First Night With Dish Network
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Is the package you currently have comparable to the package you had with Direct? If so, what is the difference in price between the two? What do you get with one that you did not get with the other?
Well I have the promo price right now of about 54 dollars a month for six months. Two DVR's, Three TV's, Two of them being HD. Dont have the bill in front of me, but I think when the promo is over it will be in the 80 dollar range.
As far as preimums HBO/Starz for three months, cinemax for 1 cent for the year.
As far as preimums HBO/Starz for three months, cinemax for 1 cent for the year.
A better definition of slow would probably be needed to know this for sure. Are you talking about slow in changing channels or something else? If you're talking about changing channels I think it's normal although I can understand it being annoying for a channel surfer. For me it takes approximately 5-6 seconds to change channels. While with cable for the most part it was almost instantaneous although there were occasions of 2-3 second delays. However since I typically do not channel surf this is not an issue for me.
Ok, I will save $40 with that over what I have now with Dish through another company. How can I get:
3 HD(2 HD receivers, 1 HD DVR)
Hook up to 3 SDTVs
is that a possibility?
Great Tip!
Great tip! Not being able to see what is on other programs and hear what you are currently watching always bothered me. Shows you there is always something to learn. Thanks.
Great tip! Not being able to see what is on other programs and hear what you are currently watching always bothered me. Shows you there is always something to learn. Thanks.
I checked mine with the Kill-a-watt and standby uses one watt less than the ON mode.
The tech is entirely wrong - that is an urban legend.
I have spoken to a hard disk drive technician, who told me that the heating and cooling of turning on and off was worse than continuous usage.
You want to turn off TVs and Computer Monitors when not in use, because they use a lot of power, but beyond that, it is better for the equipment to let DVRs and PCs run all day.
Some of my PCs run continuously 50 weeks a year.
Somewhat of a pleasnt surprise, I am having some issues with one of the remotes I have, changed the battery still did not work. I called dish and spoke to someone who I spoke to appeared to be talking from the USA. When I was researching Dish, many posts discussed the trouble they had communicating with CSR's whose english appeared to be their second language.
Not sure if I got the luck of the draw with the CSR/Tech Support today. But instead of preparing to speak real slow and clear, had a great conversation and a new remote should be here by tueday or wednesday. Score a point for Dish
Not sure if I got the luck of the draw with the CSR/Tech Support today. But instead of preparing to speak real slow and clear, had a great conversation and a new remote should be here by tueday or wednesday. Score a point for Dish
My ViP722 is running at 53-54 watts 'on' and runs 51-52 watts 'standby'. Basically the exact same as your results.
Even with all three tuners recording and playing back another recording in fast forward mode - it never went above 55 watts. So it's safe to say that it always runs from 50-55 watts.
That's 455 KWh/year (if you use it 8 hours/day). And it would cost about $32/year here in Idaho.
I don't know. But if you read my post again, you can see that I didn't mention that. My household probably uses less than what I posted there: <8 hours/day of usage (on time) and >16 hours/day standby. Since there is not much difference from 'on' to 'standby', 8 hours/day is a good estimate.
Are you 'using' it when it is in standby, or are you using it when you turn it on? I didn't show the math - but it includes 8 hours/day 'on' and 16 hours/day 'standby'. I've yet to see anyone do that calculation of actual usage given the two similar wattages.
For those of you who pay other than 7 cents/KWh - just plug in your rate to on this formula to find out your annual usage (assuming you leave it plugged in all year):
$32 * Your Rate / (7 cents/KWh)
For instance if you live in Louisiana and pay the average rate there (8.92 cents/KWh) it would be:
$32 * 8.92 cents/KWh / (7 cents/KWh) = ~$41 / year.
I have the 612 in my bedroom and do NOT put it into stand-by mode before I go to bed. If I do, every night at mid-night it does a reboot and I hear the fan whirling away and get woken up. I have the receiver to update at 3PM so I know its not updating. But if I don't turn it off, everything is fine. Strange little device.
