Recent content by jynxsee

Made the call today to cancel Dish. They were very accommodating. I expected some heavy handed tactics to try to get me to stay, but didn't get it. They invited me back at anytime and told me I'd be getting a bill for 54 cents...plus the shipping on the 2 receivers I have to send back. They...

Took the Dish receivers out of my rack yesterday. So far so good w/Comcast. Ends up their iPhone tools are pretty decent too, especially the new XfinityTV manager app. My only gripe is that the i-guide is ugly (albeit functional). PQ is definitely better, it was commented on by others in...

Comcast has caller ID on PC, caller ID push to their iPhone application, caller ID to the cable boxes (without a telephone wire), etc. Visual voice mail, yep. And a iphone application to remotely see incoming, outgoing and missed calls...and check/listen to VM. And you can set up call...

I've been doing A/B tests since I presently have both Dish and CC active on my setup right now. Both hooked up via HDMI outputting 1080i to my Panny 50" 850U. Dish is somewhat softer than Comcast on HD content, it's enough to make CC look like it has more POP. SD channels like Nick JR looks...

It has both + IEEE 1394. But, I don't think any of them are active.

This is more informational than anything. But I have my Comcast service in. The DCX-3400 is a nice, fast DVR with a lot of capacity. The Comcast i-guide is *lame* though as it's not in HD. It looks like the old Dish DVR guides before they went HD. But it is functional. Definitely a +1...

Yep, it's perfect for me, thanks. :-) 2 Tuners and 500GB is plenty, especially with OnDemand. I've found that a good 75% of what I record weekly is on it anyway so I'll probably not bother recording those shows and just watch them VOD. I don't keep anything either, I just watch and delete...

You must be thinking of the Motorola DCT-3216. That's the older DVR with 160GB HDD only capable of ~20 hours. The DCX-3400M is the MPEG-4 capable one that does multi room and has a 500GB HDD (more than my Dish 612), which can do as much as 60hours of MPEG2 HD.

Well, I'm officially leaving on 11/18 as of now. I have *4* Comcast boxes and my total cost for 'equipment'...$15 for one DVR...THAT'S IT. Dish I've only hooked up 2 of my 4 TV's...now I can have pay programming on all of them and am paying *less* in equipment fees for more. That alone made...

I'm not gone yet, but will probably be following suit soon. I've had Dish since Feb of 2000 and will probably be out in November when my current commitment ends. When I left Comcast for Dish in Y2k, Communist Cast as I always called them was terrible. Terrible PQ, terrible service and HIGH...

Looks like I will be getting a new dish for $0 this upcoming thursday. I sent a nice little gripe letter to the ceo@echostar.com address and they offered me a $0, no commitment dish upgrade as I would have expected. Yay Dish for doing the right thing for me. I do hate to say it, but I...

Saw artifacts on Comedy HD last night during Colbert on 61.5.

Here in MI where I live, RTN was 7.2 OTA and they have the same screen up. Too bad since it was fun watching programming from when I was a kid (assuming it's really gone). However (and off topic), maybe that bandwidth can go back to ABC's main OTA feed now. :-)

Funny thing last night. the audio stuttering was happening on Little People, but it stopped during John and Kate +8...Just odd. I wish they'd fix it since I watch a lot of the DSC networks.

ok, the 'blackout' issue seems to have corrected. well, it happened few times on Storm Chasers last night, but now I'm getting cruddy/stuttery audio on TLC HD...and only TLC HD... It'd be nice to know what's going on over at DSC networks lately.