Recent content by rwcmick

As other folks have pointed out. All it takes is the right rep. After a month of calling in, being escalated, etc. I just decided to start calling in randomly. One day I reached a rep, she was like "oh yeah let me add on demand back now. okay it should work now." Seconds later, it was fixed...

Thanks. Sorry, I wasn't that clear. I did do on online "refresh" or or "re authorize" last night. To no avail. I called back in to Directv and after 45 minutes they are escalating the issue.

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I did leave out what I have done so far. I have reset the receivers and went online and did a receiver refresh last night. Sadly no luck. I have heard rumors of that they have to re authorized the box for VOD...

This just started happening. I subscribe to HBO and when watching/taping live TV everything is fine. When I go to HBO On Demand on my receiver (any of them) and select a recording I get "would you like to add this channel to your directv package?" I called Directv and tech support told me...

So the job was done. Went pretty well. Got swm 8 module installed. The installers panicked and forced firmware updates, even though I assured them they had just been updated and even though the screen clearly stated that the account was not authorized for MRV. While they were waiting, I...

okay...so the receiver arrived. i called in and activated it and requested mrv. of course, since i don't have any bbcs laying around, the hr24 isn't much good to me until the swm setup is in place but i feel better having it on the record. the charge was the expected $99 + tax which came to...

Just a quick follow-up. I ordered the HR24 from Overstock. I guess I should activate it when it arrives, even though I don't have the BBCs and then order MRV so that they setup the order correctly for my new count of receivers? Otherwise, they'll show up with the wrong work order, won't they?

Thanks! I would planning on going thru Solid Signal, but Overstock is much better!

Okay, so I was doing the beta MRV like everybody else. Unlike most of you here, I wasn't aware that MRV was going to become a paid service, but I found that out the hard way yesterday. As I understand it, if I go the DECA/SWM route I will pay $99 equipment and maybe a $50 install fee to have...

I heard somewhere that HBO prices on demand differently than SHO, Starz, etc. Was it that the provider had to pay extra w/ HBO while the others didn't cost the provider any more? The gist of it was the HBO was more costly to offer and Directv wasn't gonna do it.

jay, that does work, but it's a pain: the tv draws a nice bit up juice each time it powers back up (the lights flicker a bit) and there is a pause before the picture returns to the screen (just like most sony's do). also, what if i want to study something under the pause bar? i...

i've got a crt projection tv and the "pause bar" on my 622 has started to burn into the screen. sometimes i'll pause the tv over 10 - 20 minutes and over the course of the year is seems to have slowly burned in a rectangular box. you can only see the box on a light colored background, but it...

I'm fiddling around with the 36" dish that my friend gave to me. The problem is that it has a rectangular rather than d-tube lnbf arm. I installed an I adaptor to mount the dish pro lnbf, but I didn't see the signal gain that I was expecting. Is there a chance that because the i-adapter...

thanks we camp near eugene. the sf locals work great in the summer, but in the winter it just isn't happening. since it does work in the summer i figured a bigger dish might pull it in in the winter? it's not a huge deal as we don't camp that many days, but it is nice to have the option...

My wife and I use our RV quite a bit and have up until now used distant locals when travelling to Oregon. Now that the distants have gone away, I have two options as I see it: I can get the waiver and pay the $ to NPS or I can spend a few bucks on an experiment... Here's my proposal...