Thread: Looking to trade Dish 942 for a Motorola 922

I want a box that Nextcom can modify.



Dish 942 has been in use 90-120 days. Like New.

If you have a 922 and given up on C Band, it could be a good deal.

Leave me a message if interested.

I don't mean to be rude, but that doesn't sound like much of a deal. The 942 isn't an mpeg4 box so no new HD channels will work with it, and after tomorrow, a 942 can't be authorized for any HD service. In your position, I think I'd probably just take the NPS deal for a 922 and sell the 942 for whatever they're worth these days. It can still probably be used as an SD DVR and I guess as an OTA HD box. I'm not sure about the OTA part, since they can't be used for HD Dish programming.

Well, considering that 942s are still selling today for over $400 on eFlea and the 922s have Buy It Now Prices of $50 less, it might have been a good deal for someone - especially given the reports here that over 10,000 a month are abandoning 4DTV subs.

Seem 1 out of 10,000 this month might be interested.

10,000 a month is analog Cband, 4dtv users are not leaving that much, not anymore than anything else I would think

I should have my 922 with nextcom mod going soon, I sold all my Dish HD receivers(except my 6000 nextcom, for HDNet Movies)

-Gary

Originally Posted by Gary Murrell

10,000 a month is analog Cband, 4dtv users are not leaving that much, not anymore than anything else I would think

I should have my 922 with nextcom mod going soon, I sold all my Dish HD receivers(except my 6000 nextcom, for HDNet Movies)

-Gary

The only 4dtv users that will leave, are the ones with undersized reflectors, to many trees hills in the way, or older non tech type people.

Sad thing is that many of those analog only users do not even know about 4dtv, or YSP (dish network) are telling them that big dish is dead and all the channels are leaving

Originally Posted by Gary Murrell

10,000 a month is analog Cband, 4dtv users are not leaving that much, not anymore than anything else I would think

I should have my 922 with nextcom mod going soon, I sold all my Dish HD receivers(except my 6000 nextcom, for HDNet Movies)

-Gary

As there are only 200k 4dtv subscribers left, 10k a month is 5% - or 15% a quarter. No other service has anything like this happening - in fact Dish and Directv had around a 1.5% churn rate last quarter and that was considered VERY HIGH.

5% a month is a stampede.

Cable isnt expected to loose that much in the next 5 years - much less a month.

Originally Posted by HDTVFanAtic

As there are only 200k 4dtv subscribers left, 10k a month is 5% - or 15% a quarter. No other service has anything like this happening - in fact Dish and Directv had around a 1.5% churn rate last quarter and that was considered VERY HIGH.

5% a month is a stampede.

Cable isnt expected to loose that much in the next 5 years - much less a month.

I am still trying to figure out why you would even want a 4dtv since as you put it will have no subscribers left in 20 months. Do you not believe your own statments.

4DTV is not losing customers at the quoted Cband rate, this is people leaving analog Bud mostly

as long as there is TV there will be 4DTV, with some upgraded receivers things would get even better

-Gary

Originally Posted by HDTVFanAtic

Well, considering that 942s are still selling today for over $400 on eFlea and the 922s have Buy It Now Prices of $50 less, it might have been a good deal for someone - especially given the reports here that over 10,000 a month are abandoning 4DTV subs.

Seem 1 out of 10,000 this month might be interested.

Yes, you're right, there are a lot of people being ripped off on Ebay. A used 942 is worth next to nothing in a little over 24 hours. There's no way you can get one to somebody in time for them to be able to sub HD programming. It might be usable as an SD DVR, but Dish will give those to new subs for free. On the other hand, a used 922 is legitimately worth somewhere between $200 and $300.