Recent content by Tom Bombadil

9.5 years with E* and 4.5 years with D*. And yes, never one repair problem or receiver issue or satellite dish problem. I self-installed my original E* dish, then added a 2nd one, also self-installed. They shipped me all of my receiver upgrades for self-install. In my 9.5 years with them...

I was with Dish and then DirecTV for 14 years. Never subscribed to a protection plan and never had a service call or equipment failure. Saved hundreds of dollars. These plans are an incredible profit for the companies. If 10M people sign up for them, that's an annual income stream of $840M...

In 2012 the only program I recorded the entire year from locals was MasterChef.

Thanks for all of the positive messages. So far, so good. I am missing The Walking Dead and Top Chef! And when watching locals, I find myself missing something and grabbing my remote to hit replay. I must have done that thousands of times over the years. Still can if watching a NetFlix or...

I will do that Scott.

Just decided to drop DirecTV. I was a subscriber to Dish from 1998-2008, then with DirecTV since 2008. Switching to D* after E*'s picture quality fell off. I've been quite satisfied with D* these past nearly 5 years. When I signed up I was disappointed to get an HR21 DVR, but it worked...

Thanks. I guess the CSR was right. I will just leave the stuff there for the new owners to decide what to do with.

I just moved from a house into a condo. The condo has a shared DirecTV dish. I am uncertain about whether I will continue to subscribe, so put my account into suspension. My question is about the dish and LNBs on the roof of my house. The D* CR told me that I owned that equipment, not...

Several years ago, when I was with Dish, I received a defective receiver and swapped it out. I did upgrade receivers from time to time over the years, always did that myself. Installed my original Dish satellite by myself. Then upgraded it to a two dish system by myself. When I switched to...

I have subscribed to satellite TV services for about 14 years now. I have never had a protection plan and never had a service call. I've saved nearly $1000. If I do have a service call, then my savings will drop to around $900.

Should have added that as a professional statistician, my opinion of the effectiveness of that survey is quite low. Too confusing, too poorly organized. I would not place a high confidence level on the accuracy of the results.

I got that survey too. Wasn't the best organized survey I've ever seen. I think most people would have had a difficult time understanding what they were being asked. There were pages of different options and prices. On one page you were asked to rate (0 to 10) your interests in purchasing...

Just saw an ad for a "special" price for a half-season of Sunday Ticket. Was $199 for a full season, now only $139 for a half-season. Say what? Paying 70% for 50% of a season is a special deal?

Did you do any resets? My HR21 has been much faster with the newer software. But every once in a while I need to perform a reset.

At long last!!!! I loved those old VOOM channels. Back when there was limited HD content, nearly 40% of my viewing was of VOOM channels. Especially before Dish down-rezzed and bandwidth-starved them.