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    Repairs are $99?!?!?

    not the tech's fault It's not the tech's fault that E* wants to charge me $99. Being in the service industry myself - I can appreciate being the bearer of bad news. I can imagine you guys catch the brunt more times than not. Unfortunately, this isn't anything I can fix myself... the box...
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    Repairs are $99?!?!?

    clarification Yes, I'm "renting" or "leasing" their equipment... whatever you want to call it. Just your Joe Schmo average Dish customer. I went ahead and got the $5.99 service agreement, and as soon as they make the repairs I'll cancel it - way ahead of ya there. In fact, that's literally...
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    Repairs are $99?!?!?

    Anyone else experience this? Luckily, for some reason I've never had any major problems with my 522 and accompanying switches, wires, dish, etc... I started getting drop outs and a reduction in signal strength on satellite 105, and the check switch test is showing an error. So I called...
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    Question about transferring a recorded program to my DVD player

    Take some time and read other postings on this site. Your USB port is worthless; non-functional. You may as well plug it into your car's cigarette lighter... you'll get the same results.
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    522 Error Code 06: Can't view event

    I love the textbook responses they give you for obvious problems.... Power it off/on, check the dish, check the cables... Yeah. Thanks. I'll re-install Windows while I'm at it. Since when did DishNetwork become Microsoft?
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    522 Issue

    I was fortunate until recently.. I have had very few problems with my 522 (only the occassional glitch/audio dropout/pixelization/etc...) until the past month. I woke up Saturday morning about 3 weeks ago and found all of our recordings and timers erased. I wrote it off as my 2 year old...
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    Price increase - February 2005?

    ...scribble it on a post-it note and nail it to the tree in my front yard. That way, I'll make sure it gets the same level of distribution that E* gave their price increase notices, and that'll also ensure that I don't duplicate any information that's already included in the forums. Then...
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    522 randomly recording on its own

    I've had the random recording problem also - mine usually occurs on a channel that's already set to record at a different program at a different time, but not always. And the program naming problem that Bizzach referred to is also occurring, and is extremely annoying. Yesterday, I had 10...
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    Price increase - February 2005?

    ...members to lambast new users. I do not have the time to devote my life to the obtainment of the entire sum of knowledge of things that are E*. I could care less about the company, their other products, or anything else pertaining to satellite dishes. In fact, as crappy as this 522 has been...
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    Price increase - February 2005?

    Correct you are - I apologize for the repeat. The only forum I read is this one (for the 522) and it hasn't been posted here yet - at least for the past several weeks. But I still find it odd that I haven't heard about the price increase ANYWHERE in Dish Network's literature, it's literally...
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    Price increase - February 2005?

    I just walked a friend through the DishNetwork.com "order on-line", and found something interesting. In the final screen that shows his final monthly amount, this was at the bottom of the screen: ----------------------------- Effective 2/1/05: America's top 60 and Top 60 Plus will...
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    522 Comprehensive Bug List and Feature Wish List

    A feature I'd really like to see The feature I'd most like to see is this: When I set up a timer for a recording, I'd like it to record. I think this should be placed fairly high on the programmers' priority list - is that really too much to ask for from a DVR??!??!??!??!??!??!?
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    4 day customer, had to fight with CSRs to change Receivers

    Dude, you are much better off with a 510 instead of a 522..... just read the comments of Dish Network's numerous happy customers in this forum. I'm contemplating making them TAKE MY 522 and give me ANYTHING else in return! Heck, I'm even thinking of getting cable back and buying a Tivo...
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    Dish Network 522 DVR Name Based Recording problems

    Me too... I'm having the same problems (I thought it was just me). It's intermittent though - sometimes they'll find matches from week to week, sometimes not. Is it somehow related to how the timers are created? If I bring up an old timer that's not firing, and look at what it's supposed...
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    The UHF remote should not eat batteries!

    Here's an FYI for everyone: Your UHF remote control should NOT be eating batteries! If it does, return it to DishNetwork. 2 days after installing my 522, my UHF remote went dead - no response, no lights, nothing - and I though maybe there was a problem with the remote's address number or...
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    Recording and info don't match

    Was the Daily Show on directly before or after the episode of South Park that you recorded? I have a feeling that the show titles are getting "stuck" in the buffer from previous recordings.
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    522 Wiped out the hard drive

    ...I have no way of validating this information independently. I haven't heard about this device anywhere else yet, but it's not all that improbable - there are already a gabillion DVD burners out there that use a USB interface. That is providing E* didn't just include a fake USB port for looks.
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    Recording and info don't match

    I have had similar problems. I switched ALL timers to NBR when I got the update, and every so often I will have recordings for shows I didn't set to record. Not even close - not the channels I watch, not the times I usually watch shows - just random! There were no existing timers when I...
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    OK... that was wierd

    New lesson learned - don't leave your 522 paused the entire day. My wife paused "Dragon Tales" on PBS (it was recording at the time) and LEFT IT PAUSED for the rest of the day (we both went back to work). When I got home last night, all of the recordings made for the remainder of the day...
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    Name Based Recording Discussion (L232 Software)

    I haven't noticed the synch problems based on a filled HD, but I have noticed the synch problems occur on my machine most frequently when I'm recording two things at once AND I'm watching a playback simultaneously. And frankly, if that's what's causing my audio skips and sync problems, I'll live...
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    Problem with remote #2 on 522

    I second the suggestion to try new batteries - the ones out of the box lasted 3 days, so I bought 2 sets of rechargables.... I always keep a set charging. Thank goodness, because the rechargables only last 3 days! I don't do that much surfing with that remote... not sure why they eat...
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    522 calling home...

    I think if you use the "Dish at Home" features, like the on-line payment, it actually dials in and connects - maybe that would classify as a "forced connection". If you don't want to pay on-line, just pull up you current statement, or your activity since your last statement. I'm sure this...
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    While Dish is hacking away at the code...

    Haertig: ----------------------------------- >>>>(5) Make Guide faster. Should be able to scroll line-by-line or column-by-column at much higher speeds than current. ----------------------------------- As much as I miss my ReplayTV, the guide on the 522 -=ZOOMS=- in comparison. The...
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    Auto-record based on a keyword search? NBR?

    ...- 10:10pm start times instead to 10:00pm... etc... I'm just wondering if the recent troubles are related somehow to an NBR coding attempt.... ALSO - earlier I read that TiVo was suing E* - what's the scoop there? Is that part of the reason why NBR wasn't released in September as promised?
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    First Look: Dish Name Based Timers

    ...if the recent troubles are related somehow to an NBR coding attempt.... ALSO - earlier in this thread Scott mention that TiVo was suing E* - what's the scoop there? Is that part of the reason why NBR wasn't released in September as promised? So many questions - so little time. I don't...
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