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    HD DVR vs TIVO

    I used to be with DirecTV and I had a SD Tivo unit which I loved. After the hard drive crashed, I went to Comcast, and I have had ENOUGH of these POS Motorola HD DVR's! They are useless equipment! Anyway, I'm probably gonna make the switch back but I was just curious of what everybody...
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    5LNB/mpeg4- worth the upgrade??

    I live in the Atlanta area, and I'm considering the upgrade to the new dish. I know that I would get the local HD channels and the mpeg 4 upgrade, but is there anything else? Does the mpeg 4 help the SD programming at all? It might just be me, but the SD looks pretty bad on a 42" plasma as...
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    What's up with Fox showing 16:9 programming in 4:3?

    They've been doing this for a while now. A lot of their programming (Family Guy, Simpsons, 70s Show, etc, as well as tons of commercials) is broadcast as a 4:3 signal with black bars on the side. Problem is, the black bars don't cover the entire sides of the signal, you can see a little bit of...
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    Question about making Component cables-

    When I first got my HDTV I made the mistake of buying cheap HDMI and component cables on ebay. I needed 25ft cables to run through the wall. Well, they both crapped out on me. My D* guy told me that I could just use 3 coax cables and buy connectors at Radioshack that screw onto the ends of...