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  1. HighlanderCFH

    Problem with Sling DVR Recorded Content

    I'm wondering if anyone else with Sling TV is having the same problem as mine. It involved playback of the recordings I have made on the cloud DVR. I have quite a few recordings of various programs, including Stargate SG-1. The playback of all my recordings used to be very smooth. However...
  2. HighlanderCFH

    External Hard Drive

    Thank you for the information. I was afraid this might be the case. Take care, Chuck
  3. HighlanderCFH

    External Hard Drive

    Howdy, I'm not sure if my question is applicable to this particular forum, but it seems to be the closest one for me to try. I was a Dish Network subscriber for many years and had a 2TB exterior hard drive connected to one of my Hoppers. Over the years, I accumulated several hundred movies &...
  4. HighlanderCFH

    External Hard Drive

    Thank you for your reply. Much appreciated. I don't hold out much hope of ever being able to watch the stuff on the EHD again, but I've resisted using it for anything (and having to reformat) else just in case. Thanks again! Chuck
  5. HighlanderCFH

    External Hard Drive

    I was with Dish Network for many years. A few years ago I cut the cord and am now with Dish Network's Sling TV Blue streaming service. When I was with Dish Network, I had a WD "My Book" 2 TB external hard drive connected to my Hopper and eventually amassed several hundred movies & TV...
  6. HighlanderCFH

    Amazon Fire TV Stick stuck in endless loop

    Sorry if this question has come up before. One of my Fire TV sticks started acting up after I switched all my TV equipment over from power strips to a couple new UPS units. Since then, the Fire TV stick will not boot up. It goes into an endless loop with a screen saying, "Optimizing system...
  7. HighlanderCFH

    Technical Question on Fire Stick Malfunction

    Can someone give me an idea of whether I have a bad Amazon Fire TV Stick or if it is the remote that came with it? I've had it for several months now and it always worked fine. But recently I'm finding that the right arrow and down arrow buttons on the remote are causing a problem. The...
  8. HighlanderCFH

    Multiple Reboots

    Thanks for all the help, Mike. I'll pull the plug and try to reboot that way. My H3 is in the middle of several VCR's & DVD players stacked on top of each other. Have had it like that for years with no problems. I always make sure that there is plenty of clearance around any vents, etc...
  9. HighlanderCFH

    Multiple Reboots

    Is anyone else having reboot issues with their H3 tonight? The H3 usually updates at 1 a.m. every 2nd or 3rd night. It did its reboot last night, so I figured that would be it for a couple days. But tonight (Thursday 1 a.m.) it did another restart. And it has now done THREE MORE restarts...
  10. HighlanderCFH

    Carbon UI Issues Thread

    Anyone having problems with their Joey going out? The latest Dish system-wide upgrade has been a technological boondoggle that has affected HWS and H3's in many areas. At first, my H3 spent about 10 days refusing to record anything at all, even timers. Essentially it was turned into a...
  11. HighlanderCFH

    Directv has some cool tech!

    That's the thing. I don't think any Dish DVR will really function if it becomes unauthorized, will it? If this is the case, then all the EHD would be good for is plugging into a desktop and being reformatted for extra file storage because the Dish recorded programs would be forever unaccessible.
  12. HighlanderCFH

    Directv has some cool tech!

    Sorry about my typo up above. Meant to say 2 TB EHD instead of "TV." If I found that I could buy an old Dish receiver that is compatible with the EHD -- even if I were to leave Dish -- I'd do it in a flash.
  13. HighlanderCFH

    Directv has some cool tech!

    I wish they had been telling the truth. I've been thinking about leaving Dish, but I have the same situation -- a 2 TV hard drive that I've transferred several hundred movies to. If I leave Dish, then I have to sacrifice all those recordings because they can only be read by a Hopper or one of...
  14. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    Dish has told me that a system upgrade is what has been causing these timer recording issues and that they did not know when the techs would have the situation resolved. Here is an excerpt from an email I received from Dish: "We are experiencing technical issues from the last update that we...
  15. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    Didn't work. In fact, as a test I just tried to record a regular non-premium channel and it said recordings are not authorized on that channel. It was just a basic channel that I've recorded many times. In another forum I saw someone advising to unscrew the incoming cable (from the dish) from...
  16. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    The problems continue, and now -- at 9:23 p.m. -- the H3 abruptly shut down and I got a blank screen. Seems to be doing either a reboot or upgrade. Looks like 1 a.m. came early today.
  17. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    Before I called tech support, and several times during the call, I did power plug reboots repeatedly. Had no effect on the problem, then they said my H3 is fine and that the problem is coming from Dish's end.
  18. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    Very frustrating, to be sure. My H3 is running on U334 from 1/4/17. I still cannot record anything. All my series event and single event timers have disappeared from my schedule even though they are all still listed under the TIMERS tab. Every time I try to record from live TV, it says 1281...
  19. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    Thanks. That verifies what the tech told me. They could not say when my timers might become active again, but said this "update" should be complete by tomorrow or Friday. Maybe these problems will begin clearing up then.
  20. HighlanderCFH

    Anyone else having recording problems from new software?

    I was on the phone with Dish advanced tech support for over 3 hours last night over an issue that they helped me with last week -- and then it surfaced again last evening. I'll list all the problems down below after this brief explanation. Last week they said my software was corrupted and had...
  21. HighlanderCFH

    HWS times not working

    Did you ever get your recordings back? I may be the all-time leader in bad luck with Hoppers. This is either my 5th or 6th Hopper as I've had one bad on after another. On one of them (a HWS), the hard drive died and killed all of my recordings with it. Didn't take me long to buy a 2 TB...
  22. HighlanderCFH

    HWS times not working

    Just FYI, in case anyone else experiences this problem, mine was taken care of over the phone with the Dish techs. Turned out to be corrupted software that had to be partially deleted and reintroduced to the H3. All timer series events are now scheduled to fire. The only drawback is that I...
  23. HighlanderCFH

    HWS times not working

    P.S. Also went to the dish/switch status and both satellites are showing up with all the green checkmarks.
  24. HighlanderCFH

    HWS times not working

    Thanks. Just did that and it shows both satellites 72 & 61.5 being okay with no issues. Green check marks are also there.
  25. HighlanderCFH

    HWS times not working

    I'm not up on the technical stuff, but it does seem like a Hopper3 uses TWO satellites? In any case, I went into the diagnostics section and it was listed as satellite 72. Didn't see any other satellite referenced.