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    So Who's Having OTA Problems on Their Joeys?

    Two HWS w/ single OTA tuners, three Joeys, having the exact same issues since last year. Same resolution with tuning the linked Hopper to the OTA channel fixes the breakups. I used to watch OTA over the Joeys all the time before the Carbon update. Since then, it's crap.
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    OTA over MoCA after Carbon update

    Thanks for the confirmation. I'm honestly not sure when it started but I know it wasn't happening before the UI update. Did DIRT give you any feedback?
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    OTA over MoCA after Carbon update

    I'm having problems viewing OTA channels (from the Hopper OTA adapter) on my Joeys over a coax MoCA connection. I'm getting lots of artifacts and audio drops. This seems to have started after all the devices got the update to the Carbon UI. Before that I had no issues for years. All the MoCA...
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    Hopper Upgrades

    Interested in a possible upgrade from a 622 and 625 to a 2H/3J.
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    This cable has better picture than DISH

    October 1985? No wonder the HD sucked, that's 10 years before they even launched a satellite!
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    Dish Programming Changes (Effective August 1st)

    I'm thinking yes:
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    DISH INSERTED ADVERTISING

    The volume spike problem is due to the fact that they insert commercials with normal stereo into an HD channel broadcasting in Dolby digital (see numerous other posts on the volume/dynamic range differences). If they just converted the commercial audio to Dolby too, things would be much more...
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    Smithsonian HD dropped and replaced with Crime & Investigation HD

    I had been trying to decide whether to keep Platinum or not. I do watch HDNet Movies, and some Universal. But dropping a real HD channel for semi-HD reruns of shows I didn't want to watch the first time around pushed it over the edge. Just canceled Platinum online. I can use the extra $10 to...
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    Anyone have an extra TV1 UHF green tab?

    A tech walked out with my Mom's extra UHF remote for TV1 on her 625 a couple of months ago. I've got an extra 6.3 remote, but I need to have the right tab for it. If anyone has one they would part with cheap (or at least for shipping costs), send me a PM. Thanks.
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    Senior Dish TSR Explains: 1080p Is ONLY PPV/VOD via HD STB DVR via HDMI, For Now...

    Nope. See post #20.
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    component cables

    I'll get in a pitch for my favorite low-price, high-quality cables: Blue Jean Cables (Blue Jeans Cable -- Broadcast-Quality Cables at Reasonable Prices). I like supporting him since he's the one that pwned Monster when they threatened to sue him. See here: Monster cable correspondence.
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    Dish Sales guys do not know installation

    It looks like post-transition that the PBS station for Charleston is going back to VHF channel 7.
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    Cartoon Network HD

    Neither do most (any?) Panasonics. And anyway, why I should have to dig out my TV remote and change the aspect ratio on a channel-by-channel basis? I'd still like E* to add a couple of more Format modes, one to squeeze a strectched 16:9 back to 4:3 (won't work on all stretches though), and one...
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    Cartoon Network HD

    +1 It's for this reason that I don't lock the SD versions of certain channels. If it's stretched, then I'm either going to watch something else, or if it's something I really want to see, the SD version.
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    Why is the 622 retarded?

    1. You can use the Record Plus feature (menu-8-6 I think) to set the default tuner for timed events. Otherwise it defaults to the tuner it was set up on. 2. Hit the Select button and it will show you options, including cancel. 3. Yep, that's annoying. But since that feature is for "live"...
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    100+ National HD Channels?

    They've been advertising that for months now. Given all of the channels that they call "national", it's not too big a stretch for them to get there.
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    HD channels have lower volume than same SD ch.

    That's just the way it is. Any channel in DD will be quieter than the non-DD ones because of the expanded dynamic range. I discovered this almost 10 years ago using the external DD converter module with my model 5000.
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    HD channels have lower volume than same SD ch.

    In your case, with the audio connections using the line-level RCA connectors, the Dish receiver is just downconverting the 5.1 back to a stereo signal. I don't imagine it will do any level/range conversion as part of that. I would think TV 1 and 2 would work the same. For the modulated TV 2...
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    HD channels have lower volume than same SD ch.

    This is a built-in aspect of the Dolby specification. The "lower" volume is used to enable more overall dynamic range. You can set your receiver to "night" mode which compresses the dynamic range, and will probably make the difference less noticeable.
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    Why does E* want me to pay $200 to get a 722?

    What actual dish do you have? They have that in their system and are probably including the replacement dish install in the costs. I know when I activated my purchased 622, they wanted to charge me for a Dish install which I had already taken care of.
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    HD Essentials - Includes ScienceHD or not?

    Direct them to their publicly viewable web page, and ask them to take care of it. If not, tell them you'll be contacting your state's AG and the FTC regarding false advertising.
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    Help please!!

    A diplexer is the wrong thing. You just need a basic splitter-combiner. Just make sure you pick a modulator channel for TV2 that doesn't pick up interference from broadcast channels. A good way to test is to tune the TV to different channels and avoid any that have a picture (even a snowy...
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    Dish to start upgrading HD customers to MPEG4

    Since the swap program has already started, why not call Dish and find out?
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    A site that list % of HD content per channel

    The definition of that column in the table is: I'm sure they're looking at guide data from somewhere. Of course the programmers are very forthright in their definitions... TBS Exec: "Stretch that picture until it fills the screen so we can call it HD"
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    What is zoom for anyway?

    But since there is no such thing as "widescreen" SD, they can only broadcast it letterboxed. Whether or not they should zoom it on the HD versions of the channel could be debated. However, this situation is one time where it make sense to hit the ol' Format button and change to full Zoom...
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