Recent content by treiher

Honestly, I could care less if Viacom channels ever come back to Direct TV. It always urked me to know that part of my bill went to some of those stations anyway. My kids are a little upset, but it will pass, and if they wind up watching a little less TV as a result, well I have no problem...

Hey, it's a valid point. I get that I am not a new customer and that I should not expect to be able to take advantage of new customer promotions they are using to lure new subscribers into their base, but like you say, that is one heck of a promotion! Free NFL Ticket is big time bucks. And...

I had Dish for 10 years and always ruled out Direct TV because of what I experienced and friends and neigbors homes who had Direct. I always thought the Direct receivers were sluggish, had fewer features, and were not as intuitive as the Dish Receivers. The HR24 however, was a game changer. I...

Okay, I remember this thread from awhile back and decided to resurrect it, because . . . I believe they have fixed the problem with first run recording events! I'm not sure when it happened, but I noticed one of my programs on Fox News is no longer re-recording the same show three times a day...

That's what I did too. Makes sense on several levels. Not only does it work with MRV, but you're already set up to replace that TV some day, even if you have no plans to do so now. Since you really can't buy SD TV's anymore, it makes sense to have a receiver that is compatible with what's...

Hard to believe? I promise you, I'm not making this up. We found it particularly prevelant while watching the last season of Dexter on Showtime, but that was by no means the only occurence of it. I tried numerous things like swapping out receivers, only to find they all did it. Switching...

What's really interesting about this is my 622 and 722 receivers did the same thing when I had Dish Network. I was looking for the problem to be going away once I switched to Direct, only to find it happening in the same way on the new HR24 receivers as well. It does seem to be limited to...

As a new convert from Dish Network I can tell you this is something the Dish receivers handled much better. They never recorded copies of the same show, even those shows like they run on Fox News or the other news channels mutliple times in the same day. Even if you set it up to record all...

Yep, that's what I'm going to do. Another independent line. Thanks for the feedback though. It's nice to know it's necessary before going to the trouble!

Wow! Ditto!! This is exactly me. If I didn't know better I would have thought I wrote it myself. I was a top tier customer subscribing to AEP for more than 10 yrs. with three HD DVR's. I like the way you put it. They slammed me with $34/month in extra dual DVR fees for the privilege of...

Is it possible all this can work together? Just got installed with the whole house DVR set up and the DECA connection to the internet. One thing I had with Dish that I kind of miss was OTA reception using an antenna in the attic and then I used diplexers to backfeed the antenna signal down the...

88 degrees? Really? How impressive. :) Sorry, couldn't resist. I think it was about 114 here in Phoenix when they installed my service a few weeks ago. For what it's worth, my installers were great too.

My bad! I did not know it would work this way!! I always thought the swap button was only for swapping between PIP channels, but I did not realize you could swap without PIP being active. So I guess double play is not a big pro vs. Dish. I stand corrected and thanks for letting me know.

Thanks I really feel like I have joined the Empire. I have a number of friends who have Dish Network based on my recommendation, and even a few who switched from Direct to Dish several years ago, again because I convinced them to do so. Now I have to inform them what I have done. I haven't...

Say you have two HR24's . . . HR24-A and HR24-B If someone is watching a recorded program on HR24-A, all other recordings in the list that are stored on HR24-A now have an unavailable icon next to them if you try and access them from HR24-B or any other H24 receiver. HR24-B programs are...