CW800 Set Up Help

 

Silver Member
Username: Juchito97

Post Number: 101
Registered: Jan-08
i use cw800 to get legal fta channels, i call DN and add HD services, so now i got a HD dish. With the HD dish the cw800 is not working, is there a setting i need to change or is just wont work with the HD dish?
 

Platinum Member
Username: Plymouth

Canada

Post Number: 15761
Registered: Jan-08
Luis

You can't get legal channels with the Dn dish, a 36" motorized dish is your best way to get true FTA on many satellites!
 

Silver Member
Username: Chevrolet

Post Number: 441
Registered: Sep-10
i use cw800 to get legal fta channels,

from what satellite?

i call DN and add HD services, so now i got a HD dish. With the HD dish the cw800 is not working,

Did you subscribe to Dish Network HD package?

if you did what happen to the Dish that you was using for the
FTA channels?


is there a setting i need to change or is just wont work with the HD dish?

If I read you right , you now have two separate system
one don't have anything to do we the other
 

Silver Member
Username: Krishn

Post Number: 441
Registered: Sep-06
Luis:

If you have subscribed and have DN dish you should have a DN receiver as well.

I presume you are using RCA cables as output from the cw800 to connect to the TV, similarly connect the output from Dish reciever to your TV by HDMI cable.

Now by selecting the RCA source on your TV you can watch cw800 SD or by selecting HDMI source you can watch Dish HD channels.
 

Diamond Member
Username: Nydas

Post Number: 20423
Registered: Jun-06
I understand from you "Luis Baez" that you had a legal subscription to Dish and were using CW800 as your receiver instead of a DN receiver. I further understand from your post that you added HD to your subscription.
Based on that info, this is my response.

CW800 is NOT designed to decode HD.
In fact, most of the FTA receivers are not happy with HD signals.

There are a very few which are OK with HD, e.g. Veiwsat HD

Here is a list of FTA HD recievers available

Therefore, what is happening is not unexpected. If you want to get HD, you will have to buy or rent a DN receiver for it, or buy a HD receiver in the list in the above URL, i.e. presuming you have a legal DN subscription for HD channels.
 

Diamond Member
Username: Nydas

Post Number: 20428
Registered: Jun-06
Luis Baez knows to ignore the idiots. He has been on the forum long enough.
 

Diamond Member
Username: Nydas

Post Number: 20497
Registered: Jun-06
Luis Baez: Is your CW800 working now?
 

Gold Member
Username: Bazuka2020

Post Number: 1024
Registered: Oct-05
For hd channels fta or illegal u need hd receiver price range from 3 to 500 dollars nothing to do with the dish
Make sure u use disq switch dn use sw
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