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    Service and Installation for the Salem OR area, who covers?

    Was just curious, does anyone know what subcontractor handles installation and service for DirecTv, for the Salem OR or Eugene OR area? Got a friend who lives out there and she wasn't sure so I thought I'd ask. Thxs in advance.
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    Need advice on computer purchase.

    Your best option short of building a PC on your own, would be to buy a prebuilt one with Vista on it, buy the XP separate, then install XP over the top of Vista. It would delete Vista during the install process. You would still need to download the drivers for each piece of hardware in the...
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    Why does D* charge extra for HD equipment and programming?

    Why do they charge for HD? To make money. Every business does that.
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    Which receiver am I getting?

    Usually yeah, that's right. Unless the warehouse gets a load of refurb'd HR20's, which I haven't seen lately. All Hr21's far as I know.
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    How do i order Directv from canada

    If they don't bind customers as well, then why does D* prosecute them when they're caught?
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    Indy local installer recommendations

    HSP in Indy area is Bluegrass Satellite Indianapolis - Branch 18 1936 So Lynhurst Drive Suite I Indianapolis, IN 46241 317-227-0803 As far as an independent retailer I really don't know.
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    Which receiver am I getting?

    LOL preaching to the choir there Greg. Usually if I have to call to rezap a card or w/e, I don't even give them the chance to ask me 50 million questions, hit the red button yada yada.... If it's something I know I can fix by them simply hitting a button I'll tell them, "Look just resend auths...
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    Which receiver am I getting?

    One final thing I should mention, if it's the HR21Pro you are supposed to be getting, it records up to 400hr's of SD programming OR 100hr's of HD. There is no 500hr DVR that D* makes. The harddrive itself holds 500gigs, maybe that was where you got the 500 part from I dunno...
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    Which receiver am I getting?

    I agree with you 100% when you say the CSR's should in fact know what they are talking about when they do business with a customer. Totally agree. The sad truth is about half of them don't have a clue. Or they are so new at the job that they still stop and have to find someone who may or may not...
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    How do i order Directv from canada

    I amazed at how many people have no sense of right and wrong here. Did your mommies drop you on the head as children one too many times? Per the letter of the law as it pertains to satellite service, it is illegal to falsely misrepresent your "SERVICE ADDRESS" as being one place when it is in...
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    Which receiver am I getting?

    Just to amuse myself, I went and pulled a box out of my van, that has an HR21NC-200 in it. It's marked on the box and in the owners manual that comes with it, that it records 200 hours of Standard Def programming or 50 hours of HD programming. If a residential technician is doing your install...
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    Installation questions..

    So it's on a slab then? Yeah fishing down from the attic if it's 2 story would be pretty challenging once you got to the point where you're trying to go between the upper and lower level. How new is the building? Lot of newer buildings have horizontal fire-breaks between the studs as well. SWM...
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    HD DVR Splitter Possible?

    Let me clarify that then. A regular off the shelf splitter won't work for any amount of time. A All-ports power pass splitter will work briefly but will eventually burn the diode inside it out. I tried this once when I was still green and didn't know any better, and low and behold it did work...
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    HD DVR Splitter Possible?

    A regular splitter will "work" for about an hour before it burns the splitter out and your back to searching for satellite. So, no. Single Wire multiswitch is your only option with one line.
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    Installation questions..

    For our area (Greater Cincinnati) wall fishes run $60 per wall. At the sole discretion of the installer to charge it or not. 2 story house, sounds like he'd be fishing some lines from the attic down, those he most likely would charge. Quick question: To fish the main floors (if you go that...
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    DVR Without Dish?

    when it comes up with searching for satellite, hit menu, exit, or back, (forget which one) but it will bypass that step and take you to the black screen, then hit menu again to get to your recordings.
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    need co ordinates

    Go to menu, settings, setup, satellite, repeat guided setup. Enter the zip code of where you are at. It will GIVE you the proper angles based on that zipcode. Happy trails.
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    Signal strengths

    90-97 on the 101 and about the same on the 119. Those are the only two birds we tune by, if they're tuned correctly everything else falls in line.
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    Setting up 2 monitors on 2 independant graphpics cards

    Problem solved. Was actually rather easy and I feel dumb once I realized what it was. My monitors are supposed to be PLug N PLay so I tried to hot connect them to my cards while my rig weas running but it wouldn't turn them on. Simply rebooted and they both came right on, one on each card...
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    Setting up 2 monitors on 2 independant graphpics cards

    Got a question or two. Actually trying to troubleshoot and could use some input. I have 2 identical EVGA 8600 GT Nvidia cards in my rig. I was using them in SLI mode for all my PC gaming. I have an Acer 22 LCD monitor, and my old generic CRT monitor that the LCD replaced. Still works. I was...
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    Losing 101 again

    sounds like an LNB
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    How much is the Directv cancellation fee?

    In a nutshell, if you are still under your contract, whether it be 12 months, 18 months, 24 months, whatever..... If you break the contract you will get charged for the remainder of the contract. Is what it boils down to.
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