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  1. skysurfer

    FOX News Channel/DISH dispute

    When is the drop date for FOX News Channel on DISH Network? I've done a quick google search and a check here for the drop date and haven't found one. FOX News Channel is running lie ads during the NFL game today saying DISH is going to block them and that viewers will not have accss to FOX...
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    MLB Strikezone

    that makes sense. It's not being fed in the place on C-band that it was last season (the distribution feed to cable/dbs headends) and there really is no need for it this week with the EI free preview on non-DISH providers.
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    Prepare for another price increase thx to ESPN

    price increase is coming, ESPN or not. Charlie only promised locked in prices to 2013 so you know since he hasn't touched rates in 2 years that he'll jack up prices several bucks in Feb 2013 and probably put another 2 year price freeze BS on it. I would go to DIRECTV but they do the same...
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    Viacom satellite channels to increase advertising content

    12m30s of commercials in MTV per hour my ***! My ad chopper is removing about 17 mins per hour of ads when I watch Real World or Jersey Shore. Maybe the 12m30s refers to paid ads and the other 5 mins or so are MTV promotions? viacom shouldn't put in more ads, just do more product placement...
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    Tropical Storm News channel

    I believe the channel is for evacuees rather than ones in the storm. If you are in the middle of the storm, you probably can watch the station off-air and not need satellite. I know during Katrina, DIRECTV's storm channel was praised by evacuees who came to this area and were able to keep up...
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    Echostar patents putting a weather station on subscriber roofs

    charlie runs a for-profit company, not a charity. ;) I suppose they could use the DVR stats to tell about rainfall (I get high error rates or "loss of signal" mesages whenever it rains hard enough). save the fees, install a cheap tipping bucket consumer rain guage on the roof and when the...
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    Echostar 15 Moving to Brazil 45W

    the echo15 map is not as awesome looking as other maps I've seen of repurposed U.S. sats covering South America. Really weird to see a much better CONUS shaped beam covering argentina. ;) btw, serving south america for dbs must be a trend - other than echo15, it appears another older DBS bird...
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    Is Dish going to provide the NBC 3D Channel for the Olympics?

    Is DISH's setup even compatible to deliver 3D to homes? I keep thinking there is not even one 3D channel on DISH because of technical incompatibilities (i.e. DISH's encoders can't support encoding it or DISH's receivers wouldn't be able to take an incoming 3D feed from sat and do whatever has...
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    Did you get a free Roku offer?

    Should have answered that you used to until you guys got mixed up with Walter White and she was taken out in a drug hit. ;)
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    If Dish drops AMC, will you drop dish??

    I think you might be getting bent - roku's are cheap and with dish's deal, you will have to pay for the content to watch on your roku since you didn't mention DISH will also provide you with reimbursement for some of the content fees. You should have held out for DISH paying for some of the...
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    copyright protection on TNT

    and I can confirm there is no copyright protection on TNT - I was able to record a few minutes of tonight's race to my HTPC through composite video and watch it and I never got my recording program warning me that the content could not be recorded because it was copyright protected.
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    If Dish drops AMC, will you drop dish??

    I will not drop dish - AMC was not in my programming tier. Breaking Bad is the only show I care for on AMC - it's filmed here and tons of the filming locations are within 10 minutes of me plus it's so well written/acted that I think it's among the best shows ever on TV. I just watch it on...
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    HDNET to become AXS TV; will be available in AT 120 and up

    confirmed. July 2nd is the launch date according to the HDNET site and my daily programming schedule emails. I don't know what is becoming of HDNET Movies. I assume it will stay that way rather than become AXS Movies or go away entirely.
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    Setting up large Scale system for apartments

    Maybe you should talk to my apartment manager! They removed all dishes from the premises (there were none in private areas, only in common areas) and they don't seem to be acting on my recommendation to ink a deal with DISH or DIRECTV to put one dish on the roof and let residents subscribe to...
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    copyright protection on TNT

    hmmm. I'm having no problems moving Franklin and Bash episodes from my 625 through the composite cable to my HTPC recording program so I can watch the episodes in a few months when I"m ready. Maybe TNT is doing it on a program by program basis so I'll record a little bit of the next TNT NASCAR...
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    MLB Strike Zone to Launch

    In my scenario, DISH doesn't offer the all-encompassing MLB.TV Premium package (the package that would link your pay-tv provider to the internet and internet appliances to give you the flexibility to watch MLB TV games anywhere and just about in any way). MLB Advanced Media would sell the...
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    MLB Strike Zone to Launch

    I doubt MLB is making more money with the present setup. Think about if they did a $160/season offer for those on pay tv or internet premium that gave them access on all supported satellite, cable and internet appliance devices (or $120/season for PC only with no links to cable/satellite...
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    MLB Strike Zone to Launch

    yep, pretty horrible channel. I suppose if your attention span is 1 second, it's the channel for you. I like to lay back and watch at least half inning or inning of a game before moving on. I find the IOS app has a more leisurely pace of going around the yards than MLBN SZ does. Plus, SZ...
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    Hopper Welcome Guide

    so there is no actual detailed manual yet? I couldn't find one in your link or the dish network website/myaccount/user manuals area. I am curious about it technology (i.e. if it uses 6 tuners to do its thing, what the back panel connections look like, if the joeys are hooked up by coax or...
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    HDNET to become AXS TV; will be available in AT 120 and up

    so there won't be a SD version of HDNET in the AT120 package until the rebrand this summer? You'd think they'd want to celebrate by upping the carriage of HDNET this week and cruise right into the rebrand this summer.
  21. skysurfer

    NASA TV Making Changes - What's the Plan DISH?

    nothing is going to change, IMHO. I bet DISH will install a HD receiver to get the new NASA TV Public HD channel and use the receiver's built-in scaler to continue delivering NASA TV in SD form. I wouldn't be holding my breath for NASA Television HD on DISH due to the additional bandwidth...
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    Free Showtime Weekend?

    it appears the premieres of the new shows from Sunday night can be watched for free for a limited time so you may want to go to sho.com to check them out since DISH didn't have them in the free preview.
  23. skysurfer

    Free Showtime Weekend?

    ****ing match between DISH and Showtime? nothing else makes sense.
  24. skysurfer

    Quetzsat 1 Successfully Launched!

    too early to say. If there is a problem, it can wait until a quarterly report as it would be significant enough to be reported to shareholders like me but not urgent enough to be a showstopper that they've used as an event for immediate reporting. I don't see what E8 has to do with it...
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    Free Showtime Weekend?

    DISH takes a national distribution feed. SHO assumes the whole pay tv universe is taking their feed in free preview when they put all those cash back offers on the screen and DISH has no way to get rid of those. I think SHO's brand is cheapened by the fact I seem to recall I was offered at one...