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    Charlie Chat Recap 10-12-09

    Thanks. I missed the word National. Don't hold your breath until we get new national HD. I see Comcast has added TCM HD to their lineup. Ron
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    Charlie Chat Recap 10-12-09

    I thought it was just a one hour commercial for their current sports packages and programming. I heard absolutely nothing on new national HD Programming. They did mention local programming though. We can forget any new national HD programming until next year or the year after Ron
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    Post your 61.5W Signal Strengths

    Receiver type: 722 Dish: Dish 500 (no I adapter) Area: 50317 Des Moines, IA Date/Time: 6pm 6/14/09 (clear skies) 01: 57% (Spotbeam) 03: 41% (Spotbeam) 05: 86% (Locked no name) 07: 94% (Spotbeam) 09: 0% (not locked) 11: 0% (not locked) 13: 52% (Locked no name) 15: 57% (Spotbeam) 17: 50%...
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    L618 Software Bug Thread

    I have a VIP722 connected by HDMI with L618. I have occasional audio burps with pixelation on local HDTV stations. This is not on the actual OTA without VIP722 .The audio goes brrrrp and pixelation, from very slight to medium occurs for about a second and then back to normal. This occurs about 1...
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    4/9/2009 7:04pm - Uplink Activity Report - 27 changes

    That's only 5. I thought they were doing 7. Ron
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    3/2/2009 6:05pm - Uplink Activity Report - 4 changes

    national HD I expect the new national HD programming, if any, will start between tomorrow, Wednesday and next Monday's Charlie chat. That way Charlie and jim can pat each other on the back for the New Programming and all the HD channels. lol. Ron
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    Replacing Internal Hard Drive in 501 PVR

    I'm not sure since I haven't tried it. I heard some time ago that you can add up to 120 Gb hard drive. Also I heard it needs to be unformatted, just like they are when you buy a new one. I think that the 501 will format the drive automatically. I don't know how much longer you can use an MPEG2...
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    722k OTA Tuner Up Close

    I don't understand why they would even think about taking them out. I am in Des Moines, Iowa which has population of about a Million including surrounding suburbs. Dish doesn't provide all of our HD channels. They don't even include PBS. I'm sure larger cities have a lot of HD channels not on...
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    Uplink Activity Report - 10/29/2008 1:02pm - 56 changes

    I just got off the phone with Dish Network. I was told that these two channels are supposed to come online tomorrow, Thu 10-30. Ron
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    force 61.5

    My dish 500 pro quad works great for 61.5. It makes no difference which output I connnect to. The only difference with outputs is aligning the dish for best signal. Ron
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    How Dish's 1080p is going to work...

    After pressing rent and the test is there an option to back out or have you rented the movie no matter what. I want to know if my 1080P HDTV is recognized but don't want to rent at this moment or in the next 24 hours. Ron