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Chris, you brought up a couple of valid things here. I will miss Caller ID (why the heck doesn't Tivo have this?) Never use browse on my E* receivers so don't care. 1 hour buffer is a toss up because Tivo does 30 min on each tuner whereas E* does 1 hour for a single tuner Favorites...

I am about to switch from E* to D* as soon as the HD-Tivo comes out. Why you might ask am I switching, is it because of lower monthly fees for equivalent programming? Is it because of the increased functionality that Tivo gets me? Is it because D* receivers actually work as they are advertised...

My 721 was doing the same thing a while back with our phone line. The next thing that happened was it started to display a "not authorized to view this station" message on all stations. I'm not sure if the two were related but thought I would throw it out there in case you see this next. After...

Now we know how much Charlie paid to get CNN and Cartoon Network.

I think you are confusing some things. Your OTA HD channels will come from the 811 not your internal DTV tuner. If you have your TV hooked up through component cables you need to change the input to the component input on your TV NOT your DTV-Cable input. You should have your satellite and...

I don't know if this is what E* is doing in the 921 but most of the higher end HDTVs have a new stretch mode that basically does a non-linear stretch horizontally and a slight stretch vertically. This allows most shows where the center of the screen is the focal point to look non-stretched. It...

Well I guess I spoke to early about how stable my 721 is with L1.16. Over the last couple of days I have had my 721 reboot by itself once while watching live TV, no timers, not recording. Also today I was in the guide and the remote control went dead except for the guide button, I could...

I've got to admit L1.16 seems to be very stable. I haven't had to reboot once since I have gotten it. I am actually for the first time satisfied with my 721.

Good call. If true this means the 322 and 522 as well as the 721,921 are all running Linux.

Yes the 721 is Linux based. You get a nice X-Windows cross and a booting DishLinux screen while it is booting.

Anyone know what the "L" and "P" mean in front of the version numbers?

Can anyone confirm if the screen saver is in there?

Scott, anymore information on this update?

I'm sure if someone really wanted to push it through small claims court they could. Did you know there are actual laws that say that a company can't take away functionality once it was available? Things like the screen saver could be sued over, it has happened at a company I worked for. Things I...

I found this site to be better: http://myrateplan.com/sat/ It looks more up to date. I wouldn't buy anything from it but strictly from a comparison point of view I thought it was pretty good.

So Scott, how is that 921 treating you? Can't wait to hear your review once the 921s start shipping to retailers. :D

Says Charlie in the retailer chat!

This is the statement that bugs me, "They said all NEW HD programming will still go to 105, however all existing HD programming will stay where its at until the time the new satellite goes up." That says to me that unless I can utilize a superdish I can NOT receive any HD channels that...

So another way to say this is that any of us in those states that want HD will need to switch to D* or Cable (of course we can always stay and get the 4 channels they currently provide)...

If you want to hear Charlie in all his glory talking about how they didn't deliver on all the new HD products that we all want which hurt their sales you can go to this link: http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/7/36077.html

Well said WeeJavaDude. Here is another data point. My last 721 had hardware issues and 2 days after the L1.15 release I got a replacement unit. Since the replacement and L1.15 I have not had ANY stability issues. As a matter of fact I have not rebooted the unit once. With my old unit I would...

The picture doesn't look bad if you don't have anything to compare it against. I agree compared to analog OTA Dish does look better, however compared to digital OTA SD channels there really is no comparison. Digital OTA SD channels look at least as good as DVD quality where in my opinion Dish...

My TV Mits 55613 has a built in OTA tuner which I use for networks in my area. I have to say that when I compare the OTA Digital channels (SD) to the Dish local channels...well there really is no comparison. The OTA channels are in a different league. Of course OTA HD is a huge step above this...

When I was on the phone with "advanced" tech support the other night after my 721 went teet up and we were waiting for yet another reboot to occur during their troubleshooting process. He asked how I liked the 721 upgrade, well I said it was great until the thing stopped working (it says my...

What is the update roadmap for the 721? What new features are planned and when.