Retire this reciever, it is a POS!!! Please please please. They cause nothing but problems on install. I meant 381, i fat fingered the number.
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Oh you youngsters back when the 811 was the first line HD receiver it was king so much better than the 6000. Today it is SLOW with little memory and a far cry from a desirable basic receiver. My 2 811's are still working as OTA tuners 1 is even working with a standalone TiVo. As a low cost from Ebay HDTV tuner it has a place but I don't understand why DISH would rebadge it as a 381 and try and market it as equivalent to a 301 or 311, but again why take a 522 and rebadge it as a 512 with only 1 tuner. I guess for Cheap Charlie it is less costly than NEW production.
The 301 and 311 don't have ATSC tuners and can't output HD from any source. Why would anyone want a 3xx when they could have one of these? I'd take "slow" over "no" any day! If anybody wants to trade, I have a 301 with yellow card that's just collecting dust.
TheKrell said:
I work in an area where the majority of people dont have OTA's. So i would rather install a 301/310/311 reciever anyday, especially when they are way faster installing than the 381. I still say its junk. It needs to be retired from new installs, hey addint it to an existing account is okay, but not new.
I think Echostar no longer manufactures SD boxes (for Dish), and hasn't for a while. Probably why you haven't seen any shipments in quite a while. Dish is still installing SD boxes, but they are all refurb, I believe. When will Charlie make the big 8PSK move for those of us on the WA?
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Any service calls I see that have a 381 or 811 on the work order and the customer says they are having signal issues, I almost always assume it will be a problem with the rcvr. Very unreliable rcvr. Up there with the standard 222 rcvr.
