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    Signal Loss Today

    The same thing just happened with my setup (about 3:45pm CDT). I think it is a Dish Network issue. I have a VIP 722 and 1000.2 dish aimed at the higher "birds" (119, 129, etc.). Everything was working just fine. No clouds in the sky, nothing in the way of the dish. It's hotter than a two dollar...
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    Losing HD Absolute. Any suggestions?

    Of the channels I didn't have with HD Absolute, a lot of the content is SD. Some of it is zoomed or stretched to fill the 16:9 screen or in the case of VH1 it's lettter-boxed and pillar-boxed. Ugh. Letter-boxing and pillar-boxing is a real head scratcher. And it results in an immediate channel...
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    Losing HD Absolute. Any suggestions?

    I went through with my programming change. RIP, Dish HD Absolute. I settled for the AT120 with HBO. Nearly all the channels I watch are in that core group anyway so I figure I won't be missing too much. The rep I spoke with gave me $15 off the AT120 package for 6 months, then $10 off for...
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    Losing HD Absolute. Any suggestions?

    I got the letter this past week informing me HD Absolute was ending. I expected that to happen at some point. But the thing that's really staggering is the HUGE price increase even with the $10 credit for the Platinum package for the next 12 months. My current package is as follows: DishHD...
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    Hard Drive Bargain Watch

    Sadly, I think my efforts have been too little too late. My ViP722 got as far as reformatting the new 1 terabyte external hard disc and then resetting (which I didn't want it to do after going through all the wait and hassle of getting it to reboot). Usually the ViP722 would get as far as "3...
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    Hard Drive Bargain Watch

    That's a relief. The Western Digital MyBook hard discs I just checked at Sam's and Wal-Mart were pre-formatted for NTFS. Previously MyBook external hard discs were formatted in FAT32, which helped make them compatible with a variety of other devices (such as a Playstation 3). It kind of stinks...
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    Hard Drive Bargain Watch

    What is the capacity of the internal HDD in the ViP722? 300GB? 500GB? I don't know. I'm asking because I think the hard drive in my ViP722 is fixing to bite the dust. Sunday evening the receiver froze -basically freezing the video image on the screen, then going black for a minute or two and...
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    Hard Drive Bargain Watch

    What is the capacity of the internal HDD in the ViP722? 300GB? 500GB? I don't know. I'm asking because I think the hard drive in my ViP722 is fixing to bite the dust. Sunday evening the receiver froze -basically freezing the video image on the screen, then going black for a minute or two and...
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    1080p Question for Blu-ray Disc and HDTV's...

    I make an effort to see at least a few movies at good quality commercial theaters. I won't spend money at a dumpy theater. But I think it is important to support the theatrical side of the movie industry. Without commercial movie theaters the movie industry as we know it would be a mere shadow...
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    1080p Question for Blu-ray Disc and HDTV's...

    I think we'll see something along the lines of the current D-cinema standard for home theater in the long run. In addition to the deeper color depths, d-cinema outclasses Blu-ray by not using any sort of inter-frame compression. A JPEG2000 based D-cinema "virtual print" is little more than an...
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    1080p Question for Blu-ray Disc and HDTV's...

    Sorry in advance for the long post. I think we'll eventually see 4K-based movies in home theater. It isn't going to happen anytime soon however. My guess is a minimum of 7 to 10 years before any 4K movie material arrives in the home video marketplace. Right now not enough Hollywood movies that...
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    Any Must Have's on Tuesday?

    Lawrence of Arabia has never been officially announced for Blu-ray release. I've read comments from Hollywood insiders like Robert Harris which suggest Sony is working hard on a new Blu-ray release and that it might possibly be released sometime in 2010. Rumors why there is a delay point to...
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    Warner CFO "Dissatisfied" With Netflix

    I disagree about it being greed. Movie studios are businesses. They are not charities required to give away anything for free. I'd like to see the financial books for Redbox, particularly in how much they're making above the cost of the DVDs and how much is getting bumped over to movie studios...
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    You don't need an HD package to get HD!

    "You don't ______ an HD package to get HD!" Obviously there's a verb missing. Vanna, I'd like to buy a vowel.
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    Dish & Apple?

    HD movies via AppleTV stink. It's 720p resolution mercilessly squeezed into a 4GB to 6GB file size, less than what a 480p SD DVD requires. The video quality is hardly any better than SD DVD either. That, combined with the 24 hour viewing window and $7 rental price is a big turnoff. I'd rather...
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    Grandfathered packages and TurboHD

    I'm an HD Absolute subscriber and I've complained numerous times that Turbo HD subscribers were getting ripped off (including my complaint earlier in this thread). BTW, some but not all of the "Platinum" channels (which HD Absolute subscribers get for no extra cost) are pretty good. I like HD...
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    Grandfathered packages and TurboHD

    I've been subscribing to HD Absolute since May of last year. My bill has gone up about $2 over that time. For HD Absolute, HBO, locals and the ViP722 receiver/DVR I started out paying just under $56 per month. Now the price is at just under $58 per month. It's still not a bad deal at all and...
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    7/15/2009 2:34pm - Uplink Activity Report - 195 changes

    Yeah, KSWO HD in Lawton, OK is finally available to Wichita Falls, TX/Lawton, OK market viewers. But it is lit up on E*12 at 61.5°. I also noticed the channel was "added" to Ciel-2 today. Maybe it will get flagged available pretty soon for those who have to get their HD locals from 129°.
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    HD Tuesday roundup - Baton Rouge, Wichita Falls, and more

    The station management at KSWO must be out of the loop. The station's management and engineers have repeatedly told me Dish is free to retransmit their signal. I find that strange since Drewry Communications is based in Lawton and the Drewry family has lived in Lawton for many years. If the...
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    Rumor Alert!

    Very little of what's been mentioned so far is peaking my interest at all. If some HD-quality shopping channels go exclusively and ironically into the "classic" packages they can stay there for all I care. It gives me zero incentive to voluntarily switch from HD Absolute. If QVC-HD shows up in...
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    MSNBC HD Now Available

    Even without MSNBC-HD, Fox News HD, Fox Business HD, FX HD, MTV HD, VH1 HD, Nick HD and Speed HD I'm still happy with Dish HD Absolute. E* will have to add at least another dozen or so HD channels to the other subscription packages, revamp the channel line ups in those packages and adjust the...
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    7/8/2009 11:19am - Uplink Activity Report - 34 changes

    Is there any chance of a 2nd uplink today? I was kind of hoping something would happen with our local ABC-HD affiliate in Lawton, OK. Currently, it's uplinked at E*12 on channel 5150 but not changed to "available" yet.
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    Is HD what you thought it would be ?

    I agree CRT-based monitors are more reliable and accurate in displaying color than flat panel LCD-based or plasma-based monitors. I use a pair of 19" CRT monitors for doing computer graphics work. However, CRT and RPTV monitors are pretty much dead as a consumer electronics item. They won't be...
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    Is HD what you thought it would be ?

    My own 2¢ on the topic: I'm very spoiled to HD quality and will never go back to a SD-only programming subscription. That's not to say all the HD programming is "perfect." Some channels and/or TV shows can be badly compressed and overall the quality is inferior to Blu-ray. But it sure beats the...
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    7/1/2009 1:59pm - Uplink Activity Report - 59 changes

    Nice to see KSWO-TV (ABC) in Lawton has been added in HD. Unfortunately, the HD channel doesn't appear to be available yet. Just did a remote check on my DVR and it isn't showing up in the guide. Hopefully KSWO-HD will be added/made available on the Ciel-2 satellite just like the other 3...
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