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It's been ages since I've tried it, but I believe that one time that I had a PVR hard drive fail, I was able to open up the receiver and simply unplug the cables from the hard drive, and it then functioned like a regular receiver. That's going back many years..

Thank you for the answer.. That explains why their HD looks like crap. I guess I'll have to look at seeing what I can do to boost my over-the-air reception of digital channels. I also have a Manhattan HDTV Free-To-Air receiver that I can use to watch some of the network feeds..

2 weeks ago I attended a fall fair. Lots of vendors were at the fair selling their wares, and one of the vendors was selling Bell HD TV... I looked at the demo that they had (an HD DVR, playing a pre-recorded show). The "HD" video was less than impressive.. I have an over-the-air...

I just looked at that foot print map closer... Am I reading it right? Are they only planning on using C-Band on that bird for South America?

It is quite amazing how they can focus those beams the way that they do. It certainly is going to result in a lot of cancellations to Shaw Direct's service. I think that the grey-market for Shaw likely accounts for a good percentage of their subscribers. I would be curious to know if it is...

The signal may not be legitimately available for purchase in the USA, but the signal does reach the USA. It may take some looking, but I'm willing to bet that there is a Ku-Band motorized dish setup available somewhere. I wouldn't expect it to be cheap though. Starburst2 - you may want to...

I don't like the idea of brokers.. I live in Canada and have an arrangement with another SatelliteGuy. He uses my Canadian address and phone number for his Starchoice subscription, and I use his US address and phone number for my Big Dish subscriptions :) Maybe another SatelliteGuy can...

I'd like to comment quickly on the idea of using a Broker vs a friend or family address. I would highly suggest using a known family address instead of a broker. In fact, I have an arrangement with a fellow SatelliteGuys member, he uses my Canadian name/address/phone to subscribe to...

I don't understand the need to return the old card. All of the instructions that I have seen in regards to the card swap say to Destroy your old cards after the new cards have been activated... I subscribe to a very large package on Bell ($99+taxes) each month, and I still haven't seen my...

Possibly a cabling issue? If you watch the signal strength screen (menu 6-1-1), does the signal strength stay constant or does it suddently dip down to 10% and then back up again? I have seen cabling issues cause freezing. Are you able to borrow a friend's receiver for an hour or two...

What model of receiver do you have? You mentioning that you lost all of your PVR recordings scares me. I have an entire year's worth of "The Vinyl Cafe" from CBC Radio recorded on to my PVR's hard drive. I haven't had a chance to transfer them over to my PC yet. I would hate to lose all of...