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1 edit |  Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales
New customers in 21 designated markets* in the eastern half of the U.S. who sign up for any DISH Network(R) HD package And you must have one of their new MPEG4 HD boxes. So if you have an old HD box, you are out of luck.
List of 21 locales:
Cleveland; Richmond, Va.; Baltimore.; Columbia, S.C.; Tampa,
Fla; Green Bay, Wis.; Greensboro, N.C.; Providence, R.I.; Greenville,
S.C., Knoxville, Tenn.; Raleigh, N.C.; Chicago; Detroit; Charlotte,
N.C.; Dallas; Nashville, Tenn.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia.;
Washington, D.C.; New York, N.Y.; and Hartford, Conn. --
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Hall
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Dayton, OH | Re: Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales Why would a new customer have one of their old boxes to begin with ? | |
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2 edits | Re: Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales said by Hall  :Why would a new customer have one of their old boxes to begin with ? They wouldn't. So if you are an existing customer, you will have to upgrade your STBs to take advantage of this new higher quality DISH experience. And you can bet that DISH will be pushing upgrades sooner or later for existing customers after the initial rollout to new customers is well underway.
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Hall
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Dayton, OH | Re: Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales I'm an existing Dish customer with an MPEG4-capable box today and there is NOTHING "new" that I am missing out on at this point.
Also, word is, when Dish does eventually go all MPEG4, they will replace customer's equipment for free. | |
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cdru
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Fort Wayne, IN | Re: Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales It's been a while since I had Dish, but do the "lease fee" and the "additional outlet fee" cancel out each outher? It use to be you were charged one or the other, but not both. | |
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JSY
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Elmhurst, NY
clubs: | Re: Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales The lease fee is for the second receiver. The additional outlet fee is also for each additional receiver (a piece of crock if you ask me) but you can avoid that charge by connecting your receivers to either a phone jack or broadband connection. | |
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Rockville, MD
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| said by Hall :... Also, word is, when Dish does eventually go all MPEG4, they will replace customer's equipment for free. admittedly, this was several months ago (over a year?), but I switched from DISH to comcast when:
a) they refused to waive the $300 "fee" for the privilege of renting an HD-DVR
b) they insisted I would have to purchase a new HD rcvr with MPEG4 capability to get any new HD content
maybe they finally saw that requiring a customer to spend several hundred dollars on a rcvr to get their HD programming was a little bit of a turnoff for some customers. | |
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jofaz
@cox.net | Re: Must sign up for the HD pkg in these 21 locales Be glad you didn't buy that $1000 921, it wouldn't work for HD starting this month and dish would give you $10 credit for it. | |
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JSY
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Elmhurst, NY
clubs: | The way I understand it - the existing customer who doesn't already have MPEG4 compatible boxes will also need to repoint their dish to the Eastern Arc satellites that house the all-MPEG4 lineup. | |
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jofaz
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| Existing mpeg4 HD customers wanting to use the all mpeg4 system that dish calls Eastern Arc only needs a new dish pointed at the new satellites and a new smart card. Dish is starting a card swap so all customers will eventually have the needed smart card. | |
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KrK
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Tulsa, OK | To be fair, most of the HD receivers are lease receivers. Which means if your 1 year lease was up, you should be able to return the boxen and lease the new MPEG4 boxen. | |
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