Recent content by labrat321

Surprised me. I don't understand why they are willing to spend so much to get new customers and basically tell me not the let the door hit me on the way out. They are spending big $$$$ to try to get people to sign up for what they refused to let my wife sign up for. In my mind, they are wrong, a...

Seem like they went through the motions to save the account, no real offer like I have seen others receive. When wife called said had to keep my account or come back in 2 years as new customer. Called last night because they hadn't refunded the installation fee, and they said they would process...

I cancelled my account out of contract, moved, and signed up for a new account under wife's name with new address, phone number, and credit card. Received a call from directv account verification dept saying they matched us as being in the same household and would not open a new account. I am...

Everything is working fine, but a few annoyances coming from the genie; may be me just not knowing how to do it on the hopper, any tips appreciated: Used to be able to go to a channel and remove it from my favorites list on the channel Favorites lists shows both HD and SD channels, found...

One difference I notice from the genie to the hopper is the genie would automatically choose the best format to fill the screen such as when watching older shows; on dish network I have to do this manually with the * button. Is there a setting I am missing?

Had the install yesterday, about an hour after I called to sign up. I went with the hopper, a super joey, and a wireless joey. Decided didn't need it on the fourth tv.

Another question, is it OK to have my wireless router next to the hopper? The joeys are wireless, correct?

If I have joeys installed in all the rooms and later decide I do not need all of them, can I just send some of them back? Is there a charge and would it change my contract any?

Is it possible to use sling to watch different programming on each television, instead if splitting the outputs? If so, what do I need to make it work?

Probably going to jump from direct to dish and have a few questions on the best set-up. We will have 4 tvs: 1 main, 1 that gets moderate use, 1 that is used a little, and 1 that seldom gets used. Is it possible to get two boxes (hopper, super joey) and somehow use the sling feature to get...

Will be getting a new install soon and have a couple of questions, To run the cable it will involve going into the crawl space, is that extra, if so how much? Plan to have wireless clients, does my router need to be a certain distance away from the genie? I want a pole mount, is that extra, if...

Receiver has been back on around 20 minutes and currently at 100 degrees. I will monitor it and see if it goes up

In the last week, I have noticed what I thought were small glitches (freezing) and just now has went out completely again. Tried to reset and getting the noise again and stuck on self test. If I can get it to come back on, I will post temps. Plenty of space around the receiver for airflow but...

The HR44 does not have a fan does it?

The other night the picture would freeze off and on, I thought it was rain fad at first as there was a strong storm semi-close. It did this for a while then the screen went grey. I reset the receiver and it stuck on the self test screen. I unplugged it and plugged it in again and started making...