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  1. iammike

    Neighbor may want me to move BUD

    Hey guys, There's a vacant lot next door to me. The guy that owned it moved his old house off of the lot about 10 years ago, and is now thinking about building a new one there. I just bought my place about a year ago, and never even met the guy until about 3 months ago. He was making an...
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    Bad power supply in VIP211 with R5000 mod?

    I bought 2 211 receivers from dishstore.net about a year ago, and one of them stopped working the other day. The power light was on, but there was no picture. I tried power cycling, unplugging and replugging, and unplugging and waiting an hour or so and then replugging. In all cases, the...
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    Mounting birdhouse on Sat Pole

    Hey guys, I just moved and am trying to sell my old house. My BUD moved with me of course, but the pole it was mounted on is very firmly planted in the back yard of the old place. I'm going to put a birdhouse on top of it, and was wondering if any of you had suggestions for how to mount it...
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    4DTV DSR-922 Receiver

    Hi guys, I got my 922 back from the R5000 guys. I just finished checking it out and all is well. I swung my bud back and forth between GB and C4, and had no issues. It could tune both analog and digital channels without issue. It also downloaded the guide and latest channel map. For...
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    DSR-922 4DTV Receiver with R5000 mod

    Let's try this again. My apologies for the previous ad, apparently there's nothing blocking you from posting a classified ad if you're not a pub member. I've now paid my dues. I've decided to go over to the dark side and sign up for Dish network. My name is Mike and I'm an HDTV addict. :)...
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    NBC HD sound

    Does anybody know what the trick is to get the sound right on the NBC HD feeds on AMC18? There are 4 audio streams, but it seems like they are the separate channels of a 5.1 stream. One has primarily voices, but one or more of the others have the ambient noise. I've only been able to listen...
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    Quad-shield RG6 and electric wire

    My mother is having a sun room added on to the back of her house and will be using a Dish network 722 receiver in the room. I asked the electricians to run 3 runs of coax and one cat5e to each potential TV location in the room. I also asked them to try to keep it separated from the electric...
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    TT S2-3200 and Diseqc in DVBDream

    Hey guys, Anybody have the budget TT S2-3200 card working with DVBDream and able to control a diseqc switch and positioner? The only way I've been able to get diseqc working with the card at all is with the WDM driver and that's with MT and TSReader. DVBDream doesn't work with this driver...
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    CBand Jackpot???

    Hey guys, I just got back from checking out a free dish advertised in the local freecycle group. I think I may have hit it lucky. It's owned by a very nice lady who hasn't used it in a few years. I think she said it was last serviced about 5 years ago. It's a Unimesh, but I'm a little...
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    Dish 811 Receiver

    I dropped Dish network a couple years ago, and this has been sitting in the closet ever since. I hooked it up last weekend and it's in good working order. All of the local channels came in OTA and the FTA Dish channels came in fine as well. While it was hooked up, the latest software update...
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    Twinhan 1020A continuity errors on CBand

    I was having problems locking high symbol rate cband transponders with my Genpix card, turns out it can't handle symbol rates higher than 30000, so I tried switching the cable over to my Twinhan 1020a card. The Twinhan can lock the transponders okay, but the picture stutters and hiccups pretty...
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    Need projector opinions

    I've been using an Infocus SP5000 for the last year and a half that I've been quite happy with. I watch with the lights on, actually I'm usually working out while watching, so the trade off in black-levels for the increased brightness was a no-brainer for me. The problem is the HD inputs all...
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    922 4DTV Receiver Broke???

    Hey guys, I installed my new lnbf over the weekend. The good news is the lnbf works pretty well, the bad news is I think my 922 is broken. I'd been having a lot of pixelation problems for a while, which I attributed to stability issues with my old lnb's. I've been giving a lot of thought...
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    Weird lnbf frequency problem

    The cheap lnb's I got with in my Corotor package have been having major problems, like they did last summer too, with all the heat we've been having lately. Just for grins I decided to try playing with my old ASC421 lnbf. I had a lot of trouble with it at first, and couldn't figure out what...
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    Switch question

    I'm trying to replace a second receiver that has gone bad at my mother's house. She currently has a 510 in her living room and a very old receiver, the one that went bad in her guest bedroom. I don't have Dish anymore, so I'm going to give her my old 721. This is where the problem comes in...
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    DVBWorld/Mytheatre diseqc problem

    Just got my DVBWorld box last night. So far I'm not overly impressed. It works fine with the software from the DVBWorld (actually worlddvb.com) web site, but in MyTheatre and TSReader it can't access any sats other than those on port 1 of my diseqc switch. It looks like there's been some...
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    DVB-S solution for low-profile PC

    I've got a Dell C521 that I would like to be able to use with MyTheatre and TSReader. The C521 only takes low-profile cards, so I'm somewhat limited in my options. The only low-profile PCI card that I know of is the Twinhan 1025. The USB options I know of are the Twinhan Starbox and the DVB...
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    More analog to digital info

    I found this on the 4dtv forum this morning. I don't know the poster, however the information seems consistent with other posts I've read. The only new news is it looks like NPS is going to start laying on a 6% service charge to cover uplinking costs. Seems to me that they had already worked...
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    ESPN and ESPN2 no longer available 1/1/07

    Didn't see this posted yet, so I thought I'd better start a thread. Over on the 4DTV forum, John Ferguson has reported that ESPN and ESPN2 will not be made available to 4DTV systems when they go digital at the end of the year. The reason that Disney gave NPS was that the 4DTV receivers were...
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    Norsat lnb question

    I've been having some problems with the KU channels on X4, and have been wondering if some better LNB's would fix them. I get some of the channels like GSN and ESPN classics fine, but the quality is in the low to mid 40's. Other channels I either get no quality or low quality that jumps around...
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    4dtv time off this morning

    While I was getting ready for work this morning I noticed that the clock on my 922 was off by about 7 or 8 minutes. At least in comparison to the clock on CNBC. I'm assuming that everyone's time is off, although there was a brief power outage Saturday night at my place. Anybody else seeing...
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    No vertical channels

    I'm not able to get vertical channels tonight. I've been having intermittent problems with this for a while now. When I try to tune a vertical channel, my skew motor starts turning and doesn't stop. I'm suspicious of a loose wire at the dish, but there's a storm coming in right now so I can't...
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    New NPS Packages and price changes

    Just got the e-mail below from NPS. Looks like the AD package is getting some more channels and they're also adding a new AD Essentials package. AD is also going up about 25% in price, and the new package is going to be the same price as the old AD just without as many channels. Somehow I...
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    WPIX is up

    Hey guys, flipped on the TV when I got home from work tonight and found WPIX is on now. The picture quality sucks though. My guess is they're testing it right now.
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    CNBC, MSNBC, and Bravo dropping analog

    Got an e-mail about this from NPS yesterday. Bravo is definitely going digital, and they're working on CNBC and MSNBC. MSNBC is usually available FTA and I think CNBC is too, although it might be on a sat that's over the Atlantic. Here's the info from the e-mail: Valued C-Band Customers...
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