Thread: FIRST LOOK: 622 Review!

Awesome review Scott!!!!



Isn't the 18 month commitment optional? I thought I saw on Dish's website that if you sign up for 18 month commitment that they wave the $49 or you opt to Not do an 18 month commitment and pay the $49.

Nice review! The only thing dulling the excitement of it is the schoolyard antics of site vs. site squabbling.

Take the high ground, ignore the bait.

Scott, you said it didnt come with the component cables either? I just had a customer call in and activate one today. Didnt come with HDMI, but it came with component. Might be a packing issue like the 211's when they were first released. they purchased one through a local retailer. Anyway, I was very suprised as the activation was really smooth. After adding the numbers to the account, within one minute, All channels but locals were coming in. Locals came in within 5 minutes of the conversation. I was very impressed considering the 211 has an activation bug which normally takes around 30 mins to take the activation.

Just another good thing about the 622

My install date is next week, and this review makes me feel better that I ordered the 622 without anyone, including Dish, knowing what the heck was going on.... Thanks a bunch for an awesome review with pics!

Originally Posted by NewDish12345

Can someone tell me the difference between DISH1000 and maybe DISH500?
I am living in Bay Area, CA. Will I be in the area to receive localHD (NBC/ABC/CBS/FOX) via dish? or do I need to have a seperate antenna to receive OTA? IF I need to get the (snip) also, I am hearng people saying that DISH1000 will be quite heavy and probably can't be mounted on the roof, and need a 10foot pole?

I live in San Francisco and received excellent service from the local dealer. They'll put up whatever antenna you need. If you get one of the HD packages, you'll get the Dish1000.

The Dish 500 only gets the satellites at 110 and 119. The Dish 1000 gets 110, 119 and 129. Some of the HD programming and the SF Bay Area locals are on 129. Locals in HD are not available for this area yet, but will be available later this year. No date has been specified yet.

Larry
SF

Any idea if the signal running through out the house via output two will interfere with a cable modem? I don't think it would but I'd hate to mess that up.

Originally Posted by BobMurdoch

In a perfect world this would come to be...... I've said it before that the constant sniping back and forth diminishes both of you. I'm still going to post in both places and I find value in both from time to time. I too hope that detente breaks out, and each can find a way to accept the long term view that they will both be around to offer insight, commentary, and opinion.....

Quite frankly, I find the reason that I post less here is that there are too many thread updated too fast. While I enjoy helping out, I find that I spend too much time wading through it all and you have to just do what you can where you can. Not to mention that there are a lot of times that the same post if started on both sites, which makes me wonder if some of those posts aren't people from E* or elsewhere checking to see what we know.

Originally Posted by CivicOnBoostEK

Scott, you said it didnt come with the component cables either? I just had a customer call in and activate one today. Didnt come with HDMI, but it came with component. Might be a packing issue like the 211's when they were first released. ...

Is it possible that 622's being provided as an upgrade to a 921/942 is not including HDMI cables because it is understood/known that the customer already has received one with the original receiver?

I dump a number of recordings out to a Panasonic DVR writer. While the 942 has been a great receiver, I have always hoped they would solve the output/aspect ratio problem and add a feature to select playback of multiple recordings and be able to priorities and schedule playback. For example: I am constantly recording news and news related broadcasts and ad-hoc news items for my wife (teacher). It is a time consuming pain-in-the-arse to playback each one of these recordings individually.

Q: Does the 622 have a playback feature where the user can list, soft, and queue multiple recordings for output to archive storage? If not, does anyone know if E* is working to add this feature in the near future?