FIRST LOOK: Dish 781 HD DVR Receiver

**Scott Greczkowski** · 07-21-2006 09:23 PM

Today SatelliteGuys once again gives you another first look of another upcoming Dish Network receiver, the Dish Network 781.

Ok so maybe you have seen this receiver before...

ITS A DISH NETWORK 921 WHICH HAS BEEN REBRANDED THE 781.

While it will pick up Digital off air HD broadcasts it will not pick up HD signals from Dish Network.

This is the same thing they are doing with 811's in rebranding them 381 receivers. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE 381 (First Look: DISH 381 Receiver)

So now we know what they are doing with all the 921's which are being traded in for 622's.

Still no word on what they are doing with the 942's.

More as we know it, and we also hope to have a spec sheet soon.

**Smith, P.** · 07-21-2006 09:44 PM

OMG ! Got it for $1000, give up to Dish for $199, now they will sell it back - how much ?!

**Scott Greczkowski** · 07-21-2006 09:46 PM

No price yet.

I wonder if its legal for them to sell them as new, when they are not. Or will they be lease only? Only time will tell.

**jcrandall** · 07-21-2006 09:59 PM

Ugh...These things were bad enough the first time around, now they want to offer them as a SD DVR with OTA.

I would still venture they 942s will be sold to Canada, everything from BEV is MPEG2 with no plans to change.

**Tom Bombadil** · 07-21-2006 10:07 PM

My god, it's the ATTACK of the UNDEAD Dish Receivers!

Just when we thought we were safe and that the old MPEG2 HD receivers had been safely buried, they coming up out of the ground!

How can they be stopped?

Perhaps we have to shoot them in their CPUs.

I wouldn't feel safe with one of these in my house. I just might wake up some morning to find a 781 or 381 munching on my brain.

**BoisePaul** · 07-21-2006 10:19 PM

Wow. I would have thought that E* would have wanted to put the 921 disaster to rest for good. Why revive a less than successful model? Wouldn't more money be spent on CSRs to support them than what its worth to reissue them?

**Brewer4** · 07-21-2006 10:27 PM

I wonder who did the cost analysis on this one? I am all for saving a buck or 2 but does this help or hurt E* after net landed costs?

**mike123abc** · 07-21-2006 10:41 PM

I wonder if they will go all out and put the 941/622 code on them? Maybe if they put the more stable code base on them they will do better.

**BoisePaul** · 07-21-2006 11:01 PM

Not likely. Totally different hardware platform - I can't see how it would work. You could clone the interface, but the codebase would still have to be totally different. Remember that the 921 was/is basically a stripped down PC. While the 942 and 622 may be running software derived from Linux, I would imagine that the kernel and most of the drivers are totally different.