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Hemi 6.1

Last reply Jul 28, 2007 · posted in DIRECTV General Forum

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Does anyone know if Directv is going to ever have these Cinemax channels in SD or HD?. How about the Movie Channel Xtra?

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paulman182

Jul 25, 2007

I generally like D* better and that's what I subscribe to now. I don't see anything wrong with wanting D* to get even better. I'll stay with D* even if they disappoint me on their channel adds, bud naturally I don't want to be disappointed...

The troublesome thing to me is that D* is making all these statements claiming that the "future is HD" and they plan to be the "HD leader" with 100-150 national HD channels. Then someone asks them about the Voom channels and they say something like, "No, not THOSE channels, we mean GOOD ones!" and HBO announces their 26 channels and D* only commits to 11 (evidently.) It seems to me the "HD Leader" should have more consideration for the customers who would like those channels, and consider the possiblity they will need those channels to reach their numerical goal.

I feel a letdown coming, but in no way am I bashing anyone. I've pretty much been a D* fanboy. That's why I'll really be disappointed if they don't come through.

Hemi 6.1

Jul 25, 2007

paulman182 said:
I generally like D* better and that's what I subscribe to now. I don't see anything wrong with wanting D* to get even better. I'll stay with D* even if they disappoint me on their channel adds, bud naturally I don't want to be disappointed...

The troublesome thing to me is that D* is making all these statements claiming that the "future is HD" and they plan to be the "HD leader" with 100-150 national HD channels. Then someone asks them about the Voom channels and they say something like, "No, not THOSE channels, we mean GOOD ones!" and HBO announces their 26 channels and D* only commits to 11 (evidently.) It seems to me the "HD Leader" should have more consideration for the customers who would like those channels, and consider the possiblity they will need those channels to reach their numerical goal.

I feel a letdown coming, but in no way am I bashing anyone. I've pretty much been a D* fanboy. That's why I'll really be disappointed if they don't come through.

Thats right. If you want to be called the HD leader,then you need to have what everyone else has and more.

Jimbo

Jul 26, 2007

Hemi 6.1 said:
Thats right. If you want to be called the HD leader,then you need to have what everyone else has and more.

Well ... sorta correct on your behalf.....
Just because they trail E* in movies they are not as good ?

E* trails D* by a whole lot when it comes to "Sports".
E* even boycotted the oppertunity to jump in on the MLB package when they had every chance to do it.
They don't do the NFL either.

There are alot of us out here that have Sat TV for the Sports available.
So it depends on how you look at it.

I could care less about the Premium movie channels, I've had the Movie channel, Showtime and Starz for 3-6 months at a time and found myself Not watching much of them , at least not enough to keep them.
I am currently doing HBO and Cinemax and hardly find myself watching them except for the occasional movie that I DO decide I want to watch.

So there are lot of ways to be the leader in HD, number of channels is NOT how I want to have the provider I want to use to decide.

Jimbo

paulman182

Jul 27, 2007

Jimbos said:
So there are lot of ways to be the leader in HD, number of channels is NOT how I want to have the provider I want to use to decide./QUOTE]

Good point, but...I'm pretty sure D* would like to put an end to the "HD Leader Debate." To do that, they need to please the sports fans, movie fans, all the HD viewers. If it remains a "E* for movies D* for sports" situation, what are they really changing?

When the two sats are both active, D* should have plenty of bandwidth to really be the HD leader. Down the pike, when there are enough HD channels to cause a bandwidth crunch again, D* might have to focus on sports at the expense of other things, but there is no reason to do that when the two new sats are operating and they are trying so hard to convice us of their committment to HD.

I am a Sunday Ticket subscriber and often scan thru the sports channels. I am looking forward to having them in HD. Just because I want my movie channels doesn't mean I don't want you to have your sports.

Hemi 6.1

Jul 27, 2007

Jimbos said:
Well ... sorta correct on your behalf.....
Just because they trail E* in movies they are not as good ?

E* trails D* by a whole lot when it comes to "Sports".
E* even boycotted the oppertunity to jump in on the MLB package when they had every chance to do it.
They don't do the NFL either.

There are alot of us out here that have Sat TV for the Sports available.
So it depends on how you look at it.

I could care less about the Premium movie channels, I've had the Movie channel, Showtime and Starz for 3-6 months at a time and found myself Not watching much of them , at least not enough to keep them.
I am currently doing HBO and Cinemax and hardly find myself watching them except for the occasional movie that I DO decide I want to watch.

So there are lot of ways to be the leader in HD, number of channels is NOT how I want to have the provider I want to use to decide.

Jimbo

I never said E was the HD leader. I said if you want to be the HD leader ,you can't be unless you have everything. Sports ,Premium's ,everything. I 'm saying Directv is Never going to be if they don't have everything everyone else does.What makes you a leader means you can make everyone Happy.I could care less about all the useless rsn's that are blacked out 80% of the time.And when they aren't blacked out ,there's 30 channels with the same crappy paid programming.If people want to shell out Hundreds of dollars extra a year for Sports packs ,then I guess you can call D* the sports leader.

Jimbo

Jul 27, 2007

paulman182 said:
Jimbos said:

So there are lot of ways to be the leader in HD, number of channels is NOT how I want to have the provider I want to use to decide./QUOTE]

Good point, but...I'm pretty sure D* would like to put an end to the "HD Leader Debate." To do that, they need to please the sports fans, movie fans, all the HD viewers. If it remains a "E* for movies D* for sports" situation, what are they really changing?

When the two sats are both active, D* should have plenty of bandwidth to really be the HD leader. Down the pike, when there are enough HD channels to cause a bandwidth crunch again, D* might have to focus on sports at the expense of other things, but there is no reason to do that when the two new sats are operating and they are trying so hard to convice us of their committment to HD.

I am a Sunday Ticket subscriber and often scan thru the sports channels. I am looking forward to having them in HD. Just because I want my movie channels doesn't mean I don't want you to have your sports.

Click to expand...

I perfer to get my Sports in HD and with the best overall HD quality available.

Jimbo

Jimbo

Jul 27, 2007

Hemi 6.1 said:
I never said E was the HD leader. I said if you want to be the HD leader ,you can't be unless you have everything. Sports ,Premium's ,everything. I 'm saying Directv is Never going to be if they don't have everything everyone else does.What makes you a leader means you can make everyone Happy.I could care less about all the useless rsn's that are blacked out 80% of the time.And when they aren't blacked out ,there's 30 channels with the same crappy paid programming.If people want to shell out Hundreds of dollars extra a year for Sports packs ,then I guess you can call D* the sports leader.

OK, Hemi,
I can see we will have to agree to disagree.
First answer me this ?
WHO is YOUR HD Leader ?

Jimbo

Hemi 6.1

Jul 28, 2007

There isn't one. Neither E* or D* can be called an HD leader. Maybe Fios,But who knows ,its only in 3 Citys.

paulman182

Jul 28, 2007

Jimbos said:
I perfer to get my Sports in HD and with the best overall HD quality available.
Jimbo

I am pretty satisfied with the PQ from D* HD right now, and from what I read, it will be even better with MPEG4.

I think D* has to show a comittment to all its customers, not just sports fans. It seems to me they will have the ability to make everyone happy soon.

If not, then I will eliminate a couple of DVRs, drop down a couple of levels of programming, and subscribe to E* for movies. I'll keep a small D* package so I can have NFL ST. My monthly D* bill will go from $145 down to probably half that.

skottey

Jul 28, 2007

Neither Dish nor Directv have all the HBO and Cinemax multichannels available now, and their western feeds, so I am sure it is highly unlikely either one of them will carry the new HD versions of the channels they don't have now.

Dish does pretty good on the Starz, and that is why I subscribe to Starz through Dish. I hope they add those multichannels of Starz in HD when they become available.

I subscribe to HBO/Cinemax through cable and currently get all their east/west multichannels. I wonder how many Bright House will pick up in HD.

I can't stand watching SD TV anymore (especially pan and scan movies). Right now I am paying for Dish and BHN, and that isn't going to go on forever. I will ultimately go with whoever has the most HD channels, weighed heavily by the HD premium channels that I would watch more of if the picture was in HD. I only care about pro hockey and pro football as far as sports and I can live without the games, so sports aren't a make or break here.

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Last reply 35 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

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Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

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It's not even where it folds!

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SuperDish_Fan23

Last reply Today at 12:04 AM · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Its crazy how the ViP922 is so rare for no reason.

Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!

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Strega

Yesterday at 2:34 PM

That's not really unusual. Cable companies like to the provide the box too. The phone company provided the phones in until the government forced them to allow third-party phones.

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 7:02 PM

Strega said:
That's not really unusual. Cable companies like to the provide the box too. The phone company provided the phones in until the government forced them to allow third-party phones.

Yes, the Western Electric phones that says "Bell System Property, NOT FOR SALE, Western Electric".

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AZ.

Yesterday at 9:10 PM

Almighty1 said:
Yes, the Western Electric phones that says "Bell System Property, NOT FOR SALE, Western Electric".

someone is showing their age

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 9:38 PM

AZ. said:
someone is showing their age

LOL. It depends if the person saw it during the years when they were actually still available which is 1968 to 1983 meaning the person could be 43-58 years old or they can even be a few years old if they learned to read and write at a young age and actually saw a telephone with that label somewhere recently just like even here in San Francisco, payphone still exist physically in public places but whether they can be used or not is a different issue. It still looks like this even today:

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dishstaller

Yesterday at 10:03 PM

I opened my Radio Shack in Sept 1984 and right about that time they did the whole deregulation thing with the phone companies. I bought TONS of those phones that had been refurbished with a new outer shell. You could throw one of those out of a 3 story high window and it would still work.
That was an interesting time in history. I would have older customers come in and ask about phones.....they were terrified that they were going to get into trouble hooking up a second phone without the phone company knowing about it. One of the funniest episodes of WKRP was the one where Johnny thought the cops were showing up because they had an unregistered phone. I guess younger folks can't conceive of a time when you were limited to the number of phones you could have in your house....and limited to the length of the cord

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navychop

Yesterday at 11:01 PM

AZ. said:
someone is showing their age

You should hear his stories about when rocks were soft and pterodactyls were the new kid on the block!

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Today at 12:04 AM

dishstaller said:
One of the funniest episodes of WKRP was the one where Johnny thought the cops were showing up because they had an unregistered phone.

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Country singer John Anderson died today

He was 71 yrs old. One of my favorite songs is Seminole Wind....the violin is killer.

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Yesterday at 10:53 PM

Rest In Peace

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Yesterday at 11:01 PM

I Wish I Could Have Been There is an amazing song. Rest in peace Mr Anderson.

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Yesterday at 11:03 PM

Rest in peace.

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Yesterday at 11:04 PM

Hope you're out there Swingin', John.

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dishstaller

Today at 12:02 AM

mikew said:
I Wish I Could Have Been There is an amazing song.

That's one of those songs that hits a little too close to home for me. I like the song but just can't listen to it. It's kinda like that song "Daddy never was the Cadillac kind".....reminds me too much of my Grandfather who died Feb 18, 1995.

niembre

Last reply Yesterday at 11:21 PM · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

OTA no working after Update

My OTA is not working anymore. This started after the latest update. I have the OTA dongle with a OTA antenna that I've been using for years. My hopper does not recognize the dongle anymore and when I go to the OTA setting, it has a screen that says to plug a dongle into the USB. I tried unplugging and plugging back, in the same usb port and other ports. The Hopper does not recognize it. Anyone have same issue?

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Scott Greczkowski

Sep 24, 2026

Did you people having this issue contact Brittany yet? Shes trying to keep track of things and it would be good for you to contact her as maybe she can get this somewhere and get fixed.

Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.

DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.

Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.

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bookworm370

Sep 25, 2026

Scott Greczkowski said:
Did you people having this issue contact Brittany yet? Shes trying to keep track of things and it would be good for you to contact her as maybe she can get this somewhere and get fixed.

Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.

DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.

Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.

Thanks, but until they do, can't Dish just revert to the old driver that worked? Then test the new driver when delivered,d before pushing it again.

But then what does an old CIO know! I've only reamed quite a few buttholes from my people that didn't do that!

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slow_poke_pete

Sep 27, 2026

bookworm370 said:
Thanks, but until they do, can't Dish just revert to the old driver that worked? Then test the new driver when delivered,d before pushing it again.

But then what does an old CIO know! I've only reamed quite a few buttholes from my people that didn't do that!

dish can't revert back to older drivers or updates. although just one reason not to buy the ota dongle!!!

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ppappas

Sep 30, 2026

slow_poke_pete said:
dish can't revert back to older drivers or updates. although just one reason not to buy the ota dongle!!!

They can absolutely put the old driver back if they wanted. This is an embedded software environment in which they have total control. All they have to do if build a new version of firmware with the old OTA driver and test it of course. They just don't want to spend the resources doing so. If they are not going to continue supporting the single tuner adapter, then they have to say so.

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Almighty1

Oct 1, 2026

ppappas said:
They can absolutely put the old driver back if they wanted. This is an embedded software environment in which they have total control. All they have to do if build a new version of firmware with the old OTA driver and test it of course. They just don't want to spend the resources doing so. If they are not going to continue supporting the single tuner adapter, then they have to say so.

Unless of course they didn't keep a copy of the old drivers and can no longer get it. Then there is always the their support for the product is EOL after a x amount of time so it will make the consumer have to buy the current product offering.

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Briant73

Yesterday at 9:19 PM

Anyone heard any updates on this, I'm still having the issue so thought I'd check in.

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 9:48 PM

Briant73 said:
Anyone heard any updates on this, I'm still having the issue so thought I'd check in.

No updates but if you can get DISH Technical Operations to roll you back to H710 or earlier even though H708 would be best because it also eliminates another problem like in this comment, you will also no longer have the problem as long as you don't update manually or forced to any new version until the problem is fixed as the problem started in H711 and still exist in H712 and H713.

https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/th...ftware-version-713-is-out.423921/post-5108817

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dishstaller

Yesterday at 9:57 PM

Installed an off-air antenna a couple days ago for a customer who had just cancelled his Dish service. He had a dual off-air adapter and gave it to me. Cool. I'll keep it on the truck....might come in handy. Got to admit I don't watch anything as far as live tv goes anymore. Even if we have severe weather, our local channels will have a live feed on Youtube.

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navychop

Yesterday at 11:21 PM

In other news, it was announced that the software fix for the two tin cans and a string will not be forthcoming. A hardware fix is required. However, that fix will let you receive stations from a gazillion miles away.

Truck roll charges may apply. Two year commitment required.

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MartyDe

Last reply Yesterday at 10:37 PM · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info

ATSC 3 converter boxes

Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.

Pearl TV Issues Progress Report on Low-Cost 3.0 Converters in Advance of NAB Show New York

Group has secured lower pricing from key tech players to make less costly boxes available

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navychop

Tuesday at 12:03 PM

DEATH TO NEXGEN!

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TRG

Tuesday at 12:12 PM

17 years ago the US turned off analog OTA signals in favor of digital broadcasting. Now the push is ATSC 3 "Nextgen TV". But nobody seems to be able to agree on DRM implementation protocols. People don't want to hook their TV up to the internet in order to watch over the air TV. At least I don't. With all the data they collect about your viewing habits the box should be given away at no cost.

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navychop

Tuesday at 12:27 PM

Comb your hair.

primestar31

Yesterday at 7:29 PM

navychop said:
DEATH TO NEXGEN!

It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.

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navychop

Yesterday at 10:37 PM

I truly hope you are right.

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5StarMAX ,, ActionMax

Project Helix Price Rumor: Could the Next Xbox Cost $1,800? #shorts

Song Name Game Part 3!

iPhone Duo Crease?

Reading on the iPhone Duo!

Playing Xbox on the iPhone Duo!

iPhone Duo Fold Animation

Its crazy how the ViP922 is so rare for no reason.

Country singer John Anderson died today

OTA no working after Update

ATSC 3 converter boxes

Pearl TV Issues Progress Report on Low-Cost 3.0 Converters in Advance of NAB Show New York