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    Hopper 2 Video Resolution?

    I've had a Hopper with Sling for a few years, connected through an AVR to an LG OLED TV: Hopper outputs 720p -> AVR scales that to 1080p ->TV scales that to 4K I watch mostly broadcast content, occasionally VOD catch-up, never PPV, and I have plenty of non-Hopper Netflix options. I tried...
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    WTB: Poster of the electromagnetic spectrum, w/ Ka & Ku bands called out

    Maybe not the best subforum, but I figured some technically inclined reader might be able to assist me. I'm looking for a good-sized (at least 3'W x 2'H) poster of the ELF to Gamma radiation spectrum that has enough detail to call out satellite communication bands. I'm thinking of an...
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    Dish/942 vs. Charter/8300HD?

    I have only one TV, I subscribe to AT120, and I have a stable, ancient Dishplayer (3rd HD, now 80G, ~10x the size of the original 8.6G drive). I want an HD DVR, a similar bunch of channels, locals, and Showtime. When I got the HDTV in January to replace an analog set, I signed up for Charter...
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    New (?) NBR documentation

    I hadn't seen this before today. On the dishnetwork.com receivers page, next to the 522, there's a link to a Name Based Recording document: http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads/pdf/product_brochures/NBR_Standalone.pdf It describes lots of nice detail of how an NBR product might work: timer...
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    New Dishplayer quirk

    Showed up after the last update. A bug, and a work-around. If I'm watching a show that is delayed, and the next show has already started (in real time), but it's locked, the skip fwd/back and motion-control keys stop working. I can still get Info, but the transport keys seem dead. What I...