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  1. zippyfrog

    Big ATSC 3.0 Update

    I didn't realize that cable/satellite providers would be required to have all the same interactive features in their locals if ATSC 3.0 was implemented. I can see why they would be opposed to that and the money they would need to spend on it.
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    Dish's rep, which posted on this board back in November 2024, said that the 05 error code is a corrupted file on the hard drive and there was no way to get the recordings back. It had to be re-recorded. We never asked if it lasts forever - or at least as long as the account is active.
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    That has been my thing all along - I don't think it is the hard drive. The fact that I had two different hard drives on two different VIP 211k's fail at the same time, then trying a second hard drive on my main VIP211k and having it fail, and having a handful of people on this forum post the...
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    Quick question

    That is strange and a flashback - I have not seen that in years! Those 19000 channels were channel numbers that would redirect to the Interactive TV applications. If I remember right, anything larger than 10000 were either interactive TV applications, then text for the popups that you see on...
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    2026 Winter Olympics

    Yeah, I think there is the emphasis on Peacock this time. The only other thing I can think of is that this isn't the Summer Olympics. With the Summer Olympics, there is a lot of interest in Track, Basketball, Soccer, Gymnastics and Swimming, and between the normal channels that cover the...
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    2026 Winter Olympics

    Today Dish uplinked channel 115 and 191, which has the channels that the Olympics will be on. What I am surprised at is that there are no additional Olympic channels this time around. Last time, channel 297 and 298 were used as 24/7 content channels. Maybe with the emphasis on Peacock...
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    So...yesterday my 9/28/2025 recordings worked. Today, it does not work. In fact, all my recordings no longer work except for today's recordings. The oldest made it 126 days. My recordings from Friday are the newest ones that no longer work... And yes, what tipped me off was that I could see...
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    Traditional/Streaming Live TV Providers Losses, 4th Quarter 2025 Edition

    Agreed! I added T-Mobile back in December 2023 and have not looked back on the Internet side of things. When I first added it, the speeds were 130-170 Mbps. Since last June when they did some upgrades in my area, the lowest speedtest I had is 324 Mbps, average is between 380-420 Mbps, with...
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    Big ATSC 3.0 Update

    I watched it last night - I thought it was very good. You should not need internet access to watch OTA tv...and with this encryption/DRM stuff, it seems to be necessary. To me, you should just be able to turn on your TV and watch it. As I mentioned in the other thread, and Lon mentioned in...
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    MLB extra innings???

    The details are fuzzy... supposedly for this year, you will still be able to access MLB.TV through the app or on MLB.com, that 2026 is a transition year. 2027 all MLB.TV as well as teams that allow in-market streaming on MLB.tv will be on the ESPN app. Some signs are coming out of what future...
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    MLB extra innings???

    True. I haven't subbed through Dish in many years - I have T-Mobile and I get MLB.TV for free. We will see how long that lasts now that ESPN is in charge of MLB.TV...
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    National Association of Broadcasters FCC Filing

    I still can't see how DRM lines up with the purpose of OTA being a public service. Take a look at the bad weather we are getting. Let say there is ATSC 1.0 and only 3.0 is around with DRM. Internet is down and can't authenticate or verify the certificate - whatever happens with DRM. Then you...
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    Where did TNT (138) channel go?

    And just to put a bow on this - CNN is no longer in the Flex Pack according to the Dish Answers twitter account. :( View: https://twitter.com/dish_answers/status/2012347233090388259
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    DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

    On a side note, I am at 119 days without losing any recordings. My 9/28 recordings still work. Kind of sad that we need to track things like this :)
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    T-Mobile (Gov't?) bill taxes increasing

    Yeah - I had the same thing happen earlier in the year and now again. It is hard to tell if these are truly government mandates taxes, or since I have "locked in" pricing on my phone and internet if these are other ways to raise the cost. Back in April or May I had a 50 cent increase on my...
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