Recent content by farmsatguy

Even if you dont have a clear LOS for HD, you can still get an HD (ViP) model receiver. They dont depend on any specific satellite to work, you just wont get HD programming without the HD satellite. Bottom line, you can upgrade to an HD receivr, just know what you're getting into 1st, i.e. no...

I suppose sports fans is only one facet. Should go very well with the rv/camping community...no more manually sighting in a dish on a tripod, just plug 'er in to a power supply and let it do the rest.

Hmmm, sounds pretty sweet. Wonder how well it will do? Given its namesake, may do well with those cooking out in the football season coming up. Just give it power and it takes care of the rest... Looking forward to seeing how well it does.

LOL, i was just at dish network's site playing around with my account (bored) and noticed this in their store (was trying to figure out why Revue was still listed as $179 whereas I can buy one just about anywhere else for $99). First time I'd heard of it so I headed here to check it out. How...

Unfortunately he'll get it. After they tell him they charge, he'll raise hell about it, get it to shoot up a couple levels until he finds someone to build the work order. Dish always caves to jerks like this, I see it every day in work order notes. Thing is, the tech will have YET ANOTHER TC...

Hey Scott, givin the expected take off of this type of device, be it in the form of the Revue, built-in to a HDTV, or whatever, do you think you might start another forum focused just on the Google TV product line? Maybe a sub-forum like the one you have for the 922 or perhaps its own entity...

So if your local Fox is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc like mine (Fox 35 Richmond, VA) then does that mean we are safe from this? Sinclair owns close to 60 TV stations and about a third of them are Fox stations (I think thats about right, but I won't swear by it). Will they jump on...

Yeah, I hope going thru executive resolution will just put things "back to normal". I don't want anything extra for the loss of recordings and all that, I just don't want to have to pay for something I didn't do. For those who aren't techs in the field, you'd have no idea of the crap we go thru...

LOL! Now that's funny! I guess one good bug deserves another, huh? Don't get me started on the software "bug" last week that had us playing absolute hell just getting the 722's activated on new accounts:rant:. Even then I kept my cool & just played it down with the customers as a rare problem...

Yeah, I see the error number often enough that I should know it by heart, but my brain isn't functioning as well as it should be. Both tuners worked just fine; we could change channels in either room with no problem, but any time we tried to access the DVR, pause, or anything else hard drive...

That's a good idea. I think that's my best avenue for resolution. Having worked in subs homes, I can understand their policies. But "one size fits all" doesn't always work. Thanks for the advice, I'm confident they can help.

I need some SOUND advice from anyone who can help. I just got my latest statement in my e-mail box. I can't remember the last time I actually looked at one but thankfully I did this morning. My bill was $422!!! Um, ok, what the hell. So I log into the account and sure enouh there is a $300...

Actually, thats incorrect. I've worked the Charlottesville area in the past and their locals are on 129. A red 129=problems with locals. Sounds like the either a bad LNB, or more likely, the dish is out of alignement. Assuming the poster is correct that LOS is clear, then having someone...

That's a good point, but in my scenario (in the other post), the other receivers were 311's which, as far as I know, could care less about the Homeplug technology. Not sure though...

I install in the Richmond, VA market (RVA) and we use D1000.4 with most all new connects. The only reason I can think that a CSR may have told you it wouldn't work for you is that ONLY MPEG-4 receivers will work with the .4 dish. So, if you have older model receivers (301, 311, 322, 522, 625...