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Just decided to drop DirecTV. I was a subscriber to Dish from 1998-2008, then with DirecTV since 2008. Switching to D* after E*'s picture quality fell off. I've been quite satisfied with D* these past nearly 5 years. When I signed up I was disappointed to get an HR21 DVR, but it worked...

I just moved from a house into a condo. The condo has a shared DirecTV dish. I am uncertain about whether I will continue to subscribe, so put my account into suspension. My question is about the dish and LNBs on the roof of my house. The D* CR told me that I owned that equipment, not...

Just saw an ad for a "special" price for a half-season of Sunday Ticket. Was $199 for a full season, now only $139 for a half-season. Say what? Paying 70% for 50% of a season is a special deal?

I've been a D* customer for about 4.5 years. My contract expired after 2 years, I've never re-up'ed it. Recently my 24 month free HD discount expired. So I called them today and said, calmly, that I was looking to reduce my bill and was going to probably downgrade my programming, but I was...

Last night I was watching a movie, a standard def movie, and after I hit pause and came back, the format had changed. Wherein it had filled the screen vertically, there were now black bars top and bottom. I thought I had remembered it wrong and ignored it. But today it happened again. So I...

Anyone know what the bitrate is on the D* Pandora channel? The standard bit rate for the free Internet version is only around 96Kbps. If you upgrade to Pandora One it goes up to 192Kbps. The difference is quite noticeable, especially if you are routing it through a nice audio system. If...

My HR21 has never been a speed demon, but beginning 3-4 weeks ago, it got a lot slower. It now takes about 10 seconds to show the guide. Changing channels takes several seconds. Hitting list can sometimes take up to 15 seconds to get a response. I'm still running the old software, no HD...

D* gave me a gift for my 2 year anniversary with them, of a 3 month subscription to the Sports Pack. Nice thought, but the gift was of no value to me as I do not watch any of those channels. I signed into my account and they had a button for one to express thanks for their gift. I clicked...

Got a reply back from D* on my question about Twins games blackouts in my area. Of course the reply didn't actually answer my question, but at least they tried. In their reply they also included: "After reviewing your account, I see that you may be eligible for a special programming or...

I live in southeastern Wisconsin, just a few miles from Illinois. Yet the Red Sox - Twins game tonight is blacked out in my region. I live less than 70 miles from Milwaukee. Less than 130 miles from Chicago. And almost 300 miles from Minneapolis. According to the Major League Baseball...

I don't know how I did it ... I think the Guide tricked me by putting a PPV at Channel 9980 instead of being in the 100-200 block ... but I recorded a HD PPV. If I delete it without watching it, will I be charged?

When I select the guide option to show the channels that I receive and then hit Guide, a number of channels that I don't subscribe to are still listed. For example, I do not subscribe to Showtime and the main Showtime channels are not listed. However channels "539 - SHO3HD" and "542 EXTRHD"...

The other night I experienced some loss of signal during a pretty light rain. Hadn't noticed that before. Perhaps the rain was stronger at other points between my dish and the satellite. Is there a chart somewhere that shows what a good set of signal strengths are? I know some...

This weekend I tuned in to watch a bit of the the Planet Earth series on Animal Planet. When I first started watching it, my initial thought was "Hey, this is pretty decent SD, perhaps the best SD I've ever seen." But then I remembered that I had tuned to it because it was listed as HD. I...

Charter Communications and its subsidiaries announced Thursday that they have reached an agreement-in-principle with some debt holders on the terms of a financial restructuring that will involve a prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by April 1. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a...

: Moody's downgrades Charter, says bankruptcy likely in 2009 Moody's Investors Service lowered its credit rating on Charter Communications Inc. by two notches Friday after the company said it will hold discussions with bondholders in order to shore up its finances. The ratings agency said...

Is anyone getting Game 6 of the ALCS on Channel 247 TBSHD? Because I'm not. They are showing a Sitcom on 247 for me right now. And it is 8:22 EDT and the game is definitely underway, as I'm getting it on the radio.

D* newbie here, after 11 years with E*. I set my new HR21-200 to record all episodes of a series. It is only storing a maximum of 5 episodes. Upon recording the 6th episode it deletes the first. I've never encountered anything like this on an E* DVR. Is there anyway to override this...

Now that I've un-subbed to E*, I could still leave my old D500 up and install my old LNBs. I'll still have my 4900 receiver after I send back the 622 and current LNBs. I might be tempted to make it operational just to watch Charlie Chats. What else does E* make available to non-subs?

Just switched to D* today. Have an HR21 connected to my TV via HDMI. My TV is a RP-CRT, which can suffer screen burn-in if you watch too much 4:3 with black bars. When watching an "HD"channel that is broadcasting a 4:3 program, I cannot find a way to force the picture to have gray bars...

They're gone, they're all gone. D*mn Dish. They could have set it up to allow each program to complete before turning them off

The HD PQ from E* has been spiraling down since the summer of '05. We've discussed this many times on Sat Guys. Over that time I've become accustomed to less than razor sharpness of the down-rezzed channels. I've seen thousands upon thousands of over compression artifacts in scenes with low...

Many of the arguments posed against E* ponying up to pay for the Big Ten Network were based upon the BTN offering only 2nd and 3rd tier games. Well look what is being exclusively carried by the BTN this week .... Wisconsin at Ohio State. Cable companies not offering the BTN, like Charter in...

Our neighborhood experienced a "hard" power failure on Tuesday night. No lights blinking, just an immediate total loss of power for about 2 hours. Then it came back up without any fluctuations. So it was equivalent to pulling the plug while the 622 was running. Well, it turns out that my...

Went away on vacation with just 4 hours of recording space on my 622. Scheduled recordings then consumed 4.5 hours of space. When I got back, all that was left on it were the 6 recordings that I had locked, plus the most recent recording. Apparently when it encountered a "no space...