Recent content by wings515

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    Tribune Broadcasting Company Blacks Out DISH Customers in 33 Markets;

    In the end, we the customer are going to get the increase in fee so stop the BS and sign the contract. I can not get OTA reception because I am too far fro the transmitter. Two local cable companies are 1 mile away each and refuse to go this extra mile. I am stuck with satellite. Just as a...
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    REboot on Thumb Drive removal

    I had stored a program on a USB thumb drive and removed it while I replaced the receiver. After full installation and operation for over two months of the new Hopper, I re-inserted the thumb drive and transfered the program from the USB drive back to the Hopper HDD. I viewed the program and...
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    Hopper Remote gone crazy

    That was it! Limited Mode must be the default. Not intuitively obvious to the most casual observer...... Regards, wings515
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    Hopper Remote gone crazy

    After swapping out a defective Hopper with another defective Hopper (second one would not recognize telco line and display Caller ID), we were about to watch a DVD. I pressed the TV button on the remote and the TV button flashed RED three times and then the DVD buton flashed RED. Now when I...
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    Extended rcording crashed drive

    To find a solution to the problem of football games going over the alloted time and skewing the following shows I tried some experiments. When a program is scheduled to record, time is the trigger to start the recording process. Since all programs are offset, the selected program for recording...
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    Services Screen shows multiple programs

    While investigating a missing recording, I noticed two programs listed on the screen after pressing the Red button on the remote. This button brings up the Services screen. The Hopper showed two programs being "Watched". One on ABC and the other on CBS with the third "Available". When I...