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I don't want updates or improved features. 722 is perfect as-is.

A switch (connected at receiver) may be needed for changing polarity if running single coax and an LNBF design that uses a voltage change between 13 & 18 to change from H to V polarity.

How can equipment be "outdated" if it is still supported with no as-yet indication of stoppage of said support?

DiSH could become the next meme stock.

Is there any reason he didn't just buy a 5' dish?

Hm, apparently they launched at a rate of >1 per year over ~10 years beginning in '95.

So, like, cord-resplicing?

But if they had this 25 years ago there would not now be DiSH. I would predict that steaming capabilities will continue to sophisticate and that all of the convenience capabilities as seen with DiSH DVR will eventually come.

I would wonder what choices are even on the market anymore for big-dish arms. It seems I went through them all when I was a dealer, looking for one that would hold up. That was always a big service call cause- bad actuator. Anyway, as far as how much stroke, that all depends on your mount...

I had forgotten that Zenith put out a C-band system. And now I can't remember who made the dish, but it was a premium maker. Winegard. Perforated aluminum, not expanded mesh. Good for Ku as well. The receiver I believe was a rebranded Drake. Appears to be a simple polar mount- set declination...

Wait, you're talking apples and then suddenly switching to oranges. Domes and then dishes, without any transition. Just as reflectively painting an over-dish dome may block signal, wouldn't a reflective paint either enhance or have no effect when applied to the dish, the reflector itself...

So why not just stream then, and have the satellite for backup?

How do you "protect" a signal??

I painted C-band feed covers silver-aluminum. This was not because of heat reflected from dish, but to deflect from direct path to feed cover.

The sun can only cause impairment or outage when the dish and the satellite come into alignment with it such that the dish is focusing both on the sat and the sun together. For the Clarke Belt, this alignment occurs in early March and early October as the noon positioning of the sun rises above...

Well, first, that big # is actually a "googol," not a "google" and was coined by a mathematician's child in describing something unimaginably large. And "app" definitely has meant "application" from way before computing. Yes, today you can get a big screen cheap, but that hardly diminishes the...

Saw -1 theatrically; surprised myself that I would even do a monster movie.

Oop, did you see what happened there, lightning-quick? Haven't had that.

Same observation.

So again, I'm still curious- Have any downconverted SD versions of carried HD channels been dropped altogether yet? Including locals? Why would they need to stay up at this point? Also what is the total discrete channel count on DiSH, including both HD & SD versions- it must be or have been at...

Absolutely.

I also noticed a change from this time going forward- previously there had often been long delays in posting. Now don't even see any short ones.

There are all kinds of things that can lengthen the race time.

"Surviving what you (were) doing" is no indicator that you were "safe enough". There is always simply dumb luck. Yesteryear's potential for TV-driving distraction has been supplanted by far more universal distractors of mobile devices and in-dash screens. I didn't know that the new TV can't be...

As a DiSH dealer I hated 129 for the tough look angle, plus it wasn't a good solid signal. We were already at a disadvantage to DTV in having to look farther west to 119.