Recent content by telstar_1

Aren't they raking in enough from betting to pay for tv rights?

But you keep hearing from people here who don't want to do that

That's why I don't connect DiSH to internet. Of course everyone can see where it's going, which is all to streaming, which is its own can of worms. So the "telescreens" that were everywhere in 1984 playing propaganda whilst spying on those it could see have arrived just a few decades late

What a bunch of shysters. Sock the charges to you, back off if you complain whilst figuring most will just pay. They (hoppers) are for a single screen. Add a screen, add a box. Until maybe you have half a dozen

Going from 8 ch. view to 6 is helpful? I presume you can change the # of lines presented in the guide like you can with ViP?

When DiSH first made available a replacement remote, it was $50. Or $49.99, they worked everything in oily 99s. And this was in 1996.

It is the age of the squeaky wheel. DiSH long ago abandoned any pretense of treating all comers (and customers) with due respect. They shifted to the general ethos of the milking parlor where they want to get the cows through as quickly as possible, as thoroughly drained as possible. If a cow...

I would not like a pickup delay when skipping forward. My 722 has none.

$15 "whole-house DVR" added fee on hoppers? When they aren't even whole house, like they should have designed?

Gimme the hopper as it was announced, with same-night auto-DVR'ed viewing and autohop, I might consider. Otherwise I consider the thing as simply an exercise in tit-for-tat with the broadcast nets. Ah, yes, those "vertical consoles" everyone had to have in the 90s...how much of our landfills...

Outage was observed here beginning at noon Central...I had noticed the "bogging down" for 2-3 days. All seems well now

Yep, DiSH can be exasperating but they have good tech

Well, you might want 3 hoppers if you have 3 independent users and don't want joeys for whatever reason (like the guide) or just happen to have extra hoppers lying around

Part of why they're now so doggone cheap

Don't know if this means anything, but I've started getting frequent all-white screens when paging back, like from a thread back to the thread list. Paging further back always brings up the previous page (forums list) and then I can proceed forward again