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PonPugal
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posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 12:29p 
Do you need to sign up for a two year contract? Make sure you get everything in writing from Dish otherwise they will scrw u in the long run. They play dumb as if there are no notes from your previous call and you dont have access to them. I had to go to BBB to get some resolution and I am waiting for October to get out of these guys for ever. |
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FishbudGreg
- Senior Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 1:01p
PonPugal said:Do you need to sign up for a two year contract? Make sure you get everything in writing from Dish otherwise they will scrw u in the long run. They play dumb as if there are no notes from your previous call and you dont have access to them. I had to go to BBB to get some resolution and I am waiting for October to get out of these guys for ever. Isn't that funny. I'm doing the same with DirecTV. Can't wait to switch. |
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Nobahdy
- Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 1:18p
With the 722 receiver is it possible to hook up 2 televisions and watch different channels on them? |
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ProppaT
- Senior Member - 1K
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 1:41p
Ahh man, I'd totally do this if it included Comedy Central. Everything else that I watch is included. |
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zoooom0007
- Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 1:45p
I still think 2 year is a long contract..You can choose to pay $99 upfront and you will not be in any contract what so ever (everything remains same)...Just my 2 cents. |
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zoooom0007
- Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 1:46p
Yeah I had to break my contract with direcTv...They charged me like 300 bucks for breaking the contract. I complained in BBB and now I am getting my money back  ..... |
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Blakester
- Senior Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 2:39p
zoooom0007 said:I still think 2 year is a long contract..You can choose to pay $99 upfront and you will not be in any contract what so ever (everything remains same)...Just my 2 cents. Are you saying that $99 upfront will give you all the current special "freebies" and allow you to walk away after one year when the Cinemax deal expires? I didn't see that offered, can you supply a little more info? Edit: Ah, now I see it- $99 activation fee, normally waived with two year commitment... |
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patelhk
- Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 3:30p
Nobahdy said:With the 722 receiver is it possible to hook up 2 televisions and watch different channels on them? Yes. I have a 622. And I am able to do it. Also, one HD and the second TV has to be SD. |
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sensia
- Broke Member
posted: Sep. 24, 2008 @ 6:58p
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PoorDad
- Member
posted: Sep. 25, 2008 @ 11:21a
patelhk said:Nobahdy said:With the 722 receiver is it possible to hook up 2 televisions and watch different channels on them?
Yes.
I have a 622. And I am able to do it. Also, one HD and the second TV has to be SD. The 722 is a very capable DVR. It has three tuners, two for dish and one for over the air. If you have an antenna connected with the receiver in dual mode you could actually record 3 different shows while watching two different previously recorded shows on each TV. Again only TV1 is HD but TV2 can view the HD content in SD. |
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hodr
- Member
posted: Sep. 25, 2008 @ 11:47a
My .02 (did this exact plan 3 weeks ago). First, I live in Tucson area, so no locals for me (aparently they have been promosing people that the locals will be in HD "soon" for the last two years, I wonder if I could their lie to get out of my contract?). I have two DVR dual tuner units (forgot the model number) and no landline phone, but got the CSR to wave the fee (the first CSR, which barely spoke english, could not even describe the need for the fee and told me it was non-negotiable, when I complained enough to get moved to a US based rep he took it right off). Additionally, I get my second receiver DVR fee waved (because I called BS on a per receiver DVR fee when DirectTV doesn't do it). I think it is a good deal for most people (with HD locals), but the lack of comedy central and the horrendous quality of the standard definition locals makes me wish I never switched from DirectTV. And even though I am in the Tucson market, I am 60+ miles (as the bird flies) from the nearest OTA station, so getting locals (HD or otherwise) over the air is out of the question. |
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Nobahdy
- Member
posted: Sep. 27, 2008 @ 8:05a
PoorDad said:patelhk said:Nobahdy said:With the 722 receiver is it possible to hook up 2 televisions and watch different channels on them?
Yes.
I have a 622. And I am able to do it. Also, one HD and the second TV has to be SD.
The 722 is a very capable DVR. It has three tuners, two for dish and one for over the air. If you have an antenna connected with the receiver in dual mode you could actually record 3 different shows while watching two different previously recorded shows on each TV. Again only TV1 is HD but TV2 can view the HD content in SD. Will hooking up two TVs "tie" a particular tuner to a single TV? In other words, will TV#1 be able to access programs recorded by Tuner#2, and vice versa? |
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PoorDad
- Member
posted: Sep. 29, 2008 @ 3:06p
Nobahdy said:PoorDad said:patelhk said:Nobahdy said:With the 722 receiver is it possible to hook up 2 televisions and watch different channels on them?
Yes.
I have a 622. And I am able to do it. Also, one HD and the second TV has to be SD.
The 722 is a very capable DVR. It has three tuners, two for dish and one for over the air. If you have an antenna connected with the receiver in dual mode you could actually record 3 different shows while watching two different previously recorded shows on each TV. Again only TV1 is HD but TV2 can view the HD content in SD.
Will hooking up two TVs "tie" a particular tuner to a single TV?
In other words, will TV#1 be able to access programs recorded by Tuner#2, and vice versa?
All recorded shows regardless of the tuner used to record them are available to both TV1 and TV2. All three tuners (TV1, TV2, OTA) can record in HD but the output to TV2 is only SD. |
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Moviewatcher78
- Senior Member - 1K
posted: Sep. 29, 2008 @ 3:10p
My service was hooked up on Friday and here are my thoughts so far. Just for comparison, here's what I had before switching to Dish. - Panasonic SA-HT1500 Home Theater which has a DVD Player / recorder and DVR that does not require a monthly fee. It got the program listings (TV Guide based) for free off the PBS channels signal. The downside to this system is that it records only in SD, has only 1 tuner (so if you're recording something, that's what you can watch unless you have another input or cable pass through) and picture quality was slightly less than what you see when you watch live. - Basic Cable - VERY basic cable with local channels (Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CW, etc) plus WGN, HSN, QVC...that's about it. I paid $17 / month for this service. - HD OTA Antenna for watching something else while DVRing from Basic cable or when I wanted to watch something in HD live. No ability to record this signal. Now, for what I have with Dish
- First of all, more channels. I get locals and my favorites (Discovery, TLC, Food, History), some channels for the kiddo (Toon, Disney) and channels that my wife enjoys. I also get HBO, Starz and PlatinumHD channels free for 3 months and Cinemax for a year (cost 1 cent and I had to agree to autopay). All of my channels are in HD and the SD channels of each are available too. - DVR - I have the ViP 722 (required an additional $50 upgrade fee (surprise #1) and requires a phone line or internet connection (surprise #2). This ended up not being an issue, but at first they kept telling me that i needed a phone line or there would be a $5/month charge. Since it works with the internet connection, I'm okay. However, this is a very nice DVR. The learning curve is very quick and most things are very intuitive. I'm able to watch / record up to 3 things at once (2 Satellite tuners and one OTA tuner). The one box allows 2 TVs to access the DVR shows (doesn't matter which tuner recorded the show), view the satellite live or you can set it to 1 tv mode and you have full access to record/watch on all 3 tuners. If you keep it set on 2 TV mode, TV1 is where the box is located and TV2 is the other TV. TV1 can access the TV1 tuner and the OTA tuner...This is an issue if you are recording a show on TV1 tuner and want to watch something else live in the same room from the other Satellite tuner. You must switch to 1 TV mode for this to work...It's not quite as confusing as I have made it sound, but I didn't realise that until it happened. The pause live TV is great, but even better than that is that you can rewind live TV. Once you switch to a channel, the DVR begins saving a portion of the show automatically. That way, if the phone rings, the kid starts pouring milk all over everything or anything else happens, you can rewind to watch what you missed. The DVR is like crack...it's one of those devices that will be hard to give up if I ever have to... - Satellite Dishes - In order to get local channels in my area + the normal satellite channels, I need to have 2 dishes on my roof(Surprise #3). My house now looks strange with the 2 dishes pointing in different directions, but not too big of a deal. All in all, I'm happy with my decision so far. I don't like the idea of my TV reception dying when we have a storm, but that's not very often. As long as that's the only time it happens, I'm okay with it. The guy doing the installation did tell me that one satellite keeps moving out of it's orbit and when that happens everything goes dead for a while on the HD channels. He said I should still have my SD channels though and that they are trying to get that resolved. |
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fatweah
- Tired Member
posted: Oct. 2, 2008 @ 11:46p
I have outdoor antenna and can get OTA signal through it nicely. So I didn't order local channels. But how do I get the antenna input to the DVR? There is a third input into the DVR and the manual says you need to tune to channel 3/4 for that. I tried and it didn't work. Even if it works, I don't see an option to record it - which channel it should be? |
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ptstudent
- Broke Member
posted: Oct. 2, 2008 @ 11:58p
I need to get 2 722 receivers. Any way to get a free second one without an extra fee?? |
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PoorDad
- Member
posted: Oct. 3, 2008 @ 4:39p
fatweah said:I have outdoor antenna and can get OTA signal through it nicely. So I didn't order local channels. But how do I get the antenna input to the DVR? There is a third input into the DVR and the manual says you need to tune to channel 3/4 for that. I tried and it didn't work. Even if it works, I don't see an option to record it - which channel it should be? You need to connect the antenna to the antenna input on the back of the receiver. Then go to Installation menu and select local channels. Scan for your local channels and they will be automatically added to your guide. You record them just like any other channel select the channel and record in the guide. Unfortunately, without subscribing to the dish locals the guide will not be populated with the show details so you will need to know what channels and what time you want to record for OTA. This is why it is still advantageous to subscribe to locals even if you use OTA (to get the guide data populated). |
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SteelRing
- Senior Member - 2K
posted: Oct. 3, 2008 @ 6:45p
Is it possible for current customer to just have TurboHD and nothing else? I barely watch anything non-HD on the top100 program anyway. |
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coolbreeze
- Senior Member - 1K
posted: Oct. 3, 2008 @ 6:49p
SteelRing said:Is it possible for current customer to just have TurboHD and nothing else? I barely watch anything non-HD on the top100 program anyway.
TurboHD is only HD, no? |
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SteelRing
- Senior Member - 2K
posted: Oct. 3, 2008 @ 7:09p
apparently right now if I go to website I must select some kind of top100 stuffs before i can even add HD stuff. so my question is can I just do turboHD and not having to get the top100 crap. |
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