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    Cable vs Voom - Cleveland, OH

    Mr. Porterhouse, Actually, if you went with V*, you wouldn't need an integrated HDTV tuner in your TV because the V* box has that. And they will install both the dish and the over the air (OTA) antenna to receive the local digital signals (including HD) that are available in your area. But...
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    Cable vs Voom - Cleveland, OH

    I made a similar choice a few months ago and switched from E* to Comcast instead of V*. I tried to get the HD OTA stations with my E* 6000 receiver, but gave up because the antenna had to shoot through some very tall pine trees. Every time the wind blew, the OTA channels would cut in and out...
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    CBS-HD East moving to channel 9483 on April 14th

    ...a year ago SES Americom struck a multi-year service agreement to provide satellite capacity to EchoStar Communications at the 105 orbital slot. Given the limited unused bandwidth on sats at 110 and 119, the 105 slot will likely play a critical role in E*'s HD offerings over the next several...
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    CBS-HD East moving to channel 9483 on April 14th

    ...talk about HD involved moving all the HD channels to 105 and giving all existing HD subs a free SuperDish upgrade. But that plan flopped when E* determined that the aging low powered sat at the 105 spot could not cover major areas of the north and south conus. So they instead shuffled...
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    EchoStar Willing to Drop CBS in Dispute With Viacom

    My post was really intended to answer Orcatek's speculation on E*'s options once the injunction expires. You are correct in pointing out that once the satellite company carries one station in a dma, it must carry the other stations that want to be carried. But "carry one, carry all" is note...
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    EchoStar Willing to Drop CBS in Dispute With Viacom

    Just the 13. Actually it's 17.
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    EchoStar Willing to Drop CBS in Dispute With Viacom

    ...nothing package, once the injunction expires in a week or so, if an agreement has not been reached on the package, it will be Viacom's call (not E*'s) to shut the CBS feeds down in their O&O markets. However, there's one possible twist in this scenario. The two CBS HD feeds that E* carries...
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    no voom for me now

    Thanks for the heads up Don. Although I hardly consider myself "stupid", I wasn't aware of the fact that the Federal $50 limit doesn't apply to these Debit/Check cards. Although I have a standard credit card and use it all the time for purchasing, after reading your post, I pulled out my...
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    EXCLUSIVE: Big Happenings at DirecTV

    ...perspective, realize that each satellite carries only around 24 ku band transponders. A single transponder can carry only one HD channel using D*'s older qpsk modulation, or two using E*'s newer 8psk modulation. If a typical local market has 4 channels, D* providing local HD to just 6...
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    HELP! Condo Association Problem...not the usual though

    That's not true for all condominiums, and neither is E*'s diagram. It all depends on the wording in the Master deed and possibly the Unit deed. With my condominium, the unit owners own (and are responsible for maintaining) the outside walls and roof. Opiwan, I think you have plenty of wiggle...
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    921's on E-bay allready

    Wow, check it out. There's a Dish 921 up there with a Buy it Now price of $10.00 Oops, sorry, that's for the Haeger 921 soap dish.
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    Should E* offer an AT-HD package

    ...order of preference. At the top of her list was the Food channel. In spite of the surcharge inequity, getting all of the HD channels offered by E* is still a pretty good deal. Setting the DVR fee aside for the moment, it's $41/mo with the access fee tacked on and I'm getting the local...
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    Should E* offer an AT-HD package

    And while you're at it Cyclone, don't forget about all those soon to be broke idiots wasting their money on 2 bottles of wine instead of a case of beer.
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    Scott's 921 Has Arrived!

    But if you go to the setup for local channels and add the digital channel manually, doesn't it show you the signal strength there ?
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    Should E* offer an AT-HD package

    ...digital plans are offered in gold, silver and platinum plans which are only distinguished by the number of premium packages included. So if E* adds only Cinemax-HD they could follow that lead and offer a tiered HD path. However, my interpretation of Charlie's latest comments at the the...
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    Should E* offer an AT-HD package

    My original Dish installation 3 years ago was a 301 with the AT150 package. But, after upgrading to a 501 and then a 6000, I dropped the AT package completely since I'm only interested in HD programming and my locals (for news and sports). A subscriber with the AT50 and a DVR will pay only...
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    Its going to be good year for HDTV Fans!

    They did get it back, on 110. It's channel 9467.
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    My 501 showed some name based recording smarts

    I meant to report this earlier, but didn't have time with all of the things that have happened this month with E*. A few days prior to this month's Charlie Chat, I went to the guide and selected the Chat and it set up a timer event for me. But I then noticed that it was at the 10:00 ET time...
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    The silver lining in E*'s HD direction

    At the Nov 24th retailer chat, E* dropped the bombshell that the SuD/105/HD plan was being abandoned completely. But they put their usual positive spin on this by simply saying that any new HD channels would go on 110. When pressed about what they would do with the existing HD channels at...
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    Starband or Direcway it's my only choice

    To anyone stuck in 28.8 land, I would recommend that you try www.propel.com first before sinking a ton of money into Sat Internet (either *band or Dway) or trying to implement multi-linking. I was a *band customer for almost 3 years until my 360 modem failed in September. *band wanted $100 to...
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    Special Nov 25th Retailer Charlie Chat Details

    TNGTony here http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=20816 at dbstalk posted a more up to date list of the channel allocations. He reports that TP 20 now has 8 channels and TP 25 has 12 channels. The available space for HD channels on 110 continues to dwindle. Getting HBO, SHO and two new HD...
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    Special Nov 25th Retailer Charlie Chat Details

    Mike, My mistake. You are correct. TP 31 is assigned to E* and has channels allocated to it in the spreadsheet. That's what I get for posting under the influence on a holiday. Now if 20 and 25 are not spares as you suggest, why all this foot dragging by E* on at least putting HBO and SHO...
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    Special Nov 25th Retailer Charlie Chat Details

    ...the sake of this discussion. At the 110 orbital slot, there are a total of 32 transponders. However, 4 of those (28,30,31,32) are being used by D*. And 2 of these (20,25) appear to be hot spares to be used if one of the active TP's burn out. And TP's (2,4,6,8 ) are used to deliver LiL...
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    Special Nov 25th Retailer Charlie Chat Details

    Answer: No you will not Answer: Way back Answer: It's a total derailment of their entire near term plan for deployment of HD programming as was laid out in previous chats over the last few months.
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    Special Nov 25th Retailer Charlie Chat Details

    What I don't understand is E*'s decision to drop their plans for putting HD on the 105 bird. They had already assigned transponders 16 and 17 for HBO, Showtime, Specials and PPV. Maybe they found out that not only was the footprint for 105 smaller than they thought for SD, it was even smaller...
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