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so i got my (purchased) 622 today, hooked everything up and it's taking the software download now. but i noticed no smartcard came with it, shouldn't it have had one? just want to be sure before i call dish.

my apologies if someone posted the answer to this already and i missed it (lot of new threads flying around!). has anyone been successful in upgrading an older non HD receiver (like a 4700) to a 211? i currently have a 921 (that i own) and two 4700s. i would like to keep the 921 and swap one...

my dish currently spends a lot of time on IA5 looking at the international programming there. i read a few months ago that globecast was going to convert their system to mpeg4 this summer, but i haven't been able to find any definitive news about this recently. does anybody know what this is...

the last couple of times I've tried to blind scan IA6 the receiver (fortec lifetime ultra) has just hung after a bit. last night, for instance, it found 41 transponders then seemed to get stuck for several hours. the little animation was still going on the screen and i was able to exit, but i...

i like to do occasional power (blind) scans with my fortec ultra lifetime to pick up feeds or any other temporary stuff. problem is stuff gets added to the channel list when you scan, then by the time you scan again a lot of those channels are no longer active and new ones get added. so the...

i know it was discussed that different receivers will show different quality readings on the same sat. i stay parked on ia5 most of the time, for most transponders i will see 80+ on both signal and quality, occasionally going as high as 90. on a few transponders it's as low as 60 quality. i...

a while back i posted that i was unhappy with sadoun's customer service. well i just wanted to report that i got in touch with ashley at sadoun and she was friendly and took care of my issue quickly -- everything you'd want from customer service. so :clap :clap to sadoun.