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  1. Jim S.

    One week til the Eurovision Song Contest

    Confirming that the American beam of BVN is indeed airing it at 8PM EDT (20:00 UTC-4), as in the past. I don't know why their website no longer provides a proper schedule for this version of their channel. I thought it used to have its own page. BVN has the better picture quality by far...
  2. Jim S.

    One week til the Eurovision Song Contest

    The UK (and Ireland also?) participates. I think a lot of English-speaking people use VPNs to stream the BBC. It was carried by Logo, MTV's gay-themed channel, for a few years, but I'm not sure they still do. It was also on Peacock, the NBC/Comcast streaming platform, for a few years, but...
  3. Jim S.

    One week til the Eurovision Song Contest

    The semifinals are May 7th and 9th, and the final is May 11. It appears that RTPi will be carrying it live at 3PM EDT on the 7th, delayed to 5:30 PM EDT on the 9th, and live at 3PM EDT on the 11th. BVN is carrying it, but I can't find a way to get their website to tell me what timezone the...
  4. Jim S.

    Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose “All In” Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules

    If people think that the parking fee makes moral or logical sense, then that's the problem right there! (If you're worried about non-patrons using the parking spots, make them show a ticket to get into the lot. It's not rocket science. But then again, apparently rocket science isn't even...
  5. Jim S.

    Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose “All In” Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules

    You were supposed to be able to do it, by federal law. But I don't think there were a lot of options for receivers ever made, and I don't know if any cable company was ever penalized for not complying. But at least they tried. I don't know if the law is still in effect (I have a feeling that...
  6. Jim S.

    Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose “All In” Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules

    I said a long time ago that they should've been held to the same standard as cable: you could buy your own receiver and get a card from the programing provider.
  7. Jim S.

    anybody else having audio dropouts on AXS TV?

    Mark just sold his basketball team, so hopefully he has the time and money to take care of his TV channel if that's really where the problem is coming from.
  8. Jim S.

    anybody else having audio dropouts on AXS TV?

    I emailed the old address that used to get stuff like this fixed, even though people have said it doesn't work anymore. It didn't bounce, but nobody answered it either.
  9. Jim S.

    Edision OS Mio 4K firmware/OS

    I use timers very rarely, but I've never had a problem with them. I did do a clean install of version 5, versus importing my settings from the old version. I seem to remember all sorts of problems doing that in the past. And it lets me get a fresh scan of all my satellites anyway.
  10. Jim S.

    Republic Wireless shutting down as Dish moves customers over to Boost Infinite

    The bring-your-own-phone pages say that hotspot is available as an add-on. They don't say how much it costs.
  11. Jim S.

    anybody else having audio dropouts on AXS TV?

    It's been happening for a few weeks, and seems to be getting worse. I know my dish alignment isn't fantastic, but there are no breakups on any other channels, and more to the point, there's no break whatsoever in the video, just the audio.
  12. Jim S.

    FOR SALE Sale No 4 TBS 5922 SE DVB USB Tuner

    I'll take it if you haven't sold it already. I can pay by PayPal.
  13. Jim S.

    H365 has arrived

    I have something very similar to this on my Hopper 2 on H264: does HWS H264 have a bug with watching a recording in progress? I think it's updated to H265 since then, but I haven't been brave enough to test it. And tonight I had an absolutely ridiculous glitch. I started watching Andrew...
  14. Jim S.

    Multiple LNBs

    You're not going to be happy when 103 shuts down. I don't know when that's supposed to be, but I imagine it's not too far off since most of what's on it is duplicated on 101.
  15. Jim S.

    H264 in Hopper/Sling erases settings

    No such issues here, just the watching-a-recording-in-progress issue I posted about.
  16. Jim S.

    how much would it cost to get this disgusting pole mount fixed?

    If I'm not mistaken, there's no flex pack that has MTV Classic, which is the only MTV channel we watch. The package lineups would seem to be deliberately designed to be useless if one wants anything other than the most insipid basic channels.
  17. Jim S.

    how much would it cost to get this disgusting pole mount fixed?

    ...little I use these days. (Of course, their plans are arranged such that we need the Top 250 or whatever they call it now to get the channels we *do* watch.) I could install a dish myself, including aiming it, but I'd rather have someone else do the work (that's how I ended up with this...
  18. Jim S.

    how much would it cost to get this disgusting pole mount fixed?

    A local retailer put this dish in, I think about 10 years ago. I don't remember how long the pole was, but as you can see there's 4 feet above ground, so I'm sure there's no more than 2 feet underground, if it's even a 6-foot pole and not 5 feet. More to the point, the ground was very rocky...
  19. Jim S.

    does HWS H264 have a bug with watching a recording in progress?

    Wednesday night I was watching the hockey game on TNT. I started the recording from the beginning about an hour after it began, forwarding all the commercials and the first intermission. About two minutes into the second period, the screen suddenly froze, and "Live TV" flashed a couple of...
  20. Jim S.

    Here we go again, Hearst tv group is gone

    Anything washes up on my property, I'm claiming it under marine salvage law!
  21. Jim S.

    "Select For Moderation"

    I'm not a moderator. Or at least, nobody ever told me I was :) I haven't tried checking the box.
  22. Jim S.

    "Select For Moderation"

    I'm seeing a "Select For Moderation" checkbox to the left of the Report button on posts in the Back Room.
  23. Jim S.

    Patient Channel 87w

    Or maybe too many of their clients haven't switched to the new system.
  24. Jim S.

    Enigma2 skins

    If you just want sane channel-changing behavior with the arrow keys, look for a menu item called something like "Neutrino-style zapping". That will save you from having to remap each button.
  25. Jim S.

    Motorized KU band issue

    There's no way to see the encoder counts. The receiver sends a command to the motor to store the current position in a numbered memory slot in the motor, and you tell the receiver which slot to use for each satellite.