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I called around 8 AM Pacific time. Asked them to turn on VOOM. They asked how many dishes - I said two one at 61.5. They said just a minute. Hold for a minute or so. Came back and told me since I paid annual for my HD pack they would have to cancel the annual subscription to add VOOM. I...

Software bugs are a way of life. Get used to it. No matter how much testing is done - bugs will still be found later. I've seen updates to software on simple little MP3 players due to bugs. What does a MP3 player need to do. Not much. Funny thing is I read about the fixes and think...

Thanks for the link - didn't see it because the topic didn't have HD in it. Still no real answers yet. :mad:

Saw an ad for D* last night and could hardly believe my ears. They said with their two new sats going up this year they will be able to provide 1300 or 1500 HD channels (can remember which it was). Wow that's alot of stuff, I assume most is locals. Must be mpeg4 letting them get more...

Also consider that the dish is not pointing directly at the Sat. so to speak. The dish appears to be pointing lower than it is. The angle of reflection of the signal of the dish means that the Sat. is actually higher in the sky than it looks when you look at the dish. So you the trees may...

My thought is it lets installers call in to start activation while the receiver is still coming up.

Guess that 2 lets them say they are shipping again. Hopefully we will see real number soon. About 3 weeks ago the E* HDTV trailer/roadshow was in town. I asked about getting a 921. They said they would call me when they had some. I'm sure they just lost my name LOL.

If E* were to acquire Voom, they could easily replace all the Voom receivers with E* units. The numbe is not that large.

D* can't give me the channels I have now - so its no contest. I've been around close to 8 years (maybe longer - signed up when the 4000 was released). My 6000, 501, 301 all work pretty darn well. Used to want a 921 - now I'm on a wait and see.

Maybe E* could start a crawler on all the stations is split areas stating Congress wants us to take away your locals. If we have to use one dish we will be forced to drop your locals from our service. That should get some people calling and writing.

I left cox cable years ago for dish. My neighbor just got the fake digital cable (not all channels are really digital). Well the non-digital channels are a joke. Oh - you want the clear channels on another TV, pay for another box. PVR pay somemore. HD PVR - they don't have one.

My 301 has been doing it to. If you scroll forward several hours you will find guide data. Then when you scroll back the missing data starts to show. You never get a downloading guide message, and the whole process takes 2-3 seconds. Mine has done this right after it has done a guide...

If the 922 is real and makes it to market (the 921 took well over 2 years), it could be good. The lack of dishwire as in the sales slick is a problem for E*. Forget class action, individual suits in small claims court is probably better. Will cost them more than the refund to fight it...

Give it to E*. If rates increase are more the CPI change, then good bye Turner.

Sounds like they found something major if it will be that long - guess I know where my tax refund will be going.

Hmm, if they change it to 8PSK then is there a chance for another HD channel soon too?? Sure hope so!!

There are also rumors that Direct will be taking the 30 second skip function (commercial skip) in the future. Seems Direct's new owner doesn't like viewers skipping their commericial revenue.

I travel alot, and when I turn on TV in the hotel and all they have is the TV guide channel I get so irritated by how slow it is. It takes 5 minutes to scroll thru and by then I've missed the beginning of the show I finally picked. Is it true that TV guide will now provide the data for the...

It Viacom and E* want to really let the public know the truth - broadcast the negotiations live on the dead channels. Then everyone will know who is doing what. It'll never happen, just as we will never know the details of the settlement (if any). Both will give their spin to make...

On my 501 went to check my timers and guess what. The ones on Viacom channels are gone. If/When the channels return I will need to recreate them. Anybody else see this. My specific were CSI on CBS.

MTV - now there's a joke. Music Television that plays almost no music anymore. Good bye, won't miss you MTV.

Hmmm - wonder if CBS advetiser are aware they will be losing millions of viewers. I'd demand a refund on as my rate is based on viewers.

Seems like an automatic wavier to me if they refuse transmission rights. Then E* can provide a distant CBS to all the O&O markets. Like to see E* do it, but I'm sure there is plenty of legal crap to slow E* down.

Why all this talk about losing CBS. The feds are requiring Dish to carry all the local stations in a market it they carry any - I doubt they will allow V* to pull the locals as it violates the intent of this ruling. HD-CBS is about the only one the could get away with.

Mike - Fact 7 - Digital will always be of lower quality than analog period. No amount of bandwidth can save it. Digital does not use a loss less compression, so it has to be of lower quality by definition. Even HD is worse than film - just the facts - the color range just isn't available...