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If I may, I would like to clarify one part of the puzzle a little bit. Just before Earl interviewed to work for DIRECTV, DIRECTV was also making changes as who sends out release notes. Companies are living things and some things shifted. Also, Earl was grooming the moderators to share the...

Yes. Copies of the release notes have been forwarded to both DBStalk and Satelliteguys.

Thanks moonman, I was going to make a rare appearance here to post this information. I can confirm that a phone call was placed with DIRECTV, this is not an April Fool's joke. Cheers, Tom

First off, thank you Lord Darth Vader for your support of the work Earl and I do helping the CE process. Secondly, thank you JTN for your support of the CSR tier. I talk to many of them, I know they try very hard to help customers. That is one of the things I like very much about DIRECTV...

Nothing for us H20-100's tonight.

A special new CE update will be sent tonight. Anyone who participated last night will need to re-download tonight. I expect the SatelliteGuys staff will post the CE announcement presently, but I wished to give everyone a heads up now. Until then, there is more information at DBStalk.com in...

Thanks, Bob, much appreciated. While we do our thing at DBSTalk.com, we do it for all the DIRECTV customers everywhere. Cheers, Tom

Looking at the NORAD data, I tried to figure out how long S1 was parked before Boeing turned it over to D*, but wasn't quite sure. It may have been as long as 4 months, but as Charper1 has said, I too read that S1 had problems. And S1 was the first of the family--it may have had a longer...

Spaceway 2 (nearly?) Parked! According to today's NORAD data, Spaceway 2 is very nearly parked! It has the right altitude, in the right longitude, but flys a bit north to south right now. Handoff to D* has to be close! Cheers, Tom

Spaceway 2 (nearly?) Parked! According to this morning's NORAD data, Spaceway 2 is in the right orbital slot and at the right altitude. Its bouncing a bit north and south still, but handoff to D* must be close! Cheers, Tom

HMC is the Home Media Center, kinda a super-DVR. Rumored to have 4 tuners, bigger hard disk, and able to feed streams to client boxes. Most HMC users would have one HMC to record everything and a client at each TV. Cheers, Tom

Great guesses, charper1. Satscape is correct. NORAD data is via Space Track: http://www.space-track.org. One needs to register to get data from them, but its the source that everyone uses (if I understand correctly.) The other place you can get data is http://celestrak.com/. They get...

I understand your fear. Had that too the first time, but Directv has been using pull.xmr3.com in their emailed links for some time now--Firefox warned about the link the first time. The correct link will take you to a page with the package you subscribe to. Mine is the "brown" package...

Today's NORAD data fed into SatScape puts Spaceway 2 in a narrower orbit ranging from 99.05W to 91W, .11N to .11S, and 23,160mi. to 21,300mi above ground. It seems to be getting closer to final parking orbit. Based on the orbit time changes, seems that they've been firing thrusters daily, i...

Today's NORAD data fed into SatScape puts Spaceway 2 in a narrower orbit ranging from 99.05W to 91W, .11N to .11S, and 23,160mi. to 21,300mi above ground. It seems to be getting closer to final parking orbit. Based on the orbit time changes, seems that they've been firing thrusters daily, i...

Seems to be as official as it gets, I just got the email. Total choice premier $96.99, HD $9.99. Edit: the directv package comparison pages still shows the old prices. Tom

I'm going to carefully consider my options. I very well might drop HD, some receivers, and downgrade too. I understand D* needs to make money. My gripes are twofold: a price increase this year after stating there would not be one, and a switch to lease plan without a price break for those...

Another reason was winter weather closed out many northern DMAs. I'm sad to see it won't be until April and May they start up again. Cheers, Tom

Wow. Maybe they haven't completely stopped local SD. For your sake, I hope they negotiated both SD and HD carriage. Out of curiosity, what DMA are you in? Cheers, Tom

The only thing looking like SD locals would be Alaska and Hawaii. After that, only HD locals. As for SV I've not read anything recent. There was a plan for releasing SV last November, but that didn't happen. Cheers, Tom

According to NORAD, Spaceway 2 is in a "geostationary orbit" in that it orbits the earth every 1436 minutes (one day) but not yet in what you and I would consider as truly geostationary (over its parking spot at 99 degrees.) It seems to be very close to its parking spot with an orbit that...

Since Lynsat isn't updating Spaceway 2, I pulled the latest NORAD data and plugged it into SatScape. As of 1pm MST it's showing at ~100 and attitude of 22,700 miles (a bit high for its parking orbit.) Apparently its still bouncing up and down a bit until they park it. Perhaps in testing mode...

LOL, I know the problem. Thankfully, my wife doesn't have an issue with set top boxes. But my mother-in-law is getting to the point where turning the TV on/off is occassionally even an issue. So we kept basic, basic, basic cable for her. In our area, that actually isn't that limited and...

dervari, What you propose will likely work for quite some time--until you want a channel that moves to the lower Ka range.:) And that isn't likely for quite some time. The big trick is ensuring that the diplexer close to the AT-9 filters out the lower frequencies from the sat. side. You may...

Yes, MoCA is meant to work with splitters. Its meant to work with darn near everything a "typical" household will have, tho milage will vary for people who are still in rg59 held together with twisted connections. :) MoCA link: http://www.mocalliance.org/en/index.asp Happy New Year! Tom