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Scott Greczkowski
12-29-03, 12:46 PM
As you may know I have let Mark post his 921 review link to SatelliteGuys.US so I would hope I be allowed the same courtesy here.

My 921 review is now online at SatelliteGuys.US the direct link to the review is http://www.satelliteguys.us/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5082

You might notice a difference in opinion on the way it works between Mark and myself, I believe this to be mainly because I come from a 721 backround (which the 921 is a clone of) and Mark has never touched a 721.

I am also under no NDA's with Dish Network and am not restricted by what bugs I can talk about and which ones I can't, which Mark is.

I am not putting Mark's review down at all, he did a great job, if I would have upgraded to a 510 to a 921 like Mark did I would see a world of difference too. :D

I encourage everyone to read both reviews and draw your own conclusions on if a 921 is correct for you.

Happy New Year All!!
Mark Lamutt
12-29-03, 03:30 PM
Thought you weren't going to write a review, Scott. :)

And, I actually agreed with just about everything you said in your review - you caught something that I didn't and presented some of the problems a little differently than I did.

(Although I do remember you saying that the OTA side wasn't terribly important and that Dish should release it NOW before it's fixed... :D)
Scott Greczkowski
12-29-03, 03:39 PM
The OTA bug as it was origionally explained to me by some folks at Dish Network did not sound serious, the made it sound like if a channels PSIP changes you will need to readd that channel again.

That I could live with for a few days. :)
dmodemd
01-02-04, 09:02 AM
That has always been the case with the 6000... I don't even consider it a bug really considering more important other bugs.
Bichon
01-02-04, 03:52 PM
That has always been the case with the 6000... I don't even consider it a bug really considering more important other bugs.

Not on my 6000. When the PSIP for a channel changes, there is a pause of about 5 seconds, and then one of the new subchannels comes up.

I have seen a bug where the channel shows up under the actual UHF channel number rather than the PSIP assigned one after an automatic remapping, but that doesn't affect useability.
dmodemd
01-02-04, 03:58 PM
Heh, on mine there would be a pause of 5 seconds and then it would drop it from the list! I guess it depends on what in the stream changed?