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    Competition Heating Up!

    As a dish subscriber Comcast is offering me: 29.99 digital cable with HBO and Showtime 29.99 High Speed internet... FOR A YEAR for both. HD is 9.95 for channels and box. Pretty good deal, I say.
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    Schematic for use of DP34 Switch?

    Does anyone have a schematic for hooking up the DP34? I'm thinking of adding the second 61.5 dish myself. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. I presently have an 811 box, and a 311.
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    Help - Program guide

    Is is just me, or does the program guide have to manually download every couple of days? Is there some setting that i'm missing to allow it to update itself? It's really annoying to go to view the guide and have to wait a minute for it to download. That's my biggest pet peeve with Dish Network...
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    What Will Happen Now

    What's important now is what happens to the programing. Echostar may now push to take over the Voom channels. This may happen now because now Ergen may be able to get them at a cheaper price since it has already been decided that Voom, as a satellite provider, will be no more. If this...
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    From Utopia Theatre: Who's Voomin Whom

    Utopia Theater: Who's VOOMing Whom? Michael Fremer, February, 2005 The king of HD satellite service sells some of its assets to competitor Echo Star. A press release arrived in my email inbox just the other day announcing that Cablevision was throwing in the towel and selling off...
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    How long 'til Voom goes dark?

    Unfortunately folks, Voom may go dark pretty damn soon. Possibly within days. Even though the sale of the satellite needs to be approved by the SEC (which it will have no problem getting - there are no competition issues here), Cablevision may want to get it shut down ASAP. If there has been...
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    ANy recommendations for ReplayTV with DishNetwork

    Is anyone using ReplayTV and have any recommendations one way or another. Will it work with DishNetwork?
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    Having install done right now - help!

    does the 811 power an amplified rooftop antenna?
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    HDTV install wiring question.

    I currently have Voom but am switching to e*. I will have 1 811 box and a 311 box. I also have an antenna that I receive my OTA on. (Voom will just be taking the box.)The two signals, dish and antenna, are connected with a di-plexor at the dish, then split at the box. Will the installer be...
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    Voom needs to make news with exclusives!

    Beyonce NUDE- That got your attention! They need to make news with some exclusive content that everybody wants. I already subscribe (til saturday), but Voom needs something exclusive. Think....Beyonce'......in HD.......on PlayboyHD........ Something like that would get subs....FAST...
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    ESPN 2 looked awful last night

    The MD-Wisconsin game looked horrible last night. Did anyone else notice this?
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    Do they take the dish during uninstall?

    Do contractors take down the dish itself, or do they just pull the box? Anyone know?
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    Voom is great, but moving to e*

    Well folks, it's been great. Thanks for answering some of my silly questions, and making sure to belittle them as well. I've gotten a lot of good advice from some of you. I do really like voom, but they haven't managed to add the RSN's, which was eventually a deal breaker. Also, i've had...
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    Leave Voom because of no Sports channel?

    Vomm still doesn't have Comcast Sportsnet. (I love my Wizards and hate to miss a game.) I really like Voom and can't afford 2 providers. Give me some good reasons not to go to Dish Network. Why hasn't Voom added the regional sports networks? It's a little infuriating.
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    Ran - Kurosawa film - PG guide bad?

    Every time I see that this is on - It isn't. Does anyone know if the PG guide is wrong and that it is really is airing, but at a different time? Id' like to see it in HD.
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    60 Minutes Conspiracy - Loss of signal?

    I've been hearing on Air America that apparently there were "transmission problems" last night between 8pm and 8:30, which just happened to be the same time that 60 Minutes was airing a negative report about George Bush's National Guard service. Direct TV is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a big...
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    Voom Satellite Is Down?

    I get my locals, but get only black on channels above 100. The satelite signal is showing the usual 99 for signal strength. Anyone else having a problem?
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    Software 6.x - Self installation?

    The latest software version (6.x), imho, is cleaerly geared toward self-installation. Anyone disagree? Seems like it's a step towards just that, which would help Voom quite a bit.
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    Great Idea! Kung Fu In Hd

    Voom should buy a whole bunch of Asian kung fu flicks and start a HD channel of just those flicks in HD! I'm a genius - where's my check? (They could drop one of their other movie channels)
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    What is a Transponder?

    And why should I care what that is. (hey, i'm sure i'm not the only one who reads these threads who doesn't know)
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    Is Predator supposed to be on?

    channel 103?
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    Shaq in the EAST! MUST HAVE SPORTSNET

    Ok, Shaq is in the eastern conference. I will say this now: Voom MUST have Comcast Sportsnet by November or I will have to SERIOUSLY consider going back to Comcast. I am an admitted Wizards fan and they should be better. I rarely miss a game. When are the regionals coming? Do we even know if...
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    OTA Antenna Reviews

    Does anyone know of anyplace (website, magazine) that has actual antenna reviews? I'm surprised that Sound and Vision hasn't done any yet.
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    Turn Off STB to Recieve New Software?

    Should you really have to turn off you STB to recieve the software? Seems to me that most people like myself only turn their TV off at night, not the STB. If you didn't read these forums with geeks like you guys who know that, how would you get the download? And I mean 'geeks' in the best...
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    New Software Coming Or Not?

    Does anyone have any idea if the new software is coming soon? Or, is it not coming soon? Has this been just hype and the new software isn't coming anytime soon? Does anyone know anything definitively, or even close to definitively? Can Wilt chime in on this?