Recent content by shantyman

There has been a lot of odd behavior from this box in general, random resets, inability to rewind live TV (it always skips back to live), etc. And as I noted, NONE of my OTA HD recording are watchable.

There is never a signal issues when watching live TV. These symptoms only appear on HD OTA recordings, and it affects all of them. Some are worse than others. As you noted, no satellite recordings (HD or SD) are ever affected by this. I have tried resetting the box, adjusting the...

Would these recordings be viewable on a new VIP722?

I have a VIP 722 and when playing back all HD OTA recordings they end up scrambled or skip around, making them unwatchable. Watching them live is fine, no issues. All OTAs have signal strength of at least 85%. Satellite recordings exhibit no issues. Is there any way to avoid this or make...

I have done this already. There is no evidence anyone is controlling it in that way. The recording did all seem to be locals.

It is connected via broadband. This is intriguing to me. How would someone be able to access my box that way?

In the past 2 weeks we have noticed shows recording that we never set up to record and associated daily timers to go with them. We are sure it is not a shared RF frequency issue either as we have changed it to not conflict with our neighbors and we have not seen any phantom channel changing or...

For some reason, the captions are not displaying on my HD set (via component) with my 722. They show up just fine on the 2nd TV which is an SDTV. Has this happened to anyone else? I have reset all the caption settings to no avail.

UPDATE: I talked again to a tech and tried to tell them I needed to be pointed to 129 instead of 61.5, and they said they would not do it. Straight up. He offered to send a tech out to "check things out" but explicitly said there would be no adjustment of the dish(es). It's very...

I will do the check switch when I have a moment, but I know I am not pointed at 129.

I have 2 dishes, so apparently I don't have a 1000 (more sleuthing with my buddy). Is there any reason I did not get a 1000? This install was only 16 days ago. My friend I have been working with said I would have the correct satellites (ie 129 instead of 61.5) if a 1000 had been installed...

I have some new info thanks to some help from a buddy. I am not getting 129, but instead 61.5. My invoice was not marked with the model as you might expect. In theory, to make a change, does this require an installer to come out?

I won't be able to see it, unfortunately. I can check the invoice to see if that has it.

This technospeak is admittedly beyond me. Do I have any recourse? I can't see keeping Dish if I don't have EPG info for the big 4 networks (over 75% of my TV watching).

I'm not sure some of you read what I wrote- I AM paying for Cincinnati locals through Dish. My friend is too and gets program guide info for Dayton. I've seen it with my own eyes.