weak OTA signal makes 211k freeze??

[pabeader]

i guess it's a K then. i thought the plain 722 still had an OTA atenna in.

 

[dwarren2]

i guess it's a K then. i thought the plain 722 still had an OTA atenna in.

They do, but only tuner 1 has an ota tuner. Tuner 2 is strictly Dish.

 

[Mr Tony]

I have been running my 211K without any OTA issues.

I just wish it would display the guide data for the Albany, NY channels. It would make OTA recording easier.

it should....Albany is on both arcs (SD on 119, HD/SD on 61.5) so it should fill in the guide.

 

[pabeader]

so then, make sure both tuners are on a sat channel.

 

[chrisn]

I have a VIP622. Many of my OTA's are under 70 and that's usually fine. The problems would occur if I left the 622 on one of these channels overnight. Sometimes the TV2 overnight timers would be a mess in the morning, I suppose from rebooting.

But I can't say dumping channels under 70 is a good idea for everyone. If that's what you can get, stick with it... just be sure it's not left on an "under 70" if you are away from home or overnight.

 

[dwarren2]

so then, make sure both tuners are on a sat channel.

If my tuner 1 is showing a partial signal loss while I'm watching a Dish feed, ie ESPN and tuner 2 is always on a Dish feed, the error message ALWAYS shows up when both tuners are on a Dish channel!

 

[whatchel1]

I have a VIP622. Many of my OTA's are under 70 and that's usually fine. The problems would occur if I left the 622 on one of these channels overnight. Sometimes the TV2 overnight timers would be a mess in the morning, I suppose from rebooting.

But I can't say dumping channels under 70 is a good idea for everyone. If that's what you can get, stick with it... just be sure it's not left on an "under 70" if you are away from home or overnight.

You have a rare machine.

 

[chrisn]

Yeah, maybe. It's a four year old 622 that works well, I guess that alone makes it rare.

 

[pabeader]

If my tuner 1 is showing a partial signal loss while I'm watching a Dish feed, ie ESPN and tuner 2 is always on a Dish feed, the error message ALWAYS shows up when both tuners are on a Dish channel!

i'm too lazy to look this up. how do we know that the OTA is only for tuner 1? i wonder if it's really TV1. in the end, it's something Dish should have fixed along time ago. for some reason they haven't. maybe, the codebase has had this glitch for so long they're worried that fixing it is going to break something else.