Suggestions for an old 811 and 942 receiver

[Miner]

Folks,

I was cleaning out my garage yesterday and came across my old 811 receiver. Anybody have ideas about what to do with it? I should have traded it to Dish when they used it for their upgrade but it was a solid OTA digital tuner at the time.
I also have a 942 somewhere in the garage, and figure it is about as useless as well.

Are either receiver useful for any FTA type or should it just drop them off at the electronic recycling (or nearest tall building)?

Miner

 

[MikeD-C05]

Doorstops.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Take the hard drives out, you can find a use for those.

 

[Miner]

Take the hard drives out, you can find a use for those.

That's what I figured. If I remember correctly the 942 has a 320 gig sata drive. It should work in my portable case.

 

[harshness]

Recycle, recycle, recycle.

 

[Mr Tony]

The 811 **could** be used for a HD OTA tuner if you so need one

otherwise maybe target practice???

 

[navychop]

You'll know what to do when someone yells "PULL!"

 

[Mr Tony]

industrial strength clay pigeon shooter needed

 

[garys]

Boat anchor's anyone?

 

[dishcomm]

Folks,

I was cleaning out my garage yesterday and came across my old 811 receiver. Anybody have ideas about what to do with it? I should have traded it to Dish when they used it for their upgrade but it was a solid OTA digital tuner at the time.
I also have a 942 somewhere in the garage, and figure it is about as useless as well.

Are either receiver useful for any FTA type or should it just drop them off at the electronic recycling (or nearest tall building)?

Miner

Boat anchors...The 811 was always one of those. Most unstable POS Dish had made until the 921....

 

[Mr Tony]

I had a 811 that worked really good for a OTA tuner....worked better than the Voom receiver I had (because of the CBS O&O glitch....if you dont remember if your CBS was O&O for some reason it made the Voom box freak the hell out....and it was only if your CBS was owned by CBS at the time)

 

[DWS44]

The 811 was my first Dish Receiver, then later the 942 was my first DVR. I never really had any problems to speak of with the 811, other than I grew tired of the ancient looking UI. Always looked like it ran on DOS, compared to the newer receivers that were coming out around the same time. The 942 was about as rock solid as any Dish receiver I've ever had.

 

[AlaJoe]

A monitor stand, I have my monitor here at work sitting on an 88 MB Syquest drive that use to connect by C50 scsi cable. Nice stand raises my monitor about 2 inches and nice and sturdy.

 

[charlesrshell]

The 811 was my first Dish Receiver, then later the 942 was my first DVR. I never really had any problems to speak of with the 811, other than I grew tired of the ancient looking UI. Always looked like it ran on DOS, compared to the newer receivers that were coming out around the same time. The 942 was about as rock solid as any Dish receiver I've ever had.

I am glad you liked the 942. The 722k was super awesome too. I still miss it. The modulator out to the home distribution for older TVs in the home and the dual OTA tuner was a big plus. I wish the Hopper had the TV 2 out capability or if there was some way to sync a recordings to other TVs would really be awesome. Two OTA tuners would be nice too since we were spoiled with the VIP DVRs.

 

[Miner]

My 811 was good, although at times s/w bugs sometimes caused problems. The 942 was great, nothing bad to say about it.
I also have my 4000(?), first Dish receiver.

 

[brad1138]

Boat anchors...The 811 was always one of those. Most unstable POS Dish had made until the 921....

You obviously never experienced a 7100/7200. I'll probably have nightmares from just thinking of those again... Holy crap were they a pain in the ass.

That being said, the 811/381 was crap.

 

[Mr Tony]

That being said, the 811/381 was crap.

It wasn't a bad little receiver....it just needed some love

 

[Bobby]

My 811 worked just fine until I upgraded it to a 722....

 

[navychop]

Took offense, did it?

 

[Bobby]

Took offense, did it?

Nah, it ended up at a friends house....