Recent content by sjvirchow

They claim "No satellite dish, no cable box, and no appointments necessary" Well isn't that exactly what they're doing with DirecTV? That needs a satellite dish, a box, and sometimes an appointment. I don't get it.

I was told via chat my a Dish CSR that upgrading to one Hopper and one Joey from my 722 would require a credit check and a year long contract. Is there a way to just simply upgrade without the commitment?

I have a 722 and the external hard drive I currently was using has failed. Can I buy an internal hard drive, put it in a USB 2.0 3.5" hard drive enclosure (that has its own power supply) and use that as an external hard drive with my DVR?

Hello all! In December, I'm moving to Albuquerque! Got some questions: 1. Does Dish need to come out to my house before I move to do anything, and is there anything important I should know? 2. What's this "Get a free upgrade to a new DVR" thing they're advertising on their website? --...

Looks like there was a fiber outage in York. Despite the rather large array of dish's outside, they uplink the programming in York by way of fiber. All other stations, except for PBS uplink in Hastings.

There's more than three. There's KHAS (NBC), KLKN (ABC), KOLN (CBS), KOUN (PBS), and KFXL (FOX). The only two with the problem are KLKN and KOLN.

No storm last night. Went from being perfectly fine to all yellow. I was watching the news at the time.

Two local channels in the Lincoln NE market, 10 KOLN/KGIN and 8 KLKN are all yellow. No Audio, No video. Both on SD and HD. Both are off of the 110° West satellite, spotbeam 27. Only these two channels, other channels work fine. .

Ch 102 is moving to Ch 103 Is Dish adding something in 102's place? Hope it's not another advertising channel for space heaters or whatever their selling now.

Don't forget about the Lincoln/Grand Island/Kearney/Hastings/Everywhere-else-in-the-state DMA.

When did that launch, and is it only in OKC? How did they implement that?

I started a thread regarding this issue about a year ago, making the comparison that DirecTV has had this for years, and Dish is still "working it out." I emailed Dish, and got a reply from the programming department about it and they basically said the same thing. "We're working on it." I think...

I have a Sherwood RX-4103 and have yet to find a code that works. I have a 5.4 IR remote that came with the 722. (non k)

New site's HD lineup is mis-leading. Anybody else notice that on the new site that lists all of Dish's High Definition channels, there's channels listed that aren't really in HD? (See screenshot)

There's an HD and SD feed of KFXL on Dish, however the on the HD version, it looks VERY bad. It's cropped, full of compression artifacts, It's like someone is running it through analog equipment before it goes out. It just looks terrible. The SD version suffers from this too, though it's not as...