Santa Claus wears brown....
This morning the UPS Guy dropped me off my ultimate Christmas present a brand new Dish DVR 921 receiver!
I plan on doing a full write up on it but if you don't mind here is some of the things I have done so far.
I quickly took a few pictures of it sitting in front of my SuperDISH in the front yard.
I took it in the house and removed it from the box, in the box came a component cable, manual, remote, batteries, UHF antenna (for the remote) a channel lineup card, a phone line, coax cable, av cables and a S Video Cable. (Note no DVI Cable is included)
I unhooked my Dish 6000 and put the 921 above it. I unplugged the 6000 from the Dishpro adapter and plugged the satellite cable into input 1, I threw a cable out the window and hooked it up to tuner 2. I plugged this cable into my SW 34 switch.
I came in the house and plugged the 921 in. I was greeted on the screen by a Dish HDTV logo.
In about 55 seconds I received a notice that my unit was not authorized.
I then pressed the menu button on the remote and went to the switch check and ran a switch check....
This is where I ran into a problem. The input that was hooked up before to the 6000 was not checking as a SW34, it was trying to do switch check 1 or 34, while the other cable tested fine. I went outside and moved the 2 cables for the 921 to port 3 and 4 and moved my 721 to port 1 and 2 on the sw 34. It appears to be a problem with the SW 34 as now I have the problem on my 721.
Also another thing wierd is that it does not detect the 105 satellite from my SuperDISH out of the box. However once the software update is downloaded it supports the SuperDISH fine.
The 921 out of the box has no real software, and most of the functions are not enabled, you need to download the software for it to work correctly.
As I sit here my 921 just finished downloading and installing its software. And like the 721 it IS running Linux just like the 721. (I just saw the grey screen with the X in the center)
Out of the box the 921 comes set at 480p mode. It took me a few minutes to figure out why I could not fill the screen with my 921. After the softwre update is defaulted back to 480p.
The first thing I do not like is its stretch mode, on my 6000 the stretch mode fills the screen nicely, on the 921 I am losing a lot of picture on the left and right.
So far the unit runs just like the 721, it even has the same games and Instant Weather just like the 721.
Now I am trying to activate my system, I have been on hold for awhile....
Another report later.
This morning the UPS Guy dropped me off my ultimate Christmas present a brand new Dish DVR 921 receiver!
I plan on doing a full write up on it but if you don't mind here is some of the things I have done so far.
I quickly took a few pictures of it sitting in front of my SuperDISH in the front yard.
I took it in the house and removed it from the box, in the box came a component cable, manual, remote, batteries, UHF antenna (for the remote) a channel lineup card, a phone line, coax cable, av cables and a S Video Cable. (Note no DVI Cable is included)
I unhooked my Dish 6000 and put the 921 above it. I unplugged the 6000 from the Dishpro adapter and plugged the satellite cable into input 1, I threw a cable out the window and hooked it up to tuner 2. I plugged this cable into my SW 34 switch.
I came in the house and plugged the 921 in. I was greeted on the screen by a Dish HDTV logo.
In about 55 seconds I received a notice that my unit was not authorized.
I then pressed the menu button on the remote and went to the switch check and ran a switch check....
This is where I ran into a problem. The input that was hooked up before to the 6000 was not checking as a SW34, it was trying to do switch check 1 or 34, while the other cable tested fine. I went outside and moved the 2 cables for the 921 to port 3 and 4 and moved my 721 to port 1 and 2 on the sw 34. It appears to be a problem with the SW 34 as now I have the problem on my 721.
Also another thing wierd is that it does not detect the 105 satellite from my SuperDISH out of the box. However once the software update is downloaded it supports the SuperDISH fine.
The 921 out of the box has no real software, and most of the functions are not enabled, you need to download the software for it to work correctly.
As I sit here my 921 just finished downloading and installing its software. And like the 721 it IS running Linux just like the 721. (I just saw the grey screen with the X in the center)
Out of the box the 921 comes set at 480p mode. It took me a few minutes to figure out why I could not fill the screen with my 921. After the softwre update is defaulted back to 480p.
The first thing I do not like is its stretch mode, on my 6000 the stretch mode fills the screen nicely, on the 921 I am losing a lot of picture on the left and right.
So far the unit runs just like the 721, it even has the same games and Instant Weather just like the 721.
Now I am trying to activate my system, I have been on hold for awhile....
Another report later.
