Recent content by Grandpa J

About 1990 I pushed Paramount TV to start shooting our film shows with the HD in mind. My argument was that the back end value of Black and White shows dropped substantially when color became standard. We should protect the back end value of current shows with HD on the horizon. Because most...

Add me to the list, I have a VIP 722k (I bought from Greczkowski). As DISH is pushing the "Hopper" equipment I do not think they will spend anytime fixing this. I've had DISH since mid 1990s and have had too many boxes already. Early on DISH was the leader but they fell behind in adding HD and...

I replaced my 2 year old Sony HDTV with a Samsung 4K 8550 - 60". My eye sight is not as good as it once was but I can see the difference in picture quality when watching Netflix 4K streaming using FiOS - 58 Mbps connection. (The up scaled picture of Dish, Amazon and other signals seems a little...

I replaced my 2 year old Sony HDTV with a Samsung 4K 8550 - 60". My eye sight is not as good as it once was but I can see the difference in picture quality when watching Netflix 4K streaming using FiOS - 58 Mbps connection. (The up scaled picture of Dish, Amazon and other signals seems a little...

I had same type of problem on a regular bases. I purchased and changed antenna to a longer UHF one (had to use adopters to connect it to my 722). It has helped but even with the change every so often it misses a number a number. I would change back to old remote but I want/need the learning...

Thank you for reply. That is exactly what I did and the rep. refused to give me any numbers. That is why I an concerned. My current rate with Verizon will go up 30% that is why I'm checking other options, but getting the non promo rate info from TW is near impossible.

I am thinking of changing from FIoS to TW. TW has a 12 month promo rate that is low. But I can't get TW to tell me what kind of bump to regular rates might be. They say they can't tell me because they are not guaranteed. I told them I understood that but I just wanted to get of feel of what the...

I understand that Dish is pushing it's Hooper/Joey product, as I said in the opening post I'm not interested in it. Because I don't want to add to the ever increasing Dish monthly cost and even though I've been with them since '97 they are reaching a point where I will change providers and...

May I ask for some technical help or ideas. I currently send the output from my 722k Dish receiver (I use single mode) in the family room to a second TV in the bedroom using an Actiontec My Wireless HD TV transmitter & receiver units. The system uses HDMI and works fine except that HBO is...

DIRT Team This error code 04 has happened twice now. It was on different channels LA local OTA ch 2 and ch 11. In one case the machine recorded / played back about 2 minutes then ended in the other case it would not play back anything. The list of recorded shows shows the show but as noted I...

Think of all the general entertainment channels that Dish has lost, dropped either temporally or permanently, and the sports channels it does not carry because Dish claims there is not enough interest or they cost too much. Yet Dish subscribers are given a channel would seemed to have a smaller...

Rant I know that electric equipment may occasionally have “Issues” (a/k/a problems for us older people). While Echo Star/Dish equipment is generally very good, when “Issues” do occur too many times the response is “This is a known issue”. Even the normally very helpful DIRT team will fall...

Thank you everyone. I went over to Fry’s and got a “VHF/UHF Dualband High Gain Antenna”. I did have to get a BNC to “F” adopter too. I changed out the standard Dish antenna with this new one. Now when I use the remotes in the other rooms they work every time. It was not a big thing but it...

Thanks upsss but I guess I was not clear. I have three separate locations I want to service, family room with the receiver, kitchen, bedroom. If I follow your solution I would be moving the antenna closer to one location but much further away from the second location. In fact I had tried your...

Thank you fredbon. I currently have the antenna on a short length of coax cable as you do. What I’m trying to overcome is the trial and error scenario of repress the buttons. I was hoping someone might know if there is a better antenna available.