Recent content by kanebear

You never deal with Dish if you only sub to Sky Angel. Similarly, you never deal with Dish if you only want to subscribe to NPS. I may test this later. I have a 942 for my father that was never activated and is still sitting in storage (don't ask...:o ) I may go dig it out, connect it up, call...

Try today. Happened about an hour ago. The "not subscribed" message flashed up and it was gone from the EPG.

I 'live' WAY out in West Texas, about as white an area as you get. My DNS were off as of 8 am this morning but I am still getting CBS-HD (and after posting this will probably lose it within seconds :D). Going to be interesting to see how tomorrow unfolds. IMO the core will be how the judge...

It'd be one hell of a play. 61.5 is tough to receive for CA but it's still there. Dish could always be more 'amicable' to Sky Angel in exchange for having them carry the distant nets.... including agreeing that anyone subbing to Sky Angel gets a 'family friendly' basic DishNet subscription in...

I think it's a heck of an idea. The equipment is perfectly workable, does duty as an SD box and will make SOMEONE happy, so why not? Beats the stuff ending up in a landfill, no?

Another vote for rock solid 942 here. My 811 has been...well... unique but is doing MUCH better as of late. The 942? Never really a problem. Check the cabling for shorts, breaks, kinks, etc. Check the power for brownouts/surges, put the thing on a UPS to smooth out the voltage. The 921 was a...

OLED had NO presence at CES beyond incorporation into the normal CE devices such as MP3 players, car stereo head units, etc. IMO as a display device the technology will be stillborn. Mitsubishi is working on OLED and says commercialization of the technology will be at the end of 2007. I tend to...

You guys must not have seen SED. I agree that this year's CES was a complete yawner otherwise but SED is the most revolutionary announcement in TV technology since LCD and Plasma came out. Unless Sony comes out with competing technology they're in trouble. I bought a Qualia 006 RPTV after seeing...

*GRRRRR* Sirius CANNOT get it right. In places with solid repeater coverage (major east coast pedestrian metros such as DC/NYC/etc) my MyFi works great at street level on foot. I really care if the few people I see on the street that I'm never ever going to see again think I look like a dork...

I was under the impression that the services will be the same and that the Canadian content will simply be added on. Thus, we'll all get more content.

Yep, soon to be sapping PVR hard drive capacity nationwide.... a ton of movies you probably didn't wanna see anyway. I'm very curious to see the religious segment's reaction once they learn that HARDCORE PORN is stored on their box (assuming they do VoD porno which I can't see them NOT doing)...

Now XM needs to counter with Virgin Radio and Capitol FM or even Radio Caroline... sweet.... MORE britpop! Actually Radio Caroline is on Worldspace already so this shouldn't be a large leap.

Oh I can hear it now... "Welcome to XM Channel Blah Blah, It's all Paddy Murphey, all the time." No, honestly I think the canuck channels will be a very nice addition. The CRTC is going to require quite high levels of Canadian content so you'll definitely hear Great Big Sea, etc etc and...

Unfortunately most of the stuff you'll want to receive is below the horizon for you. You're on the wrong coast to get the most out of FTA as much of the action is on the Atlantic birds that are at 60 degrees and below. You MIGHT be able to hit PAS-9 at 58 degrees but anything below that is gonna...

A few questions, some have already been asked. What's the layout? Is the MDU already constructed? Is the MDU already wired with RG-59/RG-6? Do you/the MDU own the cable plant? Does the cable plant terminate at a single head-end within the MDU? Going on the assumption that you have an...