Recent content by smooth28la

I did get a symbolic programming credits eventually. I do recognize it's a good will gesture though I'd rather have the programming back

I was eventually transferred to an American tech support rep after I spent about half hour with the non-English-speaking one. Nothing against company saving money by outsourcing non-essential departments but I believe there's a problem when *I* as a customer, has to correct the technical...

Today I found one of my Hoppers' hard drive has crashed. All of my recorded programmings from last few months are gone! This is actually the *second time* that the hard drive has crashed on my Hopper. I immediately called DISH and asked to speak to Advance Tech Support as they're the team...

I've done some research that DISH doesn't even activate these receivers anymore.... I don't see any listing on Ebay either. One of them is still brand new sealed. I suppose I can take the hard drive out and use them on my computer?

http://www.dish.com/entertainment/music/ It's listing Classic Pops.. which was removed on July 17th. It DOES lists Venus...new channel added on Channel 3. It does not list Y2K Country on the web..it's on DISH satellite. It's does not have Utopia (Channel 55).. the new channel that was...

http://www.dish.com/entertainment/music/ It's listing Classic Pops.. which was removed on July 17th. It DOES lists Venus...new channel added on Channel 3. It does not list Y2K Country on the web..it's on DISH satellite. It's does not have Utopia (Channel 55).. the new channel that was...

The original drive was an WD-AV drive, which is more suitable for Tivo. I'm upgrading one of my Tivo's to a 2TB. I can use cheaper drives for DISH's external hard drive purposes. I didn't use Windows to clone. I used hardware-based method of

I was able to make a backup/clone of my 2TB external hard drive to another 2TB using the hard drive duplicator. All shows seem to play fine. I have not tried adding any new shows to it. Has anyone also done it as well? Is there any technical problem with using the back up drive (since I'm...

Even though this thread is over a year old, I'm getting black screen on certain OTA channels as well..is there a perm fix for this?

It's been years since I was called by the audit team. It was not a pleasant experience. I have a 2-Hopper and 1 Joey setup for a long time and had not been bothered by the audit team. If I add another Joey for the 2nd Hopper (making it total of 4 'receivers'), will I be audited? I...

Can you still watch programs on external hard drive on disabled receiver?

The account is in my name. The roommate will get her own account at her place. I already have 2 Hoppers with Sling on my account. She uses one of them exclusively. I don't think I can add a 3rd purchased Hopper to my account so she can move it to her account later.

If there's no 'legal way' of doing it... then it's probably good-bye DISH and hello Time Warner Cable's sucky DVR ! (we get internet/phone through TWC... adding cable in a bundle package will probably only amount to less than $40 a month).

My roommate is getting her own place and will also get DISH/Hopper service. However, she does not want to lose her hours of DVR programs. Dumping everything to external hard drive won't work since her new Hopper will have different account number and the hard drive won't be recognized. Anyway...

MTV is doing a "Teen Wolf" marathon next week. Instead of setting 12 timers from the program guide, does the Hopper has Maximum manual recording time restriction if I want to do a single continuous recording of 12 1-hour episodes? I remember trying to do a similar manual recording for "The...