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Others on this forum will know better than me, but I think it's important to get a CSR who handles customers who are potentially leaving Directv altogether, not just cancelling one specific service. I have a feeling you didn't get to the person you really needed.

Videojanitor, I should have mentiond that I called into retention from the very beginning (I said "cancel service" at the initial voice prompt). If you didn't do this, it may have made the difference. I'd try again.

Last season I received $10 off per month, making my monthly payment $24.95 intead of $34.95. I called a couple of hours ago and asked if they could match what they did for me last year. (I also referenced MLB.TV costing $125 for the same poduct they were selling at an early bird rate of $210.)...

Re a Directv locals only package, you might check out their website, which indicates a Directv Basic package for $9.95, which includes local channels. This is under their International Programming section. Besides the locals, it's nothing but a bunch of shopping channel garbage, but if that's...

I suggest looking at Directv's little known, Preferred Choice package. It runs $3.00/month more than Family, but gives you many more popularly viewed channels like ESPN (1 & 2), CNN, TNT, TBS, etc. Only catch is, being an international programming offering, you must subscribe to SOME kind of...

Very simple to do -- just call Directv's 800 number and tell them you need to change your service address, but (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT) that your mailing address remains the same. If you don't do this, your bill will wind up at the new address and they'll shut you off when it comes time to pay it...

Regarding the Steve Garvey post, what did Cey or Lopes do to deserve being called classless? Unless fathering two children out of wedlock is the qualification for class. Also, Garvey is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Covsky, much of NBC's (the main network) IS live, but only to the eastern US. For those of us in the west, we're getting most of the coverage delayed by three hours, even when it's live to the east. This is not be confused with NBC delaying the coverage overall, such as the Opening Ceremony...

I sent in on 2/29 and received my discs a couple of days ago: Blood Diamond Billy Madison Troy Casino The Italian Job

You can rip the DVD to your PC and then download a freeware program called Ifoedit. It will allow you to change the flag to 16:9. It'll take you about five seconds to do this. Then, simply burn a new disc and you should be fine.

Wax cylinders are far, far superior to 78 rpm shellac records.

If you "live" in New York, you will get all the Yankee games televised on YESHD with no blackouts whatsoever. Nor any need to get MLBEI. (The only games that won't be carried on YES will be those are either on WWOR (Friday nights last season), FOX Saturday or ESPN Sunday Night baseball.)

Well, I've tried everything -- MPEG2CUT2, HDTV2MPEG, MPEG2REPAIR, Womble Video Wizard, VideoReDo and nothing yields acceptable results. I think I'll give up until things change...if ever. Thanks again for your help.

No, I'm using it to create a compliant HD-DVD. There's a lengthy thread about how to do this at the AVSForums site. I've had great success with it for the past year -- no problems at all until recently. I thought something might have changed with the stream, which you confimedin your earlier...

Diogen, I tried running MPEG2CUT2 and it still get a message from ULead MovieMaker5 that says the MPEG is incompatible. I've tried everything I can think of. Notwithstanding sync issues, I can't even get the program to process the file. Up until a month or so ago, I was able to author HD-DVDs...

Thanks, Diogen! I've been using VideoReDo's quick fix, which used to be very effective. But as I said, in recent weeks, it rarely seems to render a file that can be authored. I'll give MPEG2CUT2 a try and let you know what happens.

Thanks for the reply, Diogen. The only way I've been able to get ULead MovieMaker to accept my Expressvu HD MPEGs recently is to run it through Womble's GOP Fixer first. Unfortunately, as you said, there are all sorts of sync issues, which manifest themselves as momentary video freezes --...

Diogen, would this explain why I'm having frequent "MPEG incompatible" error messages when trying to author HD-DVDs from my modified (169time) receiver? I never used to have problems until the past month or so.

For those who subscribe to the superstations, KTLA will be broadcasting a 60 hour marathon to celebrate the anniversary of the station beginning Friday, November 23. Programming will consist of classic TV shows, including many that have not been widely seen in years: SitcomsOnline.com News...

If you do a search, you will see there are a number of posts regarding this issue. Simply, there are two satellites at 91 degrees, one of which has a beam that does not reach the southern US. The result is there are a number channels that cannot be received in Los Angeles and other southern...

Thanks, thabo22. From what I understand, this current president, indeed, is hunting his white whale. Some years ago, I was peripherally involved in a movement to effect some changes on the board and it got very ugly. I'm sure it's the same way in every Community, but getting the 500+ unit...

lumpkin666, unfortunately, I don't have an angle to the sats I need from my balcony. Otherwise, I would have told them to take a flying leap long ago! SKrueger, I know what you mean about being involved. It may be just an excuse, but this board has traditionally been a PITA and everyone...

Thanks again to everyone. All your feedback is very helpful. SKrueger, I had a question (or to anyone else who might know) -- I've never been involved with my condo association. So, I'm wondering what is the mechanism by which I hold the Board and its president accountable? That is, you...

This is not good. Hypothetically, a condo board could make a decision to allow only the installation of, let's say Directv only, is that right? From the feedback I've received, it seems that the Board has ultimate power in the same way that Congress and the President have authority over all of...

My problem is that I also have an Expressvu dish. I don't want, nor feel I should have to explain the purpose of this "non-standard" dish. So, in a sense, if I proposed this single dish solution for each of the two US providers, it could provide fodder for the homeowners association to say...