Recent content by nlk10010

I don't know if you directed that at me (since it followed my post), the OP or both, but thanks regardless. As I've always said, you vote with your wallet; nothing's perfect and I tried to keep both Dish and FIOS but in this economy it became impossible.

"Ugh. Chimney mount. Not a good idea. And no longer allowed, I believe." Well, it's academic now but the Dish tech put it up. It's a brick chimney and he sank some anchors into the mortar (easier than into the brick, I guess :( ). But it HAS stood the test of time, 6 years+. Really, my whole...

Just to add to this: I cancelled recently as well. The CSR I spoke with said nothing about the LNB, just the STB/DVR and remotes. She was pleasant and efficient, my understanding is that you will be charged for the current month regardless of when you cut off service so she asked if I wanted to...

Yea, well, if Dish itself went away it would be no big loss for me. Frankly, all Dish is succeeding in doing is demonstrating how little actual value they provide.

Yea, and now that FIOS & ATT have MSG-HD you have even less reason to stick around. :)

I have both Dish and FIOS. I switched to FIOS because I had CV and their Internet (at least in my area) was horrible, speeds dropping to less than 1 down during the day. CV was either unable or unwilling to fix it. FIOS Internet (I have, I think, 25/25 but often get more) is rock-solid. I took a...

Funny thing is, for some reason my favorite things to watch while I'm exercising are shopping channels. I have QVC-HD and HSN-HD on FIOS and they really look good. So while I think they'd be a plus on Dish there are quite a few others (e.g. WE-HD, ESPN/U-HD, Ovation-HD, to say nothing of the NY...

I agree, the very reason you need to take these things (e.g. hurricanes) seriously is because weather prediction has been and is still quite often inaccurate, at least until the storm is right on top of you, when it does little good. But, as you pointed out, weather science has improved from...

Frankly, being almost directly in the line of the eye, I was expecting my dish (1000.4 without any brace arms) and my neighbors' to come flying past my window at any moment. Not only did it stay affixed, but it appears to be still aimed properly. Most of the meteorologists got the track a bit...

Funny, that had occurred to me as well. Thought that maybe Charlie figured out he could add channels at lower cost if they were "protected" from DVRing. Regardless, this seems fixed now. While I won't be recording Veria-HD often it was the "idea" of being able to record all my channels that...

While I have my issues with Dish, thank you MattG for your presence here and for relaying our concerns to people who might be able to help.

Thanks, that did the trick, I can record fine on Veria SD. It's just that there was one program that wifey wanted to see and I didn't want to have to wait up until 11:30PM to watch it. Just on principle it would be nice if this could be fixed; next time it may happen with a far more popular...

I had forgotten WFN (SD OR HD) existed and of course I didn't notice the HD version was gone. As some others remarked about one of my favorite channels when it was in danger of being pulled "wouldn't miss WFN if it goes and don't want to pay to keep it". Depends on whose ox is being gored, I...

OK, Matt, I'll try it. I had just assumed that the SD version wasn't on EA (like my locals).

MattG: Thanks, but the hit to my receiver did nothing. VeriaHD still won't record on my 622. Is there a way to get the SD channel? I anticipate that Dish will just say that the 6-series DVRs are incompatible with some HD channels on EA. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a strange feeling........