Thread: Let's Get IT ON!

RE: SUNDAY TICKET. I was with Direct and had Sunday ticket for 2 years. Guess what? You can't watch all the games that are on. I ended up recording my favorite 5 or 6 games and playing them back throughout the week. Now guess what? NFL HD has exactly the same thing. Playback of all the games throughout the week. We all win.

Originally Posted by Tvlman

RE: SUNDAY TICKET. I was with Direct and had Sunday ticket for 2 years. Guess what? You can't watch all the games that are on. I ended up recording my favorite 5 or 6 games and playing them back throughout the week. Now guess what? NFL HD has exactly the same thing. Playback of all the games throughout the week. We all win.

As long as your satisfied with"seconds",glad your happy.

This is my first post - after many exhausting hours reading posted arguments for one HDTV service over another, which are always very subjective - so I will just provide MY reasons for changing:

D* wanted $300 installation fee to upgrade our existing DVR service to HD, but E* ended up giving us $49.95 refund of initial fees that they never charged us (due to a coupon received a week after browsing their web site).

E* offered a free 722 HD DVR and a standard DVR to cover 4 TVs in 4 rooms and the 722 had unlimited archiving capabilities if we were willing to buy our own USB HDDs up to 750 GB (we paid $120 for first 500GB HDD). This was the deal maker, as my daughter previously paid Weeknees folks to upgrade her TiVo box with a larger HDD to store hundreds of hours of SD recordings when she had D* service, and wanted to continue same habit. (I wanted to get her watching HDTV but she had refused to watch it live without pause or time shifting abilities.)

I had been watching HDTV live OTA for two years while she paid for D* SD service for all TVs in the home we share, but I really wanted to be able to time shift HDTV because it was disrupting my life. I gave her my HDTV out of gratitude for my free satellite service - and in hopes that she would decide to upgrade to an HD DVR service, and I bought myself a new HDTV. I then did the research and convinced her to join E*, allowing her to get HD on the TV that I gave to her while I stayed with an SD pipe to my new HDTV and continued viewing some HDTV OTA (hopefully for no more than two months).

I initially wanted two 722 HD DVRs but learned the second would cost us $500 at initial installation, but less than $200 after we were existing customers for two or more months. As I am retired, I can watch HD recorded programs on my daughter's HDTV during the day or any other time she is not at home, so we will cooperate when scheduling DVR recordings for a couple of months.

I have learned that HD programs recorded on the 722 and piped to my room in SD look better on my HDTV than the SD programs looked when we had D* service, and most of the recorded SD programs look at least as good as our old TiVo'd stuff did, so I have plenty to watch in my room when my daughter is home and I cannot use her HDTV. (I am still anxious for the day when we each have our own 722 without sharing.)

I am currently experiencing some difficulties archiving and subsequently deleting HD recordings using the 500GB USB HDD attached to the 722, and wondered if this is the proper thread for discussing that subject?

dish is the place to get the best hd programming......i even fiqured out a way to upcanvert my dish from 1080i to 1080p thriugh my computer

Originally Posted by sehaboo

dish is the place to get the best hd programming......i even fiqured out a way to upcanvert my dish from 1080i to 1080p thriugh my computer

Less HD channels,higher prices than DirecTV?.OK if your happy,I am too,with DirecTV HD.

Originally Posted by marusian

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I am currently experiencing some difficulties archiving and subsequently deleting HD recordings using the 500GB USB HDD attached to the 722, and wondered if this is the proper thread for discussing that subject?

In the Dish HD Discussion forum you can get all the help needed on this subject.

I don't know if you already installed Dish, if not call them back and ask for the Account Specialist department, tell them you need two 722's leased (or one 722, one 622), if not you will have to cancel the deal because your cable does not charge $500 for a leased HDDVR. It is important you get to the account specialist section because only they can make special arrangement, to get there just tell the CSR you need to cancel because you are not happy. The regular CSR will not cancel your account, you will be switched to that department.

I got two 622's leased in this fashion about 17 months ago, when they did not even have free HDDVR leases. I think it will only be easier this time around.

Ok I just re-read your post, even if you are already installed, still call that department, or email to their CEO address for assistance.

Originally Posted by MacDawg

Lets Roll Directv! Im Ready! Battle Ready Battle Tested!
Directv For Life!
The Best Thing About This Weekend Is This.....we Have Sunday Ticket!! What Game Will You Watch Dish Folks? Oh You Cant Watch Your Favorite Team Because You Live Out Of State. Ohhhh Sorry.

Its called watch the game on your local ch instead of paying for sunday ticket

Originally Posted by RobP

Its called watch the game on your local ch instead of paying for sunday ticket

Watching a game on the local channel,you watch who they pick.Watching a game on Sunday Ticket,you watch the game you pick.The difference is:Priceless.