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I still have several 600s also and never heard of this recall. My 600s used to run extremely hot and several were replaced. However, the ones I still have no longer run as hot as they used to. I confirmed with DTV that if the receiver is owned, there would be no 2 year commitment. The...

If you have an older Vizio, the current codes may not work. You should use the Hitachi codes.

Thanks for the input, everyone. Looks like it's kind of risky to go the ebay route. What if I want to upgrade an existing SD receiver to an HD receiver. My subscription includes this SD receiver and has for the last almost 10 years! If I want to upgrade to an HD receiver, would DTV force a...

Has anyone bought a used H20 from Ebay? I want to get an H20 and I would normally get it from DTV, but I don't want to be stuck with the 2 year commitment. If I get a used one from Ebay, would I be able to activate it by getting a new card from DTV, and NOT have the 2 year commitment? I've...

Status of my "Searching for Satellite" and "Channel Not Purchased" problem: just as I thought, it was a problem with the receiver. I had an H20 Model 600 - it is an absolutely BAD receiver. I've several of these and have had problems with 3 of them now. They run VERY HOT, and have problems...

I've been having the same problem as well now for a couple of weeks. I have an H20, where I get the same message, either searching for signal, or channel not purchased. Called DTV, and CSR had me cold start the receiver (unplug power, disconnect cable, then replug it), then the CSR did some...

I did talk to customer retention (see my original post above). I don't even bother talking to anyone else - I've got customer retention on my speed-dial. I can get a better deal I know by raising a bigger stink, but I don't really care about getting $$ off by month, I just want the problem...

There weren't quite that bad. I normally have few complaints about the service. The rep politely informed me, after putting me on hold for about 5 minutes to ask his supervisor if they should send me a new one, he told me that the tech people indicated that the problem was "close" to being...

Apologies for asking this question again. Reported this about 2 months ago - I have an H20 that keeps failing - get a black screen, the remote doesn't respond, and I can't do anything but to press the red reset button for it to reinitialize and reset, where it eventually comes back. It used to...

I did call tech support. I told the guy that I tried redownloading it, and he said I could do it anytime. He also said that the download of software worked for the old D10 receivers that had a black box problem, but he was not aware if the current software for the H20 fixed any black box...

My bad. It was searching for the signal because it defaulted to the first channel (2-1), which is an OTA HD channel, and I don't have OTA. Just needed to switch to another channel. I ended up following T2JenDTV's suggestion as well, and unplugged everything, replugged it, etc., and it's back...

I just tried the redownload method - unplugged it for 15 minutes, punched in "02468" select, and the software downloaded. However, after it downloaded (took awhile), it then rebooted, acquired info from satellite, then it did this weird thing where it started searching for a signal for about 5...

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to try dragon002's suggestion. Thanks hdtvtechno - I don't have an OTA antenna, I get my locals through the national feed since I'm in L.A. Thanks again, I'll let you know.

I have several H20s. One of them has recently been acting up. Out of the blue, the TV screen goes blank. There is no response from the remote - so can't shut it off and turn it on. I end up having to reset the receiver by pushing the reset button by the access card. It resets with no...

I believe that if it is broadcast by KCAL, then it is an "away" game, and it will be blacked out. I believe that if it is a home game, it will be broadcast by FSW, and if they have a HD broadcast, then we are supposed to get it. But, most of the time, in this scenario where it should, it doesn't.