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    Timer Recording vs. Tivo

    Gross exaggeration.
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    Just got Yellow Card

    Received mine yesterday. Swap process was painless. Didn't lose any recordings, timers, settings, etc... My only mistake was calling the main 800 number for Dish to have it activated before realizing there is a special 866 number on the paperwork for these yellow card activations. Didn't...
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    How commonly practiced is it...

    for a landlord to give a tenant a discount on rent or some other token gesture goodwill concessions while an apartment building is being sold to a new owner? Curious if anyone here has been through this before and if there are any standard operating procedures a lot of landlords go by. I've...
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    DVR fee

    [/Bob Hallerism the impending apocalypse is coming to Dish Network!]
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    Some 721 bugs I have noticed lately

    All the same thing at the end of the day. I call them idiosynchracies since they are very minor issues in the grand scheme of things and I've only had the program guide problem happen to me a few times. Quick reboot and it was as good as new. Slow motion, frame advance, skip forward, and skip...
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    Dish Earnings Conference Call and reported HD Plans...

    No need to be a wiseass. Nothing I've ever posted towards you to date has ever been condescending or inflammatory to the degree you've done above. My contention was that I bet the MPAA had threatened Dish with potential lawsuits along with DirecTV, Comcast, and all the other major cable/sat...
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    Dish Earnings Conference Call and reported HD Plans...

    Have we even established that the firewire ports on these HD Motorola DVR Comcast boxes are active? I just read an exceptionally long thread in a PVR forum about these exact receivers in which people repeatedly posted the firewire was disabled/dead. Appears to be much the same solution that...
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    Some 721 bugs I have noticed lately

    Those aren't new problems. I've noticed both those idiosynchracies in previous software revisions.
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    Where can I buy a 921 + HDTV Bundle?

    Original poster wants both the 921 and the HDTV combo for the low price.
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    Dish Earnings Conference Call and reported HD Plans...

    I don't think the Comcast in my area has even had an HD recordable receiver available to subscribers for very long (if at all yet) fwiw. Dish has had the 921 out in the field for almost a year now. The MPAA cares more about people having perfect HD copies freely available to share then they do...
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    Dish Liquidating 25,000 40" HDTV's $699

    You live in a part of the country where it makes a lot of sense for Dish to have low-cost all inclusive HD offerings for its consumers. Rural America isn't typically looking for the highest end luxury gear available as the satellite forums typically pay tribute to every day. Considering how...
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    Dish Earnings Conference Call and reported HD Plans...

    My understanding is that Dish finalized the design of the 921 long before it ever shipped to the consumers. Like a lot of other Dish Network receivers before it, it was late to market by at least a year if not longer by general consumer expectations following its unveiling at a trade show...
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    Got some response to my Tech Chat questions. Interesting. Very Interesting...

    WeeJavaDude, you can't assume everyone is up to speed on abbreviations/acronyms like "NBR". Spell it out in plain english next time! People ask on a dailly basis what E* and D* stand for here for comparisons sake. Your question about why the price drop on the 921 kind of confused me a bit...
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    Dish Earnings Conference Call and reported HD Plans...

    Awesome post mike123abc. This one really caught my eye. Glad you are a regular contributor here as I really enjoy reading your voice of reason posts all the time. We should all be a bit more cautious against prematurely making mountains out of molehills when focusing in on things of this...
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    Dish Earnings Conference Call and reported HD Plans...

    I see this kind of arguement posed pretty frequently in the Dish forums. I thought the MPAA threatened to sue the pants off of Echostar if they went ahead with their plans to have firewire enabled on the 921. This was a Hollywood versus the rest of the broadcasting industry pre-emptive strike...
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    (Updated) Replies to your questions from Dish

    That makes two of us. I think Dish will do the right thing here same as they've done previously.
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    Halo 2

    The Collectors Edition was selling new for thirty something dollars the other day on MTVshops.com with an online coupon. Unfortunately the deal ended very quickly after someone posted news of this on FatWallet.
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    Halo 2

    I've found Live to be a mixed bag over the past year and half. Last night I signed on to play MechAssault for a bit and someone on my own team was shooting the daylights out of me. That kind of thing happens pretty frequently in a lot of shooting games. You are SOL if the person doing it...
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    Halo 2

    All the bonus features on the extra DVD got rave reviews from the review crew in The Official X-Box Magazine this month. I think the phrase was: "anyone with any remote interest at all in the game or Bungie as a company will really enjoy all this additional content". Will be interesting to see...
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    I have to rant

    I do honestly feel bad for the people who were burned by the latest 921 price drop, but you do willingly accept that risk anytime you make a purchase with a credit card without first verifying whether you will have 30 day or more price protection guarantee should something like this situation...
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    Anyone Watching LP Channels Tongint???

    Not necessarily true. Fast action sports events require more bandwidth dedicated to look good then your average sitcom or movie. With the NHL lockout, the regional sports channels are broadcasting things like flyfishing and a ton of paid programming infomercials 24-7. This frees up all kinds...
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    I have to rant

    caveat emp·tor Audio pronunciation of "caveat emptor" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mptôr) n. The axiom or principle in commerce that the buyer alone is responsible for assessing the quality of a purchase before buying. Caveat emptor [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him...
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    First Look: Dish 942 HD/SD Receiver (Updated 1/24/05)

    I bet it will include HDMI once its finally released.
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    Anyone Watching LP Channels Tongint???

    Wonder where the bandwidth is being diverted to from all the NHL Center Ice games that are MIA this season.