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Huh? What is "USA" and what article are you talking about? You mean USA Today, the McDonald's of newspapers? Never read that.

Let me start by saying I am not a sat sub now (still on Cable waiting to make the jump). Based on what I see happening in the last 12 months with Dish and Direct, I think it's quite clear that Dish is going for the low end market who wants something a few dollars cheaper and doesn't care so...

Bull. Name one movie they've shown in HD. All they are doing is stretching an SD version of the movie. I think you're being fooled because they are doing the thing where they stretch the edges more than the middle, now.

Yes. That is a definition of bitrate. And? Why are we at this starting point? Is there something you wish us to respond to here? I am guessing, because you highlighted the part about higher bitrate = higher picture resolution, that your point is that it somehow supports your original...

I am currently a cable customer looking to switch to Dish or DirecTV or maybe UVerse (but probably not). The Dish HD package looks great -- EXCEPT it's missing some key channels that I watch. If it had these I'd probably jump, because it's cheap enough that I could keep it even if I didn't...

This reminds me of the Wesley Snipes trial that's going on now, specifically the detailed, lengthy rants "proving" that the IRS is illegal, no one really owes any taxes, etc. Well, at least you can't go to jail for doing what hidefjeff is doing.

LOL @ time zone mixup "Since Las Vegas is in Nevada and not Arizona" ... :) :)

So, let me see if I've got this straight: Adding an external USB hard drive to a ViP211 has been announced. (Availability date?) With the drive, a ViP211 has full DVR functionality. The fee is $40 one time charge per household. (So if you have a ViP211 and a ViP622/722, and you want...

Maybe someone wanted to take Tuesday off?

Wow. This made me laugh out loud, I'll give you that. Some posters will stretch a LOOOONG way to make something a D* vs. E* debate.

Does this mean they are out for all carriers, or just Dish?

I pretty much can't stand any of them. TV news is in a really sad state. Radio is worse. Newspapers are probably better than TV news, but that's not saying much. The best place to get news, by far, is the Internet. It's really not even close in competition. IMO the only reason TV...

What I'd suggest is go to Wal-Mart (or whatever your favorite big box store with a TV department is) and pick up a cheap $10-$20 indoor UHF antenna. Beware that you do NOT have to buy an antenna called an "HDTV antenna". These are not different from a UHF antenna. Same signals and...

Yes, it's possible to use a single RG6 cable for both satellite input to the receiver and TV2 output. You do this using a "diplexer". The diplexer will split (or combine, depending on your point of view), a TV-band signal and a satellite-band signal. Here's a link to a picture of how to...

The best thing to have done would have been to have pulled a conduit so that it would be easy to add wires later. I would have also pulled a couple of CAT5e or CAT6 cables so that you can hook up a phone line and an Ethernet connection. As to RG6, a single cable can be used for two tuners by...

Tell him to wrap his cellphone in the same tinfoil he's using to wrap his head at night to stop the NSA from reading his brain waves.

Because they suck. :p

now that a couple of months have gone by, and the 622 external hard drive feature is available... do you have an update on external hard drive for the 222?? Also... do you know whether the 222 would be able to record directly to the external hard drive, or could it only play back...

don't post the same thing to multiple threads, eucarya.

When you talk to the CSRs, focus on the problem, not the solution. Tell them you've been waiting for your HDMI output to be fixed for 10 months. Tell them you want a replacement unit if they can't make this one work. Maybe they'll give you a replacement 622, or maybe if you're very lucky...

What about the 222? I'd rather use that, since it has DishCOMM and the 211 doesn't. Will the 222 get external hard drive capability? Another question... when you have a 211 or 222 with external hard drive capability, will it be able to record to the drive, or just play back?

I've got a similar question which has gone unanswered here: I have a 2 HDTV setup. Will Dish give me, for free (no upfront charges), a 722 for one room and a 211 for the other? And then I could add DVR capability to the 211 later in its life by adding an external drive? Or in fact I...

OK -- so what if I just want an HD receiver (a ViP211) to drive my second HD TV? That's got to be free right? Otherwise how would I get HD on my HD TV? TV2 Out off the 622/722 is SD only.

I asked Dish Online Customer Support and they said I'd have to pay $499 for the 2nd HD DVR. It can't be that expensive!!! I have 2x HDTVs, and I'd like each to have an HD DVR, so we can record/watch HD on both sets. So I'd really like 2x ViP722. The first one is free with an 18-month...

I've scanned through your stuff. You are quite right that many people have simply not enabled HD in their setup, either by having the wrong connections between the STB and the TV, or by not configuring their TV and STB correctly, or (in the case of OTA) not setting up their ATSC tuner on the...