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    Dual tuner adapter for OTA recording issues with Hopper3

    My recollection when I had the single tuner dongle was that if I recorded the same channel and the after (of 1) overlapped the start (of 2) that the hopper was smart enough to actually record both as stated. If they were different channels the new program would clip the after time of the first...
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    Wow! They are persistent.

    A little less than 10 years ago (spring 2014) I did the exercise of "cutting the cord" from Dish. By the time I found streaming places that carried the channels we do watch on Dish the separate costs of all of them were greater than Dish. Plus there was no recorder. I stayed. Now I do...
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    Pixeling on ota channels on joeys

    Do you see it with content other than OTA channels? Do you see it with some OTA channels and not others? I just posted a note about the OTA with marginal signals not being all that robust.
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    DISH OTA reception with marginal signal

    Digital TV doesn't really deal well with marginal signals. I mean real TVs do - if the signal drops out the receiver will resynch but something will be lost. (Analog just got "scribbly"). Dish's digitization of the OTA signal isn't very robust. If the signal drops below what the OTA...
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    Dish Anywhere app on screen pairing not working

    I reset my Dish Anywhere app to try to get downloads to work (it's an old version one locked to a Fire tablet). In doing so I have lost the ability to "log in" using the on-screen pairing. This isn't only on the older app - it fails on the most recent app on my cell phone too. For the older...
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    ME TV

    Still receiving it via the DISH OTA dongle. It's on a channel that uses low VHF for its signaling so it's really bad signal that drops out often. The DISH DVR can track it but it loses signal and sound sync so that sometimes the program is unwatchable. The primary dish Hopper and wireless...
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    More guide issues

    Dish doesn't care about guide info for OTA. The Las Vegas map is so screwed up - wrong channel on some, right channel name, wrong programming, and grids that are just 1 hour blocks of the station name. It's so useless that I keep a window open to Titan TV.
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    MeTV Removed from Dish

    It's been another month and still no MeTV on Dish (other than by intercepting it by OTA). Has there been any news? Will it happen or is Dish permanently severing this relationship? If they drop discussions with Wiegel over Dish does that mean the other Wiegel channels will disappear too? It...
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    Uplink Issues????

    Dish has not cared about OTA programming guide info for a couple of years. The Las Vegas channel mapping is wrong in many cases and the programming content info is often for a different channel (than what the logo says) or simply 1 hour blocks of anonymous content. This does not only apply to...
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    Software Update x39

    It would be nice if Dish could get the OTA channel correspondence and programming grids correct for local OTA channels. In Las Vegas many channels do not have the correct "network" and most OTA are simply 1 hour blocks of anonymous content.
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    MeTV Removed from Dish

    Dish has made it pretty clear that uplinking programming like MeTV is not a priority since most are locally "over the air". I suspect that the Wiegel "dot subnets" are covered by separate contracts (since some of them are still on Dish) but they will disappear as contracts time out.
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    MeTV Removed from Dish

    Well, if they're not going to get it back on 247 the least they could do is give me correct grid info for the OTA channel. I've beaten them up for over a year when our MeTV moved from the local CBS affiliate subchannel (8.2) to an independent (21.1). Dish's OTA grid coverage for Las Vegas is...
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    Internal Hard Disk Drives in Dish Receivers,

    Thanks for the info. My H3 has got to be 12 or 13 years old (we got it shortly after they came out) so the drive is getting close to its time. In fact I'm surprised it's lived this long.
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    MeTV Removed from Dish

    And that's what they did. They used to run 80 minute movies in a 120 minute slot. Now they've expanded it to 2.5 hours, still run the 80 minute movies except now they add a 20-25 minute post-movie filler with his rambling. I had hoped they'd actually go get some new longer programming but...
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    IDE or AHCI

    I'm a former Seagate HDD guy that occasionally worked on Dish. The drives are SATA drives. AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) is an Intel controller technology that uses command and status rings (a technology first used in DEC Unibus storage controllers.) The host controllers on older...
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