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  1. lovswr

    Want DirecTV & FiOS Internet. Is this viable?

    WOOHOOO, after almost 7 years in the (cable) desert, I'm coming back home to D*. House is in the Tampa Bay suburbs. I want FiOS internet & D* for whole-home HD TV service. Is this going to work right out of the box or am I gonna have to get some custom (read segregated) wiring to get this...
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    New Dish install: What do I need to get HDTV service for 5 HDTV's

    Hello, a friend of my recently got a new house built & decided to use Dish as this was (they felt) the best deal at that time. She has 5 HDTV's & would like HDTV service at EACH location. As far as I can tell, this is what was told to Dish at time of order. What they got was on 722 & 2 other...
  3. lovswr

    Tuner keeps going black on HR20

    My Setup: Two HR20-700's & 3 SD boxes. Sympton: One tuner (1 or 2 does not matter) loses all transponsders every night; Temp Fix: reset box OR got to ant page & look at all the 0's on all 5 birds. Come out of ant readings & wait for the tuner that is working to "switch over". Resetting the...
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    Only 1 tuner on either HR20

    Hello, as you can see by the system in my sig I have two HR20-700's. For the past 2 or 3 weeks, when I get home from work, one or the other (but never both at the same time) will lose one of the tuners completely (771). That is to say, when I check signal strength I get all 0's on one of the...
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    Zinwell 4x8 has one bad output port?

    Can a Zinwell 4x8 fail in such a way that only one output port (#3) is bad? I have a Slimline, the aformentioned Zinwell & two Hr20-700's & two D10-200's (I used to have an older RCA for the 7th tuner but when I started to get this problem I just disconnected it) Now both of the D10's do...
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    F. Y. I. for current H10 owners

    Just got off the phone with D* retention & am getting a HR20 on 10 April. They charged me 199 for the HR20 divided over 3 months. Months 2 & 3 were waived over the phone while I waited & I only have to pay the 66 for month 1. Also since I am a Total Choice Premeir customer I get 20 dollars...
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    Well, this morning my H10 updated

    ... Seeing how this is an obsolete, MPEG-2 only, non DVR box, does anybody know why they did this? I have had this box for about 18 months & it went from .403 to .433 (if my feeble memory serves). at aout 5 Eastern this morning.
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    Is the H10 search function broken?

    Ok, I have been trying to search on the various College football games all day. I'm watching the Ten v Florida match right now. A search on just the keyword Football & ALL categories does not find it, nor the other 3 live games on right now. Actually, when I do any search of any type with a)...
  9. lovswr

    I thought you needed an AT-9 to get HD Locals?

    :confused: I'm in Atlanta, 30281 specifically. I have an H10 & just a few minutes ago, for some odd, unknown reason I started at channel 2 & just went up the channels. Much to my surprise I now have 27-5 & 27-6. They are my local FOX affiliate WAGA-TV channel 5 (which also show up as 5-1 &...
  10. lovswr

    Direct Tivo will can not see satty

    But a D10-200 in the same place does. I came home from work yesterday, went into my bedroom, & my Tivo would not get any local channels. Everything above 100 was OK just no locals. So I make it do a check & now it can not see anything. This Tivo & my H10 are both connected to a Tripple LNB...
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    How sensitive is the OTA tuner on the H10?

    I have a Sony 42" A10 HDTV that I just bought last Saturday. With a $9 RCA set of rabbit ears from Waly-World I can get 12 digital stations with the sets built in tuner. The H10 gets none. I got both the passive & amplified versions of the Terk indoor HDTV antennae. Again the H10 sees...
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    Got H10 @ BB. Do I have to pay for new dish?

    Just picked up the H10 at BB. Since I also got a 42' Sony LCD projection, I got the H10 for a 100 bucks. Got home & called D*. I have to go back to Best Buy to get a triple LNB/Oval dish installed (I currently have the round/single LNB jobby). I am an existing customer. Am I going to have...
  13. lovswr

    Remote that works with DirecTV

    Can anybody recommend a CHEAP remote that works with DirecTv Receivers & Sony stuff? (D-10 & D-10 200 specifically; especially the D10-200) I have tried two All-4-Ones & a couple of cheap (by cheap I mean 30 bucks or less but I would probably go up to 60 if I have to) & nobody seems to control...
  14. lovswr

    Dolby Digital not working?

    I did not really notice this until two nights ago. My phillips tive is not outputting in DD anymore. Sepcifically, I recorded Usher (live in PR several months ago). It was DD 2.0 & played back as such but now it is not. Yes I have record & output Dolby Digital selected. I did a search for...
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    How to record 2nd showing: Season Pass

    I have a seaon pass for some late night Cartoon Network show (by individual shows to include Futurama, Inuyasha(sic?), etc. Now this block is normally shown at 2300 & then repeated, at I believe, 0200. I would like the seaon pass to only record during the secon block. When I started the seaon...
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    Power outage?

    Just got my TIVO a cople of weeks ago. All was gong fine until last Tue. Power outage at the house & now The Daily Show with John Stewart is recorded all 4 times a day the Comedy Central runs the same episode. Before it would just get the "new" one at 11p.m. I had a Season pass for this & I...
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    Local channels in ATL out?

    I live in the greater Metropolitan Atlanta Area. About 15 minutes ago 8300 to 8306 (locak channels 2, 5, 9, 11 etc) just went out. Actually we had Entertainment Tonight on as background "noise" while eating dinner. The 301 (I have 4 total with a dishqead 500 setup) was tuned to 8300 (local...
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    301 skipping when using up/down buttons

    I have 4 301's. Just last night one of them started this strange problem. If I direct tune to any channel,all is good. If I try to use the up/down buttons, I get skipped back to A&E (I think that's channel 119). For example..I am a C-span junkie. On the weekends I am forever up/downing...