guesses at the Niagra 1 lifespan

[jimyt]

Does anyone have any intelligence on how long it will take to swap out all the cards and make the final switch to the new stream? I know a lot of people who are subs and haven't received their yellow card yet, but I haven't heard any number on how many more they have the change.

Just wondering, and hoping it takes a while

jimyt

[tbonetom]

This can be done quicker than you think, If Dish can send everyone a bill each month they could include a card. What I find interesting is that 301-013 receivers with blue cards are still being installed. Here in the south(I'm near a Military base) when a request is made for a one receiver install in Military housing the unit installed comes from warehouse stock, not the 3 and 4 receiver promotion units, I have seen this occur several times in the last few months. So I would guess that there are a lot of blue cards out . Not an exact answer but think about it.

[rurso]

This can be done quicker than you think, If Dish can send everyone a bill each month they could include a card. What I find interesting is that 301-013 receivers with blue cards are still being installed. Here in the south(I'm near a Military base) when a request is made for a one receiver install in Military housing the unit installed comes from warehouse stock, not the 3 and 4 receiver promotion units, I have seen this occur several times in the last few months. So I would guess that there are a lot of blue cards out . Not an exact answer but think about it.Well we all know the swap is comming it just depends how fast they want to do it. There being nice and doing a little at a time,when as mentioned they could do it in 30-60- days. I'm not suprised the other IRDs are still being used the change is in the card and encryption. I'm still running older IRDs with DTV even after their last change. Don't get me wrong if they wanted to they could make it(changes) so they give you a new IRD or make you buy one. See how nice they are-LOL.