Recent content by wilme2

Well, most urban/suburban folks have two IF you count DSL. The cable company cable modem and their phone company DSL. Anything more than that, including UVerse/Fios, and you ARE lucky...

About time.

Yes, I pulled my bills down yesterday, and the previous month had a warning about the $3.95 fee starting this month. I just picked up a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, although at $130, the payback is 32 months, and far from a no-brainer. BTW, this month had a warning about cable cards going from $2 per...

Yes, unfortunately it will need to be separate coax for modulated SD.

Another bad one. Got about 4 in a row with no issues...

Can we do an IP multi-cast? I think this is just the kind of application multi-cast is desgined for. (I know that the Hopper isn't a Cisco device, just trying to think of how it could be done in a regular IP environment.) Essentially the hopper just sends the same stream to two devices at once.

Open floor plan with a Plasma TV in the living room and a LCD TV on the kitchen counter across the room doesn't seem like too many TVs. Someone making dinner or doing dishes can watch the same thing the person sitting at the dining table or on the couch 15 feet away are watching. Actually more...

Well, I am getting tired of having to read hundreds of threads to figure out what the Hopper can really do. I just pulled back up the manual, and it is silent on this issue and many, many others. ("Join" only appears in the Hopper manual once, in a help box.) And a lot of people on this forum...

OK, really frustrated that this thread exists adn that there are not clear YES answers. I have two TVs on the same floor, completely across the large open room from each other (way too far for HDMI + splitter) and was expecting the "join" was going to make the one that joined a slave and...

I do see setup scenarios where you really want the OTA for weather - some TVs cannot be connected to OTA due to single coax run for MOCA, for example. Also, nice to be able to use the Hopper and Joeys to show the same radar feed in multiple rooms. And I may want to rewind a local broadcast if...

A lot of us are just waiting for the OTA module. I am very disappointed it will only be a one-tuner OTA module, but better than nothing.

Glad to hear I am not the only one. Got a resend of the third one, and it played fine. Quality control does seem to be the issue. Agree with you on price - because I already had platinum HD...

Of course.

I have had three Blockbuster Blu-rays in a row that would not read and play properly. I have three different Blu-ray players, and all three discs had trouble on all three players to the point it either wasn't worth watching, or I had to completely skip a chapter. Playing in on my PC confirmed...

This just ticks me off. Yes, streaming Blu-ray takes less than a 100MB link, but we still put 1GB NICs in our PCs and NASs. Some of need is related to the bursty nature of IP networks, especially the internet. For good performace we specify several times the average bandwidth we think we...