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  1. herdfan

    What type of accent do you find the most charming? What type of accent do you find the most annoying?

    In college, I found guys with ANY accent annoying. Because all the girls thought it was cute. :0
  2. herdfan

    An Update

    Summer! Too many things going on between softball leagues, swim team practice and vacation.
  3. herdfan

    An Update

    Plus if it was a pixelating issue, they would have known it a couple of days earlier when the channels went up in engineering mode and they could have changed the CSR scripts. But if it was an authorization issue, they wouldn't have known about it until last night as they were getting ready...
  4. herdfan

    DBSTalk.com is down!!

    Earl in his post said he was pessimistic about them going online today, but that things can change.
  5. herdfan

    Bose?

    Those are a different Bose. Back then they tried to make good speakers and did. Now they are a marketing company that sells speakers.
  6. herdfan

    Bose?

    Yes! After I "saw the light", I was able to get 75% of my money back on ebay.:D
  7. herdfan

    Where is Robert?

    Yes they do and I have an A1. But he was implying over in the HD DVD players forum at AVS that Toshiba was going to make a blockbuster announcement and that it would send HD DVD to the lead for good. Well, everyone was expecting an A2 price drop to at least $399 and maybe $299. Instead...
  8. herdfan

    Where is Robert?

    He is at CES drinking the Toshiba koolaid.
  9. herdfan

    General Sports Trivia

    Close enough. They were returning from ECU when the crash happened.
  10. herdfan

    General Sports Trivia

    That's cheating. You work in Huntington.;) His name was Steve Logan! But how are Marshall and ECU historically linked?
  11. herdfan

    General Sports Trivia

    This year when Texas Tech came back from 31 points down to beat Minnesota in the Insight Bowl, it was the largest comeback in college bowl history. 1) Who had the previous largest comeback? (easy) 2) The Minnesota collapse cost coach Glen Mason his job. Who lost their job as a result of...
  12. herdfan

    Song Name Game...

    Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
  13. herdfan

    Song Name Game...

    Take a Chance on me - ABBA
  14. herdfan

    HR10-250 drops Channel 95 from favorites

    Yes, but not on your end.:( It is a temporary channel that D* uses for HD special events etc. When the event is over, D* "turns off" the channel. Your receiver notices the channel is "off" and drops it from your Favorites list. When the next event comes along, D* "turns on" the channel...
  15. herdfan

    Speculation on networking the HR20

    A user over at DBSTalk plugged his into a network port and although it wouldn't pull an IP, sent enough info to determine that the HR20 was sending packets that contained Ucentric code. So for those that don't know, Ucentric was the company that V* originally commissioned to make their DVR...
  16. herdfan

    DirecTV to have 100 HD Channels by Christmas

    And have launched 43??? The executive was Eric shanks in his interview with TVPRedictions.com (Swann). I also will be curious as to the other 18 markets given how D* added 4-5 markets way out of the top 50.
  17. herdfan

    Directs latest glitch

    I agree with that statement, but it way mroe convenient to let D* bill my CC. I have a very low limit card that is only used for various billings such as D*, so ther e is not much they can do.
  18. herdfan

    DirecTV to have 100 HD Channels by Christmas

    I get lazy and if what I want is not on the first couple of pages, well I move on.:o
  19. herdfan

    DirecTV to have 100 HD Channels by Christmas

    This seems huge. Reading on down it talks about the first time D* applied they did not have the proper license, but now they do. Nice find. Very nice.
  20. herdfan

    DirecTV to have 100 HD Channels by Christmas

    He is sure! In fact D* requested to add some Ka payload to it and was denied by the FCC.
  21. herdfan

    DirecTV to have 100 HD Channels by Christmas

    Here is what we do know: 1) D*8 has 1,000 MHz of Ka bandwidth. This is EQUAL to BOTH Spaceways. I can find no mention of it being either spot or CONUS, but since it does not have the "S" designation, I will assume CONUS. 2) Original plan for the Ka bandwidth on D*8 was to connect D*...
  22. herdfan

    D* 9 Sat. news

    Not really. It does not have any Ka capacity. It is a Ku spotbeam satellite. Now if there a re a few markets that still have their locals on CONUS, then possibly. But probably not. Our best chance is D* using the Ka capacity on D*8 at 101.
  23. herdfan

    DirecTV to have 100 HD Channels by Christmas

    Did he say what year?:eek:
  24. herdfan

    Survivor not in HI-DEF

    HD would be tough, but I see no reason they can't do 480p widescreen.