Loyal Dish customer longevity
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May of 1998 - Self install of a kit dish sent us. Remember peaking the dish using crude giant cell phone calling my wife on the landline. Cell service was so poor we opened the window and hollered to each other. The receiver was a dinosaur looking sheet metal box - "Echostar" on the back. Bill was $40 month - and stayed under $100 month from 1998 till 2005, when the 942 snuck into our home. Nothing but price escalation since then. Still wouldn't have any other service. Really wish there was some way for long term customers to have ongoing discount instead of having to call every few months groveling......
Only about 15 years here. I've also been on YTTV for the past year. Wife can't stand the YTTV guide, otherwise Dish would be gone. Dish speed, DVR, and guide put streaming services to shame. But at $65 YTTV saves a bundle of $$ if you're paying for a bunch of Dish equipment.
Dish pros:
Speed of channel changing & tuning
Guide with real info in your face
DVR folders, fine tuning, EHD
Skip forward faster
Commercial skip
YTTV pros:
Cost
Unlimited DVR
DVR doesn't miss shows that overrun
No equipment needed
Profile sharing
Start/stop account anytime
Cost is extremely dependent on what channels you watch. I'm really surprised Dish doesn't do much to retain existing customers (like a more versatile streaming option, or no price increases). Surprised with all the folks here on contracts, why? They seldom let existing customers get new customer deals (which is only way I'd be on a contract).
Dish pros:
Speed of channel changing & tuning
Guide with real info in your face
DVR folders, fine tuning, EHD
Skip forward faster
Commercial skip
YTTV pros:
Cost
Unlimited DVR
DVR doesn't miss shows that overrun
No equipment needed
Profile sharing
Start/stop account anytime
Cost is extremely dependent on what channels you watch. I'm really surprised Dish doesn't do much to retain existing customers (like a more versatile streaming option, or no price increases). Surprised with all the folks here on contracts, why? They seldom let existing customers get new customer deals (which is only way I'd be on a contract).
23 years with a self-install 3000 receiver and a Dish500 dish, I think. Or the 500 dish came shortly after the single LNB 300 dish installation.
Added a 2nd dish aimed at 61.5° when HDTV launched there.
Here's a memory test...
Recite the receiver's you've had!
3000
4000
311
322
625
622
211k
811
921(?)
924
721
722k
Hopper
Joey
Hopper3
Joey 4k
I'm sure there're some I missed and may have made up a number or two
Added a 2nd dish aimed at 61.5° when HDTV launched there.
Here's a memory test...
Recite the receiver's you've had!
3000
4000
311
322
625
622
211k
811
921(?)
924
721
722k
Hopper
Joey
Hopper3
Joey 4k
I'm sure there're some I missed and may have made up a number or two
Haven’t heard of Preferred Customer Offer or sling tv or Dishanywhere on firestick and portable smart device?
OK, Im game.
- 4900
- 301
- 311
- 625
- 111
- 722
- 612 (X2)
- H3
- J3 (X2)
10. Twinhan TV tuner for PCI bus
My favorite tuner software for that was DVBDream, which was shareware and worked like a dream. Now I can't even Google that software. I wonder what ever happened to the developer? Oops: found it. https://dvbdream.org. I forgot the org.
Let's see...I've been a Dish customer for over 3 years! But extremely loyal...in fact, the guilt I feel when I stream on the Rokus or the Fire Sticks makes me want to pay double the Dish "DVR Service Fee" to try to get over it. And...I've experienced a total of 3 different receivers! The H3, two 4KJs, and a Wally.
Let’s see if I can remember all the ones I have had.
1000
5000
JVC DVHS
6000
522
322
501
510
921
622
722
722k
211k
811
Hopper
Hopper2
Hopper3
Wally
Joey1
4k Joey
Not quite sure if I missed anything but I think that is all.
I am a more recent DISH customer.
625
722 x2
722k x2
Hopper 2 x4
Joey 1
Hopper 3 x2
4KJ x2
WJ x2
625
722 x2
722k x2
Hopper 2 x4
Joey 1
Hopper 3 x2
4KJ x2
WJ x2
2000
4000
7100
501
721
922
622
612
722K
Wally
I think that's all of them! Anyone remember the DISH DVD receiver that turned out to be vaporware?
4000
7100
501
721
922
622
612
722K
Wally
I think that's all of them! Anyone remember the DISH DVD receiver that turned out to be vaporware?
Nice.
625 is ringing a bell.
I used to buy my receivers when there were monthly fees to be saved. Last Dish equipment I bought was the 722k OTA module. Still have one, maybe two in the cabinet.
OMG the JVC DVHS recorder! I was infinitely surprised they ever made that one.
Not me.
Was it supposed to be anything like the JVC that could record?
No, not heard of any existing customer offer. Sling lacks locals, DA is only good on one TV at a time. Nothing against Dish obviously since I still have it, just wish I could stream the same channels (same packages), with no equipment. You'd think they would have updated Sling with locals by now, or at least a $10 option.
OMG the JVC DVHS recorder! I was infinitely surprised they ever made that one.
Not me.
It was a DISH receiver based off the 5000 with a built in DVD player. They were working on it for what seemed like years and never were able to get the bugs worked out. By the time they scrapped it, DVD players were pretty cheap and there was no way they'd be able to sell it at the price they were targeting - think it was $499 or $699. The remotes wound up on eBay, they were just the old blue button 1.5 remotes with DVD functions printed under the number buttons.
First receiver was a 4000 with a Dish 300.
Ended up canceling that account and went with a HTS 4500 that came with a years prepaid programming in 1999.
I used to pay by the year back then before they took away the incentive discount, and was forced on auto pay.
From there I had all model 5000 receivers to integrate the locals
JVC DVHS, but never could find the right tapes.
7100 web Tv dish players with modified hard drives of course.
6000/8psk/8vsb
811
501/508/510
921
942 (best receiver ever)
622/722/722k/sling adaptor
922 (garbage)
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Ended up canceling that account and went with a HTS 4500 that came with a years prepaid programming in 1999.
I used to pay by the year back then before they took away the incentive discount, and was forced on auto pay.
From there I had all model 5000 receivers to integrate the locals
JVC DVHS, but never could find the right tapes.
7100 web Tv dish players with modified hard drives of course.
6000/8psk/8vsb
811
501/508/510
921
942 (best receiver ever)
622/722/722k/sling adaptor
922 (garbage)
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
For me, it is 22 years. I have checked around and I cannot find another service that compares with Dish. First off, I am Grandfathered in with the Super Stations, so if I leave I'll never get them back. Second, the number of Diginets Dish carries is fantastic, Third, the movie pack for $10 in a great deal, 4th, then add in the Dish Anywhere app, where there are thousands of movie choices streaming off the Fire Stick. . I like my old vip211k, as it has the built in OTA tuner. Since am a long time customer, I am happy to sign up for a contract to save money off my bill. Dish is always there to help. For what I get, I cannot complain. Direct or Charter Cable are more and doesn't have the variety.
we have been with Dish for 18 years... the DVR clinches it and we can still use it when the internet goes down unlike some neighbors.
Started back in late 90s, so 20+ years. Dish 5000 was the first receiver I had. left Time Warner because of the constant outages.
