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    Cinemax penny deal ending??

    I thought the same thing when I cancelled last Novemeber after getting the letter. They shut it off immediately but I just got my February bill with the $12.99 charge.
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    Press release from DISH

    Funny, the Arizona governor announced last week that our state capitol will have a "Christmas Tree" this year rather than a "holiday tree." I guess it's the new fad this year. I don't care much one way or the other, but after about 10-15 years of "Merry Christmas" and such becoming un-PC, I...
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    interested in signing up for dishnetwork

    If you're keeping cable TV too, make sure you tell the installer not to re-use your orginal cable - and watch him! I told my installer and he said "no problem" but after he was done I realized he did it anyway...
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    Buyers remorse time to opt out of DISH?

    It really does vary by state. But generally there is no "grace period" for changing your mind on a contract as many people believe. The states the do offer such such thing usually have specific parameters like the salesman must have initiated the contact. So whatever relief they get will...
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    Big International News But No BBC-World Or CNN-International On DISH

    Issues between Russia and Georgia?!? My uncle's in the Army at Fort Stewart near Savannah, he'll keep those Reds out. I should tune into that... As soon as the Princess Amanda Jewelry Collection segment is over, I need to get one of those Coronation Dream Pins before they sell out... Is Nancy...
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    What will they need?

    Sometimes they don't require the LNB either. (They didn't for me when I moved and had to cancel for a while a few years ago.) I think it depends on how long you were a customer and/or how loudly you complain about having to climb on the roof. For me they didn't even ask for it.
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    New Promotions Aug 1?

    I almost feel like I'm being suckered in by flame bait, but... I got the HBO/Starz promotion when I signed up late last Decemember and they just sent me a postcard offering the free HBO & Showtime promotion. Why would they offer it if I wasn't eligible? And certainly asking to participate in...
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    Is TV Japan still on 61.5?

    That really sucks. I signed up in December I initially subscribed to TVJapan specifically so I could make sure I had the righ setup (and cancel after a couple of months.) When they came out to install they did not have the right dish for 118 and the Dish folks told the installer to point it at...
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    The worst customer service I have ever experienced.

    I've never had any luck getting anything out of online chat. I've found the telephone CSRs to be much more flexible. Maybe it's too easy for folks to fish for stuff online so they just keep a hard line...
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    Use diplexers to share two receiver signals?

    Thanks fchall! That's exactly what I needed! I tried just temporarily running a coax through the house to test it out and it works as expected. I may just run the separate coax as the permanent solution since the signal is already slightly degraded. I'm guessing the diplexers would just make...
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    Use diplexers to share two receiver signals?

    Thanks Ftoutloff, that almost gets me there. The "super home node" helped too - doing a google on it I found How Do I...Connect Multiple DSS Receivers - HomeTech - HomeTech Solutions. The "Two DSS Receivers, Each Modulated For Other TVs" section at that site pretty much describes what I'm...
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    Use diplexers to share two receiver signals?

    One of them has a DVR and I'd like to be able to watch recordings from it in the other room sometimes. Plus we have dvd-recorder on it and my wife has been recording a lot of shows on that, so it would be convenient to just use the other tuner while the main one was driving the dvd-recorder...
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    Use diplexers to share two receiver signals?

    If I have receiver A connected to TV A and receiver B Connected to TV B, can I use diplexers to somehow also send the output of receiver A to TV B and vice-versa. Diplexer is a relatively new concept to me, but I understand how it works to just send a signal back to another tv. But somehow...
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    Infomercials pushed to my DVR?

    I am connected to the internet, but this wasn't a download, it was in "My Recordings" - the regular PVR area. It was the local NBC channel. So that makes it seem harder for them to coordinate a mass "push" of timers, I think. Could be targeted to my (Phoenix) market. I did also recently...
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    Infomercials pushed to my DVR?

    The other day my wife was asking about the "foreclosure show" that I recorded on our 722 the night before. I had no idea what she was talking about and found that it had recorded some infomercial in the middle of the night and neither one of us, at least intentionally, programmed it. It's...
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    RIP 622

    When I signed up in December, direct on the phone, they told me they didn't install the 622 anymore. They installed a 612 and 381 since I didn't want to pay the extra 50 bucks for a 722 (if only I'd known about the great promos that just came out I'd have just waited 5 weeks.) Anyway I had...
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    New Subscribers-Installation Schedule

    I signed up through Dish directly on the phone in December. Called on a Friday and got an appointment for Sunday morning. When they got out here though we realized they messed up the work order and had to schedule another followup for Tuesday - so only 2 days both times. Then somehow they...
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    Smithsonian HD dropped and replaced with Crime & Investigation HD

    Well, at least I won't miss anything when my 3 month free trial for Platinum HD is up. That was about the only channel I liked in the package.
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    NBC OTA HD skips/jitters when NOT viewed Live (vip612 & vip722)

    I was going through the same thing with my 612. It was really bad once - completely unwatchable recording - from something that was fine when watching it live. But usually just a 2-5 second "skip" a couple of times an hour. And sometimes works completely fine. I'm a new customer, so assumed...
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    Is TV Japan still on 61.5 and 148?

    I hope they plan to keep it on 61.5 for a while! I just subscribed a couple of weeks ago. The tech that came out didn't have the equipment to do the 1000+ so he added a wing dish to a 1000.2. (The woman tha took my order really messed things up.) The Dishnetwork CSR on the phone told him to...