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I am old enough that we did not have cable when I was a kid. My first experience with cable was when I moved to Indianapolis. It was 1988 and basic cable was less than $5 per month for as many televisions as I had. What gets me about Dish's increases is that the increase is not just on...

We live 45 miles north of Fort Wayne. I have noticed the same thing. Channels 15 (CBS), 21 (ABC), and 33 (NBC) are usually close to 100 on signal strength. Channels 39 (PBS) is a little lower. Channel 55 (FOX) is just on the verge of being able to be seen at about 70 for signal strength and...

Dish is like our local newspaper. For three years, I had been paying $1.00 a week for the Sunday Gazette as part of my subscription. When it came time to renew, the price was $1.75 per week. I called and said I would renew for the $1.00 a week I had been paying. The lady told me that they...

My prediction is via the cell phone companies. They have the cell towers and are converting 3G to 4G. My aunt in very northern Maine has LTE data speeds. 4G is supposed to be 3 to 6 Mbps. WiMax (IEEE 802.16) can have up to 70 Mbps for a distance of 30 miles. It won't take much, in a few...

That 3rd provider is through Internet access. It is different, but provides the same function. With an Apple TV or Roku, I can subscribe to channels and watch movies or television shows on demand. No need for a DVR since I don't need to record anything since there is no set schedule. With...

In the late 1990's, Bell Atlantic purchased GTE in a "merger of equals" and formed the new company, Verizon. The board was a combination of the two companies' boards. I was there for three years after the merger. In that time, the company evaluated the systems and selected the best system for...

So if the game is shown on a channel that may be available, then the game is blacked out? I can understand the Fox Sports channels, but I have run into is the game being blacked out on ESPN. In a modified example, if the game were scheduled on WGN and ESPN, then WGN could make the ESPN feed...

If Dish lost all Disney programming, that would probably be the end of Dish for us. Reading through the last 13 pages, I was thinking about how simple things were when I was a kid when we only got 5 or 6 channels. The difference was that local sports were on free tv (I grew up in the Chicago...

I've had the issue with the local PBS station but only on Saturday mornings when they are rerunning This Old House and other home improvement shows. You don't get it over the antenna. I thought it was probably something with the local station's signal to Dish.

I have not seen any commercials with an iPad promotion. Like Ross, we are discussing cutting the cord. Many nights, we find ourselves watching junk that we pay for on Dish rather than junk that we can get for free off the antenna. I am not blaming Dish. The channels they offer have not...

My experience has been different. We have called three times. We would like free HD as is being offered to new customers. Each time, they have told us that HD is $10 extra a month. We have been Dish customers for eight years (since Spring 2005) . We have had three service calls: (1) Spring...

Going back to the original question, I would agree that the DISH signal is over-compressed and losses quality. This statement is based on the fact that the same program viewed via OTA antenna and DISH look very different. The DISH picture looks good until you switch to the OTA signal. You...

You were replying to a post on rain & snow, and then I saw TWC. First thing in my mind was The Weather Channel. Makes more sense as Time Warner Cable. Since getting a new roof and moving the dish, we have had many fewer outages caused by rain.

I think the point was that, at $5 per month savings, it was worth $60 to purchase the device. It would be paid for in one year. But because Dish changed their policy, there were no savings. Not the same, but similar thing happened to me last year. Dish announced that customer bills were...

I am not going to dispute the SD TV longevity. However, virtually all over-the-air stations now must broadcast in digital which requires a digital conversion box. All televisions purchased today are HD. We have two HD TVs and two old SD TVs with digital converter boxes. It is not only Dish...