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  1. oldengineer

    Food for thought....FCC agreed with DISH

    If they're serious they should have been after Comcast ever since they bought NBC. They were supposed to end the terrestrial loophole which enabled them to keep CSN Philly off of Dish and Direct. Every local cable company carries it in their basic (not lifeline) packages so it can't be that...
  2. oldengineer

    NFL Network Dispute? -- Resolved

    BTW now is the time for subs who were hesitant about discounts from Dish to use your leverage. I got 6 more months of the 4 premiums at 1/2 off and half off of the Sports pkg. Technically any way. I actually canceled the Sports pkg temporarily because I live in the Philly RSN and get no regional...
  3. oldengineer

    NFL Network Dispute? -- Resolved

    I used to LMAO reading in the other forum about the discussions over which Red Zone was better.
  4. oldengineer

    Tribune/Dish Dispute?

    I watched the Manhattan series that WGN made and thought it was very good but they cancelled it so I've got no dog in this hunt now.
  5. oldengineer

    Does Dish not cave in to cancellation requests any more?

    I have what is essentially the AEP with 2 H2Ks and a Joey. I've been with Dish since 2010. I have gotten discounts of about $25 a month for the last 2.5 years by just calling, noting that my latest 6 month discount is ending, and asking if there are any new ones that I'm eligible for. My latest...
  6. oldengineer

    Free remote, Dish still good at it.

    Same result for me also a month or so ago. Website wanted $20, best I saw on ebay was $14 w/shipping, called Dish and got 2 replacement 40.0s for free. No hassles, no return of old units.
  7. oldengineer

    C'mon E*. Please give us New York DMA folks SNY back.....

    Give the NYers back their RSNs right after they finally give us Philly subs our CSN Philly. We get no local RSN channels with the sports pkg and to add insult to injury we're also excepted from getting BTN unless we get it thru the sports pkg so we're paying whatever it is a month to get a...
  8. oldengineer

    Strange PTAT Issue Only On ABC

    I have the same problem with ABC PTAT recordings on one of my Hoppers.
  9. oldengineer

    Could Viacom Channels Go *Poof* This Week?

    AFAIC they can drop them all. The only thing I'll miss is new episodes of South Park.
  10. oldengineer

    Anybody want a WebTV receiver

    They worked well with a 1MB HPNA network. :)
  11. oldengineer

    Nielsen Secures Long-Term Agreement for Dish Set-Top-Box Data

    If I see a sliver of a commercial that I like when fast forwarding I'll back up and watch it. Among the ones that I'll do that for recently is the one about the cute little girl in the tiger suit whose dad brings her to see a live one. Funny thing though, I don't remember who the sponsor is.
  12. oldengineer

    Why Dish is losing a 10+ year customer

    I had a problem with an H2K that required replacement last week. I'm a good customer and asked for overnight shipment but got 2-4 day UPS. I got it 3 days later but I got emails from Dish and UPS when it was shipped and status reports during transit. The shipping status is also on the online...
  13. oldengineer

    History 2

    I'm going to have to find another source of scientific information now that H2 is gone. Where will I be able to learn that ancient astronauts left evidence of the existence of the Higgs field in hieroglyphics long before CERN confirmed it now?
  14. oldengineer

    Hopper 3 terrible HD picture

    My other satellite company receivers had native mode AFAIR and I prefer it. I trust the DSP in the TV to upscale and convert accurately more than the boxes.
  15. oldengineer

    Hopper 3 terrible HD picture

    Does the H3 have a native pass through option?
  16. oldengineer

    Scott's Mini Hopper 3 Review

    Alright smarties, here's a question for a real Hopper fan. Did they bring back the "Blue S" on the main PTAT screen for single recordings?
  17. oldengineer

    HOPPER 3 UPGRADES

    Anyone else who was jonesing for one of these things change their minds at the last minute? I even had it in my .sig for a while. Then I really thought about it and decided that mother and I are happy with our 2 Hopper 2Ks, I'm a good customer with a high priced package, am out of contract, and...
  18. oldengineer

    HOPPER 3 UPGRADES

    I'm going to sign up but I'm glad the installation won't be for a little while because my pole mounted dish is about a half hour of snow shoveling away.
  19. oldengineer

    Pending snowstorm first one since I've had dish

    The sustained easterly winds and the fine granularity of the snow are combining to keep my dish relatively clean.
  20. oldengineer

    Any purchase pricing for the Hopper 3?

    You lost me after "porn site". Guess I'm going to have Dish do it.
  21. oldengineer

    My Shop has a hopper 3

    I was the first install of the Hopper by Dish in my area on March 19, 2012. It didn't go well. He had trouble getting the Hoppers authorized and updated but made the mistake of trying to download the 2 Joeys S/W simultaneously. This put them both into an unrecoverable state and it took a few...
  22. oldengineer

    HOPPER 3 UPGRADES

    I've currently got a 2H/2J setup that was installed in March 2012. I keep a fairly high monthly pkg with autopay and pp and am oocontract so I think I should be eligible for an early install. If Dish does it and I cancel on day 1 it's $480 for etf, right? If I may ask how much is your setup...
  23. oldengineer

    Transferring to EHD

    I ordered a WD 2TB My Book Desktop from Amazon for $93. I have always had good experiences with them. Have 1TB My Book A/V on each Hopper that run 24/7. This one is for backups and transfers, betting on getting an H3
  24. oldengineer

    Transferring to EHD

    When the Hopper was originally released I believe the 2TB space was split 50-50 so we had 1 and Dish had 1. In a later S/W update it was changed so that user space was bumped up to 1.25 TB and AFAIK it's that way now.
  25. oldengineer

    Big10 Network missing

    My favorite b***h coming. Amend PA to say PA (except Philadelphia RSN). We poor subs have to pay for the Sports Pkg to get BTN.