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I never answer calls from a number I don't recognize. I don't understand why anyone does. If it's something important, they'll leave a voicemail. Usually, it's a spam call.

I watched Velocity every night, and remember no such popup. One minor annoyance is that it disappeared without warning. The bigger one has been this tendency on Dish's part to continually degrade the "Everything" pack. It's really false advertising now to continue to call it that. They...

Same here. I pay big bucks for the "Everything" pack, doesn't that mean I'm supposed to get everything? Now I find tonight 364 has disappeared. From the first time it hit the air as HD Theater, it's been one of my most-watched channels. I liked the new program line-up. I'm pissed. I've...

You're not that old. ;) The second dish I plan to use is one I used at the main house to receive 61.5 back when all the HD channels were on it. Being in the PNW as well, it was a challenge to find LOS, what with a 10.9 degree elevation. It's a big elliptical sucker, too. At the main house I...

Hi all, We've had a Dish installation at our vacation house for years, with a Dish 500 pointed at 110 & 119, no problem. We finally upgraded our old TV to a nice HDTV set, so added HD channels. I've done a site survey there, and there's no location from which you can see all three birds...

have had problems with BBC America HD for the past few days. haven't checked it today yet.

So I suppose this is why my 921 lost most of its channels today? I know, I know; I'm the world's biggest procrastinator.

It's working now. Guess I just had to wait awhile.

Hi, We have a weekend place that we bring one of our receivers with us from home when we go there (I heard Charlies say on a Charlies Chat years ago that this was OK with them; it's no different than havong one in an RV, really). Anyway, we left one of the 311's in the vacation house when...

Well, if it's a CONUS satellite, which most transponders are (other than the spot beams), then the signal is as wide and tall as the USA! The reflector on the dish intercepts a miniscule portion of this at any given location, and reflects it to the LNBF. That's why you can improve your...

Absolutely. Finally helped a neighbor when his wife asked mine if maybe I could stop by and see how he's doin'. Yep he accepted some help. When I showed up with a level to plumb the mast, his eyes' got wide and he said "you mean it has to be that exact?". I told him he was trying to point at...

Dish network is not licensed by the owners of the various channels to distribute them outside the USA. So if they learn their signal is being received on your account outside the U.S., they have no choice but to cancel the account.

There's nothing unethical about that. It's the corrupt Las Vegas casinos that are acting unethically by throwing people out for playing their games too well (e.g., "counting cards"). let's see: they'll happily take the money from dumb people who play their games badly, but ban smart people...

ROFLOL!!!!!! In case you hadn't noticed, the political party currently in control of all branches of gov't isn't exactly known for favoring activist consumer protection. To the contrary, it believes in gov't as small as possible, that does as liitle as possible. Read the party platform...

see this thread on DBStalk: http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=35457 People have seen it with a 921, 811, and a 6000. I've seen it on my 921 for the past couple of weeks. THE PQ on the HD channels got noticibly worse around the time of the Olympics (especially Discovery HD, where...

Ultimately if you want to fight this you're going to have to be prepared to file a Petition for Declaratory Ruling with the FCC. The FCC will then send a letter to the landlord, telling them they are investigating the matter, and ordering them not to proceed with any action against you under...

Didn't Jim say on a Charlie Chat it was due to Content Protection issues? My wild-*ss guess is that, when it came down to it, they couldn't convince Hollywood of the security and robustness of their 5C implementation. Based on what people have been told, it seems the record function itself...

'don't know if it's still the case, but DirecTV was downconverting the resolutions of their HD channels in order to use less bandwidth. The horizontal pixel count was (is?) reduced from 1920 to something like 1440, I believe. 'not a good thing for picture quality (assuming you have a monitor...

You could always get some of that heat tape they sell for plumbing pipes, and run some along the backside of the dish. It would then be a good idea to put some insulation over it, so the heat gets directed to the dish.

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He needs to add Bravo-HD before the Olympics.

It depends entirely on how close you sit. For SD pictures, people tend to sit at a distance ~7x the picture height from the screen. At this distance, DBS such as Dish will look OK: not great, but acceptable. This is too far away for HDTV. At this distance, your eyes can't see much of the...

Not true. Alot, if not most of the channels come over good ol' analog C-Band. Of course, it may be analog, but it's really good analog -- wide-deviation FM modulation, which gives a very clean, albeit composite video NTSC formatted, signal. But other than the NTSC...

So it's not Dish's fault that they pack 12 local channels on each transponder? So whose fault is it, then? Dish really has the quality on the locals turned down very low (except for the Denver locals, interestingly enough). As far as "Digital video" quality goes, it can be all over the map...

OK, they'll need to wait for a new shipment of motherboards with the connectors left off. Once they're installed on the motherboard, they're too expensive to remove.