Does DISH still charge an access fee if you own your own receiver? I thought they were ordered to stop that practice following a lawsuit.
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The principal advantage of buying and owning your own receiver is for recreational vehicle (RV) owners who want to be able to pause their satellite service and suspend payments and charges between trips. If DISH furnishes the receiver, they expect for you to maintain your service continuously. Buying your own receiver requires no long-term commitment.
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The "access fee" is for programing/ sending you the signal. You only save by having the piece of mind in not entering into a contract for a year or two. Buying more than one and activating on you account will bring on an additional fee to your monthly billing as I understand.
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My opinion from reading the reviews would be no, but that is only my non-professional answer. I would call Dish directly and ask them.
2231878
Yes. It's fully automatic. If the channel you select is on a different satellite it tunes it. You cannot even notice it changed. Also the dish is larger and signals seem to be more robust
954342
If you have Dish at home, you call and tell them you want to use a Tailgaterin your RV . There is a $10 monthly fee. You place it outside in a southerly direction with no obstacles, maybe 10 feet from RV. You must have a Dish rec. your cable runs to the rec. then, turn it on, and it asks for location. There are instructions in the box. My husband does it, so I really just enjoy the results. Works for us as we are traveling often. I paid $350 for the Tailgator and $100 for a rec. it's light in weight and doesn't take up much room.That's about as good an explanation as I can give.
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do you have it set up through your cable or dish? i don't and it works just fine. i didn't want to go through all the re-connecting because ia can never get it the same. i just put it through the game poet on the side of my tv.
1979124
If that is the old style dish it is not compatible with any of the new receivers. We found that out the hard way and had to buy the new dish for our tailgating needs. And it is not compatible with HD TV
861218
My understanding is that Dish is the one blocking the video out on any adapter cable. One of the reasons I will be leaving them when my contract is up. Dish "Anywhere" is not for the "big screen" unless you take a pc along. Makes it frustrating when traveling and we all have to huddle around the iPad for viewing....
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You will not have to incur any costs for the device anymore than the new 6.99 fee for the additional receiver, but being that they require renewal for any new equipment, you will have to renew your contract with them. I went through the same issues. If you do call them, you can buy the receiver outright from them and not have to renew the contract, but it will cost you more money up front.
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we get all the channels except local channels, in RV we get all channels and the local channels. At next location, you will get all channels and the new location local channels. My reception is great but dish gave me 7 different #'s to use and finally spent $95. for a tech to set up.
828605
Don't know, I purchased to work with Dish. Why would you consider Direct as it's labeled for Dish?
916576
You can't just swap your regular Dish satellite receiver with the Hopper. You need a Dish man to come to your home & replce your satelite & connections.
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Wirh TiVo you substitute their box for the Dish box and pay $15/month for the capability. You must decide if it is worth it (you still pay Dish full fare for their service.)
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After talking to Dish Network this is my understanding. The first receiver charge is included in your package and you do not receive any credit for owning the receiver. Any savings will come from opting out of the maintenance program. I also found out that Dish has my 722K listed as a lease unit and I am having to provide proof of purchase that I own it. I believe that Dish is not being fair to customers that buy their equipment since the first receiver charge is hidden as part of the cost of your particular package and they represent it as being free.
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We have a dual receiver at home ("free") and bought the 2nd receiver for our trailer. I activate the 2nd receiver when we are going to use it and deactivate it when we do not. No cost to activate or deactivate, but Dish charges $7.00 a month when you activate it whether it is for one day or the month.
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you do have to have a satellite dish. hope you have better luck than i did. i got one it did not work. sent it back and they sent me another one that also did not work. i have another receiver so i know it is not my system. There support team just said they knew it worked so I just took the loss.
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I hope you told them you were going to DTV after all of that? I put up OTA antenna outside and get like 20 channels for free! Then I suspend my acct. once every 6 mths, until football / Christmas time, so cut my yearly bill in half, and happy!
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Dish has an additional charge to use the DVR feature and if you get a dual tuner receiver they will charge to use each one even though they are in the same unit, but it will work fine if you only pay to use one