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    DISH Hopper coming at CES ?

    All I ever wanted was a satellite receiver module similar to the OTA receiver module for the 722k/922 to add one or two more satellite receivers. It seemed like it would have been easy to do and cheap. It would have given Dish two 3 or 4 satellite HD receiver-DVR's to market. But if it works the...
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    New SW for ViP722 L.721

    I'm in California and got it. My 722 is usually near the end of a rollout. I don't see anything new yet, but then I have the free-for-a-year Platinum so I won't be eligible for the BB tie-in until February unless I give up the freebie.
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    The weekly, "Will there be more HD launched this week?" thread.

    Well, I joked that we'd see SciFi HD when pigs fly and that the pigs would fly this week. Instead they died. So unless something happens between now and tomorrow morning, I'm off to see my local DirecTV dealer after 20 years with Echostar.:river
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    Name Based Recording Coming to the 50x Series!

    P401, NBR, and avoiding lost program endings We kept our two 508's when we recently added a 722 for HD. Didn't get any updates on the 508's until last night when one was updated to P401 with the named-based-recording feature. When I first used NBR on the 722 I immediately ran into scheduling...
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    5xx manual supplement for P401-NBR

    I needed a manual supplement for my 508 manual. Of course E* hasn't upgraded its online PDF manual. So I extracted the appropriate pages from the 522/625 manual. Since I know I'm not alone, I posted my "supplement" on my own web site at: http://www.phrelin.com/tv/NBRTimers.pdf FYI it is a...