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Is it the same as an old D500? I mean dimensionally such as focal length, etc. (it appears to be identical other than the "Y," the LNBF and the black paint). Would this new "Y" go on the old 500?

Talking about the new 500? They don't need 3 positions anymore, at least on WA, so being back to 110/119 it's back to 500 as all the dish that is needed, but they're now offering a new twin (beyond the HDD Twin) for the hopper era. I say "offering," but I think they're thus far restricting it to...

I used radial-taper crimping, which could possibly be considered compressive as it leaves a seamless, tapered crimp that resists moisture intrusion if has o-ring.. Most others were using some kind of multi-part fitting with a plastic center. I don't even know what to call those. Compression?

You still haven't thrown out all those AOL discs?

Yes, that is always doable but may consume more HDD space. It's just in digital-to-digital transferrence that they get much worked up about it.

Generally sat electronics work better in cold, not worse. These described issues of sudden unexplained loss in cold sound exactly like the postulated too-short coax center conductor- physical contraction of circuit elements. Possibly something in the LNBF could be contacting and breaking circuit.

Afaik what you export from DiSH to external storage is yours to keep, indefinitely, for personal use. Likewise for shows you have the rx capture, as it would be from your subscribed/paid content. The only thing that seems unclear to me would be DiSH's forward-going interests as far as your...

C-band TVRO (been awhile since I've seen that term) has been gone for years now, hasn't it? I mean as a subscription service.

Guess I'm not the only one who found the 54 awful

I have Android on my Sony TV. Though I generally avoid the googlesphere. Really sluggish navigating apps. Nest thermostat, too...man it's hard to avoid google

What's still on c-band, particularly at such low power to need 10'?

Wait for bad weather to shut it down, then pull the coax.

I didn't know they had one. I do remember in the 80s when if someone asked what was on that thing you could toss a guide nearly an inch thick at them

The theaters are desperate for content, so maybe some of this can make its way to the cineplex to run alongside comics movies, vampires, zombies, godflix and gorefests.

I was surprised when they allowed DVR at all on a non-HDD rx.