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  1. M

    Is there any USA based phone support?

    The current overseas support makes me want to slit my wrists and then murder a van full of kittens. (replace all occurrences of "kittens" with "puppies" if the former does not generate adequate empathy) Is there any way to contact USA based support for Sirius/XM? Their...
  2. M

    922 - On Demand No Longer Available

    Not like they were updating it anyway - I only saw the error because I accidentally pressed On Demand. You can get tons more stuff on a Roku using a DISH account to log in.
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    The End Of The 922

    Got a phone call today and they said they are basically shutting down all the 922 receivers at the end of April. (I assume they want them all back to be crushed and then dumped somewhere in the Nevada desert.) They offered (in exchange for an owned 922 with OTA tuner) a rented Hopper w/Sling...
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    UHF Remote Is Intolerable

    Does the Hopper UHF remote ever have problems where you press a button ONE SINGLE TIME, yet the [redacted] piece of [redacted] proceeds to act as if you had pressed the button 17 or maybe 142 times? Specific interest as to whether you have this problem in relation to how many 2.4 GHz WiFi...
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    On demand very slow then fails

    922 receiver. I have AT&T U-verse internet service, 18/1.5, and it speed tests at 22/1.9 usually. Trying to load on demand from MTV and HBO. The shows download for maybe 1-3 minutes and then it just fails. The download was going as slow as 80 kbps/sec. Usually it will be 2 Mbps for SD and a lot...
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    Theory about why DISH disabled 922 Sling

    Apparently the 922 sends out the Sling video stream with no encryption at all. Here is a screenshot of me playing a short ASF file I was able to obtain. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytfmo036s1s7xqr/Screenshot%202015-03-07%2000.32.29.jpg?dl=0 I am not offering any other details since it's...
  7. M

    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    At my old apartment I had installed a 1000.2 WA, mostly because I was just personally more familiar with 110/119. Then I moved to a new apartment that has an eastern facing balcony. So I figured that works out fine, Houston locals are on both WA and EA, and my only receiver is a 922. After some...
  8. M

    Moved and now UHF remote is intolerable

    I moved from an apartment to a townhome, I have one 922 that serves 3 TVs (where only 2 at most are used). The receiver is in the living room downstairs and it works fine in there as well as in my bedroom directly upstairs, in the back half. But the other bedroom is on the front half upstairs...
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    922 is going to take a dump and die soon?

    I have a 922, it was bought brand new almost a year ago. No major problems until now. I was out of town most of the week and when I got back, all 8 recordings of The Daily Show & Colbert Report were corrupted, with error code "04". I threw them all away. The past hour or so I have been trying...
  10. M

    TBS (SD) is showing the Wizard of Oz "windowboxed"

    Can... is it... can someone go to Atlanta and burn down their control room? Is that legal? No? Damnit.
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    Search doesn't work very well?

    I wanted to search all topic titles for "TBS". I clicked on "search forums", typed in TBS, and checked the box for "search titles only". I also checked the box at the bottom for "display results as threads". I clicked search, and this little image showed up for a while. Then it went away, but...
  12. M

    No HD Nationals with Welcome Pack?

    Today I decided to switch to the Welcome Pack. It has most of the channels that I watch (I do not watch any sports). The chat rep said my bill would go from $80/mo to $30/mo and that sounded fantastic. The switch went through, but it looks like the national HD channels are gone. I looked on my...
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    Satellite equivalent of cellular MVNO?

    You know how cell phone companies have MVNO's? What if we had the satellite TV equivalent? Sky Angel kind of operated the same way, except they owned some transponders. These new virtual satellite TV companies would not own any transponders but would merely resell what DISH is already...
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    Ran out of money, can not afford DISH. Best options here?

    Title says almost all of it. Can't afford DISH anymore this month. They have cut it off already. I can watch OTA and the free preview channels. That's fine. I don't have a contract or anything. There is no way in hell I could possibly afford DISH again until at least next month after I get...
  15. M

    TWC national advertising on Daily Show/Colbert Report?

    Has anyone else noticed national TWC advertising on Comedy Central Daily Show and/or Colbert Report? I am in Houston, have only noticed this very recently on DISH Network. Of course it is impossible to order Time Warner Cable in Houston, and most other markets. Seems like a waste of money.
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    922 is really not a bad receiver

    Everyone dumps on the 922, and I have had a few issues, mostly with the remotes, and that is mainly because 2.4 GHz is so damn polluted in an apartment building. But at least now, 4-5 years after it came out they seem to have almost all of the bugs worked out. In single mode, it is comparable...
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    Can't channel up/down sometimes randomly for no particular reason

    Brand new 922 receiver. The remote is working fine (other commands work). Randomly, for no particular reason, the receiver refuses to respond to a channel up or down. It just flat out refuses to change channels. I have to "browse" or go to the guide and pick the next channel up or down, then...
  18. M

    UHF remote repeats buttons randomly when used in bedroom

    I have a 922 receiver in the living room. The bedroom TV is connected via the modulator output. Sometimes when I am in the bedroom I will push a button on the remote ONCE and it will register as 5 or more times on the receiver. So if I am in the guide and push "page down", randomly it will...
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    You need Top 200 just to get WGN America?

    I'm a very new (less than 48 hours ago) DISH subscriber. I used to get Comcast Digital Starter for free, paid for by the old landlord. Then they sold my building and I guess the new landlord hates Comcast, or Comcast is incompetent, or the landlord owns stock in AT&T, or probably all of those...
  20. M

    Banned from DBSTalk.

    I have been banned from DBS Talk for stating my opinions about their new design and such. As a result I am going to visit this forum instead and I now publicly denounce DBS Talk. Hopefully I can have some great discussions here as I did on DBS Talk (1000+ posts)