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Vip722 could do two TVs, but Vip922 can not - at least not very well. They only give you one remote, and slingbox takes the TV2 output. I could probably buy another remote and try to use it like 722, not sure.

I'm also thinking about returning my 211 and trading in my 922 for 722 and run 2 TVs - I'm rarely using Slingbox feature. I wonder if they'll charge me $100 to get the old 722! Petty interesting article of behind the scenes on dish - how tight they are running the business, making sure they...

Confirmed. I recently switched to "HD free for life" and now I see I have no HD Theater - means no WRC ! I don't see it anywhere on the Dish Network website - did dish network drop that channel completely? If not, how do I get it back?

The Vip922 I have has "Home Distribution" coax on the back - no "TV-2" labeled one. Also - you need to set your Vip922 on "Shared View" ON in Settings to be able to see the guide / etc when using coax.

When they install Vip922, are they supposed to give you 2 remotes or just one? I only got 1 remote (installed few days ago). Should I complain, or just buy the other remote somewhere (where?)? I want to get rid of 2nd box and just use the TV1 mirror over coax TV output for room 2...

That should not possible since dish stores your recordings encrypted on their hard drive, to prevent you putting these HD clips on some torrents, etc. But who knows, maybe that encryption is cracked already...

You need all 6 - 3 for xm, 3 for sirius - otherwise you would loose half subscribes. Untill everyone has a radio that can pickup both, you need to keep all sats. Unless Dish wants to loose half subscribes?

The problem is some people can't get OTA channels, or only getting a few of them, which would force me to go to Cable and Dish would never get my $$$

Welcome to the sat world... it's addictive...you'll get 722 if you ordered HD package... ($10 extra/month). And yes, there is a fee for USB hard drive "enabling fee".

So existing customer can upgrade as long as you pay for install/new dish?

Switch if you really want, or just tell them to refund you the 2 weeks...

Not sure when did this software feature go in (I have VIP622 with software L512), but I just noticed that if you hit the INFO button twice on an HD channel, there is a little satellite icon with 61.5, 110 or 129 displayed. Interesting to see which channels my receiver picks (some HD channels are...

Same here, waited for more PPV HD, I have been paying $4.99 for HD PPView instead of getting a DVD retal for $3.99 whenever there is a movie I wanted to see anyway on DVD. Looks better on my 42 inch TV. Plus so far never had to delete these, hopefully they transfer to extrnal drive also. I...

If you multiply the probabilities you get a change of BOTH of drives failing. So say 50% change that drive will fail in 5 years would be 25% that BOTH drives will fail in 5 years... But when you have 2 drives, there is a higher change that ONE of the drives will fail, but not sure what the...

512 maybe okay, i had dsl at 768 upload, and the video was watchable (slingbox) On the low end, I had cable modem which limited upload to 350 and that was not very good video quality...

wait, and the guide will magically update at night

No, the cost should go down over the years, I don't think D* charges for HDTV,same with cable companies. Only dish, just because they have voom... $5 would be more like it... I'll switch to D* if they get more real channels next year and you don't have to pay for them $20 extra...

This hard drives will die in a few years - they are constantly recording... That's a good reason to lease these boxes instead of buying them. Also depends on the brand of the drive they are using - is it something good like Seagate or bad like Fujitsu? Anybody open these up and checked ?

I wonder why 222 seems to have a better picture quality than 622...

I read somewhere that they are using around 40Kbps on average, but because they use a priopriatary compression it sound better. Hmm. I was always thinking people saying that CD is a step down from old vinyl analog LPs are a little crazy. But now, 20 years later, I'm putting myself in a category...

I also noticed that they seemed to improve the quality of that channel on the sirius radio - I think they gave it more bandwidth - I always liked the music but did not listen to it since it sounded too flat - like a AM radio station. Now this station sound better than any other Sirius station...

Yes, depends what processor is in that DVR, and how the board is layed out. Even if linux disto is available for this processor, you (developer) has to do many things to get that board to "boot up". First code is in assembly, in flash. It has to configure the processor so that you can access the...

Sign me up, please - the rules make sense, you're making us work for free stuff.

I'm in Chicago area, I get 129 at about 65-75 only, and that's the first satellite to go when it's raining. After that goes, the whole box gets confused and 110 and 119 is lost two. At least that's how it was for last year or so. If you want 61.5 (all the channels I get - standard DISH HD...

Anyone else has that HDMI switch or a different one working with Vip622? I'm thinking about bying a switch like that, wondering if others also have problems with these things...