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    DVR Fee Waived on Annual Programming?

    You're not going find all the pricing options listed anywhere at the Dish site. Even talking to CSRs isn't much help unless you know the right questions to ask. I found out about the discount for paying annually only after I asked the CSR if it was any less if I paid a year in advance. She...
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    DVR Fee Waived on Annual Programming?

    Thanks for the response & setting me straight. :o I focused in on the title "DVR Fee Waived on Annual Programming" and saw AT180 mentioned a few times. I missed the references to also subscribing to all the movie channels.
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    DVR Fee Waived on Annual Programming?

    I'm subscribed to the Top 180, and for the past few years I've been taking advantage of the 1-month discount by making one annual payment. However, this is news to me that the $5 monthly dvr fee should also be waived with an annual payment for my programming subscription. The CSR never...
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    Buying a 811 or 942 on ebay how does that work?

    To answer your last question, before placing a bid, get the receiver's serial # and card # (one begins with R00 and the other begins with S00) from the seller. Give Dish customer service a call and ask them to check those ##'s to confirm there is no balance due, and the account has been closed...
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    Audio Hiss from 522

    Do you hear the same hisss if you connect the 522's A/V out directly to a tv's A/V in -- no switch between the two? If you do, I agree with Slyster. If you haven't tried this, connect your switch to the 522's other A/V out. (I'm guessing you probably have the switch connected to tuner #2; try...
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    Confused now. Should I get 522?

    All we had for about 4 years was a 301, so swapping that for a 522 about four months ago was like going from a sailing ship to a nuke powered ship in one step. Having two independent tuners in one box plus the DVR has made a huge improvement in our televiewing pleasure. I bought the 522...
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    dvr 510 downloading

    Hey griz fan, I'm with you. I thought transfering (for home use) DVR-saved programs via the receiver's A/V out to a VCR, DVD recorder, or a PC A/V capture card can all be done without the FBI knocking at one's door. My perhaps mistaken understanding is that crossing the line into a life of...
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    522 question

    birddoggy, is that question for me or drock85? My 522 is plugged in. If not, then I think it would be an additional $5/month for me. ($9.98/month total)
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    522 question

    drock85, I purchased my 522 outright (to replace a single tuner 301). Altho the 522 has two tuners, it counts as one receiver -- so no additional charge there. However, I still have to pay the $4.98 monthly DVR fee. So, looking at the numbers you gave earlier, you would save $5/month if you...
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    How to force 522 Program Guide to update

    I'm the guy who started this thread asking how to force a 522 to update the Program Guide. I did what Chad suggested. He IS 1000% correct. :yes
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    Purchase of DVR/PVR from other than participating retailer

    As cdoyle mentioned above, you definitely need to get the receiver serial number from the seller -- usually on the plate on the backside and starts with R00.......... Sometime that's all the DishNet customer service person will ask for (depends on model you're getting). Also good to get the...
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    Just got a new error message on my 522

    Same thing happened w/my 522 a couple hours ago, only no dialog box or error code. It took 3 trys before the right menu came up so that I could select & play the program. Only had the 522 for three months, but hadn't experienced this before.
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    522 with 2.51 is great....but

    I agree with Maximum. When I select Movies, the listing of 6,472 choices is a bit much.
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    How to force 522 Program Guide to update

    Thanks Chad, I'm sure you're 1000% correct as usual. I'll try that later on today when I get home. And WhiteForMe, as far as I know the guide has been updating every night. (My 522 is also set for the 3 a.m. auto update.) Yesterday evening I was looking at the schedule for a week from now...
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    How to force 522 Program Guide to update

    This morning almost all channels on the Program Guide showed titles as "Not Available" starting around mid-afternoon today. I thought there's a way to manually force the guide to update, but I couldn't find that procedure in the 522 instructions. So, I went thru every possible selection in...
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    Installer Is really Late- COMPS?

    About 4 years ago when I signed up for DishNet, the installation was about three weeks (yes, weeks) past the date originally scheduled. I kept getting the runaround about receivers out of stock, and this or that problem they were having, and it wasn't until the 4th rescheduled date that the...
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    Getting 2 510 units from dish

    Try as she did, my wife never could grasp the procedure to record anything with a VCR. All it took was one lesson on how to use the DVR, and she picked it up instantly. She loves being able to quickly skip past the commercials.
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    Do you tip your installer?

    I didn't tip 4 years ago, but, I did offer to pull the cable thru under the house (crawl space) as well as in the attic (temp up there was about 180 degrees that day) -- which he gladly accepted. Plus I already had all holes predrilled. So I saved the guy from getting dirty and sweaty, plus got...
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    522 loses favorites lists

    The first part, that favorites can only be grouped in 4 lists for each TV, is easy to grasp. The second part, the 100-10 and 50-50-50-50 X2 examples, gets more puzzling the more one thinks about it. :confused: The 100-10 would seem an attempt to explain that the number of favorites in any...
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    All 94XX channels missing w/522

    Problem corrected My 522 is again seeing all the 9400 channels it should receive. Sunday morning all were still missing as described previously, so, for lack of a better idea, I tried the check switch test again. This time, 3 or 4 of them showed up on the All Channels list. (Sorry, I didn't...
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    All 94XX channels missing w/522

    Thanks for the suggestion. The Public Interest channels in the 9400 range are exactly the ones I should be getting, but none show up as choices in either the All Channels list or the Subscribed list. I checked the locks -- nothing locked. In fact, in the 'Select Channels to Lock' menu...
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    All 94XX channels missing w/522

    All 94XX Public Interest channels missing w/522 My dish subscription includes several 94XX channels. None are showing up with my 522 on either TV1 or 2. When I go to the "All Channels" list, at the top end it shows the 96XX channels then it drops to the 60XX channels. No 94XX channels show up...
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    522 loses favorites lists

    Same here. Made some changes to the TV2 favorites late yesterday and this morning all the TV1 favorites were gone. The names assigned to the lists are still there, but all boxes are unchecked. My 522 is at L2.38 I know this wasn't caused by a power surge or outage. The receiver is plugged...
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    New bie.., Basic Qn on 510 recevier before I go for it

    New bie, Whatever model you're looking at, if you're buying it used, be sure to get the receiver's R00# (on the back of the receiver) and the smart card S00# from the seller BEFORE you bid -- then call DishNet customer service to verify that the ##'s don't have a balance due & the previous...
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    DVR 522 vs 510 Questions

    With a 522, you'll have two coax cables from the dish to the receiver. Assuming the receiver is close to your main TV, the connection will probably be an RCA cable (3-line cable with the red, white & yellow plugs at each end) between the 522 & tv, then a coax cable from the 522 to where ever the...
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