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what about the active button?

Songs of Praise: Christmas Premieres Friday, 11/24 Celebrate the joy of Christmas in story and song. Only on DIRECTV channel 103 They sent me this in their monthly email this morning.

Because if you fall within the Portland DMA you will be getting Portland local channels in HD from the 5 lnb dish. When you say Northern Maine do you mean the "county"?

Hit the yellow button on your remote to change the audio track and you can toggle through the sound of each game until the "active" upgrade.

That's pretty bad, sounds like somebody has no pride!

The whole idea of grounding an antenna is so that electrical charges from lightning strikes do not enter the home. With your antenna being inside the attic, if it gets struck by lightning in there, then god just doesn't like you! I wouldn't bother grounding something that is already in your house.

No it doesn't. The HR-10 was more tivo than it was a directv ird and needed to call Tivo to activate it's DVR functions. The HR-20 is all D* box needing only to call for PPV orders.

If you reboot the r-15 with only one line plugged in it will sense that it only has one line and shut the other tuner down without displaying the SFSS message. That is only if the line is a direct run from either a correctly configured multiswitch or LNB (in other words...splitters do not work...

I have almost made the TC Premiere plunge several times and then I remember that it doesn't include the HD pack and I back off. If they included it I would have it instead of turning my HBO off a few times a year when Deadwood and Sopranos end.

Tampa market is where

Everyone I spoke to lost audio and some video on Monday night football on ESPN HD.

Use transponder 1 when you point the dish and make sure you're set to round dish and looking at the 101 satellite. Move methodically up and down and then from left to right until you have signal on transpoder 1. When it lights up lock it down and download the program guide.

HDMI cables are very expensive and not supplied by D* unless you buy an HR-10 250. Unless the technician is feeling Christmasy I would have one on hand if you want one installed.

put the dish on your neighbors balcony and then bury the lines over to your place in the middle of the night.

Make sure both accounts are paid up to date and deactivate both receivers. Call directv and tell them the dsr708 is a receiver you would like to add to your account. No need to tell them any history on the receiver. Just activate it with the card that came with it. Then turn on DVR services...