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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
i have read a lot of complaints about Nick not being avail to Turbo subs. this is kind of alarming, i mean, how many grown adults watch Nick? and dont say its because you have kids in the house. if you needed to have nick that bad, you already had it in the classic package. any grown adult who wants NICK is disturbing.
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bebop
i, i mean, how many grown adults watch Nick? and dont say its because you have kids in the house. if you needed to have nick that bad, you already had it in the classic package. any grown adult who wants NICK is disturbing.
Yeah! We should start a petition and make Dish Network give us money back and have them take Nick off the air - what a waste of space. And while they are at it they can take off that lame Disney Channel and Disney XD, Disney East, Nick Toons, and Cartoon Network. :mad: I'm pissed! :D

BTW - you do have the worst screen name and should have your account deleted.
TheKrell
BTW - you do have the worst screen name and should have your account deleted.
Argh! I didn't even focus on that until you mentioned it. Clearly we have all been feeding the troll. :o I am so embarrassed.

As penance, I will now come out. ;) I too enjoy Spongebob, as does my wife and (of course) our 5yo daughter. My favorite episode is "Your Shoe's Untied", which nearly caused my demise, I was laughing so hard. Now, to get ever so slightly back on topic, has anybody seen any Spongebob episode in HD? I haven't.
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Argh! I didn't even focus on that until you mentioned it. Clearly we have all been feeding the troll. :o I am so embarrassed.

As penance, I will now come out. ;) I too enjoy Spongebob, as does my wife and (of course) our 5yo daughter. My favorite episode is "Your Shoe's Untied", which nearly caused my demise, I was laughing so hard. Now, to get ever so slightly back on topic, has anybody seen any Spongebob episode in HD? I haven't.

I think only iCarly, and Penguins is in HD right now. Fairly Oddparents shows up in TV Listings as HD but not sure about that one.
J
I am a Spongebob fan. It's written well with enough jokes for adults interspersed.

Overall, I find Nick's programming superior to Disney's (what I'm stuck with as a Turbo subscriber).

The kids aren't that picky, but I've always found Nick's programming to be a tad more sophisticated compared to Disney (as silly as that sounds!)
reddice
I think only iCarly, and Penguins is in HD right now. Fairly Oddparents shows up in TV Listings as HD but not sure about that one.

What annoying me about iCarly is that the last two new episodes are not even in HD. They suppose to be in HD but they are showing the center cropped unconverted versions. Still better than that waste Cartoon Network which has HD cartoons but shows the SD version of all of them stretched even on Friday night.
Slavco23
I like me some Sponge Bob and I'm 26. :)
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Compared to NICK SD !

I dont watch alot of NICK anymore but the few times I have since they have added their HD version is much better than the SD version,even though most (if not all ) NICK AT NITE shows were all shot in SD the upconversion makes the shows much sharper,not auctual HD ,I generally use partial Zoom to get rid of side bars.
(A question kind of unrelated to this but does anyone have an HDTV that has
a decent SD picture,looking for a better HDTV ,need some input)

Most of the channels Dish has added in HD dont have alot HD programming ,yet.This is not Dishes fault,in time most new shows will be in HD but it will be a while.Most of what we are seeing now is basic upconvert which looks better than SD.I wish I would have done more research before going To an HD TV(Try finding an SD TV in stores ,very difficult now)I thought once I got my HDTV and subscribed to HD channels everything would be HD,what a Dummy I was.(Heres a book idea"HDTV for Dummies")Live and learn I guess.
TheKrell
A question kind of unrelated to this but does anyone have an HDTV that has a decent SD picture...
I have been very favorably impressed with the scaler in my Westinghouse c. 2007 42" LCD HDTV. I also bought a 32" Sylvania at about the same time, but took it back because the upconversion was so crappy.

If you are watching SD on a Dish Network HD tuner, just let it do the scaling for you. Does a credible job in my experience, and would probably even look reasonable on that crappy Sylvania.
Scott Greczkowski
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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

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.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
dishstaller
That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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b4pjoe
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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HipKat
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Jimbo
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.