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  1. Mike_H

    Wow...just got my biggest discount ever from Dish..

    I guess I see it this way. They just got a long term customer to pay them an additional $10 per month and accept an upgraded service that if the customer forgets to call and reduce again will net them even more per month, all with little to no acquisition costs.
  2. Mike_H

    Downgraded

    Note that regardless of the video service available from dish and that's cost. There is always the ongoing hardware costs and various fees. With Sling.TV, the only cost is the programming and any hardware cost is a one time cost.
  3. Mike_H

    Downgraded

    TLC, and game show network, and fyi. FYI is on sling, no tlc, and GSN and FYI are not in 120. Personally I miss FX.
  4. Mike_H

    Downgraded

    Dropping to 120 would have cut too many channels my wife watched, so I figured I might as well switch to OTA plus Sling.TV. Dish is currently paused as I see if my wife can live with it that way. If so, then I'll drop dish. The fees are what is making it untenable.
  5. Mike_H

    Sling won't update!

    Sling TV IP streaming TV service. It isn't a functionality for your satellite service. It's a service separate from your satellite service. You might want to post your question in the actual Dish Network Hopper forum.
  6. Mike_H

    real e-mails from dish?

    Caught in my quarantine folder today were two e-mails that seem to look like what dish would send, but instead of from dish, they came from dishnetwork@dishnetworkmail.com (dish.6231@envfrm.rsys2.com). Seems a bit odd. Emails had my account name in the subject along with "Watch hit Movies...
  7. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    Hopper with Sling arrived today. A refurbed unit out of India according to the stickers. The call queue took long enough for me to get my laptop fired up, logged int mydish.com and activate the receiver through the website. Though it did hang during authorization so the tech on the phone...
  8. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    Received the 311 error again today. Unplugged the receiver and plugged it back in. Still getting 311 error. Called dish. First person transferred me to advanced techical support (whatever that is) and that person determined I needed the box swapped out. I'll be curious to see what I get, if...
  9. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    So, Unplugged the hopper, waited 10 seconds, plugged it back in, it came back up and now can see it's hard drive. So I did your test. I've got green dots for MOCA connections to from the bad hopper to both the joey and the other hopper. to the problem joey, Send/Receive Mbps is 291, 0 Errors...
  10. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    No time to look at that, but I did see a new problem. So I am getting ready to contact Dish. I went to the item that shows the status of the system (green for each source). Then I went to the joey and reconnected it to the problem hopper. And then I found the problem wasn't happening. so I...
  11. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    Been like that for nearly 6 months. I highly doubt that is the issue, but I can try. Hopper with issue is now exhibiting other slow issues. Pressing button for guide sometimes pops it up immediately, sometimes it just sits there and ponders life a bit before popping up the guide. Really any...
  12. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    Both Hoppers are on the internet. the one with the problem is connected directly to a switch. The one without a problem is connected via wireless. Joey doesn't pause during playback of DVR content when connected to either hopper. Joey pauses only during live viewing from one of the two...
  13. Mike_H

    Netflix comes to the Hopper with Sling

    While I'm sure it's nice for some, for me I find the dish app just way too slow. Using netflix through chromecast is much more responsive, but granted it starts up through my laptop.
  14. Mike_H

    Video/audio freezing on Joey when connected to a specific hopper

    I have two hoppers with sling and one joey. I've had them for about a year or so and they have been working well all that time. Yesterday when my wife was watching a live show via the Joey in our bedroom, the show would play for a few minutes and then freeze (audio and video). Then it would...
  15. Mike_H

    CBS stations return to DISH

    I'm 24 miles from the transmitter and WCCO is on channel 32, so yeah, a good UHF should do pretty well. It's winter here so no leaves, and the antenna would be on the second floor.
  16. Mike_H

    CBS stations return to DISH

    meh, wife will be pissed if not running by Football. May see if there is an hdtv antenna on sale tomorrow.
  17. Mike_H

    CBS stations return to DISH

    They posted something on their twitter feed just 2 hours ago about dish and loosing cbs.
  18. Mike_H

    Dish Network Corp. (DISH) founder Charlie Ergen said he may permanently drop Time Warner Inc.

    If there is a show with wedding dresses on (either trying them on or trying to win a contest) then that channel gets picked first. Then if one of those isn't available then if someone in Las Vegas is trying to flip homes, that is the channel that gets picked. Finally if someone has a game show...
  19. Mike_H

    Why does Dish seem to have more Provider Disputes?

    I get the feeling that if you add up all the costs of Charter Cable packages, including fees for devices and compare it to Dish and their fees for devices, you'll either be real close in price, or Dish will be lower, and overall the value from dish will be higher. Their hopper devices are...
  20. Mike_H

    Dish Network Corp. (DISH) founder Charlie Ergen said he may permanently drop Time Warner Inc.

    Just because people have a channel displaying on their TV doesn't mean that there is demand for that channel. I am sure my wife isn't the only person that turns on the TV while she does other things just for background noise.
  21. Mike_H

    Dish Network Corp. (DISH) founder Charlie Ergen said he may permanently drop Time Warner Inc.

    If dish is really seeing the viewership of Turner stations dropping it makes sense to turn off those channels. It allows Dish to identify how much demand is really there (i.e. people willing to call) vs soft demand, people that just have it on but don't really care.
  22. Mike_H

    CBS stations return to DISH

    I'm lucky enough to be able to pick the thing up OTA. But in general I'm getting to the point where I could let them go. It would suck during the football season, but even CBS knows broadcast television is dying. I just recently dropped HBO and Showtime to reduce my monthly costs. I'm still...
  23. Mike_H

    KARE 11 HD shoes black screen.

    Solved.... I pressed the red button on my remote to see what it was showing when I had the HD channel selected and just a black screen. (This is on one of my hoppers, not a joey). It showed Tuner 1 Available, Tuner 2 Available, and then Tuner 3 being used by the 4 local stations. The list...
  24. Mike_H

    KARE 11 HD shoes black screen.

    I just chatted with Dish, and they said to reboot everything. That would be too disruptive for me to do considering all the things being recorded now just to fix a single channel. My guess is it will fix itself somewhere along, and if not I'll reboot things tomorrow morning.
  25. Mike_H

    KARE 11 HD shoes black screen.

    Anyone else seeing KARE 11 not coming in on the HD channel? It just shows a black screen. If I switch to the non HD channel the video is there. In queue for Dish right now but curious if others have seen this.