Recent content by WilliamC

It's his house! I'd never leave an installer alone ANYWHERE. I don't know him/her therefore I do not trust them. They can steal, leave the job half-assed. Add to that that there are certain things he is not allowed to fiddle with. No installer has ever hooked up my receivers, just wired up the...

Perhaps we have both misunderstood each other. It appears we both define "dead" differently. Death of a format means that it is no longer manufactured. Which in this case HD-DVD is. No players or films are being released, no stocks are being replenished, and so on. To you it means something...

Names not Willy. Didn't say blackberry was dead, don't really care for apple either. :rolleyes: Did say blackberry addicts fight for blackberry like its the second coming of christ, they are even worse than apple fanboys. Here is your fighting: and and also Good for you enjoy your...

Doesn't help me either. Looks like 23 RSN + 4 national HD = 27 So it looks like we will get 3 additional PPV channels. Nothing to be excited about really. I was hoping for something more than RSN, but the sports fans should be happy.

I can't believe people still fight for HD-DVD. I thought blackberry owners were bad, but boy was I wrong. The format is dead because it is no longer being manufactured. It was good, had its issues, it lost, and now move along and continue to enjoy it if you wish, but don't live under the...

Well good for you, I hope you enjoy Dish. I did not and thankfully I wasn't in contract when I cancelled. The installer was a *&**, but i expect that from pretty much all installers these places send out. At first the service was nice, some channels were actually HD and weren't down-rezzed. Then...

Doesn't ChillerHD launch this month?

Can't speak for Battlestar yet as the only HD feed I have seen is on Universal HD, but Atlantis looks great! The details are crisp and there is an obvious improvement in color, detail, and overall image quality over the SD which should be pretty obvious. The fabric detail on the uniforms is...

I've had a trouble free experience with my D* receiver so far. Pretty much the same thing when I had my 622, except for that time when their software release caused HD corruption and we got messages saying our HD needed to be reformatted. Didn't bother me too much since I just did a reset and...

I'm sure you know more about sats than I do. Perhaps you failed to read my posts properly because I never claimed to be an all knowing God of sat. How many people in the company you work for know or even care about what they are doing? You failed to understand my point. Most installers don't...

Ya know somehow i think telling someone their reasoning is stupid is against forum rules. As far as the OT goes as many have stated you need more cables run... you may get lucky and if you ask the installer he will put in the switch. You will still need to run the four wires though. Depending...

Actually those channels you mentioned I would not demo. The image is very soft on most of the programming and most of the time there is upconverts running in stretch-o-vision which could confuse him. His best bet would be the premium movie channels if he has them.

Actually EVERYONE compresses. Mpeg-2 which is what you get with OTA is also compressed though not as heavily as D* or E*. Usually with OTA you get 15-19 Mbps and with a highly compressed signal you are lucky if you get 11 Mbps. You must also take into account that the provider may also be...

I've watched a lot of movies from HDNet and MGMHD as well. The Vincent price marathon was amazing.

Your missing out! Nothing beats OTA PQ. I watch it on my local CW in HD and the picture beats out the donwrezzed HDNet any day.