SatelliteGuys November 19th Live Dish Retailer Chat Recap

**gbs** · 11-19-2008 06:14 PM

I am also interested in the Little Rock HD service. I have one Dish 500 looking at 110-119 and another Dish 500 looking at 61.5. If they put the HD locals on 129 I will swing my single Dish 500 around to 129. If they put the locals in the Eastern Arc which bird will they use?

**dmendenjr** · 11-19-2008 08:30 PM

I asked this in another thread today and don't think there is an answer to this, but wth food for thought... would it be possible for dish to make a way to retro fit (as in a replacement LNB) a 110/119 dish into a 72.7/77 dish?

**rglore** · 11-19-2008 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by LTommy256

Back to the "snowbird Policy" Can the TV work at both locations at the same time? You know when the poor slob is still working while the other one went off the to vacation house?

All receivers will still be active but the local channels on all receivers will change to the other location.

**RedSavina** · 11-19-2008 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

The customer can take their receivers back and forth.

Interesting approach that could land some additional subscribers.

What about a receiver (or more) at each location? Could the service be set up to switch the "active" receivers? I know most snowbirds spend a season or more at their second home. In the case of my parents, they will spend 4-6 weeks at their second home, then return to their main residence for a month or two. [lather, rinse, repeat]

I cannot imagine my father ripping apart his home theater each time they decide to bug out for a few weeks. I can see them making a call when they arrive at the second home to shift programming to the secondary receiver at that location, and vice versa.

However, since this would be a useful service it therefore is probably not allowed. It would be less of an account stacking concern, though!

**rglore** · 11-19-2008 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by Beckhamfam

It would seem customers in Louisville will be needing 129, 119,110 and now 77 to get local HD. That doesn't make sense.

Louisville is now officially an Eastern Arc preferred setup. Cheap and easy to add a wing dish to the existing customer's 1000.2 dish. New HD customers will get the EA dish as well as existing ones willing to pay for it themselves. I installed a 77 wing dish and all nine locals are now on 77 except there are no SD versions of the three HD locals.

**rglore** · 11-19-2008 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by RedSavina

I cannot imagine my father ripping apart his home theater each time they decide to bug out for a few weeks. I can see them making a call when they arrive at the second home to shift programming to the secondary receiver at that location, and vice versa.
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I see no reason you could not just leave a receiver or two at both locations. You would have to pay the extra receiver monthly fees. I do wonder what would keep someone from leaving a receiver at their other house/condo while it is being rented while they are at their primary house.

**nothing0** · 11-19-2008 10:32 PM

sorry if i missed the answer to this question.. after paying the 39.99, does dish still charge the monthly dvr fee?

**Stargazer** · 11-19-2008 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

Well, what if he doesn't have any non-MPEG4 equipment?! It sounds to me like Dish needs to dump whoever is responsible for their account management software and get somebody who's willing to program something more flexible. (This is not the only problem. In fact, this is mild. They also need to flush the need for having a dual-tuner receiver plugged in to the phone line since the two tuners cannot possibly be at different addresses, and the nonsense about not being able to produce a work order to upgrade someone to receive HD locals without cancelling their SD locals.)

I thought if someone ordered locals and had the HD package that they would get the locals in SD and HD. If someone does not have the HD package but want HD locals then how does Dish Network do the billing for that? Does the customer still receive the locals in SD if they still have SD equipment on the account?

**Stargazer** · 11-19-2008 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by dmendenjr

I asked this in another thread today and don't think there is an answer to this, but wth food for thought... would it be possible for dish to make a way to retro fit (as in a replacement LNB) a 110/119 dish into a 72.7/77 dish?

I think the best and cheapest solution to do 72.7/77 is to have a plastic piece that would seperate DP lnb's to receive the signals correctly from the reflector. I hope they make a piece for 61.5/72.7/77 that we can use on a Dish1000.