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  1. Tom Bombadil

    Protection Plan going up $2/month

    9.5 years with E* and 4.5 years with D*. And yes, never one repair problem or receiver issue or satellite dish problem. I self-installed my original E* dish, then added a 2nd one, also self-installed. They shipped me all of my receiver upgrades for self-install. In my 9.5 years with them...
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    Protection Plan going up $2/month

    I was with Dish and then DirecTV for 14 years. Never subscribed to a protection plan and never had a service call or equipment failure. Saved hundreds of dollars. These plans are an incredible profit for the companies. If 10M people sign up for them, that's an annual income stream of $840M...
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    What day do you record the most programs from locals?

    In 2012 the only program I recorded the entire year from locals was MasterChef.
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    It's been a long, fun run

    Thanks for all of the positive messages. So far, so good. I am missing The Walking Dead and Top Chef! And when watching locals, I find myself missing something and grabbing my remote to hit replay. I must have done that thousands of times over the years. Still can if watching a NetFlix or...
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    It's been a long, fun run

    I will do that Scott.
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    It's been a long, fun run

    Just decided to drop DirecTV. I was a subscriber to Dish from 1998-2008, then with DirecTV since 2008. Switching to D* after E*'s picture quality fell off. I've been quite satisfied with D* these past nearly 5 years. When I signed up I was disappointed to get an HR21 DVR, but it worked...
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    Question about moving

    Thanks. I guess the CSR was right. I will just leave the stuff there for the new owners to decide what to do with.
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    Question about moving

    I just moved from a house into a condo. The condo has a shared DirecTV dish. I am uncertain about whether I will continue to subscribe, so put my account into suspension. My question is about the dish and LNBs on the roof of my house. The D* CR told me that I owned that equipment, not...
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    Protection plan ?

    Several years ago, when I was with Dish, I received a defective receiver and swapped it out. I did upgrade receivers from time to time over the years, always did that myself. Installed my original Dish satellite by myself. Then upgraded it to a two dish system by myself. When I switched to...
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    Protection plan ?

    I have subscribed to satellite TV services for about 14 years now. I have never had a protection plan and never had a service call. I've saved nearly $1000. If I do have a service call, then my savings will drop to around $900.
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    Possible MLB Extra Innings Changes

    Should have added that as a professional statistician, my opinion of the effectiveness of that survey is quite low. Too confusing, too poorly organized. I would not place a high confidence level on the accuracy of the results.
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    Possible MLB Extra Innings Changes

    I got that survey too. Wasn't the best organized survey I've ever seen. I think most people would have had a difficult time understanding what they were being asked. There were pages of different options and prices. On one page you were asked to rate (0 to 10) your interests in purchasing...
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    Sunday Ticket: Half Season

    Just saw an ad for a "special" price for a half-season of Sunday Ticket. Was $199 for a full season, now only $139 for a half-season. Say what? Paying 70% for 50% of a season is a special deal?
  14. Tom Bombadil

    H23R sloooooow

    Did you do any resets? My HR21 has been much faster with the newer software. But every once in a while I need to perform a reset.
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    DISH -VS- VOOM - A Settlement has been reached!

    At long last!!!! I loved those old VOOM channels. Back when there was limited HD content, nearly 40% of my viewing was of VOOM channels. Especially before Dish down-rezzed and bandwidth-starved them.
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    Discounts for the asking

    I've been a D* customer for about 4.5 years. My contract expired after 2 years, I've never re-up'ed it. Recently my 24 month free HD discount expired. So I called them today and said, calmly, that I was looking to reduce my bill and was going to probably downgrade my programming, but I was...
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    Directv dispute with Viacom IS OVER!

    I guess I'm not one of Viacom's targeted audience. The only one of those channels that I ever watch is the Comedy Channel. I watch it about 1-2 hours per week. None of the rest are in my Favorites and I wouldn't have even noticed they were gone.
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    TCM HD coming July 19th

    This one is on my top 3 "wish list." Count me amongst the happy subs.
  19. Tom Bombadil

    My first 2 year agreement is over...Now what?

    My initial 2 year commitment was up 2 years ago. Haven't taken any of their offers to recommit, they offered me a free upgrade to an HR24. They have given me a couple of discounts here and there, without any obligation to commit to 2 more years. So I've just been floating along, uncommitted...
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    Does DTV still use "HD lite"?

    Not sure about resolution, but DirecTV does give a fair amount of bandwidth to their HD channels. Significantly more bandwidth, on average, than does Dish. I see far less compression artifacts on DirecTV. I sub'ed with Dish for almost 10 years and left because of their declining HD image...
  21. Tom Bombadil

    SD Format change after hitting Pause

    It doesn't do it when you have it set to pillar box.
  22. Tom Bombadil

    SD Format change after hitting Pause

    Is no one else experiencing this? I tested it twice again tonight and the same thing happened. Hitting pause on a SD program changes the screen format.
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    Thanks but no thanks

    In my case they specifically offered me an HR24. Don't know if it would have been new or refurb.
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    Thanks but no thanks

    They offered me a HR24 in exchange for my HR21 some time ago, free. Same deal. New 2 year commitment. I turned it down as I didn't want a new contract. The HR21 has worked perfectly for me, never lost a recording, never ran out of space on the drive. If something is working perfectly and...
  25. Tom Bombadil

    SD Format change after hitting Pause

    Last night I was watching a movie, a standard def movie, and after I hit pause and came back, the format had changed. Wherein it had filled the screen vertically, there were now black bars top and bottom. I thought I had remembered it wrong and ignored it. But today it happened again. So I...
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