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jptaylor

Last reply Aug 13, 2007 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Need a straight answer about contracts

Hello all.
I am getting the dish installed in a few days, but I refuse to do a long term contract since I feel completely insecure signing an 18 month contract for something that I might have problems with. Maybe if I knew it worked good I would get a contract.

So After dealing with blatant liars at one dish retailer i decide to go straight to the source so I call main 1800333DISH number.

She says she can change the order so I am a non - committal customer and don't have to sign a long term contract, can quit any time. She states I have to make sure when i sign the contract the installers bring I abbreviate my initials in a non-committal area.

Has anyone actually done this? or is anyone out there not on some kind of 18 month contract? I have read horror stories of people hoping to get this non commitment deal and end up realizing they signed something wrong and are locked in.

I really don't think she was lying to me about this, obviously I have to be super careful of what I sign...but does this agreement seem possible or is it like wireless companies where everyone has a long term contract?

Thanks very much, any help is greatly appreciated so I don't make a big mistake here.

JP

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jptaylor

Aug 13, 2007

Thanks again.

Thanks for those resources and all the responses, wasn't expecting that big a response.

cparker...nice to meet someone from the area here, i am over on alexander and east in downtown area by those bars kinda.

I do feel much better about it now. The first dish 'assocaites' (mydishnow) i talked to seemed a bit 'sharkish.' I just had a few questions and i guess once a salesmen gets me on a hook its hard. I think some of those third party places will say anything. I called later and asked if I could try it for 30 days, she said yes, which was BS considering i had the contract set up in the install order.

Another stretching of the truth came when i called the dishnow people too, they told me to just write on the letter from my landlord (permission to install) that I give them permission (basically id be signing as the landlord..which im not). I was tempted to do this, but thought better of it.

The people i talked to at 333dish were much better, She helped me out I think because I was having difficulties with others and was able to credit me ahead of first bill for rebates and such. Well Tuesday is the day for install, I have visibility of right areas so lets hope it goes smoothly

jptaylor

Aug 13, 2007

i almost forgot about a few other rants i have about mydishnow...(read above post for problems i had with false answers / shady requests)

So they had me do the 'free' credit report check, i get my report, but now I have to go cancel thing or I will get automatically billed. I'm no senior executive but I'm pretty busy and don't want to waste my time on this.

So a free iPod shuffle with my dish order great! to bad shipping and handling is $25 and you can find iPod shuffles for around $60. it must be a heavy bugger.

After going through the contract and several other special offers (my brain is nearing the state of jello at this point) apparently I qualify for a free vacation so i listen to another persons 10 minute promo! to bad I have to supply airfare and food, and two days worth of park admission. But its ok they can lock me in now. the phrase theres no such thing as a free lunch becomes more and more obvious when i deal with these people. After 3 or 4 tries he finally gets the idea that I don't want to buy two tickets two your damn theme park! I mean i know there are impulsive people out there and he had me so tempted, but give me a break people

cparker

Aug 13, 2007

All those "free vacation" and "iPod" promos didn't come from DishNetwork did they? I've never had them pull that crap with me. If they did I'd probably cancel on the spot. If they have an offer directly related to my service, that's one thing. But all that other stuff is just too "sharky" and I won't stand for it.

jptaylor

Aug 13, 2007

dishnow?

No, it was the mydishnow people (sales affiliates of Dish?) Be careful of those guys...

Now i have a new problem though, i should probably post it in a new thread...my landlord is afriad of allowing this, however there is an existing DirectTV dish that isnt being used. If they could reuse the mount for it my landlord would be ok with it, but I have no idea if they are the same. They are coming by tomorrow, but all i can really do then is ask if it will be compatibile, then they will have to come back again when i get the actual paper work saying they can

cparker

Aug 13, 2007

You have a balcony that is your private space? The DirecTV dish shows he has allowed it in the past. I think the mast may be the same size but the dishes are different. They could also just remove the DirecTV dish, mount and all, and replace it with the DishNetwork dish. Tell the landlord that in the event that you move, you'd be willing to leave the dishes installed so the next tenant would only have to sign up and get a receiver.

The fact that Dish ENCOURAGES you to leave teh dishes behind doesn't need to come up in conversation.

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Peter Parker

Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter

Last reply 34 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

DISH Hopper 3 Software Version 713 Is Out

No idea what improvements might be involved.

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bookworm370

Yesterday at 3:17 PM

Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.

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reubenray

Yesterday at 6:40 PM

I got the 713 update yesterday.

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naptime

Today at 1:05 AM

I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.

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reubenray

Today at 6:14 AM

bookworm370 said:
Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.

My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning. She hit FF and it went to 15x FF.

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Bobby

Today at 10:32 AM

naptime said:
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.

This has been an ongoing issue. A fix is coming, probably in the next software version.

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dishstaller

34 minutes ago

reubenray said:
My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning.

Had a customer call recently saying their remote was really acting up, some buttons no longer functioned. Told them to reboot the Hopper....problem fixed.
Wife bought me a t-shirt that has "have you tried turning it off and on again?"

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telebiker

Last reply 41 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish Hopper and Dish Hopper Plus No Alexa in settings

I have Dish Hopper and Hopper Plus and also have Alexa Echo. I link the Alex skill to Dish and it asks me to enter the pairing code shown on the TV. I go into Dish Settings and there is no Alexa shown. Not sure what to do.

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HipKat

Mar 15, 2026

Guys,
Android is Google. Google is Android. Android OS and Google TV are the same thing.
The Hopper+ and Joey 4's run Android TV, which is Google's television version of Android.
That means under the hood, you have:

Linux kernel
Android framework
Google TV / Android TV interface
Google Play Store for TV apps

Alexa is the competition. Google is not going to host their competition.
The old Hopper Carbon UI is NOT Google so that's why Alexa was on there.

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Harryhaggle

Mar 18, 2026

Understood. But here's the rub - Google Assistant setup is ALSO missing from the Hopper Plus setup. I'm a paraplegic.and need to use voice controls as much as possible but I can't press a button on the remote to activate Google Assistant. I prefer ALEXA (or ALEXA+) but I have one older google device and will go that route IF they make it available. BTW calling Dish Customer Service is no help- they just say they have no info on if/when there will be an update.

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navychop

Mar 18, 2026

Ungood.

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reubenray

Today at 10:17 AM

What is the purpose of connecting Alexa and the H3?

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navychop

41 minutes ago

Tell Alexa verbally what to do.

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klang

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Last reply 44 minutes ago · posted in TV Shows

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Paramount+

Season 2 order already in hand:

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1

I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.

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klang

Jul 28, 2025

I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

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Foxbat

Apr 3, 2026

Paramount lost a number of the Star Trek creative crew to other projects, like Ron Moore going on to BSG and "For All Mankind". I see Denise and Michael Okuda are also involved with FAM.

klang

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

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MikeD-C05

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.

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harshness

Tuesday at 11:28 AM

MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.

Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

MikeD-C05

44 minutes ago

harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.

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meStevo

Lifetime Supporter

Last reply 56 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

AI thread

A continuation of a thread from the pub, just general discussion of AI.

Brief 60 minute clip about next gem autonomous fighters - not remote controlled, but rather collaborating with controllers and aircraft in the theater.

View: https://youtu.be/DRm0mbp_n1k

We've literally got a movie already about this

View: https://youtu.be/a2PW7a9ViDc

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meStevo

Oct 9, 2026

Agreed, it mostly regurgitates known solutions. That's the point. Nobody needs an innovative fix for a driver error or a creative way to format a report. Let it handle the solved problems so people can spend their time on the ones that aren't.

harshness

Oct 9, 2026

meStevo said:
Agreed, it mostly regurgitates known solutions. That's the point.

That's the point at which innovation ends, and there's no longer any point to software engineering other than swatting bugs that result from misapplication.

meStevo

Oct 9, 2026

harshness said:
That's the point at which innovation ends, and there's no longer any point to software engineering other than swatting bugs that result from misapplication.

Addressed by what you didn't quote. This cycle is as old as computing: compilers, libraries, frameworks each automated the tedious part, and the human work moved up a level. Innovation didn't end; it shifted. And people still make new compilers, libraries or frameworks.

Nobody's forced to hand anything off. Anyone who wants to keep doing it by hand still can, and people who couldn't do it at all now can.

harshness

Oct 9, 2026

meStevo said:
... and people who couldn't do it at all now can.

Misapplication isn't something that the casual coder can identify. They can only discover, the hard way, that it doesn't work at some point.

meStevo

Oct 9, 2026

harshness said:
Misapplication isn't something that the casual coder can identify. They can only discover, the hard way, that it doesn't work at some point.

You're not wrong, but that's part of learning. Whether from others or our own mistakes, we've all learned that lesson one way or another.

harshness

Oct 9, 2026

meStevo said:
Whether from others or our own mistakes, we've all learned that lesson one way or another.

I'm not sure that the school of hard knocks is the quickest or surest education to find your way.

There are many examples in the headlines of people getting burned multiple times and not wavering in their pursuit of stupidity.

meStevo

Oct 9, 2026

harshness said:
I'm not sure that the school of hard knocks is the quickest or surest education to find your way.

Good thing not everyone will have to learn the hard way then. The same tools can explain why something broke.

harshness said:
There are many examples in the headlines of people getting burned multiple times and not wavering in their pursuit of stupidity.

This is true of literally anything, though.

Happy to agree to disagree, but I'm already enjoying the dividends personally and helping others at work and at home do the same.

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harshness

Oct 9, 2026

meStevo said:
This is true of literally anything, though.

Do you think that means we ought to be supporting it as the long-term solution?

Foxbat

Monday at 11:01 PM

Foxbat

Yesterday at 9:36 PM

Oops.

AI Agent Blamed for Deleting Entire Upcoming Season of TV Show

An AI agent reportedly deleted the entire final cut of the upcoming season of a Swedish reality competition show.

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dishstaller

Today at 10:05 AM

Been reading this thread but not commenting much, primarily because there is so much "news" out there on this topic and it is hard to tell what is real and what is theater.
My biggest problem with AI is that these agents are taught...not necessarily programmed but taught. Well, there's an old saying "garbage in/garbage out". I remember a Joe Rogan show a while back when he had Elon Musk on and they talked about AI and Elon said one of the AIs (can't remember which one, sorry) was asked which was worse, Thermonuclear War or mis-gendering Kaitlyn Jenner and it came back with the answer that mis-gendering was worse. Now forget the politics involved with all the gender stuff we have been subjected to the past few years.....to say that mis-gendering is worse than the killing of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of human beings.....Kaitlyn Jenner included.....is simply insane not to mention incredibly dangerous.

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply Today at 12:33 PM · 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...

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CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

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.

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Another example:

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Last reply Today at 12:32 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

Stumbled across this ... http://www.gaspricewatch.com/USGas_ZipSearch.asp
I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
Added these to this post...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
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Ethanol Free Stations

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