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  1. Jim S.

    One week til the Eurovision Song Contest

    The semifinals are May 7th and 9th, and the final is May 11. It appears that RTPi will be carrying it live at 3PM EDT on the 7th, delayed to 5:30 PM EDT on the 9th, and live at 3PM EDT on the 11th. BVN is carrying it, but I can't find a way to get their website to tell me what timezone the...
  2. Jim S.

    anybody else having audio dropouts on AXS TV?

    It's been happening for a few weeks, and seems to be getting worse. I know my dish alignment isn't fantastic, but there are no breakups on any other channels, and more to the point, there's no break whatsoever in the video, just the audio.
  3. Jim S.

    how much would it cost to get this disgusting pole mount fixed?

    A local retailer put this dish in, I think about 10 years ago. I don't remember how long the pole was, but as you can see there's 4 feet above ground, so I'm sure there's no more than 2 feet underground, if it's even a 6-foot pole and not 5 feet. More to the point, the ground was very rocky...
  4. Jim S.

    does HWS H264 have a bug with watching a recording in progress?

    Wednesday night I was watching the hockey game on TNT. I started the recording from the beginning about an hour after it began, forwarding all the commercials and the first intermission. About two minutes into the second period, the screen suddenly froze, and "Live TV" flashed a couple of...
  5. Jim S.

    "Select For Moderation"

    I'm seeing a "Select For Moderation" checkbox to the left of the Report button on posts in the Back Room.
  6. Jim S.

    Arnie Coro passes

    https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/309905-prominent-cuban-journalist-and-professor-arnaldo-coro-antich-passes-away
  7. Jim S.

    are NHL games on TNT supposed to be blacked out?

    I don't remember it being so last season, but this Wednesday's game is listed as unavailable for me on Dish.
  8. Jim S.

    is anyone else having trouble with commercials on Animal Planet tonight?

    Almost every commercial break, there will come a point where the screen will go black and stay black no matter how long I wait. The only way out of it is to change the channel. I can change back and it'll work til the next commercial break. I also can't rewind through this black screen, so...
  9. Jim S.

    channel 218, "Binge"

    So, I never even knew this channel existed. But my SO just tuned in to "21 Jump Street" and the audio is clicking and popping like it's streaming via a dialup connection, or a primitive cell phone. The video isn't breaking up, so I don't think it's a signal issue. Who put this garbage on...
  10. Jim S.

    Eurovision Song Contest week

    It looks like Peacock is going to be streaming it in the U.S. this year, but if you want to do it old-school and watch on satellite, we still have a few European channels left. RTPi on 97W Ku is going to be airing it live Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 3PM EDT. BVN on 113W Ku is going to...
  11. Jim S.

    Edision OS Mio 4k stuck on "boot" and blue screen

    Today I tried to access my Mio from my PC and found it unresponsive. I went to the TV and selected the Mio's input and found a solid blue screen. At this point, the Mio's front-panel clock was still running. It wouldn't respond to the remote, so I pulled the power. When I reconnected it, it...
  12. Jim S.

    DVR alert: Battlebots

    My series timer isn't picking up tonight's episode at 8 EST, even though it's listed as New. (In fact, it's not even picking it up as an old one.)
  13. Jim S.

    anybody else have NO guide data for any channel for today and tomorrow?

    Been that way all day. I thought maybe my dish was full of ice at the nightly reboot time, so I initiated a manual guide reload. Nothing changed. Guide data resumes at 12AM on Wednesday.
  14. Jim S.

    is Dish Anywhere not showing DVR recordings for anyone else?

    Hopper With Sling, Windows 10, latest Chrome. It claims that there are no DVR recordings available and 0% space used. The recordings are OK when viewed on the TV. Firefox DOES show all the recordings, but I can't watch them on Firefox for no reason that has ever been adequately explained.
  15. Jim S.

    why won't Dish fix their idiotic guide issues?

    Tonight's new episode of The Curse of Oak Island didn't record. A quick comparison of the guide listings vs. an online list revealed the likely problem: the episode numbers, titles, and dates don't correspond! Next week's episode also has the wrong number and title, but so far *is* showing as...
  16. Jim S.

    Sidebar shows up every time I load a page

    Just started happening tonight.
  17. Jim S.

    is Hulu's account management website always garbage, or is this just a bad day?

    I changed ISPs, and I'm trying to change my email address for Hulu. Had no problem with Disney or ESPN, but Hulu wants to send a confirmation code to my email. Luckily I still have the old address til I get everything changed over, but the problem is, the confirmation code never comes. I've...
  18. Jim S.

    same software, new weirdness -- anybody see anything like this?

    My H2 has been on version H206 since early June, but there's been some notable new flakiness this week. I checked out the Olympic schedule app Thursday night, and through it, set up a timer to record the opening ceremonies from my local NBC channel Friday evening. Today I finally got around to...
  19. Jim S.

    skipping event in conflict resolution deletes timer entirely

    I've had this happen at least twice, so it's NOT a fluke. Something VERY wrong is going on with my Hopper With Sling. I've had several incidents recently when setting up a one-time timer for the next day, or several days later, while three series timers are due to record. I get the conflict...
  20. Jim S.

    finally, it's Eurovision Song Contest week again

    The broadcasters likely to be carrying it on North American Ku-band are BVN, TVRi, and RTPi. BVN is, according to their EPG, carrying all three rounds (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) delayed at 8 PM EDT. I believe TVRi is carrying it live at 3 PM EDT. I haven't tried to check RTPi's...
  21. Jim S.

    how do you set up wifi on Edision OS Mio?

    I'm trying to set up my new Edision and I can't find ANYTHING in the menu to enable wifi! The setup wizard green-screened when trying to connect to a network, but it never even said anything about connecting to a wifi network so I'm assuming it was only looking at the ethernet port, which isn't...
  22. Jim S.

    DVR alert: "Assembly Required" on History

    My series timer didn't record last night's episode, and wasn't going to record next week's episode. They weren't just not marked as new, they didn't even appear as timer events at all, as if they were a different show.
  23. Jim S.

    So what's going on with CNN?

    From reports on downdetector dot com, it seems to only be a Dish problem.
  24. Jim S.

    On Demand "Watch Now" vs "Watch Later"

    Selecting "Watch Later" used to download the show in the background so there'd be no pauses when played. Now, it apparently does nothing other than put the show in a list. I can't remember whether this was a software change or whether it coincided with me switching from DSL (where watching...
  25. Jim S.

    VLF demo transmission Sunday morning

    https://alexander.n.se/alexanderson-day-2020/?lang=en