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  1. RBBrittain

    Receiced my converter box "coupons" on 2/28

    In addition, the PDF manual for the Insignia specifically states that universal remotes should be programmed with "the manufacturer codes for LG or Zenith" (page 3 as printed, page 5 of PDF). So the Insignia is definitely a rebranded Zenith; LG isn't selling any boxes under its own name. I...
  2. RBBrittain

    SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Report - Week Ending 03/24/2007

    If any HD channel were changed to 180i (that's less than half the resolution of SD), I wouldn't go to a board; I'd call my state's attorney general. Perhaps you meant 1080i?
  3. RBBrittain

    Uplink Report for Wednesday August 23rd

    Fort Smith/Fayetteville, AR. Comes from the decoupling effective today of KFTA (now a Fox affiliate) and KNWA (which retained the NBC affiliation). Originally KNWA (as KFAA) was a satellite of KFTA (as KPOM), but after Nexstar bought the stations in 2004 they made KNWA the main station...
  4. RBBrittain

    WB and UPN HD

    What type of UPN/WB in HD are you referring to? If you're talking locals (LIL), it depends on the market. Whenever Little Rock gets HD LIL, the local UPN/CW station (the second OTA HD station on the market, after its sister the Fox affiliate) is almost certain to be there; but WB/MNTV isn't on...
  5. RBBrittain

    Seattle HD from Alaska?

    Under SHVERA, E* is required to assign every part of Alaska to one of the state's DMAs, even if Nielsen doesn't. So your only legal option is for E* to offer you locals from Alaska (probably Anchorage as you suggested). A side effect is that the same law also sets a deadline for E* to offer...
  6. RBBrittain

    Arkansas

    Comcast's HD lineup in Little Rock, AR (including North Little Rock, Sherwood, Jacksonville and Bryant): 202 ESPN HD 204 TNT HD 205 Discovery HD 206 INHD 207 INHD2 215 HBO HD East (mirrored at 300) 219 Cinemax HD East (mirrored at 319) 223 Showtime HD East (mirrored at 339) 227 Starz...
  7. RBBrittain

    522 to 622 any deals??

    Yep, the only way to get a 622 is to fork over $299 for the privilege of leasing. I was also a 522 customer, but unlike you, I had Comcast as an option; even my E* retention rep couldn't budge on the $299, though she was willing to give me a 211 (HD non-DVR). And D* charges even more for...
  8. RBBrittain

    Dish DVR and DSL

    My old 522 setup was similar to Allin4greeN's except my DSL filter was between the two duplex jacks. In fact, the phone lines are still there, including the 25' run (thru a groove under my front door) to where the 522 was. I had no connection problems at all.
  9. RBBrittain

    Tonight & The Rest of the Echostar X Moving Schedule

    I don't know if (a) you're scanning from a FTA receiver, (b) you're in a fringe area of the Springfield DMA, or (c) you "moved" to Springfield. I don't know about (a), but if you were subscribed to Springfield locals, they should have appeared automatically; the new Little Rock spotbeam did on...
  10. RBBrittain

    Dish 921

    True; that's why I went to Comcast. Is that perhaps why D* still charges more for their HD DVRs (even the non-Tivo ones), even though they're not MPEG-4 yet? Why can't E* do something like this for their existing customers? (Oh, I forget: E* hardly did ANYTHING for their existing...
  11. RBBrittain

    Leaving E* for Comcast

    As someone else in this thread said, different strokes... I even told my E* retention rep that I knew E* had more HD channels than Comcast. (I already wish I had Universal HD, if only for HD "Law & Order" reruns; I watch a lot of those on USA, especially SVU and lately CI.) But one of the...
  12. RBBrittain

    Leaving E* for Comcast

    SD PQ alone wasn't the issue for me; it was the $299 upgrade fee and the lack of HD locals, especially since I can't get ABC in HD OTA here. (BTW, Comcast does have Little Rock NBC in HD now; they just haven't put it in the lineup yet.) HD locals solves my biggest PQ problem with...
  13. RBBrittain

    Leaving E* for Comcast

    Well, less than a week after testing signal strength for the Little Rock switchover to E*10, I'm leaving SBC/AT&T Dish; my Comcast install is tomorrow morning. I'm not that dissatisfied with E*, but I just upgraded from a 13" TV to a 27" HDTV; that obviously made E*'s PQ issues noticeable...
  14. RBBrittain

    Uplink activity for the week of April 19th 2006

    I wonder how the Little Rock move affected subscribers in outlying DMAs that receive KETS (Little Rock PBS/AETN) as a statewide channel. I don't believe the entire state can see 110 TP 18 spotbeam 15 (though I think the Arkansas areas of Shreveport, Monroe-El Dorado and Greenwood-Greenville...
  15. RBBrittain

    Could use some help in a choice...

    I think the confusion here is that most of you assume he still needs the FSS feed (105 or 121) on the SuperDish; but he may well be in a market where LIL has been moved from FSS to E*10. If so, the installer could manually aim the SuperDish at 129 (it needs to be manual because a SuperDish aims...
  16. RBBrittain

    Tonight & The Rest of the Echostar X Moving Schedule

    "26s13" means transponder (frequency) 26, spotbeam 13. Spotbeam satellites like E*10 can reuse the same frequency (TP #) on different spotbeams as long as they don't overlap. So for example, you can only receive Detroit locals if you're in the footprint of E*10 spotbeam 13; if you are, they...
  17. RBBrittain

    Virginia: Telecom bill would levy 5% flat tax

    Nope; Internet access is exempt from the tax. (I read the bill.) If it wasn't, the tax would violate the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
  18. RBBrittain

    Tonight & The Rest of the Echostar X Moving Schedule

    110 readings from Little Rock, AR 72205, 5:54 to approx. 6:05 AM (522 tuner #1, Dish500): 01 93 02 0 03 102 04 0 05 92 (CONUS TP for LR locals until 1/06) 06 90 (Spotbeam) 07 87 08 0 09 90 10 0 11 90 12 78 (Spotbeam) 13 86 14 77 15 84 16 100 17 86 18 103 (New spotbeam for LR...
  19. RBBrittain

    That's DISHgusting !!!

    I think you hit the nail on the head; that's a Cox site (see http://www.digitalstraighttalk.com/about/ ).
  20. RBBrittain

    AT&T Home Zone

    "Northeast" usually doesn't mean anything south or west of Pennsylvania (such as the old Ameritech region); when you get up there, the only SBC/AT&T territory is Connecticut (SNET). Being from one of the original Southwestern Bell states, I certainly know where SBC/AT&T's territory is.
  21. RBBrittain

    AT&T Home Zone

    And I doubt it will ever be available in any northeastern state other than Connecticut (the only one that's SBC/AT&T territory). Arkansas, OTOH, is another story...
  22. RBBrittain

    $100 for an HDMI cable?

    Here's an example of profiteering in HD cables: The EXACT SAME Philips HD cables cost less than half as much at Sam's Club as they do at Wal-Mart, and they probably come from the same factory and same warehouse: 6' DVI cable (PXT1190): $12.63 vs. $27.46 6' HDMI/DVI cable (PXT1196): $19.87...
  23. RBBrittain

    April 12th Live Retailer Chat Recap!

    Hope for your sake that happens before February 17, 2009; I wonder if it will. I'm kinda of two minds on this: I was needing a new TV anyway (my 522 was feeding a 13" with RF-only inputs!), so I didn't want anything less than a full-blown HDTV due to the 2/17/09 deadline and the silliness of...
  24. RBBrittain

    TIVO wins E* Lawsuit - Potential Impact on ALL DVRs

    I think the plaintiff-friendly side of the U.S. Post Office & Courthouse there (the only Federal office building on a state line) is the Texas side. The Arkansas side's in the Western District of Arkansas, which also covers highly-conservative Northwest Arkansas--home to Wal-Mart, Tyson, and...
  25. RBBrittain

    Uplink Activity for Wed. March 01 2006

    In recent years, they don't even have to be owned by the same people anymore. WMC-TV Memphis (now Raycom Media) was separated from WMC-AM/FM (now CBS Radio, fka Infinity) in 1998, but they still share the same grandfathered call letters from when Scripps-Howard (before 1993) and Ellis...