted on the node or the wiring digram slide that was pictured in yesterday's post by Scott?

If you combine the two ... and then given the MoCa web site's statement of 175Mbit communication ... you can get a healthy idea... I figured... 10 channels of MPeg4 at 16meg bit (total 160 meg) from one 813

Combine two 813's with cross over ethernet (2nd port) and some good programming (firmware/software/apps), and you can provide some nearly seamless capabilities to support 6 channels independantly to any set of 110 clients. Taken further if the programmers are really good, and dish doesn't miss the opportunity to make it right the first time... and you might even get a cross DVR functionality so that you have fairly intelligent recording timers that can grab any tuner that's not currently in use for a 110 output.

The worst case scenario ... is one 813 driving primary .... and the 2nd 813 taking the back seat and all output streams coming through the one "master" 813 ... but the dual XiP switch looks to counter that...

And with the eSata ... would be nice if you could hook a Raid 1 or 5 enclosure to that... no more "drive failure took my stuff" of course... when things did go missing off a raid 1 or 5 setup dish would have no other corner to hide from the dreaded "dish didn't do it" bug monster that mysteriously eats recordings where they hibernate for us..

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Odd things about the XIP 813:

1. 3 Sat tuners? Why an odd number when DPP tech is 2 sats per drop... We know current DVRs can record 4 streams
2. 2 Ethernet connections?
3. Why is the router off the moca bridge when there are 2 ethernet ports?

They show 4 TVs on their drawing (3 remote and one local), yet only 3 sat tuners?

So many questions needing answers. We at least there will be plenty of time to discuss if it takes 6 months to ship...

At least 6 months, and will it be released with all of this announced functionality, or will it be handicapped like the 922 was at release??

 

[harshness]

Photos 4-7 show the sling extender so I guess it might be still coming out after all?

The FCC ID was granted on January 27th.