Question on Dish Network PVR 522 Dual Tuner

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Hi,

I have the opportunity to replace my Dish PVR 510 with a PVR 522 for $400.00
installed. Does anyone who has a 522 or had a 510 before have any advice?
I am hearing mixed reviews on the 522, ie bugs etc and not sure what to do,
ie wait?

Thanks, Rob

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I am new to Dish, changing over from DirecTV this past
weekend to get some international channels, the extra
PVR (I have a 300 hour TiVo), and a fully functioning
2nd TV (with PVR) for not much money.

[I paid for the International Sat, but DirecTV did even offer
what I needed, and I pay a small fee for the PVR which I
didn't have for the 2nd TV.]

I love the DISH so far, even though the software has a few
small glitches.

(like no way to "set the record tuner #" different from the
default when recording in the future -- they know this and will
likely fix it. You can do this when doing "live" recording" and
you can go laboriously change the default right before setting
up recordings etc.)

My #2 remote is also "flaky" from the 2nd floor, 20' away with
little to interfere, so I will likely need to try the "coax extender"
trick which IS DOCUMENTED in the manual and suggested
by the previous poster.

It has one feature/bug that I both like and hate: It won't let you
change off a channel where you are not 'live', without confirmation;
this screws my TiVo if *I* forget and leave the TV "back in the
buffer." But, I can't tell you the number of times that I have
accidentally changed off a TiVo buffer that I really wanted to see,
but had not set to record (with record, TiVo works the same way.)

Good and bad -- mostly good probably.

It has one really weird problem -- every night it wants to reboot
to get the new downloads (program code or guide) updated and
THEN IT puts itself in a mode that requires user input before it
can be changed.

TiVo of course has no idea the [stupid] receiver is waiting for
(human) input.

Neither DirecTV nor TiVo required this reboot each night -- and
even when TiVo reboots after updates it goes right back to what
it is supposed to be doing at that time of day.

Picture seems slightly better but I wouldn't swear to it in court.

--
Herb Martin