No real benefit other than single wire. It's the reason I switched myself over 15 months ago. I guess I could add more TV's now but three TV's for two people seems plenty.
I noticed it on the local channels until they switched over to local HD broadcast....for awhile they'd drop out of HD and do local news/shows in SD. Slowly but surely all the locals have gone over totally HD and even their weather alert "crawlers" don't flip back to SD now. It really never...
A couple of years ago DirecTV basically refused to install a new dish on my house. I won't go through all the circumstances other than to say that to get a good line of sight the dish had to be very high up and required standing on a very steep roof some 30 feet over our driveway. There was no...
I'm not saying this is the OP's problem but neighbor had a similar problem with his Vizio and it turned out that there was some glitch in the remote coding that was turning on the sleep mode on his TV. Just happened it was every 30 minutes and we found it by using the TV's remote to access the...
Personally I've not had any problems with my HDMI connections on any of my receivers. My neighbor, on the other hand, has had trouble and he too has gone to component. In talking to him it seems it might be that he and his teenage son are forever messing with his system. I wonder if HDMI...
I wouldn't bother with the receivers but I'd leave the existing dish in place. If it's a good dish, properly mounted, aimed, and all the wiring in place getting DirecTV service would be a very easy "plug and play" with new receivers. If not then it's a pretty simple install to potentially swap...
Most probably your receivers are actually leased and not owned. DirecTV's receivers have been, with few exceptions, leased units since early 2006 so any "purchase" after then was actually an up front lease fee and not an outright buy of the unit. You'd have to double check with DirecTV to see...
My experience, at least in Virginia, was not the rain on the dish but how heavy it was raining and/or the presence of heavy thunderstorms. In the four years I had service in Northern Virginia I can only remember one snow storm that actually impacted reception and it was coming down so heavily...
Have to agree. I've been up and running at this address for six years and the first four plus I never saw a DirecTV tech. The previous owner had the house deliberately cabled and organized for DirecTV when the house was built. I simply fell in on the existing structure and installed what were...
I have this feeling, and I'm only guessing, that DirecTV is only one of his financial problems. While $1,300 isn't "chicken feed" it isn't, in and of itself, enough to file bankruptcy. It may be awhile before he and DirecTV get connected again.
I understand "stuff happens" and these are hard times for many folks. I don't know your particular situation but from your own postings here and other sites you, by your own admission, have had more than a few problems with debt and bills for what appears to be several years. I wish you the...
There were a few, and I stress few, of us that were able to buy H-20's right after they were introduced but before DirecTV went to basically all units as leased. These are rare and I'd be more than suspicious of any H-2x/HR-2x series being resold as an "owned" unit. The HR-21 Pro would be the...
I think the access cards are $20. If you're still looking for an owned used receiver then get the RID number of the unit from the seller and call DirecTV to see if it truly is an owned unit. Unfortunately there are lots of folks who try to "sell" leased units and you could get stuck with one.
The cards are "married" to the receivers so I don't think you can simply move the access card from place to place. If you get another box from DirecTV then you'll have to pay the monthly fee. Probably easier just to haul one of your existing receivers with you when you're up at your cabin.
By his own admissions he has a history of having trouble paying his bills. I can't and won't support people who, in the long run, wind up costing us all more money to make up for their poor financial behavior.
I agree. I initially really fought, at least mentally, the whole thought of leasing my equipment. It just seemed "wrong" if that makes sense. I actually didn't buy my H20 in some kind of last minute panic to own rather than lease. I wasn't a member of this board at the time and really had no...
You got to laugh though. I've been hit with this kind of stuff as a ham operator, and I had the proper and working traps/filters, and then ten years ago when I put up one of the first DirecTV dishes in our neighborhood. The complaint by the neighbor then was I was poisoning her children with...
Still gets back to if Travel Channel HD is a "must have" then staying with cable is the only choice until DirecTV and Cox work out an agreement. No telling when or if that is going to happen. I don't feel like I've compromised by leaving cable all those years ago but I also am very happy with...
I think in this case TWC stands for Time Warner Cable not The Weather Channel. The Travel Channel is owned by Cox Communications and probably isn't in any hurry to negotiate a deal with DirecTV for the HD version. I would agree that if they're happy with TWC and having the Travel Channel in HD...
Had a bit of this problem in Germany and had two TV's. Local OTA was PAL but US Forces broadcast NTSC and my VHS obviously was NTSC. I dumped the PAL TV on an incoming guy when we got transferred back to the USA. I can't speak for satellite nowadays outside of the US so I can't say what...