Recent content by Brianm1

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    VH1 Classic needs to be in HD.

    VH1 Classic is going to be in HD soon, but I don't know when. Eddie Trunk said that That Metal Show has been recently filmed in HD. If you see the new episodes its in widescreen but not HD yet. Knowing dish, Vh1 classic would turn into hd in like 5 years :\
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    I get where your coming from but, it is their fault their techs have no clue what they are saying or doing. What annoys me is that they try to steal money from me by *forgetting* to have left a note saying the 95 or 100 bucks was to be exempt from the bill. Also those commercials about how Dish...
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    Well then, I get my bill...normal price is 108 and now I'm charged 314! I was furious, livid, no words could describe! I immediately call dish and after 1 hour on the phone with about 10 different people I got all the bs charges removed from my bill. First they told me that the 100 dollar fee...
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    Well after 3 hours with the tech(who was at no fault) I finally have 2 new dishes, one 118 and the Dish 1000.5 that are giving me the HD channels, locals, and Luso pack with Benfica. The guy was done after 35 min but when I told him I still wasn't getting the Benfica chan, he told me had no...
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    Solo, so I have 2 tvs, 1 that only needs HD tv. Can I still keep my SD receiver for the smaller tv?
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    I just got a confirmation of Service Change notification: I see this 1 RCVR 211/411 HD SOLO Whats that? the new receiver?
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    I made sure about 10 times that NOTHING would be charged, so if I am charged I will fire up a storm. I will demand that the charges be cancelled because I have proof that I would not be charged. I think my HD channels are on the same dish, I have 1 dish for international and 1 for my reg 250...
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    Dish is coming to give me my HD channels for FREE

    Ok so I dont know if this is too good to be true, but after a discussion with a tech, apparantly a tech will come and replace my dish and take out my 2 old ones. I will receive Fox Soccer and BBC and all those other HD channels I was supposed to get back in Feburary. I thought I needed 2...
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    61.5 repoint to 129

    Thanks so much digi! The one question I have is, I have the 500 dish and one for Portuguese International channels, so would I lose the Portuguese channels through interference or anything? Also, when I talked to a tech he said that by repointing the dish I would not lose any of the channels I...
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    Repointing my dish from 61.5 to 129

    Hey all! New member and I'll be honest and say I have no clue about anything technical with dish! I was wondering how easy it is to repoint the satellite in order to receive the new HD channels that came out last weds for Dish Network. I'll have more info up in the morning but just wanted to get...
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    confirmed 8 new hd channels tomorrow!!!!

    I have 61.5 which F* sucks! I have to spend 95 bucks for someone to reposition my dish, yea that aint happening. Does anyone have experience of repositioning their dish themselves? Also how have some of you guys managed to get someone to either swap the dish or have someone reposition it with no...