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Shadyrest59

Last reply Sep 26, 2008 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Setting up my 625

I got my new 625 yesterday. The first one i got (Sunday) had froze up and the DVR would go in and out (meaning it would work sometimes and then not). The tech came over tested my old box and saw that at the moment it was working fine. (I had to unplug it and re-plug it bank in in order for to happen) As the tech was getting ready to pack up he tried my box once more and then it froze and shut off. Seeing this he finally agreed to swap me a new one.

FINALLY!!

I get my new box and basically, he just plugged it in, activated it and left. The first guy went through the process of configuring it for me. This guy just left it. On my old box I could record two shows and watch a third. I tried that on this one and it wasn't happening. I lost two shows I wanted to watch because of it.

Also, on my old box, when i would DVR something, I would get a little box with a 2 symbol next to my show and it worked ou fine. I got that one my first show I tried to record, but on the second one, I got a box with a 1 symbol and it wouldn't let me watch a third show while the pther two were recording, I had to watch one of them.

So my question is: What settings do I need to make in order to be able to record two shows and whatch a third.

For reference, I am only using my 625 on ONE TV.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Shadyrest59

Sep 25, 2008

I have it on single mode, but I still get the different boxes and numbers in them when I try to record. I'm just trying to figure out if there are any settings in preferences that i should change, everything is pretty much on default.

tastim

Sep 25, 2008

Shadyrest59 said:
I have it on single mode, but I still get the different boxes and numbers in them when I try to record. I'm just trying to figure out if there are any settings in preferences that i should change, everything is pretty much on default.

Dual tuner receivers will not, and have never been able to Record 2 things, and let you watch something else (being currently broadcast) at the same time....

That is, unless you have an OTA antenna in your home, perhaps you were watching programming from your antenna while the box was recording two shows. I promise you, you were not recording 2 things from Dish, and watching a third Dish program at the same time before. You were either watching a previously recorded program, or your antenna.

Put your receiver in Single Mode to get the 1 and 2 numbers to go away when you hit the record button.

If you're seeing the 1 and 2 icons in the guide... that is how it works and you can't make those icons go away without cancelling the timers. They're just representing which tuner your receiver is going to use to record that show. Getting those icons to go away has no effect on the number of shows you can watch/record at the same time.

topcat0399

Sep 25, 2008

tastim said:
Dual tuner receivers will not, and have never been able to Record 2 things, and let you watch something else (being currently broadcast) at the same time....

That is, unless you have an OTA antenna in your home, perhaps you were watching programming from your antenna while the box was recording two shows. I promise you, you were not recording 2 things from Dish, and watching a third Dish program at the same time before. You were either watching a previously recorded program, or your antenna.

Put your receiver in Single Mode to get the 1 and 2 numbers to go away when you hit the record button.

If you're seeing the 1 and 2 icons in the guide... that is how it works and you can't make those icons go away without cancelling the timers. They're just representing which tuner your receiver is going to use to record that show. Getting those icons to go away has no effect on the number of shows you can watch/record at the same time.

You can record 2 tuners AND watch 2 PRE RECORDED shows, if you like, all at the same time.

I think the OP should consider reading his owners manual.

Shadyrest59

Sep 25, 2008

topcat0399 said:
You can record 2 tuners AND watch 2 PRE RECORDED shows, if you like, all at the same time.

I think the OP should consider reading his owners manual.

No need to be snarky. I think I saw the first tech attach an OTA on my first box, so maybe that's what it was.

On this one, the guy didn't do that. I never said I wasn't mistaken.

I have to look on the back of my box and see what's going on back there.

The thing is when I went to record on my original box, I would hit record and the 2 would show on the first one and then I hit record for another show and it would give me another number 2. maybe they were at different times so it didn't matter.

Thanks for all of your input for those who responded.

TheKrell

Sep 25, 2008

Shadyrest59 said:
I think I saw the first tech attach an OTA on my first box, so maybe that's what it was.

Sorry, but no! There is no OTA tuner on a 625. Maybe it has passthrough, though... With the receiver off, you should be able to use your analog tuner to tune a 3rd live channel. Otherwise, it's two being recorded, and a 3rd pre-recorded to watch. That definitely works.

Shadyrest59 said:
The thing is when I went to record on my original box, I would hit record and the 2 would show on the first one and then I hit record for another show and it would give me another number 2. maybe they were at different times so it didn't matter.

I believe that's how it works, yes.

Shadyrest59

Sep 25, 2008

This is my second box and it is doing the same thing as the first.

I am really getting pissed off at Dish. How am I paying for something that I can't even use!

I was recording two shows and I decided to watch a DVD on another channel on my TV because of company being over.

I'm thinking well, I have these two recording and then one more after those finish, I'll be ok after my company leaves.

Not to be. My DVR failed for the third time in 5 days on two separate 625! What the hell do I have to do in order to record a freaking show on this damn thing?

I had to unplug it and replug it back in, in order to get the DVR working again. This is like the fourth or fifth time I've had to do this and I just got it Sunday. I mean WTF!?

It will let me pause and rewind live TV when it's working, but don't try to record anything. Because this stupid thing will fail everytime. This box I just got yesterday and it failed already. I am not abusive to my equipment and I have it in my entertainment center with plenty of ventilation.

It even started recording something that I didn't even schedule to record.

This is turning out to be a terrible decision to get this damn thing.

I missed my show and they are not replaying it.

Thanks Dish, you said this was supposed to be so I wouldn't miss my favorite shows but now it's doing just that. Making me miss my shows.

Agonizing Fury

Sep 26, 2008

A couple of things could be causing your issues. Some of these may not apply, but I thought I'd throw out a few possibilities to ease your frustration.

If you've been playing with the Mode switch and the Record plus settings since setting up those timers, you should really delete them and set them up again. The DVR can get flaky if these are changed too often (The manual, and I think, the screen where you change these settings says not to switch them often).
Where is your DVR physically located? If it's in a cabinet that can be closed it's very possible that it's overheating. Search the forums for threads about "Counters" Under the diagnostics screen to check High/Low/Avg Hard drive temps.
Make sure you let the receiver power down every night to get the latest program guide info, whithout an accurate guide it certainly can't schedule properly.
Good luck, I have had maybe only 1 or 2 shows that didn't record properly since getting my 625 almost 2 years ago. Same box, Same LNB, and my system is quite stable.

TheKrell

Sep 26, 2008

My 625 too is quite stable, and has been for over 2 years, and I'm definitely in dual mode with different things going on all the time on TV1 and TV2. I did notice a whole boatload of "Spongebob" recorded, when in fact Spongebob was not even on. I attribute that to EPG errors.

Did the two channels you were recording (while you turned your attention to other things) finish OK?

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Scott Greczkowski

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Song Name Game Part 3!

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Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

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ATSC 3 converter boxes

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navychop

Oct 20, 2026

DEATH TO NEXGEN!

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primestar31

Wednesday at 7:29 PM

navychop said:
DEATH TO NEXGEN!

It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.

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navychop

Wednesday at 10:37 PM

I truly hope you are right.

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Mister B

Thursday at 7:43 AM

What bothers me is the total waste of broadcasting spectrum in this very crowded market. It has been almost three years now since KFOX converted their broadcast tower to ATSC 3.0 and moved all of their channels to other towers causing noticeable degradation of the picture quality.
I have a Sony TV with 3.0 capabilities but still use the 1.0 version of locals due to the fact that one or all of the 3.0 channels are often missing or unwatchable. In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.
The only thing that could motivate me to be interested in 3.0 would be if all of the minor networks (diginets) could be in at least 720P rather than blurry ultra-compressed 480i.
Three years is long enough to waste one of the few available RF frequencies in the area for this trial.
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

navychop

Thursday at 4:31 PM

Mister B said:
In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.

They might notice the hand going into their pocket for their wallet.

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navychop

Thursday at 4:31 PM

Mister B said:
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

QFT. Of course, my preference involves a curb and some kicking.

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slow_poke_pete

27 minutes ago

primestar31 said:
It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.

WHAT ABOUT THE INTERNET PART OF IT. NO ONE WANTS A BOX CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET EITHER.

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House Passes AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act

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Sep 18, 2026

It's probably been 2 decades since I've listened to an AM radio station. Very rarely listen to FM any more.

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Today at 8:35 AM

I am 1 that wants the AM to Stay ....
That said, since '08 I have had Sat radio available to me ... I think I have turned on AM 3 or 4 times, just to see if its still there.

Fwiw, if theres a Major disaster or bad weather or whatever, the chances of me finding out about it by going to the AM side of the radio is SLIM and None.
Even FM, I haven't really had on since '13ish, I may turn it on from time to time, just to see if its still there.

harshness

Today at 10:10 AM

Jimbo said:
Fwiw, if theres a Major disaster or bad weather or whatever, the chances of me finding out about it by going to the AM side of the radio is SLIM and None.

Automation has seen to that. You can't get evening drive traffic reports where I live, much less disaster reports.

dishstaller

Today at 10:41 AM

dishdude said:
Very rarely listen to FM any more

That goes for a lot of people. I've been advertising on radio for more than a decade now and am very familiar with this subject. While it is still a valuable tool, it has far less impact than it did just a few years ago. The best reaction I get is from a local Country music station....they play a mix of older and newer music and have a very big footprint.

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Jimbo

Today at 11:03 AM

dishstaller said:
That goes for a lot of people. I've been advertising on radio for more than a decade now and am very familiar with this subject. While it is still a valuable tool, it has far less impact than it did just a few years ago. The best reaction I get is from a local Country music station....they play a mix of older and newer music and have a very big footprint.

Do you do any Ad's on Satellite ?

If Not, why not, because it's not Local ?

dishstaller

Today at 12:29 PM

Jimbo said:
Do you do any Ad's on Satellite ?

If Not, why not, because it's not Local ?

No, just regular FM stations. One is the country station I mentioned and the other is a Talk Radio station which used to get fantastic results but honestly, since the death of Rush Limbaugh, talk radio just doesn't do as well. There were two guys who had an early morning show which was hugely popular here in the southeast but one of them retired a couple years ago and the show just doesn't garner the same numbers as it used to.

slow_poke_pete

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Haven't listened AM or FM in years

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Today at 5:01 PM

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Friday at 10:01 PM

Even if you are broadcasting old SD-only shows, I would think advertisers would still want their commercials to look good.

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Jimbo

Friday at 11:17 PM

Strega said:
Even if you are broadcasting old SD-only shows, I would think advertisers would still want their commercials to look good.

Advertisers on SD channels are probably Far and Few, very hard to find, they have very few viewers to watch them.

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Jimbo said:
Advertisers on SD channels are probably Far and Few, very hard to find, they have very few viewers to watch them.

I watch mostly SD channels (H&I, Start and ION, etc.). There are plenty of advertisers, this time of the year it is mostly Medicare Advantage plans, auto extended warranties and the occasional walk-in-tub. They know who is watching.

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I watch mostly SD channels (H&I, Start and ION, etc.). There are plenty of advertisers, this time of the year it is mostly Medicare Advantage plans, auto extended warranties and the occasional walk-in-tub. They know who is watching.

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slow_poke_pete said:
can't forget the little blue m&m's

That's what my wife calls my Viagra!!

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Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

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Foxbat

Yesterday at 9:01 PM

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Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

Because he didn't have a fleet of reusable rockets. Starlink works because SpaceX is able to launch hundreds (thousands?) of their Starlink satellites for what a single geostationary Internet satellite costs to build and launch on a disposable launcher.

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slow_poke_pete

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That's what my wife calls my Viagra!!

My gf is 29 years younger than me :shh

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Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

He does not have the resources aka $$$ compared to Elon Musk as in reality, Elon can eat Charlie for lunch or even mop the floor with Charlie if he wanted to.

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long_time_Dish

Jun 4, 2024

Also watched part 2 about a week or so ago after rewatching part 1. It's not as faithful to the book as I was hoping for. Part 1 stayed fairly faithful to the novel, but part 2 took some liberties that I felt were rather excessively non-novel. It looks like a prequel series will happen before part 3. My issue is: there's no prequel that was written as a novel, so what will it be pulled from? Or will it just be "based loosely" on the novel?

klang

Jun 4, 2024

long_time_DNC said:
Also watched part 2 about a week or so ago after rewatching part 1. It's not as faithful to the book as I was hoping for. Part 1 stayed fairly faithful to the novel, but part 2 took some liberties that I felt were rather excessively non-novel. It looks like a prequel series will happen before part 3. My issue is: there's no prequel that was written as a novel, so what will it be pulled from? Or will it just be "based loosely" on the novel?

There is a bunch of other Dune written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son). I think the series in production is taken from one of their books about the Bene Gesserit.

long_time_Dish

Jun 4, 2024

klang said:
There is a bunch of other Dune written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son). I think the series in production is taken from one of their books about the Bene Gesserit.

Correct. I've read all of them (yes, it took awhile, better part of a year, in my spare time). And they can't really consider or classify a series about the Bene Gesserit as a prequel. Sure, I suppose they can call it that, if they want to, because it begins before the time of Paul Atredies, but it's still a stretch. It's a Dune-related novel, not a prequel as we generally think of prequels...

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Well, it looks good! I just hope they stayed close to the trilogy, but it doesn't look like it.

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