From what I can gather so far that if the merger is approved,
1. The new company will be under Echostar name, but under DirecTV brand of services and products.
2. From Charlie, the new receivers will be built on a new platform. Dish boxes will continue to be activated for Dish service, DirecTV boxes will continue to be activated for DirecTV service. When the existing Dish and DirecTV receivers are all converted to the new receivers, both existing services will be turned off, and a new service will be turned on, and all new receivers will be re-activated to receive the newly merged common programming services.
If this is true, will they have to replace my two Dish receivers, and one DirecTV receiver for free before the new common service turned on? If so, they must offer me one regular PVR box and two HDTV boxes, one of which must have HDTV recording capability. Seems to me a very costly switch over for Charlie.
BTW, I have a Dish501, Dish 5000/mod/AccessDTV and a RCA DTC100.
1. The new company will be under Echostar name, but under DirecTV brand of services and products.
2. From Charlie, the new receivers will be built on a new platform. Dish boxes will continue to be activated for Dish service, DirecTV boxes will continue to be activated for DirecTV service. When the existing Dish and DirecTV receivers are all converted to the new receivers, both existing services will be turned off, and a new service will be turned on, and all new receivers will be re-activated to receive the newly merged common programming services.
If this is true, will they have to replace my two Dish receivers, and one DirecTV receiver for free before the new common service turned on? If so, they must offer me one regular PVR box and two HDTV boxes, one of which must have HDTV recording capability. Seems to me a very costly switch over for Charlie.
BTW, I have a Dish501, Dish 5000/mod/AccessDTV and a RCA DTC100.