Recent content by EdV

Mr. Porterhouse, Actually, if you went with V*, you wouldn't need an integrated HDTV tuner in your TV because the V* box has that. And they will install both the dish and the over the air (OTA) antenna to receive the local digital signals (including HD) that are available in your area. But...

I made a similar choice a few months ago and switched from E* to Comcast instead of V*. I tried to get the HD OTA stations with my E* 6000 receiver, but gave up because the antenna had to shoot through some very tall pine trees. Every time the wind blew, the OTA channels would cut in and out...

Well, if we're going to get picky about it, then SES Americom is NOT launching it either. It (AMC-15) will be launched by International Launch Service. Nevertheless, a year ago SES Americom struck a multi-year service agreement to provide satellite capacity to EchoStar Communications at the...

Last year, all of the talk about HD involved moving all the HD channels to 105 and giving all existing HD subs a free SuperDish upgrade. But that plan flopped when E* determined that the aging low powered sat at the 105 spot could not cover major areas of the north and south conus. So they...

My post was really intended to answer Orcatek's speculation on E*'s options once the injunction expires. You are correct in pointing out that once the satellite company carries one station in a dma, it must carry the other stations that want to be carried. But "carry one, carry all" is note...

Just the 13. Actually it's 17.

The 1999 SHVIA Act essentially says that neither the station owner (in this case Viacom) nor the satellite company are required to provide or carry the channel for a particular DMA area. It further states that if both parties don't agree, then the satellite company cannot carry that channel and...

Thanks for the heads up Don. Although I hardly consider myself "stupid", I wasn't aware of the fact that the Federal $50 limit doesn't apply to these Debit/Check cards. Although I have a standard credit card and use it all the time for purchasing, after reading your post, I pulled out my...

To put the bandwidth issue into perspective, realize that each satellite carries only around 24 ku band transponders. A single transponder can carry only one HD channel using D*'s older qpsk modulation, or two using E*'s newer 8psk modulation. If a typical local market has 4 channels, D*...

That's not true for all condominiums, and neither is E*'s diagram. It all depends on the wording in the Master deed and possibly the Unit deed. With my condominium, the unit owners own (and are responsible for maintaining) the outside walls and roof. Opiwan, I think you have plenty of wiggle...

Wow, check it out. There's a Dish 921 up there with a Buy it Now price of $10.00 Oops, sorry, that's for the Haeger 921 soap dish.

I can see from the replies and the way I worded the poll question, that it I was suggesting unbundling the HD channels from the HBO/SHO packages, but I wasn't. The $36 package would be the HD-package plus HBO and SHO packages at the current prevailing rates. But the issue is that a Latino...

And while you're at it Cyclone, don't forget about all those soon to be broke idiots wasting their money on 2 bottles of wine instead of a case of beer.

But if you go to the setup for local channels and add the digital channel manually, doesn't it show you the signal strength there ?

And a lot more HD channels will not happen in 2004 because there's not enough space for that on the 110 bird. Maybe 1 or 2, but that's about it. However, in late 2004 when the new sat is moved to the 105 slot, we could see a shift back to the SuperDish for additional HD channels in 2005 and...