Recent content by alag8r

Definitely request the waivers though. I have them plus the local OTA and since the New York market gets different games I have 2 choices for NFL and some college.

Sorry for the dumb question above. I came to this thread from a link on another thread and didn't even realize that there were 6 pages before this one. LOL. I came back here to write that I called customer service and they said 649 with 100 rebate so I asked for the retention line. When I...

does anyone know what the "retention number" is? rick

Good thing about not holding your breath. It can be hazardous to your health. The logic of espn not having espn2 because espn is not 100% HD escapes me. Sporting events typically happen in the same time slots. Why should espn be limited to broadcasting one event at a time if they can...

I got my postcard yesterday and received waivers from cbs, nbc, and fox. I was denied by abc, which is now my strongest ota channel. I will be okay now until the locals are on sat. i think it took about 3 weeks for them to come through. rick

Good news and bad news. The reset and rescan worked like a charm to pull in the OTA ABC signal. Once again, the expertise on this board far surpasses the D* installer. ABC is now actually my strongest OTA picture. The bad news is that when I rescanned, it only picked up 3 digital stations...

Exactly - espn2 is for college football. Some of us actually enjoy the college game much more than the nfl. I don't even care who wins the nfl games (as long as my fantasy players score all the points). Of course there is also college basketball when the time comes too. my point though is...

ESPN2 HD is an important channel for sports fans. Especially once football season arrives. The thing is, we want and deserve both high quality HD PQ and plenty of HD stations. As long as this is a short term situation while they adjust their system, I'm okay with it. I'm not sure I buy the...

I have not tried rescanning and will give it a shot tonight when I go home. I assume I just go to setup, over the air or cable, scan. Is there anything I should do as far as resetting or does the scan do that automatically? Neutron - I get both an 8.1 and an 8.2. I just don't get any...

Neutron - I was actually going to post an update today because I had the direct tv installer out friday night. He was due between 1 and 5 pm and finally arrived about 8:30. To be fair, he did call and let us know he was going to be late. He agreed that the guy who installed the antenna...

I want to thank everyone for their input on this problem, especially considering I am a newbie on this forum. And I want to especially thank Bob (boba) for coming to my house and trouble shooting it for me. That was definitely above and beyond and knowing exactly what to tell direct tv now is...

Thanks PMKS. Called the number and the lady said that I still had to have the waiver even though it is in an O&O market. She said the waivers should be granted, but that D* can't do anything without them. They are still not saying anything about being in a fringe market and I didn't ask since...

That may be the case and I could have accepted that if that was their answer. However, they've consistently said that you still have to get a waiver even if your stations are O&O and referred to my stations as the dallas stations. Even when I had the guy look at the web sites that shows that...

The very first person I talked to submitted the waivers for me, so at least that part is easy. My impression is that if I was 5 miles further south, I wouldn't be having these problems. I think you said you were in Plano, so I bet you don't have problems getting the OTA signals. Also...

I thought about whether is was because of another station being close enough to require a waiver and I don't think it's that because in the first conversations, they specifically said I had to have a waiver from the dallas stations and even gave me their call letters. Also, they have never...