Recent content by sheridan

Yes, I could do that as well. I have some spare units. I've never seen a projector do that, but I suppose anything's possible. Thanks for the input.

Okay, here is one I've never seen. Sports bar installation, been in place for a long time. They have the current HD receivers which are feeding projectors. On one projector, the HD image has ghosting, just like what you would see with an analog signal and questionable reception. The extra...

Never heard of that. The people one these boards have done just what you wnat to do and no one had a 6 month wait. Sounds like someone is feeding you a line a BS. You might want to go ahead and sign up with DirecTV and get an installation scheduled, then wait until it is installed and working...

You also might want to run a 5th wire for an OTA antenna should you decide to put one in.

Is it the same? It is a satellite-based service, the same as DirecTV, but Dish is not affiliated with DirecTV. So, yes, you could cancel Dish and go to DirecTV, it would mean scrapping all your receivers and dish and having all new equipment installed. There are a great many discussions here...

The simple answer is no. Sat feeds cannot be split and work.

I've never heard of a signal harming a tv or blowing lamps and don't see how that can be possible. As directvfreak said, it sounds like a surge on your tv. As far as the lamp, they can blow before their expected life. I've seen that happen. Assuming your keeping up with your maintenance on...

You know, I accidentally hooked the wrong cable to my receiver one time. It was the terrestrial antenna. The receiver didn't like that, it reported a shorted line. I changed cables and all was well. Now this was an older Sony, do the current receivers not do that? The point of this question...

You haven't said what equipment you have. But with D*, in order to watch one channel and record another, you need a D* DVR and 2 sat feeds to it.

No, you got it right the first time. This model has tuners. Surprised me, I didn't know any of them did.

Charper's right. It has to be a problem with selecting the correct input on the tv. The tv (or plasma) has absolutely no control or anything to do with the D* receiver except to display whatever is sent to it. Check the connection from the D* receiver to the plasma, determine where it is...

The support arms aren't needed when pole mounting. They're used to help secure the short mast that comes with the dish.

LCD projectors can and will burn if left on a static image for a long time. What usually burns is the polarizing filters. And on most projectors, they are part of the LCD panels, requiring replacing the assembly, not a cheap repair. And I speak from experience as a repair tech, having done it...

As far as the notion of fade during cloud cover, that's a big lie perpetrated by the cable companies and their myopic supporters. It takes a really bad rain storm to knock out the signal on a properly installed and peaked dish. Cloud cover by itself won't do it. I am in Houston and we had a...

Oh, I can vouch for the total unreliability of TWC here in Houston. I have not had them since I signed up with D* in '98, but they were absolutely terrible then and friends who STILL have TWC say it hasn't changed. Not only that, but another friend has TWC Roadrunner and it is very...