Recent content by Ringthane

So how do I get rid of the $50 charge for the dish? I'm not paying for a useless piece of hardware.

Question - I'm returning my receivers and dish so Dish will stop whining. They sent me two boxes. I have two receivers - do I stick the receivers in one box and the dish in another? How do I get it off my house/disassemble it to get it in the box?

Is there any way to pause DISH online? I searched around and found that you used to have to call in to do it, but that info was a little old.

I'm seeing it on a VIP722 and a 211. I don't know if this is where to report it, but it's what the search found.

Mine are always in bad shape. I have one next to me here where the bottom part that you rip off and peel off the thing is ripped halfway across. The part with the mailing label is still completely attached at the top, where it says to open it, but the part under the label is completely...

Yep - very simple. It took me longer to hook up my replacement receiver a couple of weeks ago than it did to activate it online.

I remember the week before it went live, my 722 read BBMP for a day or two, then went back to Dish Platinum, and then back to BBMP when it went live.

Well, mine did put up the error screen that said the HD temp was above 145F, and I can hear the fan going out, so I know what happened with mine.

Got a question about my VIP722 receiver (not the 722K). The past two days, it's begun overheating. It looks like it's the enclosed fan that's not working correctly. It's been louder and louder for the past few weeks, and now it's doing the catch-and-spin thing, where it spins for a while, and...

I'm still seeing Platinum on my 722 - L677 software. Should I reboot it to see if it changes? It was off last night for the regular update. The strange thing is, I swear it was BBMP a day or two ago, and then it seems to have changed back.

Wondering this as well.

According to info a few pages back, they removed the HD channels temporarily so that the boxes wouldn't show them and get stuck on signal loss screens or something similar. They should come back when the outage is over.

Ah, OK. So the problem is with Remote Access, and not the receiver itself. Thanks for the help.

The firmware is L674. I do get the screen saver with the tips, but instead of just saying "Press Select to watch TV", like my 211 does, it says something like "Your receiver is currently off. Press Select to (yada yada yada)." It used to go into standby without a hitch - I'm not sure when...

I've got a 722 (not 722K) hooked up in my living room, and for a while now, instead of going into standby, as my 211 does, it turns off. The message that shows when I turn on the TV even says something like "Your receiver is off", instead of "Your receiver is on standby", or whatever it is...