Recent content by Andrewwski

Ordered a 211z. Although the rest of my smart cards are purple, so it sounds like it doesn't matter.

AT250 - so I should be good? Haven't gotten new smart cards in years.

Hi all, as I mentioned in a previous thread (thanks for the help in that one!) I'm looking to replace a 722 with a 612 and 211 as I've upgraded the secondary TV to HD. This would make the new 211 the 4th receiver on the account. When I've spoken with Dish, they've indicated they can only do...

Is this for existing customers too? They currently have autopay and no discount. Not on TV2 though (which is the TV being replaced).

Ah. I had tried the Dish builder wizard (for new customers) and it had put in a Hopper, two Joeys, and a Super Joey for 4 rooms. But looking more into it, looks like the Hopper has 3 tuners and that's probably fine (there's only two of them, plus the occasional grandchild visit). Yeah, with...

Hi all, question on current pricing/offers and looking for confirmation on what I've found. Dish's site isn't the easiest to find this on, and I'm not sure if there's any promotions or whatnot. Looking to upgrade my parents who currently have a 722, 222k, and 211k. They're swapping out an old...

Hardly ever watch 5 TV's at a time. Usually 3 at most. But they need to maintain independent programming on each TV - it's not a predictable combination of which TV's will be used. There's not really a way to have more TV's on fewer tuners easily is there? Dish lets me order this system if...

Hi all, Helping some (older) relatives upgrade to another HDTV. Currently in the house there are 3 HDTV's and 2 SDTV's. They currently have a 722, 222k, and 211k. Would like to upgrade the 4th TV to HD with least impact on monthly costs. Looking at the Hopper but that seems to be more...

Family members use a 211k in a remote area on solar, so we tested that receiver a few years back. I believe it was about 30 watts average.

Yep, said error 005, programming not authorized, and that the receiver had been unplugged for several days and needed a rehit.

Urg, well needed a rehit yesterday and tried the online chat. Eventually got one, but not before unplugging/plugging in/rebooting, even though I'd already done that. CSR told me it was "for documentation purposes" and that she could not send a rehit before I did this... Then she had me going...

Probably just as easy to call a CSR as find someone from DIRT who is online. Plus there's no internet up there, so they'd be calling me, and I'd be contacting DIRT. But usually they're contacting me and I'm calling a CSR (otherwise they'll spend an hour on the phone with them...). I do tell...

Relatives have Dish at their cabin. Electricity to the house gets shut off when they leave (they're on solar, so want to eliminate all phantom draws). Problem is if they're gone for a few weeks the receivers lose their authorization. Used to be really easy, you could enter the error code in...

The shuttle is done, forever. There's no going back - the program has ended, the orbiters are being decommissioned, the facilities are being repurposed. Manned space exploration is not over for the US...it will continue, in a different form. But the shuttle program is over. On the topic of...

I hope that this doesn't make its way to other channels...I have two TV's that are component only, lack HDMI. One has no HDMI port at all, the other's doesn't work properly. It was built in 04 or 05, and face it, HDMI sucked back then. It had lots of issues in the beginning, and devices from...