QPSK receivers will go dark Feb. 10

[Tampa8]

my then wife totally freaked

Yes, but not over the DISH receiver.....

 

[Bobby]

and she wasn't alone!

 

[NR2D]

If 8QPSK is going away then is the replacement 16-QAM? Or is this just a receiver change and no change to the satellites?
I notice on 61.5 the predominate modulation is 8QPSK and on 77 16-QAM. Will eastern arc antennas need to moved? I can't imagine that
though.

 

[pattykay]

One of the 501's in my pile was my 1st Showroom PVR. It hasn't been connected to a dish or activated for years. I can still access all of it's recorded content.

Thanks for the information, Ziptied! I love the picture you posted. I actually used to have even more 301's than that. My dad would buy them at yard sales, Goodwill, or other similar places for $5 each or less. I sent them to Dish back when Dish was offering a $10 bill credit for each purchased receiver that was returned to them. (Dish was also paying the shipping cost by sending me pre-paid labels.) I was able to pay my Dish bill for awhile by doing this. Then, Dish stopped doing that promotion. I guess Dish caught on to what I was doing, and I ruined it for everyone. Sorry about that.

 

[JerryDowning]

We started out with two 5000's. When one died, it was replaced with a 510. Eventually the other 5000 was replaced with a 625. Finally, we replaced everything with a pair of Hopper 2K's and a pair of Joeys all of which we still use. Of course when we received the 5000's, we did our own installation. We never had a dish tech out until we got the 510. It came with a dish 500 antenna which I had to tell the installer how to set up as he had failed to set the skew and could only get one satellite at a time.

 

[pattykay]

Well, this is the 10th, and my 501 was still working when I checked it this morning. What time are the QPSK receivers supposed to be shut down?

 

[zippyfrog]

When Dish converted QPSK to 8PSK before, it occurred right around midnight. I assume they would do something in the late night hours. But it might be at the afternoon uplink.

 

[lakebum431]

so dish only got better?

you conveniently ignore the 900 series HD DVRs, eventually dish killed them/ or years late release of new boxes over software issues.

I believe the most solid receivers I ever had were the 501s etc.

when i finally sold my 721 the rebot time was about 20 minutes.

i put it on a UPS along with my tv.

one night the power failed, and my then wife totally freaked, the tv is on but everything else is dead. now that was funny

Actually the 942 was a great box. I think you are referring to the 921 which was a turd.

 

[Foxbat]

Yep, I loved my 942. The only reason to get the ViP 622 was the MPEG 4 support (942 could only decode MPEG 2). At least the EHD was compatible with the 622/722 to come later. Also, the stereo TV Out was a nice touch, too.

 

[DWS44]

Yep, I loved my 942. The only reason to get the ViP 622 was the MPEG 4 support

Same here. It helped that it was also my first DVR, but I seem to recall the 942 as being one of the most rock-solid of all the Dish receivers I've had. I remember it was quite the challenge getting a 942, though. That was back in the days when new receivers went to new customers first...the heck with existing customers. I was one of many that had to go through the "Executive Office" as it was back then, just to beg for the privilege of paying to lease one.

 

[Stargazer]

The 721 was awesome. The user interface reminded me of the 7100/7200 DishPlayer.

 

[Tampa8]

All QPSK receivers will go dark as of Feb. 10th. Here are the receivers being affected.

301, 501, 508, 510, 1000, 1500, 2700, 2710, 2712, 2812, 2800, 3000, 3100, 3120, 3200, 3500, 3700, 3722, 3750, 3800, 3822, 3900, 3922, 4000, 4100, 4500, 4700, 4722, 4900 and 4922.

Dark?

 

[MikeD-C05]

The 721 was awesome. The user interface reminded me of the 7100/7200 DishPlayer.

Besides the bad problems I had with the 7100/7200 webtv/dishplayers, the only problems I began to dread with the 721 was the mornings I would wake up to hard drive crashes. You could reformat and use them again ,but you would lose all the recordings. My son was a toddler back then and all his kiddie programs would be on his 721 and when there was a crash , I heard about it ...loudly!

 

[Scherrman]

Dark?

Will no longer receive programming I guess. I was just quoting what Dish said.

 

[Mr Tony]

I guess the question was did they actually pull the plug on them

 

[Tampa8]

Yes, I meant did it happen.

 

[Bobby]

Perhaps that large satellite uplink change very early this morning did that....

 

[Tampa8]

That's what I was thinking and why I asked.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Same here. It helped that it was also my first DVR, but I seem to recall the 942 as being one of the most rock-solid of all the Dish receivers I've had. I remember it was quite the challenge getting a 942, though. That was back in the days when new receivers went to new customers first...the heck with existing customers. I was one of many that had to go through the "Executive Office" as it was back then, just to beg for the privilege of paying to lease one.

The 942 was awesome

 

[pattykay]

Well, this is the 12th, and my 501 was still working when I checked it this morning. So, either Dish didn't do anything, or they only deactivated QPSK receivers that were still active on subscribers' accounts. They did not remove anything that would affect receivers that are already deactivated and still being used to watch free channels. In other words, I am not missing anything now, that I had been getting on the 9th.