Recent content by TheKrell

Is anybody besides me seeing vertical bars along the bottom of a streaming channel at irregular intervals? This doesn't happen on satellite channels.

I am having this macroblocking issue on one of the streaming channels (SPARK) that manifests itself on the lower 1/3 of the screen at irregular intervals. I don't understand why that happens at all given' it's streaming.

My H3, just put back on satellite yesterday, went from H392 to H395 overnight. And unlike H392, my Joey has J595. The Joey remained at J591 for months. Don't see any changes yet.

For the record, I had to give up on my western wall mount and put the dish on the roof. With the satellite data stream restored, my Hopper is no longer crash-happy. Still on 392.

Thanks to somebody, possibly Brittany, the "no LOS" flag was cleared and I called yesterday and got an appointment for Monday. Via found an opening and sent another tech out this afternoon to try aligning my dish. Oh boy! The last guy was questionable, but this guy was worse! He actually...

I am having a remarkably difficult time finding a satellite tech not asociated with ViaSat. Any pointers or search terms? Angi is useless. Google is also useless. Yelp is useless. 20 years ago, this was not an issue but now it seems it is. 20112

Wish I had a signal meter for the dish/lnb combo I bought from Solid Signal.

I waited 5 days and called back. The "no LOS" block is still on my account and nobody can clear it. Today I spoke to somebody in Cape Town who claimed that she couldn't tell me who put the block on my account but that that person would have to take it off again. Seems plausible but I think...

I spent about 90 mins on the phone (mostly on hold) talking to 6 or 7 different CSRs. Via somehow locked my account with "no LOS" which is a damn lie from the pit of hell. It seemed as though I was making progress getting handed all the way up to account integrity (why I don't know) who...

20 years ago they called themselves Via Satellite and they seem to be the only installers Dish employs in this area. They may have shortened their name recently. Their van has Dish logos prominently displayed. I no longer remember exactly what the tech told me, and maybe he didn't say "Dish"...

The tech took the dish and LNB back on his truck and left, saying Dish (Via?) would call, so I can't do that test. Anyhow, are you telling me that I'm wrong and the tech, who can get a strong signal on both 61.5 and 72.7 separately, is right and we can't align the dish approximately 10 deg west...

My installation issues continue this morning. Recall that I bought a new longer mast so that the dish could be mounted and pointed about 10 deg to the west of the side of my house (which has vinyl siding). The Via tech claimed that he could get either 61.5 or 72 but not both. :crying2 He tried...

It's a little late for that! I gave up trying to repair the file system on that partition and just reformatted it. So however many programs will fit in 500GB is how many programs I lost. I think the Hopper fills up partitions in order, so the bad one was the 2nd so I believe it was completely...

Even with no OTA channels, it still won't make it through one movie without at least one crash and reboot. I hope this stops when it has the satellite again.

Yeah, it worked for me too when this same thing happened on my 1.5TB disk on a 722. I simply repaired the bum partition and the 722 mounted it just fine. IIRC the bad partition was empty and I saved all my recordings, with possibly a few lost and gone forever. Back then as now all partitions...