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My recollection when I had the single tuner dongle was that if I recorded the same channel and the after (of 1) overlapped the start (of 2) that the hopper was smart enough to actually record both as stated. If they were different channels the new program would clip the after time of the first...

A little less than 10 years ago (spring 2014) I did the exercise of "cutting the cord" from Dish. By the time I found streaming places that carried the channels we do watch on Dish the separate costs of all of them were greater than Dish. Plus there was no recorder. I stayed. Now I do...

Do you see it with content other than OTA channels? Do you see it with some OTA channels and not others? I just posted a note about the OTA with marginal signals not being all that robust.

Digital TV doesn't really deal well with marginal signals. I mean real TVs do - if the signal drops out the receiver will resynch but something will be lost. (Analog just got "scribbly"). Dish's digitization of the OTA signal isn't very robust. If the signal drops below what the OTA...

I reset my Dish Anywhere app to try to get downloads to work (it's an old version one locked to a Fire tablet). In doing so I have lost the ability to "log in" using the on-screen pairing. This isn't only on the older app - it fails on the most recent app on my cell phone too. For the older...

Still receiving it via the DISH OTA dongle. It's on a channel that uses low VHF for its signaling so it's really bad signal that drops out often. The DISH DVR can track it but it loses signal and sound sync so that sometimes the program is unwatchable. The primary dish Hopper and wireless...

Dish doesn't care about guide info for OTA. The Las Vegas map is so screwed up - wrong channel on some, right channel name, wrong programming, and grids that are just 1 hour blocks of the station name. It's so useless that I keep a window open to Titan TV.

It's been another month and still no MeTV on Dish (other than by intercepting it by OTA). Has there been any news? Will it happen or is Dish permanently severing this relationship? If they drop discussions with Wiegel over Dish does that mean the other Wiegel channels will disappear too? It...

Dish has not cared about OTA programming guide info for a couple of years. The Las Vegas channel mapping is wrong in many cases and the programming content info is often for a different channel (than what the logo says) or simply 1 hour blocks of anonymous content. This does not only apply to...

It would be nice if Dish could get the OTA channel correspondence and programming grids correct for local OTA channels. In Las Vegas many channels do not have the correct "network" and most OTA are simply 1 hour blocks of anonymous content.

Dish has made it pretty clear that uplinking programming like MeTV is not a priority since most are locally "over the air". I suspect that the Wiegel "dot subnets" are covered by separate contracts (since some of them are still on Dish) but they will disappear as contracts time out.

Well, if they're not going to get it back on 247 the least they could do is give me correct grid info for the OTA channel. I've beaten them up for over a year when our MeTV moved from the local CBS affiliate subchannel (8.2) to an independent (21.1). Dish's OTA grid coverage for Las Vegas is...

Thanks for the info. My H3 has got to be 12 or 13 years old (we got it shortly after they came out) so the drive is getting close to its time. In fact I'm surprised it's lived this long.

And that's what they did. They used to run 80 minute movies in a 120 minute slot. Now they've expanded it to 2.5 hours, still run the 80 minute movies except now they add a 20-25 minute post-movie filler with his rambling. I had hoped they'd actually go get some new longer programming but...

I'm a former Seagate HDD guy that occasionally worked on Dish. The drives are SATA drives. AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) is an Intel controller technology that uses command and status rings (a technology first used in DEC Unibus storage controllers.) The host controllers on older...

I'd be surprised if an off the shelf drive will work since there is no mechanism to install the proprietary OS on a virgin drive. The drive comes pre-loaded from Dish with that software. Edit: Others report success though. I'm surprised the OS is in ROM/flash. Maybe it is on the older...

Update since my last reply. First, contacts via private channel and the forum from Dish have ceased. Second, nothing has changed. 8-2 which used to be MeTV and is now Rewind has programming information for Rewind. MeTV which moved to 21-1 has no programming information other than 1 hour...

One of my first posts on this topic was that the local OTA major network guide info for the OTA was only shown as, for example, CBS in hourly blocks (dish 8-0 vs OTA 8-1 at the time). I typically delete those duplicates so didn't see it until a rescan. Well, I did a re-scan again in the past...

I don't know if all TVs work this way, but at least on our Samsungs, when I go to the guide, programming is interrupted while it gathers the content information from the stream as it has to switch to each channel to get the info. It takes enough time to get a 4 hour block that it only does it...

You've got to remember that the OTA receiver Dish uses is available (with software) from Amazon. It's not rocket science. There is already code that understands how to get PSIP info from these USB dongles. There is a chip manufacturer that has this part in their catalog and probably has a...

I would use two levels. 1. My first goal is to get accurate channel-provider mapping. Use PSIP channel info to get just the provider info. Use Dish's normal sources for programming info for that provider. Once you know a channel 21-1 is MeTV they have a source for that channel's programming...

So what once worked is now broken will not be fixed. Sigh... For the past 8 years my Hopper has known that 8.2 was MeTV (and many other "dot subchannels had good info). MeTV moves and now they can't grok that? So basically you're saying that the OTA channel info is worthless. In at least...

I've noticed some movies that I had recorded nearly 10 years ago (among them, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima) that have only appeared on TCM once) have disappeared from my recorder. I notice more that there are fewer titles since I don't recall all of the content but those are...

When we were splitting our time between Colorado and Las Vegas back in 2014 we had Dish install an antenna and we brought our receiver with us on the road. We'd call Dish to tell them when we switched locations to have the local programming be correct.

Hi. Any update on getting the OTA grid updated? MeTV and others are still "blank" for content and the channel mapping has many errors.