Recent content by srenker

I always get nervous because there are so many "Parent" / "Family" groups that are fronts for an extremely intolerant fundamentalist religious agenda, but I have been reading the parental guides out of curiosity and they seem pretty balanced to me. It doesn't scream "HIDE THIS WICKEDNESS FROM...

I don't know if you're aware how this works, but you only have tonight and tomorrow night, then not again until next Friday night.

Well, I was debating reverting to NR after my experience with the previous CE, but now I don't dare...

My HR21-700 with CE version 0x3b6 just spontaneously restarted itself. On starting, it took a very long time on the first screen with the D* logo (I think it says "Checking satellite setup", was definitely part 1 of 2). After it finished, I checked signal strength, my lowest CONUS was 84 on one...

Strange, I got a Slimline pole mounted on my condo balcony with no complaint from the installer. The pole has some type of bracket wrapped around part of it which is then heavily zip-tied to the railing. It does twist ever so slightly in the wind over time, but all that means is eventually I get...

I work in Higher Ed and we have a library full of LD's. We treat the players like gold, with only one allowed out in the field and the rest jealously guarded as spares, because we can't get them repaired anymore. Long term I hope to be able to play all the LD's into an IPTV server, but there...

Who is answering this other phone number and why is OUR money being wasted employing them if what they're doing is bogus?

Change your remote batteries...?

You can see the software version you're on in System Setup.

Back to the original question, the reason broadband is required for VOD is that you'd tie up the phone line for like a week to download a movie over dialup.

HR21-700 I'm running in native mode. Seems like the box is taking longer to change channels when it has to switch resolutions.

It's the SD stuff stretched to HD, just like the guide, over a slightly different slide. Meh.

No one else has BBC America HD either, so there's some small consolation. :p

I just got a TVmail... doesn't look any different from the old messages. Ooooooooooook then.

Dish Network charges $5 a month if the box is not connected to a phone line. (He abbreviated it DN so it was easy to overlook.)