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    Dish / Gannett Dispute Settled! No Channel Removals!

    Just saw this on the KSDK website... (St. Louis - NBC): Attention DISH Subscribers Gannett and DISH Network have reached an agreement regarding DISH Network's continued retransmission of Gannett stations. Yay!
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    Lose discounts with package drop?

    I'm currently on the 200 package, and am getting the $10/mo AMC discount, combined with a $5/mo referral discount. If I drop down to 120 (or 120+ to keep RSN) will I lose the discount? Even saving $5/mo seems worthwhile. I'm not under any contract.
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    DISH Drops AMC Networks (AMC Back on DISH channel 131)

    I would like to express my gratitude to the SatelliteGuys community. I would not have even thought to approach Dish for a discount in the wake of the AMC disaster, but now I'm getting $10/mo of my bill and a free Roku. That is pretty amazing. Either one would have been good, but both makes me a...
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    Loyalty Offer

    YMMV, indeed. I was not as bold nor as lucky. I asked today about my contract status and learned I was no longer under contract. I was asking for several reasons: the AMC debacle, price comparisons and, the biggie: one CSR I talked to earlier in the day had quoted me a price of $150 ($100 tech...
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    DISH Drops AMC Networks (AMC Back on DISH channel 131)

    I think that particular piece is a DirecTV ad, so it makes perfect sense. Other spots running are not so specific.
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    Why is ESPN now letter-boxed all the time?!

    It does stink - but if it's not on the main channel (418), be sure to check the HDALT channels, just below the normal station in the guide. The past several games I have found the HD feed down in those channels. It often comes from Fox Sports South or Tennessee, but it's always been open for me...
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    Dammit Dish.............

    It's worse this year... I've been a dish HD customer for a couple of years, and have put up with a game or two a week being in SD. But this year seems particularly bad, with several games in a row starting in SD-only and then going to HD about halfway through. Is this supposed to be a...
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    Message "Program info on Hard Drive outdated.

    Funny, I came across this message yesterday for the third time in a week. I had never seen it before. When I tried to scroll up the channel list, all of the program was missing -- but if I scrolled back down to where it rolled over to the beginning, the channels were there. Strange glitch.
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    New DISH Network Customer Portal

    Thread bump... Logged in today to use the DVR functions (which have been working better) and was blown away to see a full suite of options on the "my account" page. I'm a former AT&T bundle customer (mentioned earlier in this thread) and was always dismayed that, now as a full Dish customer...
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    Upcoming Free Previews: HBO (Channels 303-305), NFL RedZone, and more!

    The only thing the free premium previews remind me is the reason I don't subscribe to them. It seems they're always running the same slate of shows. I can always watch the original programs later on DVD... I, too, was disappointed in the Cooking Channel. Seems silly that it's not in AT200...
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    New DISH Network Customer Portal

    Not only doesn't it it do anything for bundled customers, it doesn't work for FORMERLY bundled customers, who have since ditched AT&T. Drives me nuts.
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    New DISH Network Customer Portal

    Not exactly surprising, but still disappointing. Nothing new other than a bunch if grayed out links for formerly bundled customers. Really wish we weren't treated like 2nd class citizens.
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    Autopay Invoices?

    I am a former AT&T Dish customer, have dropped AT&T and converted to Dish only. We signed up for autopay, but I realized that I have no way to view my statement online. This seems crazy to me. I also only get payment confirmations from Dish, but can't look at the payment breakdown. Is there any...
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    Remote Access Frustration

    I have always had intermittent problems with the Dish Remote Access feature, whether it's the iPhone app or through the Dish website. It doesn't matter if I'm on my local network or truly accessing it remotely. I'm using it through HomePlug. I have noticed it usually takes a couple of tries...
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    Games in HD but not on Dish in HD (Part time HD)

    It could just be a matter of happenstance, but it feels like I've seen more games in SD so far this year than I did almost all of last year. I sent a message last night to the Dish Network twitter feed, and they told me (I'm paraphrasing) that there's no set schedule for the SD games nor are...
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    Dish Network DVR Poll

    There are other options available to some people. U-Verse? Fios? OTA?
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    Anyone Compare Component vs. HDMI HD Picture Quality?

    When I first upgraded to HD a couple of years ago, I did a pretty good A-B test between component and HDMI. Obviously it's not a perfect test, because in both cases you have to optimize the settings on your TV for each individual input. That aside, there was not a significant difference between...
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    Unbundling - how long does it take?

    A question for those of you who have unbundled services, having from AT&T/Dish to standalone Dish. How long did the unbundling process take? We had quite a hassle with AT&T after we cancelled our landline, and now I'm waiting for things to transfer over to Dish and hoping everything goes well...
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    FSN Midwest not in HD

    Sent a tweet this morning on Dish Network's feed, and received a response that it was a technical problem on their end. Tonight's Cardinals game will be in HD, supposedly. I'll believe it when I see it.
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    FSN Midwest not in HD

    This really makes me mad, especially since they've added transponder space this year but now seem to be showing fewer games in HD. Last year, this was not a problem, when FSNMW reported it would be in HD, it was. Why is it different this year? Are they giving priority to larger markets for the...
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    722 Audio Skip during HD Local Playback

    This has been an ongoing problem with St. Louis locals, particularly with CBS and NBC (Ch. 4 and 5). I have spoken with Dish and e-mailed them at the dishquality e-mail address (dishquality@echostar.com). They are supposedly aware of the problem and are working on a fix. I first noticed this...
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    Software Version 6.16

    I am continuing to have problems here in STL, particularly with NBC (KSDK) and CBS (KMOV). Last night I checked these on TV2, which is connected to an SD TV via coax, and the audio drops were still quite evident.
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    Software Version 6.16

    I'm in St. Louis, and watched Tuesday's recording of the Mentalist (Sat-delivered CBS) on my 622 with L616 and still experienced terrible dropouts and a video freeze -- had to go back (rew) in order for it to "wake up" and move forward. I'm guessing this update was either unsuccessful OR was...
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    L6.15, any thing new

    Ugh, sorry, didn't mean to seem like a doofus. The problem was on KSDK, Channel 5 (NBC) in St. Louis, Satellite, not OTA. I'm thinking now the problems were related to the network feed -- the program had been pre-empted and was on late Sunday night instead of in its usual Monday timeslot...
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    L6.15, any thing new

    If this update was supposed to fix the update, then, it is a miserable, terrible failure at first glance. I watched a recording of last week's Chuck tonight, and the dropouts were worse than ever. It was almost unwatchable and accompanied by pixellation galore -- and that's brand-new. I will...
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