My 811 was installed (sorta) at 3:30pm. The reason I say sorta: I have a Dish 500 with legacy duals. The installers (2-in two different trucks) said it will work fine with that. He hooked up the 811, got good signal strength, went to the download software part and the status bar never changed.. after 1/2 hour he said I guess it won't work with the legacy duals, so he went out and put a DishPro twin LNB in. Same problem with the receiver. I said, "I hope you have another receiver out in the trucks". He replied, well I have another install, and I reminded him that he hadn't finished this install, so off to the truck. Got the new(er) receiver and it installed fine.
These two guys, in separate trucks had traveled a 60 mile round trip to get to me..
I'm impressed with the OTA HD setup. I get channels from stations that I could not receive analog signals from, perfect.
The picture is a little darker.
About 2 hours into playing with it, the receiver made a buzzing noise. I shut it off and turned it back on and the buzzing was gone.
At 8:40pm, as I was getting read to watch HD Monday Night Football (OTA), the sound blinked off!!! Nothing I did would get it working, so I called Dish and got a CSR right away that knew what he was doing, and after trying several things with setup, he told me to go to the receiver and hold the power button down for 6 seconds, or until it turned off. I guess that does a hard reset. After turning it on, it reacquired the signal and all was well with the sound.
I remain concerned about the "buzzing" noise and will really be paying attention..
So far, except for the inability to get the correct aspect ratio, I like it. Hopefully the software shows up quickly.
Dave