Recent content by Raptor

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    921 and Platinum HD

    cool..... as long as I don't loose any I'll be happy
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    921 and Platinum HD

    I have a 921 and the old hd pack. I will be buying or leasing a 622 and was wondering which HD channels I will be able to recieve on the 921 when I switch. Is anyone doing this now? Thanks Raptor
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    Quantity or Quality in Your HD channels?

    Just keep in mind the only thing *ish really cares about is money! If they can push lower quality on the masses, and get them to accept it as "HD", ...and in turn add thousands of new subs that don't know any better (because they have never seen true HD, AND because they think they 're getting...
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    Is dish moving away from Dual tuner receivers?

    I think the biggest problem will be with HD, everyone is buying HD TV’s (I have 3) and there’s no way I would buy or accept on trade a receiver that couldn't output a HD signal to all 4 TV’s. I've never seen a 100'-150’ DVI, HDMI or composite cable. (If they exist they’re proab. super...
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    Dish forges agreement with Nielsen

    Just don't hook your recievers to a phone line if you worried about it.
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    Network Sports

    YA I know what i want is on c-band I used to have a c-band dish setup, but not any more. was just hoping FTA had something similar.
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    Network Sports

    I'm new and thinking about FTA. has anyone had much luck finding NFL / NHL Games on any free netwok channels? I would like to get the local networks/or Games for Pittsburgh PA, and Boston MA, is this something I could find somwewhere on FTA? Jason
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    anyone have trouble with fuzzy locals

    I was just wondering how many others have trouble with fuzzy to downrite horrible looking locals? I've called dish several times and complained about how bad the locals look and they say they are aware of it / engineers are working on it but it's been that way for almost a year! I'm lucky...
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    NFL Sunday ticket

    Does anyone know if theres any chance of dish adding the sunday ticket any time soon? (their CSR's sure as hell don't know anything) I'm thinking of buying a direct system just for the ticket.
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    Help with locals spotbeam signal low.

    how low does the signal go before it effects the picture?
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    942 installation question

    StevenD thanks for the reply, I checked it out but I think I screwed up by not giving enough info. I will need to run a total of 3 maybe 4 recievers (haven't decided yet). the recievers will be a 921, a 942, and a 510. (maybe another a 510 or 301). (where the 942 is going...
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    942 installation question

    the dealer told me the 942 comes with a dish maybe I should wait and see which one it comes with.
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    942 installation question

    I'm going to be getting a 942 and want to hook it up where I have a 510 now. Can I use a splitter or dp plus seperator to feed the 2nd tuner? I found some info on this a while ago I know it's dependent on the lnb's but I can't remember where I found it. My LNB's 's say Dish pro, when I do a...
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    Help with locals spotbeam signal low.

    where did you find the info on the spotbeams? I just checked spotbeam 10 and I have 85-90 signal and I would like to verify that it's the one for the pittsburgh area before I mak any changes. what I don't understand is last night I went to dish website and it said local nets were on 110...
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    Help with locals spotbeam signal low.

    Derwin0, do you know where he got the dish? is he using it with dish recievers or FTA? I also need the steelers games at my york residence but I don't know how to make sure that the dish and lnb setup will work with my current reciever setup. what I have is 2 dish 510's a 921 and am getting a...