Recent content by David Dietzel

D. Charlie will announce the sale of Dish Network to Halliburton, its new exclusive no bid contract to supply programming to military families and military installations throughout the world and his own new position as the Pentagon's Chief Communications Misinformation Officer.

Dish gives the guy what he wants after complaining and he still cancels to go to Direct TV. With his reasoning abilities, judgement, communication skill as evidenced by his spelling and punctuation aplumb he could just be an equivalent replacement for the man in White House after graduation. :)

Yawn. All of this posturing over new customer signup deals is silly. What always matters is the non-special monthly cost after the new subscriber deal ends. I'd like to see someone list a clear comparison of Dish vs. Direct monthly cost for full HD programming and all fees with a HD DVR...

I believe all the major cable news-information-propaganda-entertainment channels will be in HD by year's end.

I deleted mine without watching. Dish needs to realize this sort of thing just annoys the subscribers. It is not seen as a valued service by most. Boxing is such an idiotic "sport" anyway -- two humans trying to beat the crap out of each other with their hands. They might as well show...

DirectTV has been claiming in one form or another that lots of HD channels are "coming soon" for a couple of years now. Yawn. The current DirectTV promise of a "surge" in HD channels to quell the "HD insurgents" demanding more HD content is likely to be just another ineffective and failed...

Cinemax HD is obviously coming reasonably soon. Patience is a virtue.

The update came through for me overnight in Rancho Cucamonga. So far everything seeks to work OK, tho I haven't really given it a full workout. I don't use OTA.

I love my 622. It's insanely better than the HD-DVR piece of crap I had with Charter Cable.

Had sync problem with House this week. The feed adjusted itself three times and finally the problem was fixed. Idon't know what's up with Fox.

Cinemax HD has been available for some time. When will Dish add it? "V For Vendetta" has been running on Cinemax lately and it sure would have been nice to watch it in HD.

Dish would sell a boatload of these "external storage devices" if they'd hurry the hell up and make them available. I've been out of the loop for awhile. Is this thing going to be a proprietary enclosure that we can slam our own bare drives into or is it going to include the drive? I'd...

The new sets have dropped in price dramatically over the past two years -- I'd suggest trading up -- works with wives and should work for your display! I have a rear projection Sony LCD with no burn-in whatsoever.

I enjoy most all HD content and I enjoy watching the various news channels, even Faux News. The sooner they all go HD, the better. Bill O'Reily's skin imperfections should be even more entertaining in HD.

I like Voom. And chocolate. And Al Franken. And the 99-cent Chicken Sandwich at the Carl's Jr. drive thru window at 2 AM. And if others find my likings disagreeable I couldn't care less.