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I thought the same thing when I cancelled last Novemeber after getting the letter. They shut it off immediately but I just got my February bill with the $12.99 charge.

Funny, the Arizona governor announced last week that our state capitol will have a "Christmas Tree" this year rather than a "holiday tree." I guess it's the new fad this year. I don't care much one way or the other, but after about 10-15 years of "Merry Christmas" and such becoming un-PC, I...

If you're keeping cable TV too, make sure you tell the installer not to re-use your orginal cable - and watch him! I told my installer and he said "no problem" but after he was done I realized he did it anyway...

It really does vary by state. But generally there is no "grace period" for changing your mind on a contract as many people believe. The states the do offer such such thing usually have specific parameters like the salesman must have initiated the contact. So whatever relief they get will...

Issues between Russia and Georgia?!? My uncle's in the Army at Fort Stewart near Savannah, he'll keep those Reds out. I should tune into that... As soon as the Princess Amanda Jewelry Collection segment is over, I need to get one of those Coronation Dream Pins before they sell out... Is Nancy...

Sometimes they don't require the LNB either. (They didn't for me when I moved and had to cancel for a while a few years ago.) I think it depends on how long you were a customer and/or how loudly you complain about having to climb on the roof. For me they didn't even ask for it.

I almost feel like I'm being suckered in by flame bait, but... I got the HBO/Starz promotion when I signed up late last Decemember and they just sent me a postcard offering the free HBO & Showtime promotion. Why would they offer it if I wasn't eligible? And certainly asking to participate in...

That really sucks. I signed up in December I initially subscribed to TVJapan specifically so I could make sure I had the righ setup (and cancel after a couple of months.) When they came out to install they did not have the right dish for 118 and the Dish folks told the installer to point it at...

I've never had any luck getting anything out of online chat. I've found the telephone CSRs to be much more flexible. Maybe it's too easy for folks to fish for stuff online so they just keep a hard line...

Thanks fchall! That's exactly what I needed! I tried just temporarily running a coax through the house to test it out and it works as expected. I may just run the separate coax as the permanent solution since the signal is already slightly degraded. I'm guessing the diplexers would just make...

Thanks Ftoutloff, that almost gets me there. The "super home node" helped too - doing a google on it I found How Do I...Connect Multiple DSS Receivers - HomeTech - HomeTech Solutions. The "Two DSS Receivers, Each Modulated For Other TVs" section at that site pretty much describes what I'm...

One of them has a DVR and I'd like to be able to watch recordings from it in the other room sometimes. Plus we have dvd-recorder on it and my wife has been recording a lot of shows on that, so it would be convenient to just use the other tuner while the main one was driving the dvd-recorder...

If I have receiver A connected to TV A and receiver B Connected to TV B, can I use diplexers to somehow also send the output of receiver A to TV B and vice-versa. Diplexer is a relatively new concept to me, but I understand how it works to just send a signal back to another tv. But somehow...

I am connected to the internet, but this wasn't a download, it was in "My Recordings" - the regular PVR area. It was the local NBC channel. So that makes it seem harder for them to coordinate a mass "push" of timers, I think. Could be targeted to my (Phoenix) market. I did also recently...

The other day my wife was asking about the "foreclosure show" that I recorded on our 722 the night before. I had no idea what she was talking about and found that it had recorded some infomercial in the middle of the night and neither one of us, at least intentionally, programmed it. It's...