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    Can I reprogram a receiver to get a certain channel/s from a different satellite?

    Just wanted to mention that with the help of those here in educating me about this, and Mary B's outstanding customer service, I have already had a Dish tech come out to my house and install a new dish, and I am now receiving the eastern arc satellites and have all my HD channels back. I should...
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    Can I reprogram a receiver to get a certain channel/s from a different satellite?

    I'll have to do a site survey first. There are a lot of trees in that direction as well. It so happens there's a window between them for 61.5, but I might be looking at the same problem if I had to pick up other birds in that direction. What are the other orbital positions for "eastern arc?"
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    Can I reprogram a receiver to get a certain channel/s from a different satellite?

    My locals are on 61.5. I am already getting some HD channels on 61.5. Pretty sure I see the Golf Channel that way, for example. I'm pretty sure it's a single dish so I can't imagine it's capable of getting signals from 72.7 and 61.5.
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    Can I reprogram a receiver to get a certain channel/s from a different satellite?

    Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying. Until this latest installation I had always done my own installations (more as a hobby project, for some reason I enjoy it). But isn't there only one cable coming from the LNB that carries the signals from all three satellite receptors...
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    Can I reprogram a receiver to get a certain channel/s from a different satellite?

    I'm a very long time Dish subscriber. At this point I have a setup with a 622 and a couple 211s. Outside, I have a 1000 picking up 110, 119 and 129, and a small dish pointed at 61.5. A tree has grown up on the next property over that has absolutely killed my reception from 129. I am 100%...
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    Anyone from Milwaukee with 811 & OTA locals?

    No problem here, but a question for you Are you transmitting the 811 signal to your monitor digitally (DVI) or through an analog (component, S-video or composite) output? I haven't noticed the problem using DVI to a 32" Toshiba HDTV. I'll try to check it through an S-video input and let you...
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    DN 2nd level tech say no prob w/811 program guide...

    I'm having the same problem with the guide on my 811. Only a hard reboot (unplugging it for a few minutes) will clear it up, but that only seems to last a day or two. This is my second 811, btw, after the power failed on the first one. I'm pretty thick skinned and as long as the thing...
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    As always, it's about whose Ox is gored

    I think you miss my point. Just as the Viacom channels hold virtually no interest to me, some of the channels I watch hold no interest to you. It is my hope that eventually we will be able to buy packages more specifically tailored to our interests.
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    As always, it's about whose Ox is gored

    I was distressed to hear on the news this morning as I drove to work that Echostar had dropped the Viacom channels in a pricing dispute. But to be honest, I didn't know what channels they were. This board informed me that they are MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classics, Comedy Central, BET, NICK (East &...
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    Help -- non-responsive 811!

    :confused: I've had my 811 for a few months and (apart from the well documented issues) everything was great. I was really enjoying the 264 upgrade to the EPG and OTA. Last night, however, while my wife was watching, I touched a component next to it and there was a small static...
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    New Software upgrade for 811

    Good move to remap the back inputs to 0 Same in Milwaukee. I can now get the local CBS affiliate's digital transmission, which includes not only the network station but an independent that shows a lot of local sports, a Spanish language station AND additional subchannels which I believe...
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    811 SD Picture Quality

    SD quality seemed much better this weekend I was using my 811 on a 27" SD Toshiba TV up until a few weeks ago and didn't know what all the fuss was as the picture seemed just as good as with my old 4000. About two weeks ago I bought a newest version 32" HD Toshiba CRT set which upconverts...
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    Have you canceled your $9.99 HD Package?

    I have had a 6000 for years in a HD capable projector setup and recently got an 811 and bought an HD set for my den. I have never subscribed to the package. I actually was thinking about it, but when I check out the programming, yuck. For now I'm content to get the OTA digital channels for...
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    using 811 remote with 508 PVR

    Can an older (blue button) UHF remote control the 811? I need to use the 811 to feed other TVs (over coax using an RF modulator). I'd like to use an extra remote I have in the other rooms. Or will I have to buy a separate 811 sapecific remote. That would be very annoying (and expensive too...
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    Any fix for the Ch 1 problem with the 811 on the horizon?

    Like others, I'm in an area where one of my local digital stations (a very important one from a programming standpoint) remaps to channel 1. With channel 1 reserved for the rear panel inputs on the 811, I can't get it. I know this was raised last week by someone but I didn't see any further...
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    811 Software Updated to 262

    Aspect ratio gripe I assumed that the software update would give me the same aspect ratio control on the 811 as on the 6000 for switching the aspect of OTA digital stations on an SD television, but apparently it only allows aspect ratio changes through component or DVI output to a Digital...
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    811 Info Request and other questions

    My initial 811 reaction I got my 811 shipped from a dealer Monday. I just disconnected my 6000 and put the 811 in its place. I had it up and running (including programming local OTA channels) within a half hour, without looking at the manual too closely. If you have done prior installs...
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    Disturbing news on the Turner Channels

    I can't imagine a sat or cable service without CNN CNN and TCM are two vitally important channels. CNN is still the cable news leader and TCM is the only reliable source for good movies presented commercial free and in OAR. If they go, I may have my 6000 and 811 on Ebay shortly thereafter...
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    Dish HD OTA w/811

    No local HD stations are carried by Dish One way or another, you MUST have an OTA antenna if you want the 811 (or the 6000, for that matter) to display your local digital stations. The locals retransmitted by satellite by Dish are STRICTLY in SD. Due to bandwidth limitation, the day when the...
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    NBA HD on Dish

    Will these games be on the HD Special Events channel? And do they require any separate subscription?
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    Vacation home rules

    Carrying receivers back and forth I originally subscribed to Dish because I bought a vacation home. I was ready to give up on cable anyway, and that pushed me over. For several years, I carried a receiver back and forth when I went there, but when I decided to replace an old receiver with a...
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    Recording from my 6000; S-VHS or D-VHS or?

    Give a DVD recorder more thought I bought a Philips DVDR75 this weekend, and hooked it up by S-Video cable to my 6000. Last night I recorded Carnivale off HBO-HD (in SD mode, of course) at two hour per disc quality. (The Philips can record 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4 or 6 hours per disc, with...
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    House prewired

    Exciting ain't the half of it when you have an 85 year old home with lath and plaster walls, steel support beams and a brick exterior! I also know of no diplexing solution, either to carry both cable and satellite, or to carry cable and antenna. (I wanted to carry a house distribution...
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    Is it me or is this DISH thing overcomplicated

    "You might have already made your decisions, but figuring out what equipment to get is not easy at all! And to complicate matters, if you're willing to wait a little, you may be able to get exactly what you want instead of a poor compromise. " Very well said. Indeed, I consider myself a very...
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    New Dish Locals Delayed

    Any word on Wisconsin markets? I've seen some indications that the Wisconsin markets (Milwaukee/Madison/Green Bay) previously announced for 105/Superdish have encountered a problem because of a Canadian satellite. Any chance Dish will move these locals to 110 to get them off the ground? I'm...
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