Recent content by Gordoco

EPIX channels are on free preview now. Dish site says 10/5-10/7 so they started a day early.

I got the letter today. I am out of contract, with Absolute and 3 premiums. Still considering what to do but I will probably drop some or all of the premiums, and possibly go with Netflix for movies. Will dropping premiums put me back onto a contract?

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone at SatelliteGuys!

I have a 16:9 LCD hooked up to my 622 TV2 via coax and it displays the correct aspect ratio on HD channels without distortion. The */format setting is set to "Normal".

According to the Dish website, "HD for Life" means the life of your Dish Network account, but who knows if there is some fine print allowing them to cancel it at any time? There apparently is for us Absolute customers. I got the call early last week but let it go to answering machine without...

SyFy? Looking forward to the new season of Eureka. But "SyFy" reminds me of a disease. :eek:

Seems pretty clear from my original message. "When I cycle through the various modes on the Dish remote via the * key, "Normal" is the only mode that displays the full width, but it displays black bars top/bottom." What's your point? In any event, the problem has been solved thanks to help...

That fixed it. I had not changed it, but flipping it to Dual and back to Single mode fixed the problem. Thanks!

I don't think it's the TV. Guide and DVR displays take up the entire screen (vertical and horizontal). But black bars top and bottom appear when I go back to the program. How can the TV aspect ratio be wrong if the black bars are only displayed sometimes?

I turned on TV2 this morning to find that its aspect ratio is wrong and I've been unable to restore it. TV1 is working fine. TV2 was fine last night. I have a 622. TV1 and TV2 are both HD sets, though obviously TV2 via coax does not display HD. Aspect ratio via the * key on the remote is...

Oh, I remember that Sci-Fi test channel. I think it went on for two months or so prior to Sci-Fi launch. Very creative. Then when it finally went live, I think they only had two sponsors, so that first night's movie had the same two annoying commercials, alternating and shown twice per...

+21 so happy I found about about Absolute here. The only channel I've missed since switching to Absolute was Comedy Central. My reasoning at the time was whether Comedy Central was worth $30 or so to stay on whatever package I had at the time. Now that we are getting it in SD I'm hoping we'll...

That's a nice personalized letter from someone with a Senior VP title. Responses to my emails were also personalized to the channels I complained about, but were signed by a lowly CSR. The problem with weekly shows is they're useless if your radio is in your car and you mainly listen to sat...

I am not at all happy. My two favorite channels are gone: Fine Tuning and Beyond Jazz. Another fave, Audio Visions, was replaced by Spa which doesn't sound like it has quite the right mix. Fred's replacement had some DJ yammering away almost every time I scanned it. I thought I might like...

Another thing Dish has got to stop doing is dropping channels due to contract snafus, even if it's temporary. A year or so ago I had convinced my girlfriend to consider switching from Comcast to Dish. We went online to see what her rate would be and to check channel availability and ...