Upgrading to vip 222k

[speterson63]

Question I have is can I upgrade to a vip 222k dual tuner receiver from my old legacy solo 4700. Would want to still use my 500 twin until I can upgrade that to the 1000.4 hd. Any ideas on upcharges from Dish? Like hd enabling fee? whatever that is. Thanks

 

[greenguy]

i have two of these and i dont believe there will be a charge for the first HD dual receiver.
you can get HD free for life is you use paperless billing and a 2yrs contract i think it is OR you can pay the one time fee of $100.

 

[mx023]

call and ask is best thing to do. sounds like your eligible for an upgrade via a 2 year commitment. Through that the equipment would be very cheap to lease if anything, and if you only have 1 recvr on the acct there is no receiver fee to worry about. HD programming options are 10$/month pay as you go, 99$ one time fee or autopay and paperless for HD free for life with a different 2 yr commitment. You also have the option to just have the HD equip with no HD for no charge obviously. I wouldn't upgrade unless you have the HDTV ready, HD recvr + SD TV = worse quality SD. They will replace your 500 twin with a 1000.4 more than likely too. HD requires signal from 3 satellites. 500 only capable of 2.

edit: and you would definately want the new sat. if you did something like deny a new dish, they would install the recvr and when you wanted to activate HD you would miss your channels till you got the new dish.

 

[MattG@DISH]

If you want to lease the receiver from Dish, they will also upgrade the dish on the home (a tech would be required). If you want to purchase a 222(k), I believe the cost is $199 from us, but that may be wrong.

If you want to PM your phone number or account number, I can get you the details.

 

[TimberWolf]

The 222k will not work right with 1 line from a legacy twin. You will need to run a second line from the dish,replace it with a 1K.4 or replace at least the LNB with a DPP twin at the same time