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Just wanted to mention that with the help of those here in educating me about this, and Mary B's outstanding customer service, I have already had a Dish tech come out to my house and install a new dish, and I am now receiving the eastern arc satellites and have all my HD channels back. I should...

I'll have to do a site survey first. There are a lot of trees in that direction as well. It so happens there's a window between them for 61.5, but I might be looking at the same problem if I had to pick up other birds in that direction. What are the other orbital positions for "eastern arc?"

My locals are on 61.5. I am already getting some HD channels on 61.5. Pretty sure I see the Golf Channel that way, for example. I'm pretty sure it's a single dish so I can't imagine it's capable of getting signals from 72.7 and 61.5.

Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying. Until this latest installation I had always done my own installations (more as a hobby project, for some reason I enjoy it). But isn't there only one cable coming from the LNB that carries the signals from all three satellite receptors...

I'm a very long time Dish subscriber. At this point I have a setup with a 622 and a couple 211s. Outside, I have a 1000 picking up 110, 119 and 129, and a small dish pointed at 61.5. A tree has grown up on the next property over that has absolutely killed my reception from 129. I am 100%...

No problem here, but a question for you Are you transmitting the 811 signal to your monitor digitally (DVI) or through an analog (component, S-video or composite) output? I haven't noticed the problem using DVI to a 32" Toshiba HDTV. I'll try to check it through an S-video input and let you...

I'm having the same problem with the guide on my 811. Only a hard reboot (unplugging it for a few minutes) will clear it up, but that only seems to last a day or two. This is my second 811, btw, after the power failed on the first one. I'm pretty thick skinned and as long as the thing...

I think you miss my point. Just as the Viacom channels hold virtually no interest to me, some of the channels I watch hold no interest to you. It is my hope that eventually we will be able to buy packages more specifically tailored to our interests.

I was distressed to hear on the news this morning as I drove to work that Echostar had dropped the Viacom channels in a pricing dispute. But to be honest, I didn't know what channels they were. This board informed me that they are MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classics, Comedy Central, BET, NICK (East &...

:confused: I've had my 811 for a few months and (apart from the well documented issues) everything was great. I was really enjoying the 264 upgrade to the EPG and OTA. Last night, however, while my wife was watching, I touched a component next to it and there was a small static...

Good move to remap the back inputs to 0 Same in Milwaukee. I can now get the local CBS affiliate's digital transmission, which includes not only the network station but an independent that shows a lot of local sports, a Spanish language station AND additional subchannels which I believe...

SD quality seemed much better this weekend I was using my 811 on a 27" SD Toshiba TV up until a few weeks ago and didn't know what all the fuss was as the picture seemed just as good as with my old 4000. About two weeks ago I bought a newest version 32" HD Toshiba CRT set which upconverts...

I have had a 6000 for years in a HD capable projector setup and recently got an 811 and bought an HD set for my den. I have never subscribed to the package. I actually was thinking about it, but when I check out the programming, yuck. For now I'm content to get the OTA digital channels for...

Can an older (blue button) UHF remote control the 811? I need to use the 811 to feed other TVs (over coax using an RF modulator). I'd like to use an extra remote I have in the other rooms. Or will I have to buy a separate 811 sapecific remote. That would be very annoying (and expensive too...

Like others, I'm in an area where one of my local digital stations (a very important one from a programming standpoint) remaps to channel 1. With channel 1 reserved for the rear panel inputs on the 811, I can't get it. I know this was raised last week by someone but I didn't see any further...