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    Favorite all time sports theme music

    I go back a little farther: the CBS NFL theme of the late 60s/early 70s. Also, the NHL on NBC theme of the early 70s.
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    HD Access credit expiring soon

    Told me they wouldn't renew mine. Period. Never missed a payment. Frequently upgraded to Premier, so I could have hardly been called a low-budget customer. Have been a sub for 7 years. Go figure.
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    QUESTION - What Bugs or Usability Issues do you have with your Hopper?

    Steff3, thanks; very thoughtful answer. Sports are important to me, but not enough to spend $500 for NFL-ST or MLBEI. Would like OTA capability with the Hopper, though, so will probably wait awhile -- as my D* bill goes up, and up, sigh.
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    QUESTION - What Bugs or Usability Issues do you have with your Hopper?

    Obviously, there are a lot of these so-called "bugs." Is the Hopper.Joey really worth it? Thinking of switching from D* to save some money and get latest equipment, but is it really worth the aggravation with such buggy hardware?
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    Sadly Disconnected Dish Network service

    It was because we had no access to our RSN that we dumped cable for satellite years ago. And even though we would love to have AMC and BBCA in HD, the passion for having our RSNs in HD (as well as GOL TV and the UEFA soccer channels) far outweigh the additional HD channels we would gain if we...
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    If you were commissioner of any sport what would you change?

    No . . . when a game is rained out, you get a rain check that you can exchange for a ticket to any other games for which tickets are available that season .Rain checks have never been a guarantee of seeing the makeup of the game you were rained out of. And of course you can have one admission. I...
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    Gingerbead on Evo

    Don't know whether it's changes to the Swype sub-app or the OS but it's now far easier to navigate when writing. A zoom window hones in on your text, making it far easier to get right to the spot where you want to edit! And it's easier to copy or cut and paste as well.
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    If you were commissioner of any sport what would you change?

    Yeah, but they stayed longer and bought more concessions, which are hugely marked up.
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    If you were commissioner of any sport what would you change?

    Huh? If you already have a night game scheduled on Day X, there is no need to schedule a day game at 1 p.m. or so with a separate admission. Just move the start time of the night game to 4 or 4:30 p.m. and play the second game 30 minutes after the end of the first. (Thus the definition of a...
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    If you were commissioner of any sport what would you change?

    Seems that every made-up game as part of a "doubleheader" is now a day-night separate-admission deal.
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    If you were commissioner of any sport what would you change?

    Baseball: Price no ticket above $20 so kids can attend games. The idea of paying Broadway show prices for each of 81 games is obscene. Restore scheduled Sunday doubleheaders and eliminate the day-night separate admissions ripoff. Start the season in mid-April and end the World Series before...
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    Who Is Your Wireless Provider?

    Have had them all: US Cellular (horrible roaming rates, backward phones), Sprint (good network, kludgy Windows Mobile phone, bad upgrade policy, lousy customer service), T-Mobile (good rates but horrible data service), Verizon (good network, overpriced), AT&T (for iPhone, horrible network) and...
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    Thinking about getting D and dropping cable ?

    If you only get SD boxes though, you'll need to upgrade your receivers if you ever upgrade your TVs, not only having to pay more for the new boxes but also extending your contract for another 2 years from that point. You might be better off getting all HD equipment now, as a new customer.
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    Free Showtime for a year

    Called and they too gave me 3 mos. free. It's all over the map. Some are getting the full monty, some a few months, others not at all.
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    2011 DirecTV Package Channel Lists - Including Family & Select

    I believe they're having a free preview of Choice Xtra for a few days.
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    DirecTV customer considering Dish

    Add: "Basic HD channels -- DISH wins"
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    Ralph Nader: Replace scholarships

    Nader's proposal is a good start, but doesn't go far enough: Since athletic department revenue seldom goes toward the university's general fund, and indeed the institution usually has to subsidize its athletic department, it gains very little, monetarily. Institutions would spin off their...
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    Convince me to stay with Dish / Tell me where I am wrong

    Don't you need the DISH EHD to be on its own power, not powered by USB port?
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    Question about Fox Sport Midwest and St. Louis Cardinals

    MLB and other professional leagues black out telecasts of games outside their designated market areas. In those areas you would need a premium package such as Major League Baseball Extra Innings to view games such as the Yankees in Indiana. If you are fortunate enough to live in a zip code...
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    Question about Fox Sport Midwest and St. Louis Cardinals

    Of course those of us in Iowa need to subscribe to SportsPack or else get shut out of watching games involving those teams at all -- blacked out on MLB.TV and MLBEI.
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    Thinking of switching from DTV to Dish

    The 612s will give me the same capability per box (dual tuners per TV) as D*, albeit for $8 more. But the OTA capability should in fact give me extra tuner capability, as I understand it, and PIP?
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    Thinking of switching from DTV to Dish

    Anyone considering the external hard-drive DVR conversion option: Don't forget the cost of the hard drive(s)! I am contemplating a similar move and considered getting two HD solo 211Ks and adding an external hard drive to each to make them DVRs. (Because I have 4 TVs I want connected, I would...
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    Canceled MLB EI

    Which is the way I will go this year, with an HDMI connection. Same with Netflix, and Blu-Ray.
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    Switched to D? Are you losing channels now too??

    DirecTV seems more willing to pass along added costs to customers and avoid prolonged channel blackouts. (Versus was an exception; that was a test battle with Comcast; and ratings for G4 must have been so poor that they didn't care if they lost it.) DISH on the other hand seems to play...
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    The Kings Speech

    Agree. Should be top contender for acting (Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Carter), directing (Tom Hooper), screenplay (David Seidler) honors. A grown-up picture for grown-up brains.
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