Recent content by Turboff

Are you guys having to fill in a mail-in form to get the $10 off for 10 months if you upgrade from a 811 to 211? If yes, which options are you selecting? The Dish'n It Up option just lists "credit for receiver" while the DishHD options lists the $10/10 months but says only for "first time". What...

They didn't mention an 18 month commitment?

I didn't upgrade to an MPEG4 receiver from my 811 last year, because then as now I'm not in a position where I can make an 18 month commitment. I'll probably end up dropping all of my HD. The remaining MPEG2 channels are not worth $10, especially recently. Discovery has a new program like once a...

I noticed the same thing. I couldn't stand it for more then 10 seconds.

Sean Mota, Perhaps you should reread my post. I am quite familiar with reality. Just because I say how I think things should be does not mean that I live in a fantasy.

Your "laying grondwork" philosophy is flawed. The reason that I pay a premium for HD is so that I can watch HD right now. Not tomorrow, but today. It's very frustrating to watch the low quality HD that is so widespread these days. I want to watch my current channels in high quality much more so...

I'm overall fairly pleased with the Voom channels. Equator and Ultra are my favorites, and Gallery woud be good if they had more shows about architecture. Rave is sometimes good as well. I don't care much for the other channels, but Equator and Ultra have enough new shows to keep my interest...

Well, sometimes the transfer is to a different country, so no luck there. I wish Dish would just turn on ESPN2 HD during the games as a show of good will. Small chance there, huh? I guess I'll have to go the ebay route or give up the games. Unless maybe my company would pay for the breach of...

I'm in a bit of a dilemma at the moment. I currently have an 811 with the HD Pak plus Voom, and wasn't very interested in upgrading to MPEG-4 until I just saw the tv schedule for the World Cup. It turns out that a bunch of the games are going to be on ESPN2 HD, so unless I upgrade to MPEG 4, I...

This is very dissapointing. I'll probably be moving soon, so I can't sign an 18 month commitment for the MPEG4, so I guess no more La Liga for me.

I'm getting the standard defintion preview, but not the HD version. I've always gotten the HD version the previous times they've had a preview.

Anybody know if it fixes the component brightness issue?

Yeah, if they fix the component output, I'll be able to switch between satellite and DVD without having to adjust all the picture settings.

The brightness problem that this update causes with component cables sucks. I hope Dish releases a fix ASAP. It is very annoying to have to change the settings when switching between satellite and DVD.

I think that they're compressing Discovery more than they used to, because I also think that it's not looking too good lately. Recently, I was watching an episode of the new Equator series on Discovery, and it looked bad. This surprised me since the Equator episodes are just about the newest...