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You never deal with Dish if you only sub to Sky Angel. Similarly, you never deal with Dish if you only want to subscribe to NPS. I may test this later. I have a 942 for my father that was never activated and is still sitting in storage (don't ask...:o ) I may go dig it out, connect it up, call...

Try today. Happened about an hour ago. The "not subscribed" message flashed up and it was gone from the EPG.

I 'live' WAY out in West Texas, about as white an area as you get. My DNS were off as of 8 am this morning but I am still getting CBS-HD (and after posting this will probably lose it within seconds :D). Going to be interesting to see how tomorrow unfolds. IMO the core will be how the judge...

It'd be one hell of a play. 61.5 is tough to receive for CA but it's still there. Dish could always be more 'amicable' to Sky Angel in exchange for having them carry the distant nets.... including agreeing that anyone subbing to Sky Angel gets a 'family friendly' basic DishNet subscription in...

I think it's a heck of an idea. The equipment is perfectly workable, does duty as an SD box and will make SOMEONE happy, so why not? Beats the stuff ending up in a landfill, no?

Another vote for rock solid 942 here. My 811 has been...well... unique but is doing MUCH better as of late. The 942? Never really a problem. Check the cabling for shorts, breaks, kinks, etc. Check the power for brownouts/surges, put the thing on a UPS to smooth out the voltage. The 921 was a...

OLED had NO presence at CES beyond incorporation into the normal CE devices such as MP3 players, car stereo head units, etc. IMO as a display device the technology will be stillborn. Mitsubishi is working on OLED and says commercialization of the technology will be at the end of 2007. I tend to...

You guys must not have seen SED. I agree that this year's CES was a complete yawner otherwise but SED is the most revolutionary announcement in TV technology since LCD and Plasma came out. Unless Sony comes out with competing technology they're in trouble. I bought a Qualia 006 RPTV after seeing...

*GRRRRR* Sirius CANNOT get it right. In places with solid repeater coverage (major east coast pedestrian metros such as DC/NYC/etc) my MyFi works great at street level on foot. I really care if the few people I see on the street that I'm never ever going to see again think I look like a dork...

I was under the impression that the services will be the same and that the Canadian content will simply be added on. Thus, we'll all get more content.

Yep, soon to be sapping PVR hard drive capacity nationwide.... a ton of movies you probably didn't wanna see anyway. I'm very curious to see the religious segment's reaction once they learn that HARDCORE PORN is stored on their box (assuming they do VoD porno which I can't see them NOT doing)...

Now XM needs to counter with Virgin Radio and Capitol FM or even Radio Caroline... sweet.... MORE britpop! Actually Radio Caroline is on Worldspace already so this shouldn't be a large leap.

Oh I can hear it now... "Welcome to XM Channel Blah Blah, It's all Paddy Murphey, all the time." No, honestly I think the canuck channels will be a very nice addition. The CRTC is going to require quite high levels of Canadian content so you'll definitely hear Great Big Sea, etc etc and...

Unfortunately most of the stuff you'll want to receive is below the horizon for you. You're on the wrong coast to get the most out of FTA as much of the action is on the Atlantic birds that are at 60 degrees and below. You MIGHT be able to hit PAS-9 at 58 degrees but anything below that is gonna...

A few questions, some have already been asked. What's the layout? Is the MDU already constructed? Is the MDU already wired with RG-59/RG-6? Do you/the MDU own the cable plant? Does the cable plant terminate at a single head-end within the MDU? Going on the assumption that you have an...

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. My moment in infamy was wiping out a SCO box in one shot. Like you; logged in as root. I don't know what particular synapse misfired but rather than typing rm -r ./star400/log I just whacked in RM -R and nailed the enter key... from the root directory...

I was just about to say... if I got a notification like that from a provider of mine I'd tell them to kiss off.... that is if I wasn't doing anything wrong. I know the D* CSRs can't speculate but perhaps someone else can?? What would cause this kind of account limitation?

The fix for that is to run a LOOONG USB extension cable... get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo and you can do everything from up there. This should do the trick. You can extend USB out to 5 meters. If you buy a few cheap hubs and daisy chain them you can get 30 meters out which should be way...

This isn't WiFi which is distance limited... if your cellphone works, you will soon have broadband coverage if you don't already (carrier dependant but most are heading that way in a hurry... Sprint and Verizon offer ISDN speeds nationwide NOW and Cingular will shortly). Now, there's very very...

Have you ever tried stacking two filters for the 721?? Never know, it might work.

I took issue with you when you attempted to 'pull rank' as a 'supporter' of the site as if to imply Larry's contribution to be less valuable than yours. That is as wrong as my saying that I am more valuable than you are because I donated more than you did. That's simply not the case. I am...

I think satellite's days are numbered. Within the next two years, both Sprint and Verizon will have rolled out EVDO service across 100% of their networks as well as many of their affiliates. That's 200Kbps sustained bursting to 500 with quite low latency (I have seen 200-300ms in general) for...

Larry does support the site greatly, by providing solid information and a wealth of technical experience. We all contribute in our own way. I support the site as well, and IMO there's more ways to support the site than simply opening the wallet.

So I had the house prewired on the off chance that I'd be putting in satellite when we were doing an addition. Tons of coax, etc etc. At the time, I didn't know any better and didn't spec the coax. Oooh BIG mistake. They used good quality coax... Belden 9116 which has a maximum bandwidth of...

This is one of the main reasons I abhor DSL filters and think whole house filters should be the rule and NOT the exception. It's simply NOT that difficult to split out a two-wire pair, run that to a separate jack, and run the rest of the house off a filter that's in the TNI (the little grey...