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For two days now, it seems the main page is skewed and it doesn't fit the page right. Is this something unique to me or is everyone seeing the same thing?

I am considering switching to D*. I have a land line in my house but was going to cancel telephone service and use my cell phone. I have a cable internet connection. I am considering getting 4 HDDVRs and was told by a local satellite dealer in town that the HDDVR would "not work" unless...

Is this the future of on screen ads during programming? (watch the whole video) :) YouTube - These ads are getting out of hand!

I noticed in the E* channel chart that several HD channels, like TNT, SHO, DiscTh (to name a few), that we currently get in MPEG2 are uplinked on spotbeams for Hawaii and Alaska in MPEG4. If we get these channels now in MPEG2, why can't we get them in MPEG4 if it's available? I would think...

Today, I was watching programs on HBOHD and Discovery Theater HD and found the HD picture quality to be worse than what it used to be. There was motion blurriness even during the slightest movement. Has E* or these programmers done anything recently to cause the picture quality to decline so...

I currently have E* and am considering a switch to D*. I have an old dish500 and a dual LNB. I want to use this dish at the other end of my house for SD ONLY because I don't want to have to run a long coax cable from the new D* slimline dish with 5 LNBs. Can the dish and LNB be used with a D*...

For the first time this weekend, I have been noticing a lot of picture breakup on both HBO and SHO hd. Does anyone know if E* is messing around with the 110 sat? I checked all my readings and nothing has changed.

This slasher movie is very disturbing but, is the perfect horror movie for the Halloween season. It's in HD too. Watch it. I give it :up:up

In the E* specs for the VIP 222/722 MPEG4 receivers they include the following information: TV1 display supports four resolutions: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i SD content is up-converted. HD and SD output is simultaneous. It says SD content is up-converted. This statement is...

I know it's been less than a week but, can anyone give an "objective" comparison of like MPEG4 channels for D* and E* yet? Objective information only please and no hate posts. :)

The comedian, Lewis Black gave a pointed monologue criticizing network executives for interrupting programs with pop ups, crawls, banners and any other obnoxious, intrusive stuff they distract you with during the program you are watching. The audience seemed responsive with their chants and...

I live in the Southwest and completed lost signal on both 129 and 119. The signal on 100 is ok. I have a D500 for 110/119 and a second dish for 129. I can't get through to tech support because the line is constantly busy. Is anyone else having the same problem?

I noticed that E* recently added 5 additional HD channels on transponder 27 on 129; previously, there were only 3 (A&E 9419, UNIV 9427 and MAX 9458). The new channels are: ALTUD 360; HD SOURCE CHANNELS FOR SPORTS PACK 5791, 5792, 5793; and TEST CHANNEL MP271 5890. Since they added these...

I rarely watched anything on Cinemax. Since MaxHD was added last month, I'm liking watching it more and more. I think the HD picture quality has surpassed StarzHD and HBO and Sho, IMO. The Star Wars movies today were exceptionally good and in OAR. I'm hopin that it will continue to get...

Over the past week, I noticed that STARZHD is showing more and more movies in 4:3 instead of the 16:9 format. The movies (like Blade, Blade Trinity, Batman & Robin etc) were previously aired in HD 16:9 and now appear in 4:30 SD on channel 9435. Does anyone know what's going on...is it a STARZ...

How many subscribers still have the "old" MPEG2-HD receivers as compared to those subscribers who upgraded to the "new" VIP HD receivers. Does anyone know the stats? Just curious.

I had to clear my vision several times tonight because the quality of all the HD channels seemed to be much clearer, more colorful and almost no motion blurriness. Is it possible that E* boosted resolution and/or bitrate on all the HD channels for the CES? Even VOOM seemed much better. It's...

I noticed that most of the transponders used for non-local HD channels on the 129 satellite have 3 channels assigned to each transponder except: transponder 19 (2 channels); transponder 27 (1 channel) and transponder 30 (4 channels). Does the number of channels per transponder impact picture...

I just sent the following email to dishquality@echostar.com: I notice a degradation in picture quality on the following HD channels: 9425 NFLHD 9429 NTGHD 9435 STZHD 9461 HGHD There are terrible motion artifacts and lots of macroblocking. The picture on STZHD is...

This morning I noticed that the software was updated from L341 to L343 on my VIP211 receiver. I haven't figured out what problems it fixed.

Recently, I have noticed popup ads for upcoming shows during programs on Showtime. Tonite, I was watching Dexter and several popups for Sleeper Cell appeared. This happens on other shows also. I find them annoying and distracting. Sometimes they appear right at a high-point in a show. I...

Earlier this week, my 211 receiver was updated with the new software version L342. This morning, I checked the info screen and it was back to L341. Does anyone know why the new version was replaced with the old version?

Here's a link that shows E* HD programming resolution and bitrate for each channel. The information was last updated in December, 2005. Is there something more current so we can compare the picture quality we get today vs. what it was in December, 2005? Might be an interesting comparison...

I have a VIP211 receiver and the audio is connected to my Yamaha receiver using an optical cable. Ever since the software upgrade from 268 to 340/41, all the 5.1 audio on all E* HD channels (including my OTA locals) keeps cutting in and out. The audio on SD is fine. The worst channel is...

Today I received the L340 software update to my VIP211. Today I started having intermittent audio problems on both the E* channels (both SD & HD) and the locals, including off-air channels. The audio keeps stuttering and quickly cutting out and in every couple of minutes. Resetting the...