Recent content by upper 49th

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    Is Big Brother watching YOU?!

    Cutting a plastic bottle into 2, 2" x 4" squares, scuffing them with sand paper on both sides, and taping them over the camera eye on the front will obscure their view without interfering with the remote functions. You may also want to put a drop of glue on the microphone on the...
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    guide info off air-what do these channels have in common

    Well I was amazed. FedEx delivered the replacement tuner from Texas overnight. After calling to have it activated, it functions just fine. I'll wait to see if there are charges on my bill or not for the service. The box it came in had a return UPS label back to El Paso, so we dropped it...
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    Lost all my recordings on my 508 since...

    I decided not to purchase a tuner/ recorder because I didn't want to pay a monthly service charge, and that the info recorded could be lost. This past Christmas, at WalMart, I found a 160 gig hard drive/ dvd burner made by Philips , a dvdr3455h for 333.00, which is kind of pricey but I bought...
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    guide info off air-what do these channels have in common

    Oh, I forgot (told you I am new) I was getting the "channel off air" as well. I pulled out the smart card to reset it, but that didn't help, so I called dish network and they said they were going through some sort of upgrade... and the channels returned within 20 minutes or so. Has...
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    guide info off air-what do these channels have in common

    Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum. I've had dish network for over 6 years with the original 4700 upgraded series and have noticed "info not available" an hour ahead of what I'm watching now. The "info downloading...wait or cancel" just clicks off after a few seconds with nothing but "info...