Video Asylum

Posted by Boomer27 (A) on January 13, 2005 at 04:21:36

In Reply to: Re: DISH Player-DVR 921 or what??? posted by avjguy on January 12, 2005 at 21:19:27:

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You’re assumption about 1st and latter generations is correct since Dish had to replace my 921 I should have received a newer version of the hardware however I’m still having the same problems I had with the older hardware.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