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    Owned HR10-250 upgrade to HR20 best deal

    I have an HR 10-250 which I purchased 2 years ago. I sent an email to customer care complaining about having to pay for the HR20 and a new dish (I mentioned canceling in my email and was considering switching to E*) and I got a call 2 days later asking me when I wanted the install done. No...
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    Anybody going to downgrade services?

    The real frustration of these price increases, as nominal as they may be, is that D* has done so little to add new content recently. I could easily justify a price hike, even a significant one, if they would expand their HD offering and add channels that normal people care about. I watched 2...
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    what programming package to order???

    "Downgrade" meaning you don't keep a Total Choice package. I checked on this myself with 2 different CSR's about a month ago, Robert is right. You can go from Premier to any Total Choice package without inflicting a fee.
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    Tennis: U.S. Open on Universal HD/CBS HD starting at 7pm ET tonight!

    The problem is they didn't air the rest of the match, like they should have. I was willing to wait until 12:37 PT to at least relive the great end of the match, but instead CBS chose to just show highlights from the match, which I had already gotten from ESPN 2 hours earlier. An absolute...
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    Tennis: U.S. Open on Universal HD/CBS HD starting at 7pm ET tonight!

    Middle of the 5th set, tied 2 games a piece. If you were on the west coast, you had no way of watching what ended up being one of the greatest US Open matches ever. UHD and USA both cut the coverage at 9:37, because CBS had the contract to pick it up on the east coast feed at 12:37 (Tennis late...
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    NHL Center Ice

    It says 05-06 now, and it's $129 for the early season special. No details on what that entails, however (HD, etc).
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    Really Dumb Question

    I just got an HD Tivo. It is going in a place where an existing DirecTiVo currently is (meaning there are two lines running from the 3LNB dish to that spot). If I transfer those two lines from my existing TiVo to my new HDTiVo, will the HDTiVo work? Or does something else need to be changed...
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    Moving card to another receiver and back bad?

    If you talk to the right CSR at DirecTV, they can remarry the card a different receiver. I had that done recently, when I bought an add'l TiVo off of ebay, and didn't want to pay $20 for a new card. I took the card from an old DirecTV receiver that I hadn't used in a few months and had it...
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    Please help a newbie here regarding ordering...

    Is it possible to get the Premier free w/Sunday Ticket as an existing sub?
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    Maybe a dumb question about local HD channels.

    I live in Orange County, 50 miles from the OTA source in Los Angeles for all the locals. I am in the process of signing up for the HD service and the CSR said that I would need an antenna to get the locals. Is that true, or would I be able to get the DNS feeds since I live the LA market? I...
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    MPEG4 Upgrade Discussion

    Sounds to me like it might be best to cancel DirecTV for now, go with evil cable, and see how this plays out. It'll probably put me in the best position to get free stuff when MPEG-4 rolls out (whether that be new HD rcvr's or HD-DVR, etc) and I won't be stuck with recently purchased new MPEG-2...