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Recording two football games today with a 622, having a terrible time trying to watch them time shifted. One will not start from the beginning, because it keeps jumping to live TV. The other keeps pausing/resuming by itself, and can't jump ahead because it thinks it is "live TV", although the...

You might just need an OTA antenna. RTN is on one of our OTA alternate channels. My daughter loves watching reruns of Emergency.

It would be nice if DishHome showed 6 of the olympic channels at the same time, like they did 4 years ago.

Como park & zoo is free. There is a gameworks downtown, that you can reach with light rail from the megamall. Mill City museum and metrodome also on line. There is a Famous Dave's at Calhoun Square in uptown that has a blues brunch on Sunday morning. Excellent science museum in St. Paul...

Lawsuit to stop Wings' fans octopi toss thrown out Wow, he really did sue. Lawsuit to stop Wings' fans octopi toss thrown out | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

:eek: Eek! :eek: I live in the Detroit area. $250-400/month should be a car payment, not an electric bill. How much of that bill is a/c vs. lighting? I would guess our usage runs around $50 for fridge, $20 for continuous furnace fan, and about $20 for everything else. We rarely use a/c, only...

Holy cow, you saved $100/month on lighting alone? Our total electric bill is less than $100/month, for a 2600 sq ft house. What are you doing that needs so much light?

Maybe bad grounding?

A rough quote from a book my wife is reading: (Human Sigma, I don't have it in front of me) This 24 hour timer thing is a crappy business practice. If the movie expires before I have time to finish watching it, I expect them to refund my money, because I didn't get the value I paid for. If...

Not to get into semantics, but you do need a phone line (wire), just not phone service. Could it be that you misunderstood each other?

Are you sure nothing went wrong with your antenna? Can you tune OTA locals on your TV? If you're sure your antenna is OK, can you see the yellow channels in the program guide? Are they all zero signal strength? If no yellow channels, have you tried rescanning for locals?

I have the Harmony One. I'm still fine tuning it. You set it up with "activities", which turns on all the appropriate stuff and settings with one click. So, for instance, my in-laws can figure out how to turn on the VCR. Because the dish remote does not know my sony tuner, and the tuner and...

Just a bit of technical info I remember from an IEEE Spectrum article a year or so ago: Sirius and XM both transmit each channel on multiple frequencies, from multiple satellites. The receiver automatically selects the strongest frequency for the channel you are listening to. In urban areas...

449 fixes OTA locals? Got the 449 update to my 622 yesterday, and my OTA reception started working again. :up Anyone else notice this? To make a long story short, in september my OTA locals stopped working: zero signal strength on every channel. With the hard drive limited to 30 hours HD...