Recent content by TommyTDFVC

It's this easy-the center channel is where you get most of your sound from what you are watching. So put it anywhere you can centered around the TV. You want that speaker to make it sound like the action on tv is coming from the tv. Angle it toward the listener. Hide it and point it. That is...

Performing well with music usually means 2 channel stereo. Not trying to patronize. I broke down and bought a Samsung 5.1 surround to match my Samsung plasma tv, and I am very pleased, even when listening to music exclusively. The unit was cheap, like $300. There are no noticeable holes in...

I'm hoping that most channels are close 25,30 or less miles. Hard to read your antennaweb results unless the last number is distance. Since distance is the key, I would analyze the location of the closest ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX, others. If they are in the same direction, good. Sounds like you need a...

The industry is cut-throat. I believe the bottom dropped out in Michigan in 2006. From record prosper, to disparity! Anyway, what is important in my opinion is the first impression by the customer at the install. Most Dish sales are marketed. A clean cut installer and installation will build...

Q 1&2: you should be getting a D1000. Maybe you are a no-site for a D1000 and he is using the wing sat to get you running. Q3: That will work, but I still think a D1000 is the standard dish. Q4: Depends on the receiver you are getting. A dual tuner will probably complicate the install. One or...

I would say that you look in the direction of the two surfaces that have the elevation bolts. Stand behind the dish and look that way. I once had a customer cut down about 10 trees by looking down the arm!!! 1000+ DN installs later, look down those plates on the skew plate!

I recently heard Pirates of the Carribbean Dead Mans Chest. Watch when they first see the black pearl. There is a musical climax that ends with some of the lowest frequency I've experienced. It also made one of the subs hit maximum excursion! Running at 0db is not recommended for this!!!

After working in DN customer service for 3 years, there is nothing I have heard about retreiving the lost info. These hard drives surely can be yanked out and accessed somehow. I'm not sure if you need special software to do that or not. Also depends on if the hard drive is hosed, or if the...

Go to Antennaweb. If the towers are less than about 45 miles you can get a cheap omnidirectional antenna. If the antennas are in the same general direction.

The installer pre-made his dish. It is wrong. He is trying to save time on installs.

What the??? Call the install company and make them get rid of those ground blocks connected to nothing on your roof. The loops in the wire focus water right into those (nice actually) connectors. Ground blocks should be located by your existing cable demarcation point, main electrical ground, or...

For the love of God, go with DTV. Neither company offers good deals to existing customers. FACT. In a few years, you can go back to Dish as new customer and get all their goodies. It's how you work the game. Good Luck. Tom

Here's the facts: Dish will allow activation of rogue lease equipment to non DHA/DHP customers. Too many people like you have bought equipment off eba and the like. As long as that receiver does NOT have an outstanding balance on it from the previous owner, you can be activated. Just call back...

Its the tree. The weather calms at night and reduces the interference from branches. DTV uses a couple of satellites not naming that are lower on the horizon. Its gotta be moved higher or farther away from the tree/s. Hope its yours to trim.

DN equipment comes to a retailer with "component" video. Red, Green, Blue.-Simply video. It's not 1080i HD, so find the cheapest HDMI cable-meanint don't spend $100 at a chain store. Search the net and save.