Will a 7yr old dish receiver work today on dish satillite

Hi there, my name is Kimberly and I form part of the Social Media Dept with DISH. It is my pleasure to help you today. The channel or Input in which the Tv needs to be on in order to receiver DISH signal depends on the type of cable being used to connect the DISH receiver to the TV. If you are currently using a Coax cable the TV needs to be on channel 3 or 4 in order to get a pic, if you are using RCA cables it will need to be an Input. To change inputs on the TV we advice you to use the original remote for the TV or the Input/Source button on the Tv itself. Feel free to contact me at: [email protected] for additional assistance.
Kimberly Escobar
Social Media Representative
DISH L.L.C

An internal fuse may have blown...

If you are using a powerstrip may not be supplying enough power to run the LG HDTV and your HD receiver. If you are using a powerstrip make sure the receiver is plugged directly into the wall. Otherwise this may be a grounding issue please reply if this doesn't work and we can look into some other possibilities.
Daniel Busa
DISH Network
Customer Service

Hello! Dan Busa with Dish Network here. I know you've probably gotten this up and running by now but just for reference to anyone on this site. Any cabling or connectors used to carry signal to the receiver should be rated for 2,150 mhz if this is not the case you will typically get signal loss messages.

I can;t keep my DISH satillite to turn on. when I turn the tv on and hook up the cales i get unusable signal and blue screen

I bought a new TV

I run my s video from the dish reciever to the tv/satillite s video input and the digital audio to the digital audio input on my reciever. The reciever is a sony V333ES and have no problems at all.

if your dish satellite has an extra A/V output or if your plasma tv has the outputs and the recorder has the same type input AUDIO/VIDEO jacks

I would suggest to check lyngsat.com and satcalculator.freehostia.com for more info on where the satellites are and you will also find the elevation and azimuth for each satellite.
Hope this helps.

More info needed...

What exactly do you want to do?

Which satellite, which band, what receivers, pay or FTA? etc etc