New DISH Network RED Smart Cards

[Claude Greiner]

Went to open a new 301 today and found a red smart card....

 

[cybertrip]

sounds like they are getting ready to do a card swap.

 

[navychop]

Excuse me- a new 301? I thought the 311 replaced them quite some time ago. Surely they're not still making or keeping stock of new 301s?

 

[cybertrip]

Excuse me- a new 301? I thought the 311 replaced them quite some time ago. Surely they're not still making or keeping stock of new 301s?

You can still purchase 301's mostly as remanufactured receivers. I bought a remanufactured 2800 for the guest bedroom. It's basically brand new. I don't doubt that there are still brand new 301's sitting in a warehouse.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Im sorry, it was a reman

 

[navychop]

It's beginning to look like there's a whole lot more STBs that are gonna die than I thought, when 8PSK & MPEG-4 spread. 2800? Why? Cheap?

 

[cybertrip]

It's beginning to look like there's a whole lot more STBs that are gonna die than I thought, when 8PSK & MPEG-4 spread. 2800? Why? Cheap?

Very cheap. Check Sadoun.

 

[Dish-Direc]

Hopefully there is a card swap coming, but since the "cardless" (those with cards on the mainboard) receivers are already compromised, what card will they be using? It is a new card with the new slogan for Dish.

 

[Claude Greiner]

On the cardless receivers there is a slot to send customers new cards to replace it

 

[PKII]

hmm. I got a replacement DVR in the mail today and it has a Yellow Smart Card still.

 

[DBSJedi]

I hope dish doesn't swap cards again. It took around a month for them to get the stinking yellow card to work with my Dishplayer 7100. Just love how they incapacitated my receiver with next to no warning. They shipped me 3 separate yellow cards before we got one that allowed the receiver to actually tune and stay on.

 

[Dish-Direc]

Checking Around

I have asked around, and NO ONE ELSE has ever seen this card. Even dealers with remanufactured 301s that arrived yesterday.

 

[digiblur]

Went to open a new 301 today and found a red smart card....

It might just be a different package of the card. The real way to find out if it is a new card is to fire up the receiver and look at the info screen and see the card type and card version.

 

[Smith P.]

Yeah, Claude - fire up the receiver and show us that System screen.
Elsewhere it could be a red herring I see copyright of 1996, could be it FIRST Dish card and someone put it there by mistake or as a joke.

 

[Zero327]

Hmmm. That was faster than expected.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Look at the Logo!!!!!

 

[Dish-Direc]

My Question Is

Are they only one reciever with this card? Could it be a dealer card? I am hearing it is a ROM 206 card.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Besides that, I should have taken a picture of the system info screen last night.

The only problem now is that I do not have the receiver anymore, its actually out on my installers truck and he is installing it for a customer as we speak.

I did call him and he said he is going to bring up the system info screen before he installs it!

The rest of the units I have in stock have YELLOW cards.

 

[stone phillips420]

i thought the old bell cards were red, but they said dishnetwork canada on them at the time

 

[Claude Greiner]

If you look at the logo, its a new card. Dish just started using that logo about 8 months ago.