Yellow vs Blue Rom card

eagle5469 · Oct 28, 2006

I'm sorry, I'm a newbie the satellite world. What is the difference between a yellow and a blue rom card.. I was looking at Receivers online, ebay/craigslist and the one girl says that a blue rom card comes with it. can someone please explain the difference?

Thank you
Nate

Darkman · Oct 28, 2006

Blue cards are obsolete..

There was a card swap not that long ago.. and yellow cards replaced blue ones..

Blue ones don't work any longer...

eagle5469 · Oct 28, 2006

How long ago are we talking? a year or more?

Nate

lakebum431 · Oct 28, 2006

If you have a blue one and a dish network account, they will swap it out for you.

Darkman · Oct 28, 2006

eagle5469 said:
How long ago are we talking? a year or more?

Nate

Time goes by very fast...

But ya.. a year or somewhat more .. or something like that..

scooper · Oct 28, 2006

If you're looking to buy a receiver so old that it still has a blue card - I'd walk away. It also is probably out of date on firmware updates as well, and may not be possible to update.
Get the R00 and S00 and check them with DIsh first

P Smith · Oct 29, 2006

Not true - connect the receiver to satellite with credit card in the slot and it will update

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kb7oeb · Oct 29, 2006

I think the yellow cards with channel logos are also obsolete, Dish replaced mine about a year ago.

Darkman · Oct 29, 2006

Nope... not completely true / accurate...

yellow cards with channel logos - the ones Dish replaced were the older revision ones...

Newer revisions of yellow cards with logos on them (or any other face design) are not replaced and still valid...

So .. the bottom line is - NOT all yellow cards with channel logos on them are obsolete.. only some of them

kstuart · Oct 29, 2006

If you buy an old receiver with a blue card, and call Dish with the receiver # and smart card #, and you have an account in good standing, Dish will send you a new Smart Card.

Note that the Smart Card will only work with that receiver number to prevent scams.

MDRNHL · Oct 30, 2006

So .. the bottom line is - NOT all yellow cards with channel logos on them are obsolete.. only some of them

Yeah...I'm pretty sure my 301 has that kind of card, and it's working fine.

Yellow vs Blue Rom card

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