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In Reply to: Re: DISH Player-DVR 921 or what??? posted by Boomer27 on January 12, 2005 at 10:30:46:
Just wondering.....how many times has Dish upgraded their software. I have several customers with Dish 811(HD, No hard-drive) boxes with similiar problems. I sell HT systems to typical non-hobbiest consumers who know very little and always program remotes with macro's for them so they don't have to think! I like the features on the 921 and would like to recommend it, but it sounds like they are still not ready. Didn't Dish stop selling them for a while?? Then they started again just recently, supposedly with the software issues resolved. I am assuming your 921 is a 1st generation and hopefully the new ones are better. But apparently not, since I would assume you would have got a new one by now. Direct has a similiar box from Motorola, not quite as many features, but at least it seems to be working.
One small technical question. I heard that Dish's dual tuner boxes could modulate the second tuner output to a varity of channels in the 30 to 70 range. Will your 921 do this?
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I’m aware of at least three upgrades with one just recently adding Diags such as fsck and supposed bug fixes which I haven’t been able to notice.Dish at first did a limited release of the 921, stopped selling them then turned around and started to sell them again. It’s my understanding that Dish wants to go to leasing equipment rather than selling but I’m just relating a rumor I read somewhere (I think AVSFourm). The problem with Dish is if you want the type of functionality that the 921 offers you pretty much have to go with their box unlike Direct that has third party suppliers (Tivo etc.).
You’re assumption about 1st and latter generations is correct since Dish had to replace my 921 I should have received a newer version of the hardware however I’m still having the same problems I had with the older hardware. Prior to the 921 I owned the 721 (non HD) and had to have the box replaced three times for various problems mostly related to the hard drive (this was before they wrote the utility to spin down the hard drive after inactivity).
Not sure about modulating the second tuner output, sorry..
Good luck
Thanks for the info. I appreciate having good info instead of rumors. Dish had better get there act together soon. I am going to contact a local regional rep and find out whats up.
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