922 R.I.P.

[MikeD-C05]

Since DISH has removed the 922 from the market and from their website, I thought we should have a thread on its demise. Anyone want to share their thoughts on the brief life of this receiver?

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, 922 to Hopper. Maybe it is more like receiver reincarnation.

[Jhon69]

Since DISH has removed the 922 from the market and from their website, I thought we should have a thread on its demise. Anyone want to share their thoughts on the brief life of this receiver?

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, 922 to Hopper. Maybe it is more like receiver reincarnation.

I would believe that a receiver is dead when you can't find it anymore(or DISH says they will not support it anymore) which you still can buy a 922 and DISH still supports it.Solid Signal,Amazon,EBay(check receiver#!) you can still find the 922s and buy one(I did).

The one good thing the Hopper will do is to make the selling price of the 922 a little cheaper because everyone will want a Hopper.

[Scott Greczkowski]

The 922 is NOT dead... if it was they would have stopped charging you an extra $4 a month for having one.

Let's just say its on extended life support.

[Don Landis]

Scott- can you answer this- How many had to buy a 922 vs. got them on lease from Dish? Gets expensive, doesn't it?

Hopper will go this same route in 2 years. Seems that's the pattern at Dish if one just looks at history. So, if you buy a Dish technology, better amortize it over 24 months. My 921 did last 3 years.

Oh my gosh, I just realized that my 722k will be 2 years old this summer!!!!???? But at least Dish owns them. Guess I better get prepared for one of their incompetent installers calling on me to install a Hopper and take back my 722s and totally screw up my system again. What am I going to do when I can no longer climb up and fix my dishes

[FearTheVoices]

I got the 922 the day it was released...it just died about 10 minutes after the Super Bowl ended...Imagine how pissed a die hard Giants fan would have been if was before or during the Super Bowl?

I cant believe its almost been 2yrs since i got it...It still seems light years ahead of comcast and directv in the user interface IMO.

[Scott Greczkowski]

No I dont think Hopper and Joey will be phased out in 2 years. They are sinking everything into its future.

[DustoMan]

Oh Mike.... such a hater.

Until the updates end- It's not dead yet. There is supposed to be a plan to bring portions of the hopper software back down to the 922 and vice versa. According to the lead software engineer, there are some aspects of the 922's software that are ahead of the hopper. Blockbuster On Demand is still supposed to be coming too, but he said that on the 922 it was "hard to do" which is why it's taking so long.

But Scott is right, the hopper and joey are the future which is why they pulled all their engineers off whatever other things they were working on to focus on shipping those products. Which it suprised me when S116 was dropped after CES. Wasn't expecting that.

[lern4483]

Still have my 922. Jumped on it when it came out.
Its been a rock solid machine for me.

No issues. Great looking guide- i love my 922.
But id have no issues going to the Hopper and Joeys.

[JM42]

No I dont think Hopper and Joey will be phased out in 2 years. They are sinking everything into its future.

I hope the Hopper is the new standard like the 622 was.

The 622 has been around for 6 years and is still viable. The 612, 722, 722k are really just the 622lite, 622.1 and 622.2. There will no doubt be similar incremental upgrades to Hopper/Joey.

The 922 birthing pains were unfortunate, but honestly the unit never appealed to me. Hopefully the lessons learned will help Hopper.

[Don Landis]

the(insert latest product) are the future which is why they pulled all their engineers off whatever other things they were working on to focus on shipping those products.

This is the same line I've heard since the demise of the 5000. At what point does one just smile and think: "Liar Liar Pants on fire" For me is was the 921 when that was said to be the "future proof DVR that would never ever need to be replaced because it could be upgraded with plugin boards." So, I spent $1000 on one and 2 years later they killed it!

Hey, I don't mind if Dish wants to replace a leased box as I didn't buy my 722 stuff. As long as they don't screw me over and delete all my Ext Hard drive archive programs. Whatever they replace needs to play those Ext HDD programs. But for you 922 suckers ( no offense with that) I feel sad that once again you fell for their shallow promises and claims like we're now hearing about the Hopper. At least you didn't pay a thousand bucks for the time bomb.

In MY opinion there is no reason to kill the 922. Dish needs to keep it's word and make the box do as they originally promised for all you who purchased it on the basis of their promises. This kind of thing smells of a class action suit in the making.