DishNetwork.com Error ?

[Jacob S]

At this thread at the Dish Network site http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/support/technical/software_versions/index.asp it says there is a 3750 but does not mention a 3800/3900 receiver. Is this a different coding to mean either of those receivers? I know that they switched the 3800 to a 3900 when they upgraded them to OpenTV in the new software. Its the software versions of the receivers.

[boba]

Jacob that should be a 3700 that was the model before the 3800 they are not listing the 3800 because they are now upgraded to 3900.

[Jacob S]

There is a seperate one listed for 3700 and 3900 so it must have been a different receiver that they came out with in which I never heard of.

[BobaBird]

A dealer contributed this to the alt.dbs.echostar FAQ section on multi-dwelling unit installations:... the QAM headend runs about $15,000, and special receivers that can get satellite on cable frequencies instead of satellite transponders are used- the model number, IIRC, is the "3850" and they run about $250 each.Maybe 3750 is what he was thinking of.

[JosephF]

That is correct. The 3750 is a QAM receiver (roughly the satellite receiver equivalent to a cable box). These are typically used for things like apartment buildings.

[Jacob S]

Are these receivers more expensive for Dish to make and that being the reason they do not make all receivers in that way?

[BobaBird]

The issue is the megabucks QAM headend needed to convert the transponder signals. Here is the paragraph preceding the one quoted above:If the cost justifies it, DISH has a special MDU setup called QAM that uses a DISH 500 hooked to a special headend modulator that translates each 119 or 110 transponder you want to use and "remaps" it to an unused cable TV channel frequency. This allows the whole satellite signal to be mixed with off air and travel through splitters, through RG-59, etc. without problem. What's the catch?Sounds like the 3750 owes its existence to the solution for the bigger problem of distributing satellite channels across existing wiring to a large number of users. So, they don't make them that way because they get more subscribers by selling a dish and switch than a QAM headend.