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Brand new 311

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Here's a blast from the past.

I was cleaning out office (many years of clutter) and found a brand new in box, never been opened, never been used Dish Network 311 Receiver (2003 vintage)! I have no idea why I have this thing!?!? I can only guess that Dish sent to me to replace one of my old 501s that started getting sick, and never charged me for it or never requested it's return. I've been through three house moves since 2003 and somehow it's followed me through all of them (honest, I'm not a hoarder!).

Of course it's a boat anchor now and only valuable now as either a museum piece or just an electronic recycle item. I guess now I'm going to have to find something else to hold that stack of paper down it was sitting on.
 
Hmm. Brand new out of the box means it would be able to take a software upgrade potentially from a different satellite - as in, is Bell Canada still using those or did they go all MPEG-4 too?
 
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Hmm. Brand new out of the box means it would be able to take a software upgrade potentially from a different satellite - as in, is Bell Canada still using those or did they go all MPEG-4 too?
They still use mpeg2. I saw on a guys channel on YouTube called Peter fairlie where he got a bell 3100 / dish 311 and got free channels on bell
 
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The 311 used a different modulation scheme to encode the audio and video into the broadcast stream. I don't think there is anything in the sky that it could see and produce a picture from. But, I could be wrong - first time this hour.
My old dp510 got satellite 110 last month (when my 500 wasn't ruined) and it got to channel LTD11 and HELLK whatever that means. It was a black screen and no sound. Idk what it's supposed to do
 
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