Recent content by dkh7m

cable is not a problem...i have about 300'+ of RG-6 that a guy gave me a while back. that's one reason the DIY approach is getting more and more appealing. i mean, i have all this cable just sitting there, so why not use it? thanks again for all the great advice. i'll check back in in a few...

yeah, it's "new" in the sense that it's new to us. house was built in 1958. the current owner bought it a year ago, gutted it and did a full reno to flip it. he did very, very good work. but as i said, i saw no sign of coax outlets. there are a couple of spots outside where the old cable coax...

thanks. yeah, i'm really confused as to why our seller didn't run any tv outlets whatsoever. he apparently redid all the walls inside, so it's not like it would have been that hard. i did notice a lot of coax outside when we were there last, so maybe he was planning on doing it later. oh well...

My wife and I are moving into a new house next week. Yesterday, I called to have our Dish acct. transferred to the new place. However, I called back to cancel altogether today b/c I'm not sure about the wiring situation at the new house. On last walkthrough, there were no cable outlets wired...

thanks. that's what i thought, but i wanted to verify so that i won't get yelled at by the wifey b/c she can't watch heroes.

I'm moving in two weeks. I called Dish (via Embarq) today to move my service. While I was at it, I went ahead and upgraded to the TurboHD Bronze package. Thing is, I don't currently have an HDTV and probably won't until at least December. Will I still be able to watch the VIP 722 on my SDTV? I...

i don't think "moving" applies to me, b/c i'm asking about switching from one market i live near to another market i live hear, not lying about my physical address in order to receive HD channels from a market outside my "allowed" area. or are you suggesting that my original installers were...

i live in an area between richmond and charlottesville va (closer to the latter). when i got dish a couple of years ago, the installers said i could either get the richmond or the c'ville locals. i opted for c'ville since that's where i work. now, i'm reading that richmond is getting HD locals...

makes sense. if i were to buy a 625 on ebay, could i have it switched over in place of the 522? and could i return the 522 and get all or part of that $100 back? i doubt i'll go that route, but if i decide down the road to upgrade to an HD DVR, that info may come in handy. boba...i opted...

what do you mean by "buy" it? i paid $100 for the one i got.

called dish a couple of weeks ago to get a DVR installed. when i talked to the CSR, i asked several times if i'd be getting a 625 and was told "yes". after the install, i tried doing the update to get the extra 50 hours to no avail. then i looked more closely at the box and saw the 522 on the...

thanks. i couldn't backtrack to see if heroes was scheduled in the PG to go over. i know most 1 hour dramas do that nowadays, but i wasn't sure if the dish guide was as accurate as the tivo guide was when it came to "extra time" shows. personally, i hate the practice, but i guess with the...

with the TiVo, if a show ran, say, an hour and four minutes, it would automatically pick up the extra time in the schedule. does the dish DVR do the same thing? i was just watching Heroes, and it cut out about a minute too soon. i'm not sure if the clock is off or what, but i just wanted to...

I've seen some posts that say yes and some that say no. I just got my 625 on Saturday. It does have the menu setting for enabling external storage, but I don't have an available HDD to hook up and try. I'm not going to bother getting one if it's not supported. If someone has a definitive...

i was afraid someone was going to say that :) thanks for the clarification.