Recent content by jimpghpa

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    Help With Dish Network Surround

    yeah actually it seems to be just my cbs local....wonder if i tried an ota antenna if the sound would be correct. on my non locals i notice that my back speakers are silent on some channels and i notice on those channels my receiver say "pro logic" as opposed to "dolby digital". so i gues not...
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    Help With Dish Network Surround

    have had my yahama home theater system hooked up to my dish vip211 for several years with infrared cable no problems. suddenly one day i turn on my tv and my cbs station has no sound...other channels are ok...so i start rebooting and trying different things....now some channels have sound only...
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    VIP211 Favorites

    well funny you should say that because i am thinking of switching to fios....i already pay fios $60 a month for internet so i might as well give them more and i have started having trouble with the audio feed from my dish receiver and i am getting kicked off the absolute hd package and 3 calls...
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    VIP211 Favorites

    Every time dish adds a new channel, the new channel gets added to each one of my favorite lists. I have tried restore factory defaults, power off, etc. It is a pain always having to delete these channels from all of my favorite lists. Any ideas?
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    Dish Network and Internet Access

    I live in an area where I have both Verizon Fios and Comcast available to me for internet access. I have no need for a land line phone. So anyway you would think I would be happy that I have internet competition and I could get my internet on the cheap. But no....Seems they both are trying to...
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    DISH INSERTED ADVERTISING

    yeah the snoring ad (lol) and at the end when they say dot com it is even louder than the rest of the overly loud commercial i have that whole commercial memorized
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    What happens to DishHD Absolute after Feburuary 1st?

    i am an absoluter and the new Fox's are not available to me either. no big deal to me since i am a not a fox fan.
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    New DishHD $29.99 HD Only Package Details

    CNN has been a staple of cable TV packages from the start. Having a satellite service without CNN does not seem realistic. That would be the deal breaker for me.
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    Switching to New Receiver

    Hello! :wave First off apologies if this has been covered before. Here is my issue. I have had dish network for years and years and have a dish 500 dish and 2 ancient receivers. So anyway the normal 4 cables come off my dish, and they go into a switch that converts it two 2 cables. One cable for...