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    5 LNB installation problems

    Has anyone had to refuse installation of the 5 LNB dish because there was no safe way to mount the hefty hardward on the house? Last month I had an installer come out and tried to talk me into installing the new 40-50 pound dish using two screws. I sent him away and decided I'd sink a steel...
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    News on Free upgrades to mpeg4

    Here's an entertaining site with news on what D* is going to do for its HD subscriber base as it roles out mpeg4. This is a good news story http://www.tvpredictions.com/freehdtv090605.html
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    After my D* CSR fiasco, I checked out Dish.

    Just to help my blood pressure return to normal, after my CSR fiasco documented in a post last week on the DirecTV forum, I got on the web and the phone with DISH to see what it would cost me to exactly replace my D* hardware and services with DISH. I have one HD receiver and 2 DS receivers...
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    After my D* CSR fiasco, I checked out Dish.

    Just to help my blood pressure return to normal, after my CSR fiasco documented in a post last week, I got on the web and the phone with DISH to see what it would cost me to exactly replace my D* hardware and services with DISH. I have one HD receiver and 2 DS receivers, subscribe to Total...
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    Ever had D* CS ruin a perfectly fine evening?

    I did last night. Spent two hours from 7pm until 9pm with 3 different people about a problem that appeared last night. I noticed that all my HD network stations had gone dark, including the west coasties where I live. So at 7pm, when my cellphone charges are zero, I called. CS #1 spent 25...
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    Don't want TIVO, but do want an occassional recording

    Hi everyone and here's the question. Is it feasible to buy a DVD recorder and hook it up to my H10 Directv receiver to record broadcasts, specifically NFL games? I don't have land-line phones in my house as we all use cell phones. So I can't hook up Tivo to a phone jack like they want. I...
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    Wayward Transponders

    I have a irregular problem with some of my HD channels where the transponder signal goes to 0. This doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes I get HDBravo, sometimes the signal isn't there. I also ocassionally lose non HD channels such as ch 360 and the HBO's at 502-508. There are no line...