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    LEGO Smart Bricks: Bringing Your Childhood Toys to Life! #shorts

    Toys don't need to be "brought to life" by technology. Children bring them to life.
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    Just got this bad boy

    SD didn't represent any kind of gain for the customer. It was only adopted out of Charlie's scramble to get more sat locals up as he was being forced to shut off nets going to out-market subscribers. He was probably looking ahead to being able to continue to grow sub #s moreso than worried about...
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Then you'd really love a SuperDiSH!
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Interesting that they have conditioned people to regard smaller dishes as outdated. Remember when tiny was all anyone was wanting? The 500 is the closest thing to reverting all the way back to the original single-slot dish, when the actual size of it (or lack thereof) was its big selling point...
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    Happy New Year! The future of SatelliteGuys

    Right, just like people had trouble pronouncing "Echosphere" so Charlie changed it to "Echostar".
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Just put it in a hopper box.
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    Cold weather signal loss

    All you need is the new 'Y' adapter and DPPH Twin LNBF. And any old D500 if you don't already have one. Prowl eBay- some dealer's gonna put it up there, you might have to pay...
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    Just got this bad boy

    I hated it! Dish's "bait & switch" on my customers
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    Space X to Merge with EchoStar?

    DiSH was a hard break from previous involvement in home satellite as Echo. Echo wasn't DBS. Echo wasn't even a service provider. When a co. is telling me that it's "trusted," I'm immediately suspicious. I sure don't "trust" them
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    Festivus - Airing of Grievances

    Does it do 3D?
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    Space X to Merge with EchoStar?

    Huh, DiSH 45 years? It's barely cracked 30...Unless this is a dealer counting back through c-band and offair
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Is it the same as an old D500? I mean dimensionally such as focal length, etc. (it appears to be identical other than the "Y," the LNBF and the black paint). Would this new "Y" go on the old 500?
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Talking about the new 500? They don't need 3 positions anymore, at least on WA, so being back to 110/119 it's back to 500 as all the dish that is needed, but they're now offering a new twin (beyond the HDD Twin) for the hopper era. I say "offering," but I think they're thus far restricting it to...
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    Cold weather signal loss

    I used radial-taper crimping, which could possibly be considered compressive as it leaves a seamless, tapered crimp that resists moisture intrusion if has o-ring.. Most others were using some kind of multi-part fitting with a plastic center. I don't even know what to call those. Compression?
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    Happy New Year! The future of SatelliteGuys

    You still haven't thrown out all those AOL discs?
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    Yes, that is always doable but may consume more HDD space. It's just in digital-to-digital transferrence that they get much worked up about it.
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Generally sat electronics work better in cold, not worse. These described issues of sudden unexplained loss in cold sound exactly like the postulated too-short coax center conductor- physical contraction of circuit elements. Possibly something in the LNBF could be contacting and breaking circuit.
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    Afaik what you export from DiSH to external storage is yours to keep, indefinitely, for personal use. Likewise for shows you have the rx capture, as it would be from your subscribed/paid content. The only thing that seems unclear to me would be DiSH's forward-going interests as far as your...
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    Future of C-band Radio Content Distribution

    C-band TVRO (been awhile since I've seen that term) has been gone for years now, hasn't it? I mean as a subscription service.
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    Dish 60.0 Remote

    Guess I'm not the only one who found the 54 awful
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    Android TV on Hopper 3 Without Plus Upgrade?

    I have Android on my Sony TV. Though I generally avoid the googlesphere. Really sluggish navigating apps. Nest thermostat, too...man it's hard to avoid google
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    Looking for a 10 FT BUD in Florida

    What's still on c-band, particularly at such low power to need 10'?
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    Satellite Channels Moving to Streaming Only

    Wait for bad weather to shut it down, then pull the coax.
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    Satellite Direct magazine has folded

    I didn't know they had one. I do remember in the 80s when if someone asked what was on that thing you could toss a guide nearly an inch thick at them