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I think it is a dog & pony show. My MythTV DVR has had the ability to skip commercials on ANY channel at for years and there has never been anything said about that. On the other hand, every time someone gets a Dish subscription they are required to subscribe to a locals package and those...

My first hand experience is different. My 74 year old mom just cut the cord. It was her request. She knew that I had done it, like the alternative so we went ahead. I installed a HBU 33 antenna & Tivo Roameo DVR. This bought in 32 digital channels, covering all the broadcast networks, a...

This is Tivo's way to make a lot of money and to subsidize lower cost DVRs. I have a MythTV DVR and guide data from Schedules Direct, costs just $25/year.

Indeed. All those HOA antenna restrictions were invalidated by the FCC & courts many years ago. They are not enforceable.

Haha: WBTV (Raycom in Charlotte) has linked an article on its website: "Dish Network The Meanest Company in America". I get them OTA and they are telling people to switch providers, demand credit from Dish, and/or put up an antenna.

When Dish did this stunt 2 years ago and "gave" us Starz for compensation I didn't like it. But the end for me were how almost all the channels had devolved down to staged reality TV and opinion passed off as news. So I canceled my 13 year old account with Dish. It was replaced with an OTA...

I don't know for sure, but it's my guess that Dish is using the out of band signaling system that lets them know when commercials are set to occur. This system allows them to insert their own commercials at certain periods. I don't this system isn't available on all channels. Hence the...

If you want a special offer from Dish, just tell them you are going to cancel the service. I just canceled my service (I was not under contract) and I was immediately sent to retention department which quickly offered a significant discount, free channels, etc, if I signed a two year...

I just canceled my 13 year service with Dish and was not under contract. I can verify that it is $17 for each receiver and for that you get a shipping box and a UPS label. They will want you to return the receiver, the remote, and amazingly they also ask you to remove the LNB & switch from...

Almost everyone has a broadband Internet connection these days. You can get a Roku for $89 and a Netflix subscription for $8.99/month and simply stream very high quality TV & Movies. Add an over the air antenna, and you have duplicated a great deal of what is on these $100+/month plans and...

That's a shame. I've had a 612 for 3 years and have had no issues with it at all. Considering that it has 2 tuners plus a built in OTA tuner, and can operate a HD & SD TV at the same time, it's a nice machine for the money. It's perfect for my upstairs TVs where one is HD the other is SD...

As an engineer who has worked in both hardware and software development, IMO the reason they didn't allow VIP receivers on the Hopper system is to greatly simply testing and maintenance of current and new features. If they keep Hopper/Joey self contained, then they don't have to run test cases...

Dish might have realized they have to embrace on-line distribution or maybe lose customers all together. An over the air antenna with digital TV and a Roku is starting to make a lot of sense compared to $100/month+ cable/satellite bill where people are forced to buy a lot of channels (and...

My 622 has recently started freezing and rebooting as well. Picture just freezes in place for a minute or so, then it reboots and goes through the entire satellite acquisition process. Really annoying if you are watching something in the buffer because of course, it gets wiped. It happened...

Keep in mind the digital OTA standard includes compression. This question arises from the mistaken belief given above that OTA PQ is the best available and that SAT or cable is worse. This may not be the case for any given station. These days most OTA stations are not using all their...

I took up Dish to convert to the 3 month HBO/MAX channels instead of Starz.. It ran out this week and Dish simply sent an email that said if I didn't want to get charged for it, I need to logon to their website and turn it off. A message flashed on the receiver for a day or so too. I...

IMO, there is no decent programming from 200-209. They could drop all of them and I wouldn't miss them.

I have a 612 & 622. I've got the 612 hooked up as you described. One HDTV in my office via component and one SD via coax in my bedroom using the existing mid-90s house wiring. It works fine. I'm using a old remote from a 510 receiver for as a 2nd remote which works fine for controlling the...

Those are high prices for VoIP phone service. The best value is to go the BYOD route. VoIP.ms is an example.

I've had the problem where it will skip back, way back, sometimes to the beginning of a program. I've noticed that it only happens when watching a SD channel on my HD receivers. I've never seen it on the HD channels. In general, the entire process (skipping, slow, freezing) seems more...

On the first point that is because you diverged off onto topics that I was not responding to such as the ability to get through a corporate firewall. On the second issue, of course as I never suggested otherwise. As you point out, there are numerous methods that Dish could employ which...

I disagree about the cost issue as Dish already provided it on one of their receivers. I believe there was a consumer chip that had been developed for it. In regards to CAT5 & Coax, neither are the future as both are old technology. The future is fiber and wireless. However solutions to the...

IMO, if you live where you can get the channel via an antenna, I would put one up. Most of the local channels are also broadcasting several subchannels that Dish does not provide. For example in my local area, the CBS affiliate also transmits ThisTV & Bounce.

This is why devices needing this ability have NAT settings so the user doesn't have to setup port forwarding. Specifically the receiver should recognize that it's on a NAT connection and setup NAT keep alive. (IMO, it ought to be the default mode) NAT keep alive will cause the router to...

It's a shame that Dish won't put an ATSC modulator on Coax OUT which would eliminate the need for a tuner box on the remote TV for HD content. I heard the original HD box from Dish, the 6000 maybe, had this. I assume they don't offer it now because due to fears that people will get around...