Good review Scott and lots of good info on the 622 from the rest of the posters. Thanks for all of the info. I'm now sold on getting one.

I agree with Hogarth. As much as I'd love to have one of these I think I'll wait a while to let others get the bugs worked out and D*TV to add some more features. For me no MRV is a show stopper anyway. I love my Tivo and E* 522 for this feature so not having it on a pair of R15s would be a pain...

...two biggest differences, and one of them is not present as yet, is the R15 has a 160GB HD with a 100 hour recording capacity. The other is that D*TV says that they will implement some sort of MRV and Home Media Options sometime in 2006. The current DirecTivo units will never get MRV or HMO as...

The long awaited R15 units, the first Non-Tivo unit from D*TV, are being delivered now. Earl over on the Tivo Community board has a general review posted. Maybe Scott or some other SatGuys staffer can get a hold of one and do review here as well. For now here is a link to Earl's review of...

...the 72.5 so it may take a couple of tries to get it. Looks like its time to spring for the Birdog, but I've heard lately that the Birdog is having problems with the 72.5 satellite. Does anyone know if this is still a problem for the Birdog? Or has D* fixed the all even transponder problem now?

Its best to avoid mounting of any roof. If you have to the way Plywodstatebum is the best way to do it. Even doing that eventually they will start to leak over time.

I just got an Acutrak 22 Pro. Can it be used to peak a 72.5 signal? The manual just talks about 101, 110, and 119 birds.

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Hands down the Dish 522 beats any cable DVR I've seen. I live in Charter cable area but work for Comcast as a sub-contractor and neither Charter or Comcast has a decent DVR solution compared to Dish. And now with NBR the 522 is really quite comparable to a Tivo. Still not as good or reliable but...

Ok may have been my mistake. There is no 522 forum now. There is a generic Dish DVR/PVR section now. So thats why my bookmark failed.

As far as speed goes I can't tell any difference. But then again I am on a wide open DSL account so you'd have to be blazingly faster than before for me to notice any speed increase. But just as Indy posted I had a bookmark directly to the Dish 522 section and it doesn't work now it goes to...

Actually I don't get this either. DN knows via the units serial number whether it is paid for or not. If it is a legit unit I don't understand why they wouldn't activate them. They could still charge their $5/month VOD fee as they do on the lease units.

Thats exactly what I do too and I get the updates as well. I have the automatic updates set for 5am and when I wake in the morning the logo is bouncing around. I just hit select and go on about about ALL DAY viewing on both tuners. I never physically turn my receiver off. And maybe its just...

I think you hit the nail on the head here. People tune in to these shock jocks just to see how they will push the envelope on restricted air waves. Once this restriction is lifted I think they lose appeal quickly. I hope it all works out for Sirius. Its a lot of money they are gambling on...

If you're thinking about getting one of the Audiovox PnP tuners you might want to check into this: JENSEN SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO BOOMBOX JBX100SR Supposedly its the same boombox with a different name brand on it.

I think your problem is shutting it down every night. If you still want to shut it down every night I'd enable the updates (Menu - 8 - 5) for like 10 minutes ahead of your current time and let it run and then disable it again after its finished at least every couple of weeks.

Hehe, I think you meant www.perfect-10.tv for the URL to Perfect 10. Some good merchandise on the URL you posted there Larry, but not exactly what I'm needing right now. Thanks for the info though on the Digisat. I'll definately have to look into that.

Thanks for the info freddy on the cell phone. I have a somewhat decent plan with Cingular. Its only 500 mins anytime so I might have to up that. Although I do have lots of roll over mins that are stock piled right now. No wobbie, I'm in the upper east TN area, but if this doesn't work out you...

No, unfortunately there are no DVRs available that will queue up playback of pre-recorded shows. I don't know why. It seems to me that creating a "playlist" feature wouldn't be that hard to do, but no DVR manufacturer has come up with this for video recordings. Tivo sort of has playlist features...

Thanks for all of the info and advice you all have contributed to this thread. I now have a good battery of knowledge I didn't have before. Hopefully anyone else considering this trade in the future will find this thread and gain some insight like I have.

I meant the company is located in my local area. The installs I'm sure will range out quite a bit. They mentioned a fairly large coverage area. Sorry for not being more specific. We just got Dish local channels in our area so there is a big rush for Dish right now. I know of 3 people who...

Yeah I sort of figured their insurance was overpriced. I do plan on getting up a tools required list and getting as many of them as I can myself. But what about this inclinometer and a decent satellite meter that bcshields mentioned can I get those on my own at a decent price somewhere besides...

No question I'd go with the D* HD DirecTivo if I had a plasma screen.

Thanks yes it was. I'm not looking for any easy money or get rich quick thing. I know this will be real work with long hours. I just want some assurance that what they've told me was legit. Theres too many jobs posted in the newspapers that turn out to be scams for free labor and I wanted to...

First off I didn't know which forum was the appropriate one to post this thread in so I chose the general DN forum since the job is for being a subcontract DN installer. Mods feel free to move this thread if theres another forum section more suitable. Anyway with that out of the way. This...