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Has all the HD capability and features you'd want. Just be careful buying a receiver outside Dish. I thought I would save money by buying off eBay and adding to my Dish service, cause to add an additional receiver Dish wanted $100 to have the receiver and person come out to install it. No matter what you do to add receiver, lease from them or buy yourself, your still going to pay $7/month service fee. So no savings there. I my case the receiver that I bought was a lemon, despite Dish trying, and even sending me out a new SmartCard for the receiver, the receiver would not actvate and was like stuck in a West African timezone. I ended up having to have a Dish technician come out, he vaerified the receiver had issues, and (praise for dish) replaced the faulty receiver with a new one. With Postage I paid $144.01 for the eBay receiver, and in the end still had to have Dish come out and fix things due to bad receiver (there was no wiring or other issues in home -- it was a bad receiver), and sadly I could have gotten it all for $100 in the first place. Stick with Dish where you can....Read full review
I already had one of these, so I was familiar with it's feature set. It does what it should do without any major issues. The only complaint I had was the way it is packaged from the manufactor. The box is skimpy and the inside partitions are not strong enough for the ruff treatment it got with UPS shipping. When I got it, the box was damaged and one of the small plastic hinges on the front access door was broken. I kept the unit because trying to return it for another would be more cost than having the door hinge new...I don't plan to open the door anyway.
This satellite receiver not only receives the satellite signals, but also the local over the air signals. These are identified and included in the guide. This feature is a major convenience in selecting and recalling channels. Picture quality is exceptionally good. One minor inconvenience is with the local over the air channels. The remote cannot select the decimal channel numbers; example 5.1 there is no "." on the controller. The best way to get these is by going to the guide and selecting them there. Minor inconvenience. I am very happy with this receiver.
Excellent receiver for what I wanted....which is one for use in an RV. It does the job for HD and standard TV BUT this unit does not have a hard drive so there is NO pause, record or features like on larger Hard Drive units. It's a basic unit that does a good job of receiving Dish. Price is better than renting from dish as well.
Relative easy to set up when you finally get through to the Dish Network folks to get it registered. Compact size fits in many places that the ViP722 will not go and it runs considerably cooler than the 722. It replaces the 722 in our motor home because of size and heat issues with the previous unit. It has proven to be a good choice and the ability to hang a hard drive off of it to record movies and programs is an added bonus. Pleased with the purchase.