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ClarusWorks

Last reply Dec 29, 2004 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

DISH not all that bad

I've been reading posts on here for a while, and I see a lot of complaints. Personally, I don't have that much trouble with my DISH equipment. I currently have a 522/322, and 2 dishes, both DP 500s, but one only has 1 LNB for 61.4. The signal is a lot more reliable than it was with my old RCA DirecTV equipment, and the DVR is nice. We get the usual stuff, watchdogs, Interactive troubles, etc. but nothing too big.

A relative of mine works for E* Advanced Tech. A lot of the problems they have aren't their fault, it's the computers. There are 2 main apps that the CSRs access, DISH Promo and CSG, along with a 'web' with the support info they need. DISH Promo is a piece of junk, and very little training on CSG is given. Promo was written in Visual Basic, and messes up frequently, eating payments, bungling receiver #s, etc.

These are the comments/knowledge I have:
1. To all 7100/7200 owners: PLEASE, do yourself a favor and get rid of that thing. Get a 501, 508, or 510. The 501/508 have no PVR/DVR fee, and 35-50 hr. record time. The 510 has an $5 DVR fee, 1/2 what 7x00 owners pay, and 100hr. record time. E* hates troubleshooting the things, they were designed in cooperation with Microsoft Corp, and worked fine until MS partnered with DirecTV.

2. The DVR is not intended as a permanent storage device. If you want to keep something, BACK IT UP.

3. If your TV acts screwy (Numbers in corners) when you hit mute on your DISH remote, you most likely have a set made by Funai. These brands include Symphonic, Sylvania, Emerson, Durabrand, SuperScan, and probably more. Those things are junk, and DISH can't seem to find a way to work their mute circuitry correctly. Just avoid the mute key, or buy a good TV.

4. If you order a replacement dual tuner remote, it will be a TV 2 (blue chip) remote. If you needed a TV 1 remote, take off the battery door, pull out that chip, and flip it so the green side faces up.

5. If you get that "A serious problem has occured with your receiver. Call Customer Service" or something to that tune, it means that you've been caught stealing DISH, and your smartcard is toast.

That's all for now. Sorry if I angered anybody, just trying to bring out some useful facts. I personally do not work for E*, I just use their programming.

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Paul_Medenwaldt

Dec 29, 2004

I would have to agree with the original post.

I've been with E* for about 3 years and have had great CS from them. Whenever I had a faulty receiver, they ship out a new one and I ship the old one back. Thats happend twice, both of them were DVR 501 and 510. Simple transaction no complaints.

The one time I had a complaint was dealing with CS. I believe I got into one of their overseas call centers and every person I talked to there had a heavy accent and it was difficult to communicate with them.

Otherwise my 811 is working like a trooper with the old firmware 281.

Paul

Pils

Dec 29, 2004

ClarusWorks said:
1. To all 7100/7200 owners: PLEASE, do yourself a favor and get rid of that thing. Get a 501, 508, or 510. The 501/508 have no PVR/DVR fee, and 35-50 hr. record time. The 510 has an $5 DVR fee, 1/2 what 7x00 owners pay, and 100hr. record time. E* hates troubleshooting the things, they were designed in cooperation with Microsoft Corp, and worked fine until MS partnered with DirecTV.

2. The DVR is not intended as a permanent storage device. If you want to keep something, BACK IT UP.

1) The 7100/7200 had all sorts of problems and as a product of E*, it should be supported or they should not have developed it. Anyways, E* has actually diminished quite a few of the bugs in it for the most part so I give them credit for that. But the reason it is intriguing to people is because you can add a large HD in it for more space, more than a 501, 508, 510 and you can have multiple drives so I don't think people will give them up easily.

2) If someone wants it as a storage of shows, why should they not? Maybe you are intending to say if something deletes/disappears on accident, be prepared. Anyways, with the 501, 508, 510s this is not a widespread problems and like a computer, things can crash. But with flawed software on the 522 and 921s, things disappear to routinely due to bad software. A neighbor has one and the first 2 shows he recorded on a timer were erased in the morning. Not even a chance to backup, so E* has to improve on that and that is where most complaints are. Luckily you have not witnessed this but that doesn't mean it works for everyone.

TuxCoder

Dec 29, 2004

Mark_AR said:
Just goes to show you that E* needs to get ahold of some of the Open Source Brain Trust to rewrite their whole system.

Tux said he would do it.

Heh, let's not get too drastic here... :shh

if I offered that, it was probably while under the influence of much alcohol after fighting with the 522 for too long one evening... !sadroll

maximum

Dec 29, 2004

ClarusWorks said:
2. The DVR is not intended as a permanent storage device. If you want to keep something, BACK IT UP.

I wouldn't complain as much about the DVR wiping out the hard drive if I wasn't being charged extra for Video On Demand service. But since they charge an extra $5/month VOD fee then I better dang well be able to watch recordings on their DVR, instead of my VCR.

Stargazer

Dec 29, 2004

If the VOD software is not going to work right then people should get the credit on their accounts for that fee.

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply Today at 9:13 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...

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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I Can Hear Music - The Beach Boys

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Today at 4:16 PM

Boom Boom ( Out Go The Lights ) - Pat Travers

sdfntx

Today at 5:30 PM

Palisades Park - Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon

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Cherry Hill Park - Billy Joe Royal

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Today at 9:13 PM

Lakeside Park - Rush

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Bruce

Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 8:49 PM · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

How things have changed

I was reading this article

Cable TV ‘cord-cutters’ became the majority in 2022

The steady decline of cable and broadcast television, and the rise of streaming services, reached a sort of inflection point over the past year. Last summer, for the first time, streaming ser…

thehill.com

That said this-
Last summer, for the first time, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime claimed the largest share of the television viewing audience, surpassing both cable and broadcast TV. Streaming captured 34.8 percent of July viewers, according to Nielsen data, compared to 34.4 percent for cable and 21.6 percent for broadcast.

And then, sometime in the second half of 2022, cord-cutters became the majority. The share of cable and satellite television subscribers dipped to 48 percent, according to a report from Samba TV, a television technology company.

Now I do not consider those with YTTV and the likes, Cord Cutters, but they still do not have Traditional Cable/Satellite delivered Live TV, so I decided to do the math.

There are, now, 129 Million Households in the United States.

In 2015, there were 100 Million Cable/Sat Subscribers , no streaming Live TV Service.

Today, there are 66 Million Live TV subscribers, including Cable, Satellite and Streaming.

Roughly, Streaming Live TV has 14 Million subs including all of them.

So that means, Cable/Satellite now has, roughly, 51 Million Households

So in just 8 years, lost 49% of their subscribers and by the end of this year, expected sub count to be, roughly, 45 million households.

That means a total loss of 55% since 2015 at the end of 2023.

But out of 129 Million households, 45 million will mean only 35% will get Cable/Satellite Delivered Live TV by the end of 2023.

Imagine what 2024 will be like.

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Bruce

Oct 23, 2026

And again, 15 months in a row, streaming wins-

Cable and Broadcast added together-36.4%

Streaming with a massive 49.6%, 13.2% higher than Broadcast/Streaming.

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Jimbo

Oct 23, 2026

Bruce said:
And again, 15 months in a row, streaming wins-

Cable and Broadcast added together-36.4%

Streaming with a massive 49.6%, 13.2% higher than Broadcast/Streaming.

View attachment 194983

Your Still Thrilled about all this ?

These numbers will Never be accurate as many people use Both still ...

You have services like Hulu Live and You Tube TV that do, what you call Cable, but they ARE Streaming, so Which is is ?

Does it get counted 2x as both Streaming and Cable ?

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savarese04

Saturday at 1:09 PM

Jimbo said:
Your Still Thrilled about all this ?

These numbers will Never be accurate as many people use Both still ...

Nobody is "happy" or "sad" about this. Simply posting data in an non-editorialized way has nothing to do with anyone's feelings.

The data on the streaming side is immensely accurate, I'm guessing to the millisecond. Plus most people likely have not turned off data sharing and thus they are grabbing a huge swath of data. Much more accurate than cable which relies on a smaller sample size and probably not to the second.

In either case, nobody is getting "double counted" because it's usage based. If I watch 100 minutes of content and 30 minutes is on Youtube and 20 minutes on Disney and 50 minutes on YTTV, it's going to show up as 30%, 20%, 50% slices of my personal pie respectively.

Jimbo said:
Q.
Who does the Counting for Streaming ?

Neilson does the Broadcast/Cable ...

Nielsen does. If you go into the settings of any of your streaming accounts, you can turn off the option to share to usage data with their third party measuring service - Nielsen.

Jimbo

Saturday at 2:50 PM

savarese04 said:
Nobody is "happy" or "sad" about this. Simply posting data in an non-editorialized way has nothing to do with anyone's feelings.

The data on the streaming side is immensely accurate, I'm guessing to the millisecond. Plus most people likely have not turned off data sharing and thus they are grabbing a huge swath of data. Much more accurate than cable which relies on a smaller sample size and probably not to the second.

In either case, nobody is getting "double counted" because it's usage based. If I watch 100 minutes of content and 30 minutes is on Youtube and 20 minutes on Disney and 50 minutes on YTTV, it's going to show up as 30%, 20%, 50% slices of my personal pie respectively.

Nielsen does. If you go into the settings of any of your streaming accounts, you can turn off the option to share to usage data with their third party measuring service - Nielsen.

I have turned some off, not others ...

Jimbo

Wednesday at 11:28 PM

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dishstaller

Wednesday at 11:58 PM

Jimbo said:
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u4rACh-Tt5k?feature=share

Funny thing is that as the screen size and pic quality increase, the quality of the programming has DEcreased.

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MikeD-C05

Today at 2:08 PM

Jimbo said:
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u4rACh-Tt5k?feature=share

skipped the OLED Tv entirely?

dishdude

Today at 8:49 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
skipped the OLED Tv entirely?

AI slop

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dishstaller

Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 8:31 PM · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Claude's site is still up and running. New link required

I figured some of the guys would be looking here for an answer. You'll need to use this link

DishRetailer

America's Oldest Satellite Forum!

satelliteretailer.com

I'll mention what happened over there. I don't want to cause Scott any issues or put him in a bad spot.

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dishstaller

Today at 5:34 PM

If any of you know some of the guys from the board and you have their contact info, please reach out to them....many failed to update their contact info and some even had starband email addresses.

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Scott Greczkowski

Today at 8:29 PM

dishstaller said:
I figured some of the guys would be looking here for an answer. You'll need to use this link

DishRetailer

America's Oldest Satellite Forum!

satelliteretailer.com

I'll mention what happened over there. I don't want to cause Scott any issues or put him in a bad spot.

Now I have to go check out what happened now. Lol!

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Scott Greczkowski

Today at 8:31 PM

Went and looked, not too bad...

Just let people know the address is satelliteretailer.com as DishRetailer.COM is not working.

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osu1991

Pub Member / Supporter

Last reply Today at 8:18 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

USA Healthcare Costs are Ridiculous

Pissed off at the crappy healthcare costs

My health Insurance renewal for 2027 just came in. Going from $827 a month to $1,187 a month. Deductible going up a $1k to $9,350. Max out of pocket also going up $1k to $11,000. Doctor co-pay of $40. Urgent Care co-pay $50. ER 50% coinsurance after deductible. That's all in network. Out of network is double, should it be needed.

Have to think about this. I'm really tempted to just go without now. I only go to the doctor once or twice a year. I pay out of pocket for Tirzepitide and can do without the Rosuvastatin (crestor) now. Really tired of spending over $10k a year and getting nothing out of it.

After years with Blue Cross I switched last year to Ambetter as my Blue Cross premium was going from $1200 to $1800 for a Silver plan and the Bronze plan was still going to be $1300 at BCBS. Ambetter was $827 for the same coverage with a Bronze plan. Didn't think it would jump this much so soon.

I'm guessing a Silver plan is probably over $2,000 a month for 2027.

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b4pjoe

Today at 3:49 PM

osu1991 said:
Pissed off at the crappy healthcare costs

Are you employed with no work insurance or that is what you are paying for your workplace insurance? Or is that through Healthcare.gov? Retired? Eligible for medicare?

vazhog

Today at 4:05 PM

that cut is only for illegals to get off the rolls and I was being sarcastic before -

osu1991

Today at 4:28 PM

b4pjoe said:
Are you employed with no work insurance or that is what you are paying for your workplace insurance? Or is that through Healthcare.gov? Retired? Eligible for medicare?

Started my own business in 2006, been self employed for 20 years this year.

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meStevo

Today at 4:52 PM

vazhog said:
that cut is only for illegals to get off the rolls and I was being sarcastic before -

Even sarcastically it's wrong. Undocumented immigrants already weren't eligible for federal Medicaid, so there's no one to "get off the rolls." The immigrant-related pieces are a small part of the ~$1 trillion. They cut the federal match for emergency care from 90% to the state's regular rate and end eligibility for some lawful immigrants like refugees. Most of the "savings" come from work requirements, more frequent eligibility checks, and provider tax limits, which hit citizens.

Either way, the cost doesn't disappear. It shifts to states, hospitals, and everyone else's premiums and will only serve to make issues like those raised in this thread worse.

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dishstaller

Today at 5:05 PM

meStevo said:
Undocumented immigrants already weren't eligible for federal Medicaid, so there's no one to "get off the rolls."

That's only part correct. Actually I had to look it up to make sure. There is NO Federal money going to Medicaid for illegals but there ARE some states that use State money to pay for Medicaid for illegals. Here's the list

- California: Covers all income-eligible undocumented adults. [1, 2]
- Colorado: Covers specific adult demographics (with upcoming budget caps in 2027). [1]
- Illinois: Covers specific adult age brackets. [1]
- New York: Covers specific adult demographics. [1]
- Oregon: Covers all income-eligible undocumented adults. [1, 2]
- Washington: Covers specific adult demographics. [1, 2]
- Washington, D.C.: Provides adult coverage through the D.C. Health Care Alliance. [1, 2]

meStevo

Today at 5:55 PM

dishstaller said:
That's only part correct. Actually I had to look it up to make sure. There is NO Federal money going to Medicaid for illegals but there ARE some states that use State money to pay for Medicaid for illegals. Here's the list

California: Covers all income-eligible undocumented adults. [1, 2]

Colorado: Covers specific adult demographics (with upcoming budget caps in 2027). [1]

Illinois: Covers specific adult age brackets. [1]

New York: Covers specific adult demographics. [1]

Oregon: Covers all income-eligible undocumented adults. [1, 2]

Washington: Covers specific adult demographics. [1, 2]

Washington, D.C.: Provides adult coverage through the D.C. Health Care Alliance. [1, 2]

Fair point, but it's consistent with what I said: no federal Medicaid money goes to undocumented immigrants. Those programs are state-funded, so the federal ~$1T cut can't touch them. Whatever states decide to do with their own programs is a separate budget decision.

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vazhog

Today at 8:18 PM

The feds give money to the states for them to use - Cutting the fed funding only means the taxpayer savings will passed onto the states that need to make up the Fed dollars cut -See the list above for those states affected

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Last reply Today at 4:12 PM · posted in What's Cooking?

What's For Lunch?

We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so...

Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...

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Last reply Today at 4:09 PM · posted in The Sports Section

Auto Racing 2026

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Tried to watch the truck race but the stage c**p is why I don't watch NASCAR anymore…

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Oct 16, 2026

Today is the anniversary of Dan Wheldon's passing at Las Vegas in a dreadful crash that luckily didn't take more drivers' lives. I vaguely remember the crash, but I more strongly remember Paul Tracy trying to keep it together as he left the Medical Center knowing that Dan most likely wasn't going to.

The safety in these vehicles is beyond incomprehensible, especially relative to what it was 60 years ago, when dying wasn't unexpected. But it is still very dangerous. I always scoff at the prayer invocations, but never scoff at the risks these drivers take and the emergency workers out there who might need to pull short of a miracle to save a driver's life.

dfergie said:
Tried to watch the truck race but the stage c**p is why I don't watch NASCAR anymore…

HBO Max has the live in car streaming without commercials, which provides an interesting take, but you are driving blind, knowing only what the team is telling the driver about what is happening on the track. The stages definitely ruin the NASCAR set up.

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Today at 4:09 PM

NASCAR is an abject mess, but at least it has Kyle Larson. Guy had the lead on the green/white checker, fell back to 12th or the like, kept his cool, and charged back to win with room to spare at the line. And win very cleanly!

NASCAR needs to stop racing at Talladega. Especially if they are going for elderly Sunday drives at the track! Stage racing is real stupid, but NASCAR should consider one half point a second per group gap as a bonus.

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