Recent content by popechild

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BTW, I did a chat with Dish's support team and they say that this is a feature that's intended to work this way and that everyone with Dish should be seeing the same thing. This seems crazy, but I guess if that's the truth then it should be pretty easy for others here to verify that the same...

Has anyone seen this, and is there a setting or something in the menu that I'm missing that would prevent this? When I'm watching a show, it will often (maybe always, I haven't paid close enough attention to know for sure) pops up the on-screen display at the top of the screen that shows the...

I called this morning to try to order GP for this weekend and was told that they don't offer individual weekends anymore. They said I could either buy the entire season, or order the single game I wanted for $30 (Bama vs. Tulane). I live in Georgia, so I shouldn't be able to get the...

As promised, here's a short clip I just grabbed off one of my HD channels. It's pretty representative of what I see on pretty much every HD channel. It's a low quality clip to save bandwidth, but hopefully it'll be obvious what I'm talking about...

I'm actually not real keen to chalking this one up to "that's life", as I've had pretty much every different tv source you can have over about a 15 year period, and have never had any service with any provider where the a/v sync was consistently off on every channel like this is. Yeah, it...

211 doesn't have the "high def" menu option for sync. I just had a technician bring out another receiver to exchange and it has the same problems. Lip sync off by enough to be noticeable on ALL hd channels. On some it's really bad, but not all. Either way, the SD versions of the channels -...

I've been googling around for info and so far haven't found much beyond the standard "Dish can raise prices whenever they want" info. Does no one else remember seeing info on their website about some sort of rate lock for signing up for the 2 year contract? Everything on there related to...

I'm getting a little worried about this. I just signed up the last week of July for a two year committment to Ultimate HD ($30+$5 locals). Are you saying that in Feb '09 they're going to force me to a different package, which will cost more for the same channels? I'm kicking myself...

Interesting. I wonder if someone with a 211 could tune to BravoHD and check the lip sync for me. That channel seems to be off by a full second at least. If it's working fine for others, could you tell me what outputs you're using, and what "dolby digital" settings? Thanks.

I just got a vip-211 installed a few days ago for my first Dish service. (HD-only plan.) I'm having terrible lip sync issues. It's noticeable on every channel, although some are definitely worse than others. (Bravo seems to be especially bad). The dish online support guy says it's a known...

On a related note, if all you care about getting in HD are your OTA locals, do you still have to pay the $11/mo HD programming fee to use the box, or can you not pay that and still access OTA HD with DVR, etc.?

Does this price increase affect customers currently under contract, or is there some kind of "price freeze" while your contract is valid? Seems exceedingly unfair that they could get you stuck in a 2 year contract, then raise prices all they want (effectively changing the terms of the contract)...

I guess this is what I'll do. The reason it seemed like an attractive option is because I'm mainly wanting ESPN gameplan, and I'm in grad school, so cost is a big issue. My cable (comcast) requires you to get digital cable at $61 a month to get Gameplan, plus another $10 if I want any HD...

Interesting idea - is this just an idea, or will this definitely work? Are there specific criteria on what they consider "new"? I read somewhere that if 2 of 3 out of name/address/phone are different, they consider you new. Does adding the Apt # to the address definitely cause it to register...