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  1. wolfjc

    NHL Center ICE and know nothing CSRs

    I called Dish yesterday 9/18 to try and find out about Center Ice, like price ect, since I could not find anything on the Dish site. The poor CSR I talked to told me that the NHL season starts in January. I told her that that's when it started last year because of the lockout. But she had NO...
  2. wolfjc

    VIP211 hard drive

    I know that this was answered but I can't find it so here goes. My external hard drive died on my VIP211 so I went looking for a new one. I had a real hard time finding a 1 TB external power supply. I could find a LOT of 2TB drives. So my question is will a VIP211 talk to a 2TB drive but...
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    VIP211 hangs

    I have a VIP211 with the EHD option and I have a problem with it. Sometimes when I am looking at the program guide it freezes and I can't make it move or go back to the program. If I let it wait for awhile it will unfreeze and it will work ok but it always gets this problem. Also when I view...
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    How do I change credit card info?

    My credit card expires this month and I have a new card which expires in 2015. So my question is how do I change the expirey date to 2015 with out paying on the bill? The CSR I spoke to said I have wait for a zero balance or pay the outstanding balance before I can change the expirey date. This...
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    May need to add a receiver

    My grandson may be moving in with us and I am wondering how to go about getting a second VIP211. Should I get the package which will cut the service call cost? How much will a second receiver cost? How much a month will a second receiver cost? My other TV receiver is an old Sony and it...
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    Ala carte?

    This is from Canada. Does any one think that this can happen here in the USA? Customers frustrated with paying for television channels they don't want can expect more flexible packages in light of a new ruling by Canada's broadcast regulator, though exactly how it will work has not been...
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    Voom Settlement?

    From Deadline Hollywood: AMC and Cablevision’s breach of contract case against Dish for dropping the long defunct VOOM HD channels has been kicking around for years, but now is due to go to trial in September. And the smart money is starting to bet that Dish will settle to avoid being...
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    may need to add a second receiver

    My grandson may be moving in with my wife and me. I have a 32" Sony TV in the basement which is never used the grandson will reside in the basement. So my question is what Dish receiver do you guys suggest? I have a VIP211 with the EHD turned on and I am thinking of installing another VIP211 for...
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    Black out and NHL Center ICE

    I am a Wings fan so I always check ahead to see when the Wings are on so I can set up a automatic tune in. When I found that the the Wings are on Feb. 8th but they are blacked out, at least in Cincinnati, I don't understand why since Detroit is more than 250 miles from Cincy and this is the...
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    NHL Center C and blackouts

    I am a Wings fan so I always check ahead to see when the Wings are on so I can set up a automatic tune in. When I found that the the Wings are on Feb. 8th but they are blacked out, at least in Cincinnati, I don't understand why since Detroit is more than 250 miles from Cincy and this is the...
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    Getting around the NFL blackout

    Just rfead this in the Cincinnati newspaper: "Blackout? What blackout? That’s so last week. This week, we’re dealing with a friend from out of town. He has a Slingbox and Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. We tell him what the patrons at our establishment want to watch. That’d be Bengals-Texans. He...
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    Wings blackout on CI

    I live in Cincinnati and follow the Wings so I am wondering why the Wings vs the JETS is blacked out for us on Saturday on CI in Cincinnati. No WINGS game has ever been blacked out before. The ONLY reason that I buy CI is to get ALL the WINGS games. Does anyone know who I should call to get...
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    Stumbled into software update???

    On 11/26/11 I was having a problem with CI on dish so I went to the menu and pushed twice to get the info page which has the help number. Then some how I got into the SOFTWARE UPDATE pages this thing takes FOREVER to do anything so since I was talking to the CSR on his instruction I unplugged...
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    Wings and CI on Dish

    On 11/26/11 I tuned in to the Wings HD feed on Dish and I got FOOTBALL game it was BTN. I checked the SD feed and the Nashville HD feed and they were the hockey game. Did anyone else have this problem? I know that my son had the same problem. After awhile it went back to hockey I can't...
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    HD and HNIC

    I have been reading over in the DBSTALK forum that Direct now carries the HNIC HD feed from Canada. My question if Direct can do this how come Dish can't do so also?
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    VIP211 & EHD problems

    I have this problem my center speaker, from my AV receiver, decided to learn to fly but since it does not have wings this failed and it crashed onto my EHD killing it. After I had replaced the speaker I found out that VIP software wanted me to reformat the EHD but it said that there is an error...
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    Center Ice and HD

    For all of you who still think that Dish has few or no HD feeds on Center Ice here are some facts for you. I was checking out Fridays and Saturdays hockey lineup and found that ALL of the teams had At LEAST 1 HD feed and 8 had two feeds. This is,of course, not including the VS feed.:)
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    Center Ice Screw up

    I tuned in to center ice channel 627 to watch the Habs-Thrashers but the channel had a cage fight in instead in HD,no less, and the SD channel had a slate on it. So I called Dish tech support and she had NO idea about hockey or the fact that the Atlanta FSN channel is not able to show NHL games...
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    FOX network and the NLLCS HD

    I just found this. Has anyone else seen this? Commentary Fox: Playing Games w/Baseball's HD Pix By Swanni Washington, D.C. (October 21, 2010) -- Cablevision viewers, do you have a high-def set? If so, you may think you're missing Fox's HD coverage of this week's NL Championship Series between...
  20. wolfjc

    New install & HD

    My daughter is having Direct installed on Saturday and I have a question. Does she have to do anything in order to have HD free for life or will she get this with out doing anything? Thanks in advance.
  21. wolfjc

    Club Diah question

    My daughter lives in North Carolina and she is having Dish installed. So my question is since I am in Cincinnati can I just give her the number off the club dish that I got in the mail a few weeks ago or does she have to have the actual club dish card? I have already given her the number so...
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    Dish & Fox

    I just found this on Swanni's site. Has any one else heard of this? News Digest Dish Network Could Lose Fox Programming TVPredictions.com Washington, D.C. (September 8, 2010) -- Dish Network subscribers apparently are facing the possibility of losing some Fox programming networks on...
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    RSN and HD

    I am from Cincinnati and the other day I was watching the REDS on FSN CINCINNATI and The guide said that the game was also in HD on the same channel 427 but it never was. I called in but it never did show up but it was on one of the ALT HD channels in the 400 range. Does any one have any idea...
  24. wolfjc

    Picture freezes

    Can any one explain this to me? I haveaVIP211 with EHD and some times the HD picture freezes but the sound is ok. If I go the the guide the picture is ok and as long as I don't change the channel it stays ok. Now in the past two days this problem has not happened. It seems very strange.
  25. wolfjc

    Helping brother in law.

    My brother in law wanted to dump Time Warner and go with Dish. He even went so far to order the 250 gold package. Then he talked to me about the DVR function. He says that he can record two programs and watch a third at the same time with his TW system. When I told him that he can't do that...