VIP Satellite Receiver Retirement
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Most of them have been, as far as new installs go. 211s still get installed on rare occasions and 722's to replace other 722's and 222's that have gone bad. Other receivers are still active, but won't be installed any longer
I’d say resale value of these is less than shipping cost.
I just assisted in closing a Dish account for my deceased neighbor. He had 1-211 and 2-211Ks. I was told and got an email that said that return of the receivers was not necessary.
Yep, when I upgraded to a pair of Wallys a few months ago I was told the same thing, don't bother returning the VIP211k's, scrap em.
| Receiver | Current Version | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| 625 | L8.56 | 12/11/2018 |
| 625 | L8.55 | 6/7/2017 |
| 322 | L7.72 | 4/2/2015 |
| 322 | L7.71 | 10/22/2013 |
ViP list from a recent New Software thread:
ViP - HD Receivers
| Receiver | Current Version | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| 922 | S1.32 | 12/11/2018 |
| 922 | S1.31 | 6/7/2017 |
| 722k | L9.25 | 8/18/2020 |
| 722k | L9.24 | 6/6/2019 |
| 722 | L9.15 | 8/18/2020 |
| 722 | L9.14 | 6/6/2019 |
| 622 | L9.31 | 8/18/2020 |
| 622 | L9.30 | 6/6/2019 |
| 612 | L8.97 | 8/18/2020 |
| 612 | L8.96 | 6/6/2019 |
| 222k | L8.83 | 10/11/2019 |
| 222k | L8.82 | 6/4/2019 |
| 222 | L7.63 | 6/16/2017 |
| 222 | L7.62 | 12/8/2016 |
| 211k | L8.64 | 6/4/2019 |
| 211k | L8.63 | 5/21/2019 |
| 211z | L9.01 | 8/8/2019 |
| 211z | L9.00 | 5/21/2019 |
| 211 | L5.76 | 6/5/2019 |
| 211 | L5.75 | 5/21/2019 |
| 411 | L5.76 | 6/5/2019 |
| 411 | L5.75 | 5/21/2019 |
| Sling Firmware | 05.04.520 | 12/9/2014 |
| Sling Firmware | 05.03.520 | 12/4/2014 |
| Sling Firmware | 05.03.461 | 7/10/2014 |
| Sling Firmware | ADEDCAAR | 6/1/2014 |
New Software Release 1/13
I updated while ago. When you click on "update the guide" in the tools section it appears nothing happened. However, if you use the remote back button to go back to TV a message is displayed on the bottom of the screen with the crawl bar showing the update taking place.
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Thanks, HipKat!
Are the 322s and 625s receivers being installed these days? If so, it’s very very rare that they are installed.
Oh no. They stopped installing those some years ago
The only scenario I could think of is if someone already has those receiver models, and they move to a new home, requiring Dish to come out and install a new dish for them. Even then, Dish would probably insist on upgrading those receivers to newer models at the time of the new dish install. If the new dish happens to be Western Arc, I suppose the subscriber could refuse the new receivers, and just keep using the old ones as long as they still continue to work. As you said, that scenario would be very very rare though.
All SD receivers are being shut down. If they haven't been already, they will be any time now.
We had to go around and replace nearly 2000 311s with 211's over the last year (most in commercial rack systems). A few places didn't get their 311s replaced, and most went offline a few months back.
How did those rack systems distribute their video to customers' TVs? I fear it was something dumb like NTSC...
You're not wrong, I had a customer the other day that has a 625 and a 322 and refuses to upgrade
Now days, we put Dish HD Smartboxs into pretty much all commercial MDUs. But we have been doing this for 20+ years, and back then SD Rack systems going out NTSC were it. Some of our accts still haven't upgraded to HD. One of our biggest accounts is an entire states prison system, about 1000 of the receivers went into that. 48 SD channels (2-49) at each facility. They still run SD, mainly because not all the inmates TVs are HD capable, they are mostly 7 to 10 inches, HD wouldn't be real noticeable, and additional cost of HD upgrade.
A fair amount of apartments and some hotels are L-band (receivers in room). Those were an easier upgrade.
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