Recent content by mtsmylie

Well, my 622 made last night's Drive completely unwatchable. About 20 minutes in, it froze on me, and any attempt to jump forward 30 seconds or just fast forward would cause a reboot. I don't get the screaming banshee some of you have, but it's really, really annoying. Especially as it was all...

Yeah, but from everything I've read here, no one's ever gotten called on it, and if they do, I can always blame a non-existant VoiP box. Plus, it's worth risking it to avoid the no-phoneline charge, methinks.

Made the "move" to Denver late last night and everything looks great so far. Can't wait to watch some primetime TV tonight to check it out more.

Well, there it is. Thanks very much!

I've had the 622 for the last couple months with the Platinum package, and finally "moved" to a new location where I get HD Locals that are to die for (Thanks, Iceberg!). But one thing I realized last night is that our Caller ID has never worked since getting the system. It worked fine on the...

Hmm, OK, that sort of makes sense. Second question: According to http://ekb.dbstalk.com/hdlocal.htm, Boise isn't listed as having HD locals. Is that list correct? If so, I wouldn't be any better off "moving" to Boise than I am now. Salt Lake City IS listed as having HD Locals (but no ABC), and...

OK, I feel like an idiot. What is that map supposed to mean? Twin Falls, where we live, is not in the dark blue, but is in the light blue, and there's two circles around our location, which looks to be mainly Utah and the other one is Idaho and some of Montana.

A little help? So I'm fed up with the poor quality locals here in Twin Falls, ID, and I'd love to get the Big 4 in HD. From what I can tell by looking at http://ekb.dbstalk.com/hdlocal.htm, Salt Lake City doesn't have ABC, and Seattle doesn't have Fox, so Spokane is looking like the way to go...

He did check it, and it came out at the low 50s, and he said, "Wow, I didn't think I'd be able to get it that high!" I get a different signal strength every time I check it, but it's always somewhere between 30 and 52, which sucks.

Wow, so no more than an hour after I e-mailed the CEO address, I got a call here at work from Matt at the E* office, who set me up with an installation of the second dish tomorrow afternoon. Now THAT is good customer service!

Well, the installer pretty much put the 1000 up, shoved the 622 remote in my hands and headed for the hills, so we only have one dish right now, and the HD satellite is only getting a strength of about 40. :( So I called Dish the same day, and they have another installer scheduled to come out...

Oh, man, I would love it if they carried the Anime Network. Especially since a lot of their programming is subtitled.

Sure, once everything's all set up, I'll try and figure out how to find my signal strengths, and let you know. That'll probably give me a good idea as to whether I should call them back out for a second dish if this guy gives me trouble.

Thanks for all your help, Dirtydan and gdarwin. I'll let you all know how it goes once it's finished and how much I love the upgrade from the 522 to the 622. As long as I'm watching The Wire tomorrow night on HBO in HD tomorrow night, I'm sure I'll be thrilled.

Twin Falls, Idaho.