Recent content by sdsumann

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    Adding HD

    I currently have a standard 2 room dvr and wanted to upgrade to hdtv 2 room dvr. I called dish and they advised me it was $149. Is there anyway around the $149? Will the retention department give it to me for free?
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    Sudden Lost of Sat Signal on 119 and 129

    moderator should merge multiple threads that i am sure will happen on this topic
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    Sudden Lost of Sat Signal on 119 and 129

    confirmed outage in southern california. both 119 and 129 uplink problems?
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    Sudden Lost of Sat Signal on 119 and 129

    myself as well as my parents have lost all signal on 129 and 119. 110 appears to be still active. any one else having trouble?
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    MPEG 4 Pixilation Continues

    So here is my question. I think it is clear that the MPEG 4 encoders are still having problems. I am located in Los Angeles and receive both OTA and dish network locals. My parents are unable to receive OTA signals and are stuck with dish locals. Pixilation occurs quite frequently especially...
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    EXCLUSIVE: AT&T HomeZone First Look

    Has anyone had success in ordering this?
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    EXCLUSIVE: AT&T HomeZone First Look

    I just tried to order it and was told san diego only, and only for new subscribers. Also 9.99 per month extra, plus dvr fee, and you have to get a 2wire router for 79.99...she gave me the number to at&t dish network customer service who did not know about homezone.
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    EXCLUSIVE: AT&T HomeZone First Look

    Is homezone there for people in southern california, current customers or not?
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    HomeZone - About F-ing Time!

    The questions is how much for the box $100 lots of people, $500 very few people.
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    It's Amost Ready.... :)

    I have been waiting for this box since the 05 CES when scott saw it in action. The latest from At&t via press releases and comments to analysts is "late summer". My big question is price. At&t has a real oppritunity to put the analyst concerns over at&t's project lightspeed to rest. If they are...
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    SBC Dish customers

    I think that the homezone is the real deal...but the question is with the new planned merger of bellsouth, how much of a priority is the homezone?
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    SBC Dish customers

    Homezone The fact that they are now leasing 622 is interesting to me...they are suppose to release the homezone this quarter (per all their forward looking investor statements) so one would think that they would only want one high def mpeg 4 box to support. This leads me to two though...
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    Homezone MPEG4 and At&t

    The last thing we hard about this box is released in the 2nd quarter. Where is it? My wife needs it ha.
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    one rg-6 question

    i currenlty use the antenna input of my hdtv (rca 50" dlp)...other then fcc concerns is broadcasting out of the winegard a problem? can i amplifer the rf out?
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    one rg-6 question

    no i am not sure...ha but the problem is that i think that there is no channel where a singal is not broadcast on so i have to figure out how to amp the rf out signal to overtake that channel