Connect At-hd500 To Receiver

The latest in technology from Dish Network. The ultimate receiver, for the price. Two tv's can independently watch two shows simutanously. With DVR fuctionality, and over 180 HD Channels, there is no comparrison.

Amazon Sales Rank: #175 in Home Theater Brand: EchoStar Model: ViP722 DVR Supports two independent TV's, with DVR, a remote control for each tv. HD and SD on TV1, and SD only on TV2 500 GB Hard Drive TV Resolutions 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, (1080p for applicable On-Demand) Picture in Picture

Most helpful customer reviews 31 of 31 people found this review helpful. Reliability? We need no stinking "reliability" .. By Dallas Electronics Fan Wow. I'm really trying, like Dish Network. I've recently moved from DirecTV after being a DirecTV subscriber since the mid-90s. When told it would go almost six weeks for an individual service and DirecTV to replace my apartment, I saw in Dish Network, liked what I saw and turned on. You may have someone on the next day. The award was received much less for more programming from DirecTV I. HD content is nice. Her husband was laborious and professional installation and customer service people were very good. The DVR only they had the VIP722. I have DirecTV with TiVo. Long and short of it died, my first VIP722 after about 3 weeks. I went through the disconnect, connect the routine a few times. I've tried it directly into the wall outlet instead of surge protector or battery backup. Noting that seemed to help credit Dish, they were quick to replace it with 2 days shipping replacement. Now I have attached the replacement for almost a week, and now I get strange video / audio sync problems, random reboots, crashes, fast forward, followed by the trunk freezer. In other words. Reliability annoying / problems with the quality I thought my first unit may have had a problem with this so cool, I made sure there was extra ventilation and placed an external USB-powered fan on the back / left side to pull out of the heat. Off topic, but I bought it along with an external fan to my Onkyo 806 to solve a problem with this heat. If you have an Onkyo, which gets very hot, the fan did the trick. Back to ViP722: If it is a total failure as the first, give it a chance with a third party. If not, I will cancel my membership and return to the DirecTV satellite dish or cable. FiOS is not available in my area, unfortunately. The VIP is not in the same league Tivo in many ways, the quality and reliability are only two pieces, and despite a fairly intuitive interface and a lack of 'work' records TIVO, I ready to change. Boy, I miss my TiVo. Dish really needs to get out. Subscriptions lost a loser of a DVR / receiver would be a shame because in every other dish is a great service. UPDATE 05/08/2009: I'm on my third 722, but it works perfectly. No problems syncing videos, video stuttering, freezing or restarting constantly. The only thing I did differently was to not connect to the Internet. This is wild speculation, but I feel like the lack of reliability that I have lived with the other two were related to software updates via Ethernet connection. Now I have one that works reliably, I would give a 4 star review from Amazon if the system has a rating change. TiVo is still the reference, but once you get used to the 722 interface, everything works great on June 6 found this review helpful. Former Tivo / Cox users, switch to the dish. By A. Wiley made the switch to use Tivo with Cox Communications and satellite services a month ago and now I have been very pleased. Dish and DirecTV have solid choice at the time, I suggest to people to research on their websites. In short, it was cheaper for me to switch to satellite service if I wanted HD and DVR services in the long term, Cox and TiVo. In the case of DVR, I love it so far. 60 hours of HD recording and SD of 200 +. I have 10 HD movies on it and I'm still just past using half its available space. DVR can connect up to two separate TVs (one HD, the other must be SD). I suggest that you plan to have the TV close to each other if you do not want to run a bunch of cables through the house. Both TVs, the various recordings stored on the DVR at the same time, great for families also access the DVR can record two.