First Look: DISH 381 Receiver

**CJPC** · 06-21-2006 08:14 PM

Its actually a great idea in the short-term, but stupid in the longrun

Dish gets all the old HD boxes in, refurbs them (normally), and just rewrites the FW not to see the HD Datatypes (as the "old" hd will eventually disappear)

They then sell it as an entry level box, for people who dont want dish HD , but want OTA, and it does not cost them a dime.

But its stupid at the same time, because it really screws the mpeg4 transition.

Yeah, Im gonna go with stupid too! I bet its only "soft locked" to disable HD, vs missing decoder chips etc!

**juan** · 06-21-2006 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by ralfyguy

NO! SD for satellite and HD for OTA! This is DUMB!

not neccesarily HD over the air DIGITAL over the air for people without HD sets (svideo down converts HD to SD) Not everyone "owns" a HD set..This is just a way E* will reuse old technolgy(811) to deal with the coming analog to digital conversion in a cheap effective way . Pleanty of e* customers receive locals ota and E* will be in need of a chep effective solution to help migrate these people into the digital age

**halsan40** · 06-21-2006 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by ralfyguy

This is really useless! Fix the damn 622's first!

The replacement 622 I received to replace the defective one has worked flawlessly for over 2 months. What problems are you talking about?

**ralfyguy** · 06-21-2006 08:29 PM

You're one of the lucky ones. Mine just rebooted by itself.

**BFG** · 06-21-2006 08:37 PM

Wow this is stupid.

**directvfreak** · 06-21-2006 08:40 PM

Why put in HD guts when you can not watch Dish HD? If you don't want Dish HD, don't pay for it!

**juan** · 06-21-2006 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by directvfreak

Why put in HD guts when you can not watch Dish HD? If you don't want Dish HD, don't pay for it!

umm digital ota stations when analog become history

**ralfyguy** · 06-21-2006 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by BFG

Wow this is stupid.

Yeah, just in the very second he was praising his replacement 622, MY replacement 622 went nuts again! BSOD again!

**ScottChez** · 06-21-2006 09:02 PM

Pefect, I know lots of people just waiting for this.

I live in Nebraska, lets not forget there are still some DMAs that do not even have there Local SD channels up on dish yet. Like the North Plattel DMA.

I know several who would love this recevier as they get there locals over the air still and NOT on dish.

The receiver would get the locals OTA!!!

When will it be alv? I know of 2 sold all ready.

**rdinkel** · 06-21-2006 10:15 PM

Perhaps this is what Dish will be pushing off to those folks where Dish does not plan on providing HD LILs--this receiver to go along with the OTA antennea!