Recent content by cmaier

called and they said i'm nuts. typical dish customer support.

Yeah, hi-defs are out. Low defs work.

Is the hd feed for KGO (channel 7) in the SF bay area down? On each of my 622s I just get a pink screen, no sound. Other local HDs seem ok.

I have everything back. The box i ran the check switch from required another check switch (which took awhile), but my 2 622's and 1 721 seem to work now.

Yes. I lost 110, 119, and 129. Called dish - busy signal. check switch - crazy results. One tv is now getting pictures. afraid to touch anything.

This happened to me a couple years ago (and is of course happening again). My experimentation at the time showed that the power inserter was an issue. I have a hundred feet of rg6 in series with a hundred feet of rg59 between the power inserter and the switch (don't ask :-). The dc voltage at...

I've lost the 119 evens, too. It's 100 degrees around here (northern california) and i suspect either the switch (on the chimney) is frying or the wires are heating up (raising R). Supposed to cool down in a couple days so hopefully that'll solve it.

Did this start for you guys last week or so? That's when I began having the dead air problem.

Me too. I give up. Software says i have good signal strength (the usual 33% stuff) but silence. If I jiggle the antenna around i sporadically get sound for awhile. Possibly a bad antenna. I dunno. I give up. Now that they stream stern, I am (starting today) doing the following: 1) launch...

Does that prog solve the timetrax problem? if so i'd love to try it.

the "Deleted directory" thing might be a red herring. Awhile ago there was a thread about it; the directory vanishes and then comes back (when you quit the program? when it's done recording? cannot recall). I cannot remember if they admitted this happens or not, but I've seen it and it doesn't...

Just ranting. I had a 921 which died, which was bought, not leased. They sent me a 942 to replace it, and a week later i got my 622 in the trade-up deal, and sent back the 921 and 942. A couple weeks later i got two more empty boxes from them, so i called and tech support had no idea what...

Anyone else seeing horrible lipsync problems on ABC? I thought it was just my crappy amp but the other channels seem more or less okay.

well, whatever it was, it's fixed. I now have the 9-day guide. only thing i noticed is when i was poking around looking at signal strength about 10 minutes ago, at first the 110/3 was going crazy (wrong satellite, bad strength, etc.) then it settled down to 75/73 signal strength.

Or maybe just me :-) Woke up this morning and my 721 was stuck in "acquiring satellite." I did a check switch and all was good. Rebooted. Another 10 minutes of acquiring satellite." Finally it came up, and i have only an hour guide, and can skip forward only until saturday (2 days). My...