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so a DP Quad, which he may have, i'll ask him today, will feed a DPP44 where the signal gets stacked just like it came out of a DPPtwin LNB ?? i like that thought, and certainly never was aware of it . . he's got money, just has a wife that thinks his TV needs are excessive, so the less he...

i have a current customer with a 301 and a 501 who wants to add a 625. he has a quad LNB, so he has enough ports, the hangup is that the 625's prospective location is bottom floor interior wall of a two story with VERY limited capacity to add the second line without major sheetrock work. his...

put a phone on that individual jack, and make sure the installer didn't inadvertantly disconnect it while hooking up another room's phone . . i've seen it too often to discount the possibility . .

flats have been found to have caused fires, however, usually only when used through an active window, but do beware . . throughput can be compromised as well, as the center conductor on the flat itself is about 30 gauge wire . .

i'm always tickled when i get into a customer's home and suggest that we try a different input to improve signal to a guy, and see him run for the wife to try and get an interpretation . . there's definitely some sharp women out there, and some with serious toy skills

i truly resent the arrogant notion that someone else knows more about what i need than i do, and is willing to tie up my hardware to please me. what a crock, i order PPV just over once a year, and the idea that over 60 gig of my hard drive is going to be tied up with their imaginations of what i...

a dvr is a computer, and no matter how good the software, periodically they need to be refreshed. i don't have to worry about it where i live, power goes out all by itself a couple times a month, but if you have a stable power grid you might want to turn it off (unplug it for over two minutes)...

primary loss with no land line is the length of time you can see shows, the TIVO content thing, so they will only have three or four day horizon of shows, rather than the 18 to 25 you get when TIVO can connect every other night or so . .

lots of aftermarket UHF choices, none innate to DTV . . very popular with the Dish crew though . . CSR consumed illegal comestibles, most likely . .

use the down button on the remote, it lets you cycle through tuners without changing channels

actually, if you hit the right button, you get info on a customizable banner, though you can't change channels within the banner

there's two tuners, so if you've been surfing on one you have no buffer to speak of on that one, but the one you haven't been looking at will always have 30 rolling minutes of buffer that you can go back on. if you have been watching a show, though, for example, for 22 minutes and then decide to...

correct, it will record it, but it doesn't have the go-to feature . .

625 seems a bunch more durable . . .

Dish, unfortunately, has beaten DTV to the punch on the real use of the USB port, and has contracts in place for 20, 40, and 100 gig handheld media viewers, which will interface with Dish's high end 942 DVR, allegedly downloading an entire movie to the handheld in under ten minutes. whether...

doing the upgrade yourself is not too bad, just a matter of following a 'really' good script quite precisely, until you are comfortable with what happens in the process, essentially it's as easy as swapping a hard drive in a PC, but the order is pretty important, as there are no disc drives to...

no contract commitment increase if you buy your own at retail jgs

DTV can't do that, E* can though. the DTV dish has a multiswitch in the LNB, and needs a smart multiswitch in the home to feed more than four tuners. so you will need a multiswitch 4X8 powered, and six lines leaving the switch, two to each of the Tivo's. if you want them (the jacks) in the wall...

if your dish has to be 'far' from the home proper, call D* and insist on a powered multiswitch, called a 4X8 when the tech comes out, as that will improve your 'at the face of the residence' power levels. here far would constitute over a hundred feet. the switch completely revitalizes the...

i was thinking along the same lines myself, and have had luck when faced with mysteries irrational by being irrational myself. i would cut a foot off one of the cables, and 18 inches off the other, replace the fittings with DigiCon Green and retry. one really odd one i had to troubleshoot was...

in re: wall plates ... that's a big 10-4 on that one . . . building contractors put those in as cheap as they can buy them, some of them won't even carry Comcast's low frequencies, and by satellite freqs, they're toast.

Thank you, sir :D

lightning capital of the world is about an hour from me, so we learn a bit more of this than some, as i get one of MY dishes (installs, not my house . . lol) hit on average every third year. the purpose of the ground is to reduce the likelihood of collected static electricity at the dish, as...

in re: the (why would that matter?) . . . it doesn't directly, as the superdish shape is actually detuned parabolic to accomodate the trifocal sky view, if you wanted to optimize for a single sat you would want a perfect parabolic dish with an offset arm, which shapes up as an ellipse with its...