Recent content by GregLee

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    DIRECTV 3D

    No, because closer increases the likelihood of eye-strain due to vergence-accommodation conflict:
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    SATA HARD DRIVE HELP

    When you connect an external drive, whatever you have recorded on your internal drive becomes inaccessible. So your strategy of first filling up your internal drive might not be the most convenient. You can go back and watch programs from your internal drive by turning off and unplugging the...
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    DIRECTV 3D

    DirecTV has said that the H/HR21-24 will support 3D at 1080p/24, and also that the receivers will check that TVs support 1080p/24 before they will send them 3D. So I'm having a hard time understanding just what sort of 1080p compatibility you think people should be waiting for. I believe it's...
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    DIRECTV 3D

    HDMI 1.4 and 1.4a have been released. The DirecTV H/HR21-24 receivers do not need to be upgraded to a 1.4 spec in order to display the DirecTV 3d channels.
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    No difference between Native On/Off and 480, 720, 1080...

    If that box is not checked, the D* box will scale 480i to something else. If that box is checked (and Native is on), the D* box will not scale 480i and the TV will scale it. I have decided to let my TV do the scaling, and so that's why I check that box. Checking the 480i box does not mean...
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    No difference between Native On/Off and 480, 720, 1080...

    It's not possible to see 480p or i on my screen. The screen has 728 vertical pixels. The only choice I have is whether to let my D* box scale a 480i picture up to 720p (or whatever I've told it to scale to) then the TV scale from 720p to 728p, or let my TV do the scaling from 480i to 728p. In...
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    No difference between Native On/Off and 480, 720, 1080...

    Yes. But if you turn Native off, it is your satellite box that will convert everything to whatever resolution you choose -- probably 1080i -- then the TV will convert that to 1080p. If the TV and the satellite box do the conversions equally well, the picture will look equally good, regardless...
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    Problems with signal in Alaska

    I'm in Hawaii. I used to get some channels on 110 and 119, but D* now has all the regular English language channels as MPEG4 signals from the three locations 101, 103, 99, so they disconnected my 1.2 meter dish that was pointed at 110/119, and now I have a single 1.2 meter dish pointed at 101...
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    Tversity is great but.....help please??!

    You may also have noticed that photos are squeezed up horizontally. I use the MediaTomb server on Linux, which does transcoding through user supplied scripts. Scripts are available to supply side bars for videos to get the aspects right and to stretch .jpg files slightly horizontally...
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    HR2x / HR34 External Hard Drive FYI/Support (eSATA)

    My Seagate FAP 750Gb eSATA drive stopped working after 2 years (may just have been the power supply), so for my HR20-700 I just replaced it with a WD Green 1.5Tb ($110) drive in an Antec MX-1 case (I paid $51, but it's now $40) from Amazon. After 2 weeks it seems to be working okay. I have...
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    What type of Playlists is Media Share Looking For?

    I don't think Mediashare knows anything about playlists. It's the server program that does that. I use MediaTomb on Linux, and it uses .m3u and .pls type playlists. Playlist processing is done in MediaTomb by an easily modifiable javascript program, playlist.js, which should make it easy to...
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    Sound--High Def.--problem...

    Possibly your TVs are not doing a real good job of reproducing the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound that is often used on HD TV channels. In that case, it may help to tell your D* receivers not to use Dolby Digital sound. For my version of the HR system this is on the Setup > Audio menu. Or, if Dolby...
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    Network Services

    (1) It doesn't matter, for the time being. (2) You're not alone -- lots of people have trouble with it. Common problems are getting firewalls to pass messages to the two ports and getting routers to route those messages.
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    Network Services

    There are 3 services and corresponding tests for network functioning: "Network", "Internet", and "Network Services". "Network" refers to your local network and is required for Mediashare. "Internet" refers to the internet and is required for DoD. "Network services" refers to communications...
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    Network Services

    Ignore this information -- it's all incorrect. Network services is an experimental feature that is not yet useful, but will later support interactive services of some sort which have not been announced. It's not required for Mediashare or for DoD.