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Platinum HD

If anyone is subscribed to Gold HD but not getting Platinum HD and it's not an option on your Programming page at dish's website, do these few simple steps:


1. Sign into your online account and click on "Programming" link on the left side of the page.
2. Under HD Programming options uncheck all of your current HD package(s).
3. Click "Review and Order" at the bottom of the page. (Verify all HD Package(s) were removed)
4. Click on the red "Back" button at the bottom of the page. You should see the "HD & Platinum" option.
5. Click on HD & Platinum for $10.
6. Click on "Review and Order" button. (Verify combined "HD & Platinum" package was added.)
7. Click on "Order" button. You should see the Platinum HD channels on your screen in 5-15 minutes.


I just did it and it worked!!! I had Platinum HD within 2 minutes!:up:D
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Young C
I have AEP and Plat. HD
Is it true the $10 Plat. HD package is no longer and people are getting it for free?

Am I being ripped off?
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allargon
Young C said:
I have AEP and Plat. HD
Is it true the $10 Plat. HD package is no longer and people are getting it for free?

Am I being ripped off?
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You've been on this site since 2008 and just figured that out?

Follow the OP's advice. Even if you got rid of platinum to save $10 after the removal of Voom, follow the OP's advice and get platinum again at no additional cost. The only exception to this I could see are people with certain no longer available packages now grandfathered.
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allargon said:
You've been on this site since 2008 and just figured that out?

Follow the OP's advice. Even if you got rid of platinum to save $10 after the removal of Voom, follow the OP's advice and get platinum again at no additional cost. The only exception to this I could see are people with certain no longer available packages now grandfathered.
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I don't really surf satelliteguys. I'm an avsforum guy.
(Not to be rude against the staff or members here. )
I've never heard of this on avsforum or satelliteguys. Maybe I live under a rock. :p

That is a concern of mine. I don't want Dishnetwork to add new HD additions and for me to be out of them. I would rather pay full price and always be rest-assured that I got the new HD channels.
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Jimmerinwi
Jimmerinwi
Do it soon, Me thinks that they are going to start charging an additional $10 for the Platinum again soon. Just the rumblings I'm hearing anyway.
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Jimmerinwi said:
Do it soon, Me thinks that they are going to start charging an additional $10 for the Platinum again soon. Just the rumblings I'm hearing anyway.
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With the additions they have made to it in the past few months, this does seem likely. Hopefully those of us with HD & Platinum will be grandfathered in at the current rate.
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allargon
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Young C said:
I don't really surf satelliteguys. I'm an avsforum guy.
(Not to be rude against the staff or members here. )
I've never heard of this on avsforum or satelliteguys. Maybe I live under a rock. :p

That is a concern of mine. I don't want Dishnetwork to add new HD additions and for me to be out of them. I would rather pay full price and always be rest-assured that I got the new HD channels.
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You're not paying full price. You're paying full price plus extra. If the extra $120/yr doesn't bother you, that's fine.

I read AVSForums and SatelliteGuys. I used to be a paid member of both but cut back on things to pay for my wif...I mean our wedding.

Dish won't add new HD additions for you to be out of them if you have AEP+SportsPack+HD. (East Coast customers not on EA recently being the major exception!) You'll get everything unless they start adding HD packages to the Latino or International packs.

No worries, either way. It's your $$$. Do with it what you please.
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whatchel1
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allargon said:
You're not paying full price. You're paying full price plus extra. If the extra $120/yr doesn't bother you, that's fine.

I read AVSForums and SatelliteGuys. I used to be a paid member of both but cut back on things to pay for my wif...I mean our wedding.

Dish won't add new HD additions for you to be out of them if you have AEP+SportsPack+HD. (East Coast customers not on EA recently being the major exception!) You'll get everything unless they start adding HD packages to the Latino or International packs.

No worries, either way. It's your $$$. Do with it what you please.
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What terrible reason to stop supporting. :D
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this still works for those that haven't done it yet..... i just did it a few minutes ago and it went through fine
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Last reply · 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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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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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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Ungood.
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What is the purpose of connecting Alexa and the H3?
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Tell Alexa verbally what to do.
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Last reply · 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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I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.
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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.
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klang said:
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.
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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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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.
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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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MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.
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Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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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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Ham Radio 2.0
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Does a SATCOM Antenna Work for GMRS? | RigExpert Test

Time for another AWESOME video from Ham Radio 2.0!


View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6jvyve8sFr4


Direct YouTube Link - Does a SATCOM Antenna Work for GMRS? | RigExpert Test
Ham Radio 2.0 Website
Ham Radio 2.0 on Facebook
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· posted in iJustine

Will Microsoft Surface Ultra's replace MacBooks?

Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03evrI39YH8


Direct YouTube Link - Will Microsoft Surface Ultra's replace MacBooks?
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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meStevo
meStevo
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Last reply · 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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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.
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harshness
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meStevo said:
Agreed, it mostly regurgitates known solutions. That's the point.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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meStevo said:
... and people who couldn't do it at all now can.
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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.
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meStevo
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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.
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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.
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harshness
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meStevo said:
Whether from others or our own mistakes, we've all learned that lesson one way or another.
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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.
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meStevo
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harshness said:
I'm not sure that the school of hard knocks is the quickest or surest education to find your way.
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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.
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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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meStevo said:
This is true of literally anything, though.
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Do you think that means we ought to be supporting it as the long-term solution?
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Oops.
futurism.com

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.
futurism.com futurism.com
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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
Scott Greczkowski
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge
Last reply · 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

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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Down On The Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Mississippi Squirrel Revival - Ray Stevens
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Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town - Charley Pride
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Delta Dawn - Tanya Tucker
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Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band
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Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!
Last reply · 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
State By State Gasoline Taxes
Gas Buddy

Ethanol Free Stations

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Today.
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Bobby
Bobby
Regular$6.099​
Premium$6.599​
Diesel$7.999​
at Costco, Rohnert Park.​
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Bobby
Bobby
Regular$5.999​
Premium$6.399​
Diesel$7.999​
at Costco, Rohnert Park.​
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I wonder if California is getting into the Winter formula.
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Bobby said:
Regular$5.999​
Premium$6.399​
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Odd that out there, Prem is only 40 cents higher. Here it's a full dollar more.

Last night it was about $4.17 gas, $6,19 diesel.
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Former member 208119
Former member 208119
Last reply · posted in SiriusXM Satellite Radio

SXM still giving discounts

My year was almost up and we got the new bill for a year of service for $ 360.00 insane sat radio is becoming like cable!!! i logged into my acct and hopped onto chat and told the rep that i wanted to cancel. she understood my concern and went quiet for a few minutes. i figured that she was canceling my service. she comes back and said that she seen that i have been a sub since 07 and then offers me the same package for a year for 120.00 with taxes and fee's!!! i grabbed it. after almost having a stroke :biggrin
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What i noticed with my last renewal XM is now billing me $4.99 monthly instead of one time yearly payment.
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Bruno said:
What i noticed with my last renewal XM is now billing me $.99 monthly instead of one time yearly payment.
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Did you accidentally get on the wrong plan ?
I still do the once a year plans.
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EarDemon
I know a few people who have plug and play receivers with boomboxes that use them at work due to lack of cell phone service, especially in factory environments surrounded by steal. Someone I used to work with is a FedEx driver now and uses a plug and play receiver in his work truck. In the off-chance when he's in a Sprinter van, he'll use the app via Bluetooth, but his normal truck its a plug and play with a vehicle kit. So while there is a limited market for them, it still exists.
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EarDemon said:
I know a few people who have plug and play receivers with boomboxes that use them at work due to lack of cell phone service, especially in factory environments surrounded by steal. Someone I used to work with is a FedEx driver now and uses a plug and play receiver in his work truck. In the off-chance when he's in a Sprinter van, he'll use the app via Bluetooth, but his normal truck its a plug and play with a vehicle kit. So while there is a limited market for them, it still exists.
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I did that as well, putting one in my Work truck with the antenna kit, trying to do it so WORK didn't see it. :)
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I tried to do that, when I did delivery driver work (2010- 2013), we had a fleet of Freightliners. The newer trucks had headunits that were satellite compatible (XM only I think), but lacked the antenna and guts. I got a car kt for my old Roady XT and tried to use it, but at the volume levels I needed have it at to hear it over the diesel engine it sounded like crap, so I used my phone with an aux cable. When I was in the middle of nowhere with no cell service it didn't do me any good though.

At my current job, one of our new cars has the free trial of SXM active, I frequently have to go off site to a location 75 miles away in a rural area and it's nice being able to use the service off of the satellites versus using the app. There are many places on this journey where all three providers lack service.
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Jimbo said:
Did you accidentally get on the wrong plan ?
I still do the once a year plans.
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I have to think maybe more people dont keep track of the monthly XM bill. Every time i renew i put a reminder on my calendar week before its time to renew. My wife told me the other day not to renew her and then i told her you are not going to be able to listen to XM at home. Then she changed her mind...!!
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Bruno said:
I have to think maybe more people dont keep track of the monthly XM bill. Every time i renew i put a reminder on my calendar week before its time to renew. My wife told me the other day not to renew her and then i told her you are not going to be able to listen to XM at home. Then she changed her mind...!!
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I get an e-mail every month reminding me that X amount will be charged to my credit card. If I see it go up I get on chat or pick up the phone. But I also remember that my year is up in December.
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I get an e-mail every month reminding me that X amount will be charged to my credit card. If I see it go up I get on chat or pick up the phone. But I also remember that my year is up in December.
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yea i don't understand WHY, like you I get a notice each month. Mine is also up in December.
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Peter Parker
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Last reply · 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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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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I got the 713 update yesterday.
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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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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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My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning. She hit FF and it went to 15x FF.
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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.
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This has been an ongoing issue. A fix is coming, probably in the next software version.
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cpdretired
cpdretired
Supporting Founder
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish Offers

Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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I tried on Hopper last night. Many more offers than the website has. I even got 3 free months of Gallery. Only offered 1 month on website
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I got Starz/Encore again for 50% off for 3 months yesterday.
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Darrell S said:
I tried on Hopper last night. Many more offers than the website has. I even got 3 free months of Gallery. Only offered 1 month on website
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How do I check for offers on my H3? My contract runs out in January.

OH - how about them Tigers!!
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reubenray said:
How do I check for offers on my H3? My contract runs out in January.

OH - how about them Tigers!!
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You have to find my account in the settings. Only works if you're connected to internet.
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Darrell S said:
You have to find my account in the settings. Only works if you're connected to internet.
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Thanks, I found it. I have no offers.
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