Recent content by Jude Robert

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    DISH responds to PBS Injunction

    How about which products or services you offer for sell? PBS has, for the most part, programs that can't find enough viewers to survive in the free market. They survive only because of government force, the threat of fines and maybe jail is needed to keep them on the air. If not carrying PBS was...
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    Terabyte External Hard Drive

    With a 1TB drive will the 622 use the whole 1TB or just up to 750GB?
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    Rain Fade

    Same here in south Louisiana, he lives in New Orleans and that front that passed through last week was as bad as it gets, other than a tropical storm. It maybe just bad luck that it happend the same week he was installed.
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    Rain Fade

    Thanks, he has 2 722s - I will call him tonight and have him check the signal strength, he lives about 70 miles away.
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    Rain Fade

    Is there any good way to overcome rain fade? My Father-in-law just install Dish last week and lost service for a could of hours due to rain fade. Just his bad luck that a line of heavy t-storms pass the day after he had it installed - he installed Dish after seeing mine for the last few years...
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    Dish to start upgrading HD customers to MPEG4

    Anyone know how long this process is expected to take?
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    Samsung sued over BD player

    And this is the winning format? What's go to happen next year when the existing players will not play new movies? Could this be the first of many? Samsung Sued Over Blu-ray Player
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    Circuit City abandons HD DVD, clearances all players?

    The thread NAZI at avsforum has deleted the thread.
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    Toshiba Goes Ahead With Its HD DVD Plans...

    No, the analyst is saying that.
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    HD-A2problem

    Have him start with a firmware upgrade if it's not current. 2.7 is the current version. That's always a good starting point.
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    Patent Office upholds Tivo's "time warp" patent, EchoStar not so happy

    How much bandwith would be freed up if all programming went to MPG4? Replacing all the old receivers could be cheaper than a new bird.
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    Speculation that ATT&T offer may come this week

    Does AT&T have existing satellites that E* could use or would we still have to wait for new birds?
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    A2 HDMI problem

    This is the cable I'm using. Only for $3.09 each when QTY 50+ purchased - HDMI Cable male to male 28AWG - 6ft w/Ferrite Cores (Gold Plated) | 28AWG HDMI Male to Male Cables I don't have the issue anymore, changing to the other HDMI input has fixed it. I don't know why, maybe a bad connection?
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    A2 HDMI problem

    I swaped it to the other HDMI input and it looks to be working correctly now, I don't know if the connection was bad or it didn't like the first input. My vip622 is now pluged in where the A2 was and it looks to working correctly as well. I guess I'll find out over the next few days if it...
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    A2 HDMI problem

    Thanks for the reply. Component works fine, I have not tried a different HDMI cable yet but will. Could this be a handshake problem?