Recent content by nebguy94

I also recently made the switch from Dish to DirecTV and agree with the pros and cons you've listed. To your list I'd add the following: Pros: NFL Sunday Ticket Carriage of college pay per view games in HD when available Remote scheduling is much snappier on mobile devices and has...

Yeah, I'm fully aware of that. I'm also fully aware that all DTV set-top converters are capable of receiving all 18 ATSC formats and converting them for analog use. So the broadcasters are not required to maintain a SD sub-channel for analog converters to use, the analog converter can down...

Assuming Congress doesn't block the digital TV transition, what will happen with the locals I receive via Dish? I know, I'll still be able to receive them, but what I mean is this: I have a Dish HD tuner connected to my HDTV. Currently I receive Dish's HD package, I get standard def locals...

I'd prefer the Pentagon spend their budget getting equipment, supplies, even comfort items to those troops, as opposed to buying bandwidth for their spin on the news...

So we still have to put up with "acquiring satellite" nearly everytime we go to the guide after watching OTA for an extended period of time? (For me an extended period seems to be 20 minutes...) And we're still going to have frequent lockups while acquiring signal? My year contract expires...

I have no interest in seeing Tony Kornheiser in HD. However, I have a great desire to be able to flip back and forth between Sunday Night Baseball and Sunday Night Football both in HD. Bring on ESPN2 HD. ESPN is showing they are committed to bringing us more sporting events in HD and I'm...

With the 322 and 811 odds are they will need to run some additional cable as you'll need two runs of coax from the dish to the 322 and you'll need a run of coax from the dish to the 811 and a run from an OTA antenna to the dish. Then there's the run from the 322 to the second TV using that...

The joules rating indicates how much of a power surge the suppressor can withstand before needing to be replaced. It's not worth the money to get a suppressor to withstand a lightning strike, as most suppressors in the affordable consumer market are rated in the 300 to 3000 joule range and the...

I think satellite may be the wrong medium to rely on to distribute critical weather information during storms where that type of information needs to be available. Seems to be far too great a chance that in the situation where you need the information the dish won't be able to pick up a good...

And if you hook your PC up to your HDTV you can just "change channels"... In regard to some of the other posts: If you're worried about lightning sneaking up on you invest in a quality surge protector that will protect your equipment from lightning strikes, APC makes an 11 outlet...

As I've been working toward a viable solution, it occurred to me that my problem probably isn't splitting the signal. As I thought about what I had been doing it struck me odd that splitting didn't cause a significant problem with my Digital reception, only my analog reception (none of my TV's...

Well, once I re-wired I was picking up analog. And my neighbor, with an integrated HD tuner in his TV, was picking up OTA digital as well. Nearby lightning strikes would cause instantaneous drop-outs of his digital but he said it was only the largest and/or closest strikes that caused the...

I don't know if Dish has legal liability or not, but if someone is convinced by Dish's marketing that Dish locals will give them the same ability to access information as they had with local cable, and it is suggested by Dish that with the OTA tuner they offer completely equivalent service, when...

Last night we had some very serious weather here in the Midwest (100 mile wind shears, baseball sized hail, tornados in multiple counties.) I went to my TV to check the situation and my 811, which had been last tuned to a satellite channel, was (understandably) unable to acquire satellite...

In this specific instance, I don't know enough about how the receiver/EPG work, but applying my 10+ years of professional experience and knowledge in networking, network applications, and general computer science... Is it possible that program guide problems are observed to change independent...