Recent content by dgpruitt

My interaction with our local affiliate: ===== Bill, Thanks for the thoughtful response. I do appreciate fair market values and LIN's right to ask whatever fees they want for rebroadcast of their programming. I live in Pojoaque, and cable is not available, and I cannot get your signal OTA at...

The reboot fixed it! Much thanks Kevin!

I'm seeing terrible HD video performance today. One "frame" every 1 to 3 seconds... happening on all my HD channels. In Santa Fe, NM using a 722 receiver with an OK signal strength. Check Switch didn't change this behavior.

I sent the message, but haven't heard any response from Dish. Do they normally respond to messages sent to dishquality@echostar.com? It would be nice to know that KOB/Dish are aware of the yellow screen dropouts, and that they are working on a solution...

Several yellow screen dropouts during The Office... sending an email to dishquality@echostar.com.

Receiver type: 722 Dish: Dish 500 (I adapter? I have no idea. How can you tell?) Area: 87506 (Santa Fe, NM) Date/Time: around 4pm 2/11/09 MST 01: 0% 02: 32% 03: 0% 04: 0% 05: 0% 06: 0% 07: 0% 08: 61% 09: 0% 10: 74% (Local Channels - New Mexico) 11: 0% 12: 0% 13: 0% 14: 0% 15: 49% 16: 45% 21...

dfergie, are you on the edge of the spotbeam? My signal on transponder 10 was very strong this morning, but I'm in the middle of the spot.

So, does that mean the yellow screen was (is) not due to the weak signals from the old satellite? Must be a problem with KOB's link to Dish? Now that the new sat is working, I hope KOB will work the yellow screen problem, assuming they are aware of it...

Yes! This is great. My signal strength went from 24 to 78! Hopefully, this means fewer dropouts during stormy weather.

Haven't seen the top-half offset problem lately, however, the yellow screen drop-outs are still there (I presume this is because we still get our signal from the old satellite). Anyone know when Albuquerque locals are scheduled to migrate to Ciel-2?

Yes, yes, yes! I *hate* the Dish Network goulash of packages, "special deals", fees, etc.. It is almost impossible to know what programming package to subscribe to. In my case, I see a list of packages and add-ons on my online report, but the monthly bill has a different nomenclature that...

Ha! The yellow pic. Yeah, seen that one a few times. We should have a stronger signal soon, already seeing improvements in some of the transponders.

If you happened to record anything from last night, you'll see it - on "Life", "Law & Order" for sure. Didn't catch Leno last night, but I suspect it would show up there, too....

KOB's pic is offset last night and this morning on the Today Show... looks like the refresh rate of the top half of the picture lags behind that of the bottom half. When there is a cut from one shot to another, the top half briefly displays black, while the bottom half looks normal. When there...

I can only manage 22-24 signal strength on 129. Hope the new sat improves my reception.