Will Dish Activate

[Bob55]

an old 381 receiver?

I purchased it new as a spare long ago. Never activated so it does not have a card. Lost signal yesterday and used it to confirm loss. The cable came out of the old style crimp connector at the lnb.

It took a software update from P429 to P469 and receives 110, 119 and 129 on a 1000.4 dish. I have no real use for it except to confirm as above and was wondering if it was worth passing it on.

 

[navychop]

I don't think they will, but a call to Dish or better, a PM to DIRT will settle it.


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[ZachS@DISH]

Our system will not allow us to activate a 381.

 

[boba]

Our system will not allow us to activate a 381.

I assume that is also true of a 811?

 

[KKlare]

An 811 is MPEG-2 for its HD. Dish has no MPEG-2 HD channels, now. So why?
It might work on WA for SD channels but even if allowed better to get more modern and a DVR, too.

 

[boba]

An 811 is MPEG-2 for its HD. Dish has no MPEG-2 HD channels, now. So why?
It might work on WA for SD channels but even if allowed better to get more modern and a DVR, too.

The 811 came first then DISH rebadged it as a 381 and sold it for WA SD broadcasting with an ATSC tuner built in. I have two sitting idle but if they are no longer being activated they become a little more electronic scrap.

 

[ChadT41]

Thhe 811 should fall under the legacy reciever group as well. And I don't beleive are being activated either.

 

[Bob55]

It took a software upgrade. So why does Dish bother with that since it can not be activated? Why not just totally disable the unit instead?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

There are still some in use in headends / commercial establishments, thus the software is kept up to date for those places.