Will I have to turn the free receiver into Dish that I got when I subscribed this month? I am not being charged a fee(yet)for the one they gave me.
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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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I don't think so. According to the description, the receiver says it is compatible with current Dish subscription.
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Nothing free with small dish, there is a lot of free stuff with a streaming box like the one's Amazon Sells
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Works only with dish network. Must use the receiver vp211k. I purchased as package. Since you have purchased the equipment, there is no contract. It is prepay monthly only.Hope this helps.
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Have never used OnStar; I am using initial service; I read that to have availabilty of more frequent updates than the free annual, then there is a subscription charge.
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yes, u just ask the service provider. maybe u can subscribe and cancel but be noticed that u will pay activation fees each time
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I bought and own this box along with the tailgater dish and i am not charged the $7 monthly fee. It is for dish network.
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Contrary to the other answers, when you purchase the Hopper it is an owned device. There is still a monthly fee for the device but you are free to sell it at any time when you deactivate it. As far as the warranty, Dish will replace the receiver at any point if it fails. Just call their main toll-free number or go to a website called SatelliteGuys and Dish has representatives there. -3HaloODST
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A Dish Supervisor explained that the charges are structured to receivers. The first is free and subsequent receivers carry a monthly charge. The charge is considered as an access charge and not equipment rental. In other words, there is no apparent advantage to purchasing my own vip-722k. I made this purchase based on something that I apparently misunderstood when talking with a Dish representative 2 years ago.
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You are welcome. I switched to HD last year. DirecTV did the installation for free after I paid for the service and receiver. One warning though. The DirecTV brand HD receiver is very slow. Spend the extra money and get the Tivo brand HD receiver.
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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
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Call dish network and they will walk you throught the initial set up. Also if you don't use the receiver at least once a month you will have to go through set up each time you use it. So be sure to turn it on and let it aquire satalite signal at least one time every month
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Yes as long as you get the one w/tuner. It is the same thing you pay extra for with dish or cable only it is over the air
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Yes. I had Dish until recently. I used a splitter so I didn't have to pay for an extra receiver. Basically, my treadmill TV was a mirror TV to one of the ones in another room. You couldn't watch 2 different shows on them, but for us that was not a problem.
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Yes, I still pay the DVR service fee, the only reason I bought from amazon was that this place I live already had a dish service dish and it's really rural and was going to take 3 weeks for them to come out and set up the equipment. I took a chance that the dish was pointed in the right direction and bought the receiver and Joey so I could get set up as soon as amazon got me the equipment. Luckily the dish it self was in fact already dialed in. Hope this helps.
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ask the seller for the receiver #.also, I may have mine for sale, as I just switched to Dish
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Your Satellite Dish should be DISH Network and it should be an HD Satellite Dish. If these requirements are met along with a DISH network subscription then you should be able to use the 612 Dual Tuner with this system. If you have the Over the Air(OTA) module installed in your receiver then you should also be able to hook up an aerial antenna to your receiver as well to receive your local OTA channels. I hope this helps. Good luck.