[Ron Barry]

L6.00 is now in the wild. Please use this thread for documenting your experiences and/or bugs found.

 

[fredp]

Ron, better correct the headline.. Dish Network / DirecTV - VIP-612.....

Last time I looked they hadn't merged yet!

 

[krock918316]

Agreed. Thought DirecTV was getting the VIP612.

 

[Ron Barry]

You can only wish Krock.. Sorry guys.. Thats what happens when you cut and past and are at work preparing for a production push yourself. Thanks for the heads up and it has been corrected.

 

[krock918316]

You can only wish Krock.. Sorry guys.. Thats what happens when you cut and past and are at work preparing for a production push yourself. Thanks for the heads up and it has been corrected.

I've never seen an E* receiver at work.....I'm going down to my brother's this weekend. He has the HD model that can work 2 TV's at once. I'm interested to see how it compares to my HR20 & HR21.

I'll try to stop back by and let you know what I think from my brief encounter with a E* receiver.

 

[krock918316]

In fact, I was on the phone with him last night when E* had the outage due to the storm in Cheyenne. After a quick check here, I was able to tell him what the problem was.

He now has DBSTalk.com bookmarked. He was pulling his hair out wondering why some of his channels were not coming in.

 

[MGoBlue]

How do you guys like your 612's? I'm getting Dish (Turbo HD Gold) with a 612 installed on Saturday morning, can't wait!

Can it set manual recordings? Like if I wanted to cap the Big Ten network from 12-9PM straight?

 

[sangu72]

this hasn't been released to all 612's, right? I just did an update and haven't got it yet.

 

[Ron Barry]

How do you guys like your 612's? I'm getting Dish (Turbo HD Gold) with a 612 installed on Saturday morning, can't wait!

Can it set manual recordings? Like if I wanted to cap the Big Ten network from 12-9PM straight?

Yes it can do that... It has the Manual Timer, Daily, Weekly timers and the Named Based Recording.

For a single room (bedroom) the 612 is a nice box but I do prefer the 722 for the Home theater/family room because of the PIP support and the larger drive. Both are excellent boxes in my opinion.

 

[reddice]

I got it yesterday. Don't notice anything different.

 

[Polardog]

I'm now running L6.00.

The VIP612 is perfect for my 1 TV home. I've no interest in PIP. Theres plenty of space on the hard drive for both SD and HD recordings.

I've had a love/hate relationship with my 612.
Didn't like the 612 when it was first installed in Feb '08. Too many glitches.
I'm happy to say I love the damn thing now. Each software update has improved performance.
I'd say it's a good box, an excellent DVR and very user friendly.

 

[mattydork]

i love my 612 and did get the new software yesterday. They also manage to get the info button issue fixed this time around too so i can now set my remote back to UHF instead of IR.

 

[reddice]

I am glad the info button is working now but the weird part is when I had 4.77 the info button would not do anything when I first got the 612 installed. After I changed the remote code from 1 to 9 it worked and this is with 4.77.

 

[Deke Rivers]

Ive yet to receive it

 

[phrelin]

I'm now running L6.00.

The VIP612 is perfect for my 1 TV home. I've no interest in PIP. Theres plenty of space on the hard drive for both SD and HD recordings.

I've had a love/hate relationship with my 612.
Didn't like the 612 when it was first installed in Feb '08. Too many glitches.
I'm happy to say I love the damn thing now. Each software update has improved performance.
I'd say it's a good box, an excellent DVR and very user friendly.

This is the comment I've been waiting for. My 722 is great, but I don't use TV2 and have 3 EHD's. So to replace my two 508's, a 612 seemed like a logical choice as soon as I was sure most of the bugs were worked out. Thank's for saying that!

 

[Dualtriamp]

I have a customer that has 2 612’s that are hooked up via HDMI through Denon receivers to 1080p Pioneer Elite flat panels. The dish receivers are outputting 1080p to the TV’s. That would be great except the 1080p picture they are sending out is the 720p picture in the upper left hand corner and then a black field to the right and on the bottom to fill the entire 1080p field it is sending. I went to the customer’s house and reset the resolution to 1080i then back to 720p and it was fine. So I figured that when the download happened it forced the receiver to 1080p output. Well I just got another call from the same customer and it has reverted again. What do we need to do the fix this?

P.S. They worked fine till 2 days ago.

 

[douga]

Not sure if this is the appropriate place to mention this, but it looks like there's something newer than 600 -- if I recall correctly, it's 601.

 

[mattydork]

i have L601 also... don't notice any difference yet although I Am Legend finally showed up.

 

[dishlover2]

Ron, better correct the headline.. Dish Network / DirecTV - VIP-612.....

Last time I looked they hadn't merged yet!

I heard it was called off

 

[dishlover2]

i love my 612 vip