o.k. you guys are talking way,way over my head. will i have to buy a new reciever after jan.'09' , i have a DP301 with the purple card.
If by purple you mean the new G3 card, which is purple, then my "guess" would be no.
You should be just fine.
My DP301 has the SmartCard with Red lettering on the Yellow background. It has Dish 500 printed on it, in red and black, and the borders(just the borders on top) are in purple and blue, I think.
It is close to 2 years old. I think I got my Dish NOW! system from Radio Shack either in April or May(maybe later) of 2007, but not 100% sure when.
I too am curious as too how they will ship out those smartcards to Dish Now! customers.
I read somewhere that you need to try to add a Dish NOW $40 card, and then you will get a message on screen stating to call the number on there to be sent the new G3 card(they need your name and address obviously). But it makes no mention of being able to just use a GreenDot MoneyPak in order to do this.
I don't feel like "trying" to do it with a $40 Dish NOW Card if it does not work. Then i am out another $40 bucks. If they would just let me try to order programming with the GDM.
And the CSR's are TOTALLY USELESS. Even if I brought up the thing about sending me out a new G3 card, my guess is that they, and the supervisors, would have no idea what the hell I am referring too. And then they would give me the standard response, "The system is down".