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Thanks guys, for all the comments. I don't use OTA so it looks like the K model is of limited benefit.

I just signed up for Dish after having dropped my service for a while. I had a plain 722 model. Now I have a 722k model receiver. Can anyone tell me the advantages of the k model versus the plain 722? Thanks for any comments!

Thank you, TheKrell, for your response.

I used to use Dish, now I have no satellite service at all. I'm trying to determine if either DISH or DIRECT have a capability of sending a HD signal down a coax cable from their DVR. I had a DISH 722 model with the Tuner 2 that could only send a SD signal. Has anything changed at DISH or...

Ignore that comment! Go ahead, ask your question and ignore unhelpful posters. Not all posters are like this guy. If you can't ask questions, you can't learn anything. I'm not a satellite nut case so I've had to ask questions in order to learn.

I've learned that the worst position to deal with is when you're already a customer with satellite, cable modem, and cell companies. In order to get the best deal from DISH, you need to cancel out of your account after your initial commitment is over. Ship DISH your receiver back but tell them...

I'm from NM. As for locals, I discovered that when I was camping west of Phoenix, all I had to do was call DISH and give them any ole' address in Phoenix as a temporary address. DISH then gave me Phoenix locals. This is how you can get ABC, NBC and CBS and FOX when you're several hundred...

I had a very similar problem on a recent camping trip. After suspecting a bad LNB like this guy, I eventually figured out that my skew was off because the dish itself had jumped off this little metal tit on the mounting bracket so gwtill, if you haven't already fixed your problem, carefully...

Don't worry, everything will be fixed by our new Dear Leader in Washington

I guess I don't understand this stuff. I thought improvement were on the way. Thanks very much for all the responses

If I understand the future a little, I think that OTA channels will be digital in Feb., which will produce much higher picture quality on HD TVs than SD. This makes me wonder how Dish can charge money for all these crappy SD channels I'm paying for. I've seen for months that Dish has bragged...

Let's get practical here. Most readers here know a lot more about Dish than I do but I think I have an idea for this guy. I got charged $5 once for not having my receiver hooked up to a phone line as I take my receiver to a second home and sometimes in a travel trailer for 5 weeks at a time...

Look, if you don't like the channel, don't watch it. Take your politics to DailyKos. You'll be comfortable there.

What do you mean by "AT100 or AT200?"

Can anyone tell me why Dish is unable to provide so basic a service as Fox News in HD?

signal Those look like slightly better numbers than a professional got for a new installation for me. Also, I take a dish on the road in my travel trailer. If I got numbers like that each time, I'd always be happy. I'm sure you're getting a perfect picture. When you're dealing with a...

Net HD reduction? Maybe others have already commented on this but I note that while Dish loves to brag about adding some HD content, they don't mention that for every new channel, they deleted some other channel. While the Voom channels weren't to die for, they were promised to me by DISH and...

I'll jump back in for one last comment to HDROBERTS. I agree that you don't need to hear every "f" word and the like. The problem is, if all you know is that the channel cuts out 20% or more of each movie, how on earth do you know what 20% they cut out? Plus, something tells me that once a...

Thanks for much for the comments. It appears I can record UNIHD and just skip over the ads and still see the whole movie while Bravo is a waste of time to record. Frankly, I don't see how a station stays alive showing 79% or whatever of a movie.

I recently acquired a DVR and am wondering whether movies shown on UNIHD and Bravo are shown uncut in their entirety, only with commercials added, or do those two channels cut out part of the movies in order to shown even more ads? In other words, now that I have a DVR I can quickly speed...

Thanks very much to TNG Tony above! I just followed his advice, my unit "phoned home" and I guess I'm OK for May. I attempted a call out a second time, and as was implied by TNG Tony, the unit responded by saying that no "call out" was pending.

I have a VIP 722 DVR that was recently taken in an RV on a road trip. Dish is now billing me a $5 extra "programming access fee" because the unit was not hooked up to a phone line. They say it has "two receivers!" I cannot fathom their logic here. What difference does it make if the...

When I've called DISH about a new account to get a VIP722 they tell me the only way to acquire one is via lease. Yet, when I've called one of the many "sales agents" for DISH with toll free numbers, one insisted that for the same payment that DISH quoted I would own the unit. Does anyone have...

You guys above probably know more that me but wouldn't this be likely to be true given that OTA broadcasts will soon all be HD? I mean, wouldn't it be a tough sell for these satellite companies to push SD when the government is mandating HD for all the "free" channels. It would be a tough...

I've been researching possible 500GB external hard drives to use on a 722DVR. Unfortunately, it seems many users have had Western Digital My Book, LiCie, Maxtor OneTouch and certain Seagate drives fail in less than a year. These data all came from customer reviews at Amazon. I noted that a...