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    My Dish Offer

    I got this offer this morning - such a deal - it started yesterday :coco
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    DVR recording question

    One of my timers is set to "seek". I am getting multiple duplicate recordings of episodes from a local station, and USA network. Both are "HD". Is there a good way to decide which one to keep? Thanks!
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    File transfer benchmarks / advice

    I'm transferring many years of programs from old to new drives, and reorganizing my saved programs (which is proving difficult given the inability to manage folders/rename files on EHDs, but I digress...:confused:). Before starting this project, all existing USB 2.0 harware was...
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    Tuner conflicts with Hopper 3

    I've never seen this before - I thought the Hopper 3 had 16 individual tuners. I'm on software 339 (tried 4 times to upgrade to 341 but, whatever). I tried a pull-plug-from-wall reset (30 seconds) but it booted up to the same. What may be part of the issue is "Dateline NBC" is listed 3 times...
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    EHD recommendations/advice

    Now that I've lost yet another EHD, this one on my Wally, as a glutton for punishment I'll buy one last EHD before leaving. Dish specs say "500G to 2T". I'd like to go with a Solid State 500G as we don't record more than 20-50 hours of content on our Wally. How important is the 500G spec...
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    Did Dish trash another one of my EHDs?

    Echostar BUD, then with Dish since their first year. This has to be the 8th or 9th EHD of mine over the years that needed to be reformatted. I have a Wally for my RV (with the subject EHD which was working perfectly) which I deactivated in May. The EHD has been velcroed onto it for years. It...
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    54.0 remotes interfering

    Hopper3 in the living room, and the nearest Joey is 30 feet away in a bedroom with one standard sheetrocked wall between the units. Both units have 54.0 remotes. When the Joey TV is turned on, the Hopper3 often goes into standby. Other control anomolies on the Hopper occur at varying times of...
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    Locast App

    It is so much easier to watch our Apollo-removed CBS local (KIRO) on the Locast App rather than switch TV to OTA. On my PC-based Locast App the guide goes out 12 hours. I cannot get the Dish App to show more than 3 total hours of the guide. Is that all that is provided or am I (as usual) not...
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    GTMedia V8 Finder BT03 DVB-S2 Satellite Signal Finder

    Has anyone tried this yet? Thoughts? I'm not sure if Amazon link is working, but C&P title into Amazon search works fine.
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    Ground block question

    While wiring my RV's Wally to a house mounted 1000.2 WA, I noticed that my Hopper 3 has one wire from its antenna to the DISH Hybrid Solo Hub (203952) without a ground block on any of the connections to the hub. There is no ground wire to the antenna. Is this a problem? (It's been that way...
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    Dish Anywhere issue

    (I've searched for an answer to this, but fournd nothing currently relevent.) I've never had much luck with DA, but tonight I have good WiFi at my campground and decided to try again. When I finally got through what seemed to be a recursive login procedure, it said I had an unsupported browser...
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    Disruptive and unwanted pop-ups Hopper3

    I'm getting an increasing number of annoying pop-ups on my Hopper 3, during DVR playback and live broadcasts. The screen goes blank for second, then the unwanted ads begin. Of course the dialog is in mid-sentence when it happens, so it's hard to get back to where I was before being so rudely...
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    Antenna question

    I've been with Dish since year one, but have never been all that knowledgeable about antennas, switches, and LNBs. I have a lot set up for my RV, surrounded by trees and tall brush. Using a Wally and 1000.2, I cannot get all 3 sats anywhere on the property, as no clearings are wide enough for...
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    Wally wants to reformat my EHD

    This will be the 5th or 6th EHD Dish has trashed for me, but the first on the ViP211z/Wally platform. Fortunately, nothing on it is important to me. The drive in question is 500GB, 2.5", and not self-powered. It has been used as a Dish EHD for 3 or 4 years and was working flawlessly until it...
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    Generic Bluetooth Adapter

    For my RV, I'm finding it difficult to find a 28" to 32" 1080p LED TV with headphone jacks. I have connected headphones to my ViP211z via a 3.5mm Female to RCA male(s) adapter. It works but line out volume is (not surprisingly), low. If I go to the trouble of a small amp, I might as well go...
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    Hopper vs ViP211z no antenna authorization period

    I have a Hopper3, a Joey, a Firestick, and a ViP211z (with Playmaker antenna) that I keep in my RV. Planning ahead for trip to Alaska next year, I'm seeking advice for taking some of the equipment with us. My notebook hard disk has ample mp4's and mkv's of just about anything I'd want to...
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    Amazon Fire Stick question

    I'm thinking about getting one. 1. If I use it on my home LAN, will it stream to/from Hopper layer 2/ethernet or will it rely on my ISP connection? 2. What WiFi speed would be the minimum to support it? 3. In your experience, will it functionally replace a Joey without too much of a learning...
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    " the wheels are falling off of satellite TV"

    Not very encouraging... Pay-TV Companies Are in Crisis Mode "Barring a major fourth-quarter comeback, 2017 is on course to be the worst year for conventional pay-TV subscriber losses in history, surpassing last year’s 1.7 million, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. That figure doesn’t...
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    ViP211z and Playmaker question

    I'm loving this combination in my RV. It's amazing how fast it finds 110/119/129 (and how slow the program guide download is - come on Dish, a little more bandwidth please). It's mounted on roof of RV, so I can hear it when it operates. When it's not being used, about once per hour I hear...
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    Moving ViP211z between rooms

    At my cabin I have a 1000.2 antenna, a ViP211z, and wires running to the bedroom and living room. I would be moving the one receiver between the rooms. Assuming the receiver would need to reboot and switch test (?) each time it was moved, could someone please explain the pros and cons of: 1...
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    2017 Cord-Cutting Report

    Comcast gained? ATTACH=full]126035[/ATTACH]
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    Another Wally question...

    Early owners of the Wally mentioned the receiver wouldn't work unless it had all three satellites in view. I've been researching this, and have asked numerous CSRs, read most all the Amazon reviews, and emailed the companies selling them. Can anyone on this forum say for sure whether or not...
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    Dish Anywhere with Amazon Fire

    The CSRs told me this won't work so were unable to help me. I have a new Amazon Fire, I've added Google Play Store and downloaded Dish Anywhere. It synced with my Hopper 3 flawlessly and I see all my Hopper recordings on the tablet. I've streamed Hopper content to the Fire. What I can't seem...
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    EHD fix scheduled 1/20 now set for Feb 2

    My Hopper EHDs rendered inoperative by a past upgrade still didn't work as of today, when the fix was due to be pushed out. CSR says there were technical issues and it is now scheduled to go out Feb. 2nd. Here's hoping...
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    U108 installed, EHD drives need to be reformatted (What?)

    I have two original Hoppers and one original Joey. I got home Christmas day from a 9 day vacation and see I'm now upgraded from U106 to U108. Great, maybe they’ve fixed my previous issues I’ve posted on here. But before I can check, I notice both of my EHDs were not appearing, so after...