Recent content by thestob

I was a Dish customer for 12 years, cancelled when our Hopper lost signal and they couldn't get anyone out to repair for 2 weeks, switched to cable and it flat sucks...tried to call dish and have them sign us back up ....NOPE you have to wait 60 days ....so they won't take my money, crazy....I...

west Texas ..500 miles from the hurricane area in TX, unless they pulled some of their techs to go work on the coast

No just that's the first available appointment, I don't want to switch providers ...but, that's ridiculous

Been a Dish customer for 10 years +, Hopper stopped working (isn't getting a signal). Called support and they told me it would be over 10 days before they could come out and look at or fix the problem. I don't think that it's worth waiting for, I'm under no contract and can switch anytime...

I just upgraded from a two VIP622 setup to a Hopper and 3 Joeys. Everything is working great. It just seems there is a little bit of a softness in the HD picture, especially on my main TV with the Hopper unit. I have tried switching between, 1080i and 720p on the hopper settings and didn't...

Update I called tech support. They took me through the troubleshooting steps, determined I needed a new 942. Said they would be shipping one out ASAP.....decided to plug the "broken" 942 in tonight ...and it booted up and works fine....so who knows ... :confused:

watching TV tonight and the following message comes out of nowhere "You are attempting to use a version of smartcard that is incompatible with this receiver." I've never touched the "smart card" or anything like that ... now all I get is that error message when I turn on the...

My hard drive on my 942 has crashed. I have been through the reboot sequence with technical support. That did not help. I was told that I would have to be called back by a different department that handled problems like I was having. Two days later, I received still no call. I called...

I really need help figuring out what set up I need when ordering Dish Network. I am confused about all the different receivers, dvrs, etc. I have 4 tv's and just want DVR and HD on the same TV. The other 3 can just be the standard receiver. I do not care about recording HD programming, but...