Recent content by rekoil

This is more of a general statement, but the fact that few component manufacturers give customers a choice as to faceplate cover is one thing I'll never understand. A manufacturer that built their device with some sort of removable/replaceable faceplate, or even one that sold two versions of a...

If my experience with these kinds of offers is still how things are done, you will be billed for the station after the free period unless you cancel before the trial period is over. It's not a bonus, it's a trial.

The new dish needs to be able to see 5 satellites, not 3 - the new MPEG4 content will be coming in on the two new birds. Which satellites can you see today?

Yea, competition is a good thing - do you think we'd have even the HD channels we are getting now if the two companies merged? A combined D*/E* would only feel the need to keep up with the local cablecos.

Sorry to not be clear - I have four cables coming from the dish into the house - two from the original dish install and two more run when the Slimline dish was installed - but only two are connected to a receiver (an HR20) at the moment.

I already have four cables run (thanks for asking...) I didn't think to check 119 the last time this happened, although the 110 signal returned in about 20 minutes. Will check 119 next time. Do 110 and 119 signals come in on the same LNB on the Slimline dish?

Thanks for the welcome :) The dish is on a three-story high roof in midtown Atlanta, so no trees, just the Bank of America tower - which I don't think is going to sway very much in the wind :)

Hi, I just had an HD upgraded completed on Thursday - new 5-LNB dish on the roof, HR20 installed. No intermediate multiswitch, just two home-run cables to the receiver. In clear weather I see all relevant transponders on 101 and 110 in the low-mid 90s. All is well with the world... Except...