Recent content by belias21

I just have to express my disappointment with DTV... My installation was scheduled for today. As you all well know, they call and email you to the point of being obnoxious on confirming the installation date and time. They make it clear to you that, if you can't be there, to give them 24...

My thoughts exactly.

I live north of Miami and I have an HR10-250. The past 2 weeks or so, my OTA reception on WSVN (Fox) and WPLG (ABC) have been very weak at night. I called D* to have them send a tech out and have a look at my antenna. The guys that came out was clueless, but he put me on the phone with his...

Great site... hard to find stuff but I'll check it out. THanks!

I live in northern Broward County FL (Deerfield Beach to be exact) and just in the last 2 weeks I've been having problems with the reception on WSVN OTA (chan 8 VHF). I have the OTA antenna that D* installed for me (bowtie) and it works quite well for all the other channels. It worked for Fox...

So you have the HR10-250 but don't subscribe to the HD plan? I was wondering if I could do that. I'm getting my HD locals OTA for now anyways, so why do I need to pay $10.99 for 6 or 8 lame-ass fulltime HD channels right now? I just didn't know if the DVR would still recognize those channels...

I'm sure you're right, but out of sheer curiousity, which indoors are getting the best results these days? Do you know?

Well... The install is completed. I certainly did not get the one that you had mentioned. I got this ugly looking one that is made by Eagle that looks like a big drying rack that I would put my freshly baked cookies on. Regardless, it was mounted on the same bracket as the dish itself and the...

I too was told that the HR20's wouldn't be available until June. I just took delivery of my new HR10-250 though.

I posted this in the HD forum, but I saw this thread and I wanted everyone to know about the deal that I got. I spoke to a CSR at D* the other day and voiced my concern about buying an HR10 with the HR20's right around the corner. The first 2 people I spoke to had no clue what I was talking...

Well, I live right smack in between the Miami and West Palm Beach markets, so the major stations seem to be about 20-25 miles in either direction. Nothing good is further than that anyways. The antennaweb site just confuses the crap out of me. It says I need a med directional w/pre-amp for...

What is the make/model of the antenna they brought for you?

I'm new to the whole HD thing... Currently, I have D*, but nothing in HD. I ordered the HR10-250 and they will be installing it and my new dish on Saturday (2/18). Since there are no HD locals on the sat in my area yet (Ft. Lauderdale), I am getting the off-air antenna. I have yet to see...

With all that is going on in the D* world right now (Lease program, MPEG-4, HR20 Release looming), I was not surprised to find that their CSR's weren't entirely knowledgeable on everything. Having said that, after getting passed up 2 levels, I got someone on the phone who, although wasn't...

I fell victim I must tell you, this is the exact same situation I ran across. I've been a DirecTV customer for over a year with the DTivo box. I called Comcast because my community has a bulk package. The price was ridiculously cheap, would've been saving me like $20 a month (including the...