I know that dish doesn't support these anymore but can they still receive some of the music channels and the free preview channels when dish has them?
dead receivers like 508 and 510
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MAYBE from the 118 satellite, but that is about all. The old QPSK receivers will no longer work for any other satellite.
If you can still activate one, call and have Dish RMA it. Im sure they will send you the MPEG4 Equivlent.
The last time I had my deactivated 501 connected to the satellites in March, it was still capable of getting a few free channels from the 118 satellite. Having said that, the 501 was no longer able to take a guide download, so I don't know how long it would have kept receiving those channels, without any guide information, if I had kept it hooked up. Dish later dropped one of the free channels (RKINO, the Russian channel) leaving only RITTV, the free TV Japan segments, and the "What's on Dish?" slate channel, along with any other unannounced international channel free previews Dish may decide to put on that satellite. So, the QPSK receivers may not be complete bricks, but they are still not very useful unless you are only interested in free international channels. It is also worth noting that the 501, along with the receiver models in the thread title, are all DVRs, so they will still play anything that was already recorded on them before Dish stopped broadcasting in a format that they can handle.
