Recent content by Pondracer

That decision cost my neighbor $38k. Trust me... he won't be cutting down any more of my or anyone else's trees.

My morality extends beyond the work suck. Interesting that they changed their site after so long. Wonder if there are other changes coming?

Yeah, and it looks like the MVP players won't pass the HD signal anyway. I keep reading..... :)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the contract cancellation is $20 a month or $240 - whichever is less. So if 6 months goes by and they roll out MPEG-4, *and I lose my HD channels* - the worse that can happen is I cancel and I'm out $120. 9 months and I'm out $60.

Some additional pics of the dish mount. You can also see the tree thats encroaching on the dish's path. Last pic is a possible pole location that would put me within the 200' limit... barely. Problem is that there is another tree blocking the 61.5 direction but this view is to the sw which...

Thanks for the all the help. I'm looking for a pole site closer in the yard, I just have to figure out these satellite locations. Equipment is going to be another issue. It looks like a HDTV tuner card is only about $150, and they burn in MPEG-4 which will save me a ton of space. I may...

Here's a shot of the Beverly Hillbilly rack. There's a 4U case for the server below that I haven't had a chance to migrate to yet. How freaking timely is this... I come home and find out Comcast moved the SciFi channel over to digital. I'm fuming - Battlestar Galactica is the only...

Is there any signal degradation if I stretch it out to the max of 200' dish to receiver?

Thanks, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to write out that post. Here's a couple of pics of the dish installation. I took these in the spring when my woodpecker was drumming the dish :p I am located in Bloomingdale > Chicago suburbs.

I am currently a cable customer for both broadcast and broadband who just switched to DSL. The previous owner of our home had DISH installed and the dish is still on the roof and mounted to the chimney. Last winter I completed running Cat5e to all of our rooms and dismantled the wireless...