My Echostar/Dish Network Reciever Tier List

[Scott Greczkowski]

My favorite receiver besides the amazing Hopper 3 was the DishPlayer 7200. I loved that thing as buggy as it was. It was the future!

 

[telstar_1]

My favorite receiver besides the amazing Hopper 3 was the DishPlayer 7200. I loved that thing as buggy as it was. It was the future!

It was definitely a love it or hate it box. I hated it, found it clunky and recalcitrant, but some customers clearly loved it.

 

[telstar_1]

I have owned a lot of receivers.

It's nice to see your list with rankings but the picture needs to be bigger.

You didn't list my first receiver the JVC D-VHS.

That box was HUGE

 

[dishdude]

That box was HUGE

Just tall. A VCR (or as the kids call them today, a VHS player) on top of a 4700.

 

[dishdude]

My favorites were the original 2000, 501 and Wally.

 

[Arctic_fox]

My favorite receiver besides the amazing Hopper 3 was the DishPlayer 7200. I loved that thing as buggy as it was. It was the future!

The hopper 3 is total brain rot

 

[n0qcu]

Just tall. A VCR (or as the kids call them today, a VHS player) on top of a 4700.

Nope it was a 5000

 

[Foxbat]

Nope it was a 5000

Theoretically it could take the HD receiver module from the 5000 and turn it into an HD VCR, but then the Rights Holders said, "Er, no." I was hoping to get this for mine, never happened.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I remember the day that they decided to drop HD VCR support for the 5000. I guess I announced it minutes after they decided it.

Well Dish's switchboards lit up with upset customers, and I got a call from Charlie, mother f'ing me up and down for announcing it. They were not too happy.

Ahh good times.

 

[rvvaquero]

Well Dish's switchboards lit up with upset customers

If they can put lights on their switchboards, why can't they include them on front of the Hopper?

 

[Foxbat]

If they can put lights on their switchboards, why can't they include them on front of the Hopper?

I have a Green LED on my Hopper 3. Are you referring to the Navychop-Red Record LED? I guess the cost of 16 Red LEDs didn't make it past the focus groups.

 

[navychop]

 

[n0qcu]

I have a Green LED on my Hopper 3. Are you referring to the Navychop-Red Record LED? I guess the cost of 16 Red LEDs didn't make it past the focus groups.

But it only needs one after all it's either recording or it's not, those are the only two choices.

 

[tsunami2311]

622 was/is an HD Duo-user 2-tuner DVR and silver in color. Their first mass-distribution HD DVR. Maybe some could still be running? I believe it was superceded by the (black) 722, which had maybe a larger drive. You may be thinking of 612, which was/is a Solo HD DVR with 2 tuners and was black. Guess they saved a few bucks or something in not including the dual-user capability. The 622 and 722 models could be set up for independent use by different users even though there was only the 1 box- "TV2" (as DiSH called it) could run to another room on coax, got its own remote, and its own dedicated tuner (when set up that way) to watch or record without interference from the user at "TV1". But TV2 got no input in HD, that was the rub. It was a modulated SD signal on coax. The 612 could also send out (in SD) to other TVs on coax but could not independently select channels, recordings, etc.

DiSH in its infinite wisdom then thought the whole hopper thing would be the way to go rather than adding HD to extra users of same box.

could be the 612 I remember there being 6xx in it and it was black I vaguely remember tv2 out but I never used we had 4 of those for each tv, it was only time no one complained about DVR getting deleted or timers getting changed, cause everyone had there own box that no one touched or used for same reason no one touched there tv

 

[telstar_1]

could be the 612 I remember there being 6xx in it and it was black I vaguely remember tv2 out but I never used we had 4 of those for each tv, it was only time no one complained about DVR getting deleted or timers getting changed, cause everyone had there own box that no one touched or used for same reason no one touched there tv

Maybe a 722 then.

My favorites were the original 2000, 501 and Wally.

What was a 2000? They originally came out with just the 3000, 4000 and then 5000- right?

Theoretically it could take the HD receiver module from the 5000 and turn it into an HD VCR, but then the Rights Holders said, "Er, no." I was hoping to get this for mine, never happened.

5000 was not HD. It came out not that long after DiSH launch in the 90s and really didn't do much more than a 4000. It could take an input from like a cc camera to display onscreen, and had onscreen Caller ID (from landline), if I recall. Also the JVC VCR unit was from the 90s as well- well before HD.

 

[Arctic_fox]

If they can put lights on their switchboards, why can't they include them on front of the Hopper?

My hopper 3 has a light on the front . what in the F do some of you people do watch the light or t.v.

 

[Arctic_fox]

I have a Green LED on my Hopper 3. Are you referring to the Navychop-Red Record LED? I guess the cost of 16 Red LEDs didn't make it past the focus groups.

i can see another thread started up named dish fooled me my hopper don't have the red navychop red light on my hopper

 

[n0qcu]

Maybe a 722 then.


What was a 2000? They originally came out with just the 3000, 4000 and then 5000- right?


5000 was not HD. It came out not that long after DiSH launch in the 90s and really didn't do much more than a 4000. It could take an input from like a cc camera to display onscreen, and had onscreen Caller ID (from landline), if I recall. Also the JVC VCR unit was from the 90s as well- well before HD.

DISH developed a HD remodulator that allowed the 5000 to pickup the HD channels that DISH was broadcasting at the time (if I remember correctly HBO and Showtime were the channels) and modulate them to ATSC channel 3 or 4.

 

[charlesrshell]

My hopper 3 has a light on the front . what in the F do some of you people do watch the light or t.v.

Mulitast both

 

[rvvaquero]

what in the F do some of you people do watch the light or t.v

Do we have to decide right now?