Recent content by zer010gic

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    American Idol chatter...

    I hate American Idol but my wife likes it. She makes me watch it because of my experience in vocal music. Personally I find many of the idol contestants to be worbally and over the top but I liked Josiah I thought he was different. Yes he had a slight fake British sound but it was at least...
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    Cancelling Dish to get Direct tv question

    No because the signal coming from the two lines are on the same frequencies. On the dish system they are not as I understand it. DirecTV as no way currently of preventing the need for two runs. Also external hard drive storage for DVR content. Being able to offload though limited to a...
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    Cancelling Dish to get Direct tv question

    Thats funny my Mother in law is switching to E* due to D* not giving her any deals even though she was a converted Primestar customer. She wanted a DVR and they would not help her. Now she is switching to Dish and paying $30 less (after promotion expires) for the same amount of programing and...
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    Which Premium for HD Movies?

    For Movies I like Starz they have more movies I end up recording then any other channel.
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    Punch.....Counterpunch

    At least as Satellite people we can all agree that whether your a D* guys or a E* guy we both will still have more HD then Crapcast. Corey
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    Swanni says Direct WILL have 100 HD channels by years end.

    Well looks like dish neted 310,000 last quarter while DirecTV only neted 235,000. Thats quite a bit more don't you think. Additionally Dish has netted more for the last few quarters repeatedly. DirecTV may have been the sat provider of choice in the past but today I think Echostar has the...
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    Trying to get OTA from 40 Miles Away

    Any one have a recommendation for a VHF/UHF antenna. Corey
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    Trying to get OTA from 40 Miles Away

    If I went with a roof install. 1. Do you think an Channel Master 3679 with a CM7777 amp would be able to get me all my channels or would you still prefer the CM4228 with amp? 2. Would either have issues if any channels change in 2009? 3. Also do you think I would need a Rotator? Thanks...
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    Trying to get OTA from 40 Miles Away

    Do you think I could get away with putting it in my attic with the CM7777. I am on the side of a incline facing the direction I am pointing the antenna. Corey
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    Trying to get OTA from 40 Miles Away

    I would like to get the off airs from Atlanta. I live approximately 40 miles from downtown Atlanta. After putting my info in Antenna Web it returned as follows. * red - uhf WTBS-DT 17.1 TBS ATLANTA GA 143° 34.4 20 * red - vhf WXIA-DT 11.1 NBC...
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    Adding Orbitals

    I currently have a dish 1000.2 pointing at 110, 119, 129. I was wondering if I added any other birds to that setup would I gain any other channels. FYI I am in the Atlanta area. Corey
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    Atlanta HD Locals Pixelation

    Well got a new email from DishQuality " Dear Mr. Layton, Thank you for your information. We would like to update you on your ATL HD locals. We were experiencing what we would call a single line or spot video tearing on all four channels. We have temporarily fixed this issue and are...
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    Atlanta HD Locals Pixelation

    Here is the responce I got from dishquality@echostar.com Dear Mr. Layton, Thank you for you email! We do have some good news for you and that is this is not your system. We are aware of this issue. We can see it here too. Our engineers are currently looking into this. We would be...
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    Atlanta HD Locals Pixelation

    yeah I am. Corey