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    When will it end?

    I am old enough that we did not have cable when I was a kid. My first experience with cable was when I moved to Indianapolis. It was 1988 and basic cable was less than $5 per month for as many televisions as I had. What gets me about Dish's increases is that the increase is not just on...
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    OTA Dropouts

    We live 45 miles north of Fort Wayne. I have noticed the same thing. Channels 15 (CBS), 21 (ABC), and 33 (NBC) are usually close to 100 on signal strength. Channels 39 (PBS) is a little lower. Channel 55 (FOX) is just on the verge of being able to be seen at about 70 for signal strength and...
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    Dish network retention offers?

    Dish is like our local newspaper. For three years, I had been paying $1.00 a week for the Sunday Gazette as part of my subscription. When it came time to renew, the price was $1.75 per week. I called and said I would renew for the $1.00 a week I had been paying. The lady told me that they...
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    DirecTV Dish Merger ?

    My prediction is via the cell phone companies. They have the cell towers and are converting 3G to 4G. My aunt in very northern Maine has LTE data speeds. 4G is supposed to be 3 to 6 Mbps. WiMax (IEEE 802.16) can have up to 70 Mbps for a distance of 30 miles. It won't take much, in a few...
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    DirecTV Dish Merger ?

    That 3rd provider is through Internet access. It is different, but provides the same function. With an Apple TV or Roku, I can subscribe to channels and watch movies or television shows on demand. No need for a DVR since I don't need to record anything since there is no set schedule. With...
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    DirecTV Dish Merger ?

    In the late 1990's, Bell Atlantic purchased GTE in a "merger of equals" and formed the new company, Verizon. The board was a combination of the two companies' boards. I was there for three years after the merger. In that time, the company evaluated the systems and selected the best system for...
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    Blacked out sports channels

    So if the game is shown on a channel that may be available, then the game is blacked out? I can understand the Fox Sports channels, but I have run into is the game being blacked out on ESPN. In a modified example, if the game were scheduled on WGN and ESPN, then WGN could make the ESPN feed...
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    Will dish not have the Disney channels come September?

    If Dish lost all Disney programming, that would probably be the end of Dish for us. Reading through the last 13 pages, I was thinking about how simple things were when I was a kid when we only got 5 or 6 channels. The difference was that local sports were on free tv (I grew up in the Chicago...
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    Anyone else having sound issues (Crackling)

    I've had the issue with the local PBS station but only on Saturday mornings when they are rerunning This Old House and other home improvement shows. You don't get it over the antenna. I thought it was probably something with the local station's signal to Dish.
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    So lets get this straight...

    I have not seen any commercials with an iPad promotion. Like Ross, we are discussing cutting the cord. Many nights, we find ourselves watching junk that we pay for on Dish rather than junk that we can get for free off the antenna. I am not blaming Dish. The channels they offer have not...
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    DIRT Question Regarding Cancellation

    My experience has been different. We have called three times. We would like free HD as is being offered to new customers. Each time, they have told us that HD is $10 extra a month. We have been Dish customers for eight years (since Spring 2005) . We have had three service calls: (1) Spring...
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    Is my dish network broadcasting 1080p?

    Going back to the original question, I would agree that the DISH signal is over-compressed and losses quality. This statement is based on the fact that the same program viewed via OTA antenna and DISH look very different. The DISH picture looks good until you switch to the OTA signal. You...
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    50 cents per show lol

    You were replying to a post on rain & snow, and then I saw TWC. First thing in my mind was The Weather Channel. Makes more sense as Time Warner Cable. Since getting a new roof and moving the dish, we have had many fewer outages caused by rain.
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    Dish has serious intergrity issues....i would not trust them

    I think the point was that, at $5 per month savings, it was worth $60 to purchase the device. It would be paid for in one year. But because Dish changed their policy, there were no savings. Not the same, but similar thing happened to me last year. Dish announced that customer bills were...
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    HD Channels in Dish Family?

    I am not going to dispute the SD TV longevity. However, virtually all over-the-air stations now must broadcast in digital which requires a digital conversion box. All televisions purchased today are HD. We have two HD TVs and two old SD TVs with digital converter boxes. It is not only Dish...
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    Feature request

    Or if New really meant New. I can understand the DVR recording the program from both Disney East & Disney West, but last night the 2-minute count down timer popped up for a program that was not new and had an original broadcast date from last August. So yes, a feature that said to record only...
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    How Does the Signal Actually Travel from Dish to House?

    We have a Dish 500 dish with two LNBs and twin coax from the dish to the basement. In the basement, there is a 4-way splitter/diplexer? The two coax are input with four outputs. I thought each incoming coax line carried the signal from one of the LNBs but apparently not. When we had a new...
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    Fox Fort Wayne

    I thought the same thing - they chose 56 because we were used to looking for Fox programming on 55.
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    TV 1 interfering with UHF antenna for TV 2

    I have a 625, not 722, but it sounds similar to the problems we had. At install, the TV2 antenna was directly connected to the back of the DVR. TV2 is actually located two rooms away. It was very hard to change channels. I then added a few feet of coax to the antenna, but it was still not...
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    Fox Fort Wayne

    39.2 has kids shows on all the time. Where was this station 15 years ago when my daughter couldn't get enough of Arthur? 39.3 is Create. They show reruns of the PBS home improvement shows, craft shows, painting, food, etc. 39.4 sometimes has news, sometimes has PBS talk shows, and sometimes...
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    Fox Fort Wayne

    I think we get WPIX out of New York on Dish for the CW. Is 21.2 CW?
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    Fox Fort Wayne

    Fort Wayne's Fox OTA 33.2 is broadcast in 720p. It used to just be standard definition before it became Fox. They said they had to move the weather channel 33.3 to 21.3 to make room for two HD channels at 33. Both 33.1 and 33.2 are 720p. As best I can remember, 15.1 (CBS), 39.1 (PBS), and...
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    DVR Add-on Questions

    I was told that I could get an add-on for the DVR that would allow me to record local OTA programming on the DVR. I went to the Dish site and found this: Add Local OTA Channels with an Antenna You can add local over the air channels to your DVR when you have a OTA antenna add-on. Many DVRs...
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    Fox Fort Wayne

    Here's the correct URL - Home Page
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    Fox Fort Wayne

    It has now been a month since Fort Wayne area Dish customers lost their Fox programming. The MyFox Fort Wayne website now directs Dish customers to www.dropdishinfortwayne.com (Drop Dish in Fort Wayne). The two options they give are (1) find another provider or (2) use an antenna. I take this...