Recent content by denisincalif

I just got the new interface two days ago. In general it seems fine, but not knowing that Prime Time Anytime was on by default caused one of my timers to be skipped. My big problem is that off-air recordings have horribly choppy audio and occasionally scrambled video. Recordings using the...

Thank you everybody. The switchover to the replacement Hopper went fairly smoothly, although it took far longer than I hoped. It took the new Hopper an incredibly long time to reboot after the software had downloaded. I had two minor problems. I had kept the Joey powered off but not...

My Hopper (several years old) died and Dish has sent me a replacement. I remember that when the Hopper/Joey system was new, Joeys were very temperamental and their installation could not be started until the Hopper was fully up and running. Has that problem been fixed? My real question is...

I presently have the original Hopper (with an off-air tuner hanging off it) and one Joey. I am happy with everything, but I could sure use another couple of tuners. So I want to switch out my regular Joey for a Super Joey. Can a DIRT member please PM me to help me with this mini-upgrade?

When I got home last night I checked on the Hopper. I do indeed get FS2 in HD and was able to set up a timer. Chalk this one up to another problem with DishAnywhere.

I finally found something I want to record on Fox Sports 2. So I went to DishAnywhere and the guide shows me only the SD channel, not the HD. SatelliteGuys_TheList shows the HD channel as available but does not specify what package is required to see it. I have AT250 and the sports package so I...

I only record a few things OTA, but everything that has been recorded OTA since I got S428 on my original Hopper is trash. I sent the details to ZachS last night. I sure hope this thing gets fixed fast. Otherwise, I am essentially out one tuner. When I first saw the problem I thought I had a...

Right now, Dish has Al Jazeera America in SD only. I believe that this is because of the old Dish and Current TV carriage agreement which ALJAM inherited when they bought Current. Does anybody know how long that agreement has to go before it expires? I abhor SD.

audio dropouts In general I like the new update just fine. But besides the problem with the skip forward and skip backward feature I complained about in my previous post, I have another complaint. Not only did this update not cure the audio dropouts on local channels, it actually seems to have...

I hated it when it just showed the arrows. Now I hate it even more. I use these buttons a lot and this feature (in both the old and the new forms) drives me nuts. I also worry that the text is going to eventually lead to some image retention on my plasma TV. The text is bright white and of...

Love 3D but understand why many don't 3D TV has a number of problems that are holding back its acceptance. That's too bad IMHO, because the less it's accepted by the general public the less likely it is to be widely available at a reasonable price, and the less likely companies will invest in...

Just within the last two days this annoyance has gotten worse for me. Now, every time I go to the guide it has switched back to My Channels. No matter how many times I switch to my Favorites, once I leave the Guide and come back in I have to switch to my Favorites again. This is making watching...

When I upgraded from a 622 to the Hopper my external drive worked flawlessly---no reformatting and no loss of data. Important!!!? Do not transfer files from the external to your Hopper. Just watch them from the external. Many files transferred from an external to the Hopper used to refuse to...

I have a Mac and have successfully used both the PS3 server and TVMobili (also free). My Hopper has a wired connection to my Ethernet hub. The Joey gets its signal via the Hopper using bridging. I have no HIC. I have no problems with DLNA, although the only things I have streamed are MP4.

This is a good question I have often wondered about myself. I have picked up a few useful ones here on SatelliteGuys, but there are probably a whole lot more I don't know about but could use. Can anybody answer this?