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I went back to Dish after VOOM was turned off. I got the $299 lease on the 942. Been reasonably happy with it, save for a few annoying bugs that they've mostly worked out now. They still need to work on the fact that some of the software seems to forget the ATSC tuner is independent from...

That's why I only recommend Hitachi hard disk drives for consumer (non-SCSI) models. In my 12 years of building computers they're by far the most reliable disks made. I have had to replace two Hitachi drives out of several hundred I have sold. For SCSI I would also recommend Hitachi as well as...

I use RAID-1 (mirroring) on my server for a "live" backup of my 10,000+ photograph database. I also backup weekly to DDS150 (20 GB native) tape and recycle the tapes monthly. I have many CDs from the late 90s that are no longer readable, and some that are. They're all of various brands and even...

The 942 and the ViP622 look almost identical. In fact, the front is identical, and the rear of the ViP622 only adds composite & s-video output for the primary TV set, and an ethernet (or at least RJ-45) port. So with the two USB ports and the Cardbus slot, **WHY** can't they just send us an...

When I first received my 942 I tried to connect the 250 GB SATA drive to my Linux machine in order to image it in case of failure (it's a WDC, so it's bound to fail sooner than later... though Maxtor is worse and Seagate consumer drives are on-par; I'd prefer a Hitachi hands-down). The drive...

VOOM had the auto-change feature, though I never used it cuz my HDTV doesn't show 720p. :( The main problem I see with auto-sensing is that dumb-ass broadcasters like we have here in Columbus upconvert all of their SD programming to 720p or 1080i when they broadcast because they're lazy. Thus...

Yeah my locals are all screwed up. But here's the progression of the problem: My antenna rotator in the attic seized at 0-degrees North, but not before I realized it and suspected my cheap Radio Shack pre-amp had burned out. I bought a new Channel Master 7777 pre-amp that boasts a +26 dB gain...