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New member here….thought I'd share my recent experience as I switched from Dish to Comcast about a week or so ago.
I was just shopping around, evaluating my HD options, after I bought a Sharp LC32GA5U for my family room. Dish actually offered to lease a HD receiver for $5 a month for 12 months -- but, I'd have to go the OTA route for locals. I just didn't want to deal with all that hassle at this point. So, talked to Comcast and surprisingly got a very good deal. I got the digital silver package with HD and HBO for around $35.00 a month (I didn't have to give my Dish equipment to them -- just had to show the installer the dish bill) and got a discount on the cable model as well. They also did not charge for the HD-DVR. Of course, all this holds true only for 12 months. So, I now pay $69.99 for Digital Silver package (With HD-DVR) and Internet combined together -- savings of atleast $30 over dish and I get all the locals in HD.
We watch mostly the locals in HD, ESPN HD, Discovery HD and occasionally Sci-fi and HDTV. SD channels look surprisingly better than I thought they would. But, my wife and I are blown away with the clarity of HD and are pretty much addicted to the HD channels when we are watching TV.
Having said that, the install was the crapiest install I ever had.
The installer (if I can call him that) did not the difference between a "splitter" and "diplexer" and a "multi-switch". I wanted him to keep my current dish connections (We watch international channels) as is and diplex the cable signals on top of the existing cabling. Of course, he didn't know how to do that and he wanted to run extra cables inside the walls and charge me extra. I told him I could do that myself later and asked him to just install the HD-DVR in the family room. Big Mistake ! He took almost 4 hours and called in another installer to complete just one drop !! In the process, both of them stomped thro' my attic, stained my carpet and left even before the picture was on the TV. They also left me a single tuner HD-DVR when I speficically asked for a dual-tuner HD-DVR. The best part is when he asked me use my phone and used it call his girl friend at work :shocked The most incompetant, unprofessional installer I ever had to deal with !!!!
Anyways, sorry for the rant -- just wanted to vent the frustration. Of course, I called Comcast next day and gave them an earful about the their incompetent installers. The whole experience reminded me about why I moved from cable to Dish in the first place. If only dish had better offerings in HD ! Well, you can't have everything, I guess.
Other than the installation experience, I am definitely pleased with the quality of signals and most definitely enjoying the HD experience
. The DVR is a little clunky compared to the Dish DVR I am used to -- but just takes a little getting used to.
AN
New member here….thought I'd share my recent experience as I switched from Dish to Comcast about a week or so ago.
I was just shopping around, evaluating my HD options, after I bought a Sharp LC32GA5U for my family room. Dish actually offered to lease a HD receiver for $5 a month for 12 months -- but, I'd have to go the OTA route for locals. I just didn't want to deal with all that hassle at this point. So, talked to Comcast and surprisingly got a very good deal. I got the digital silver package with HD and HBO for around $35.00 a month (I didn't have to give my Dish equipment to them -- just had to show the installer the dish bill) and got a discount on the cable model as well. They also did not charge for the HD-DVR. Of course, all this holds true only for 12 months. So, I now pay $69.99 for Digital Silver package (With HD-DVR) and Internet combined together -- savings of atleast $30 over dish and I get all the locals in HD.
We watch mostly the locals in HD, ESPN HD, Discovery HD and occasionally Sci-fi and HDTV. SD channels look surprisingly better than I thought they would. But, my wife and I are blown away with the clarity of HD and are pretty much addicted to the HD channels when we are watching TV.
Having said that, the install was the crapiest install I ever had.
The installer (if I can call him that) did not the difference between a "splitter" and "diplexer" and a "multi-switch". I wanted him to keep my current dish connections (We watch international channels) as is and diplex the cable signals on top of the existing cabling. Of course, he didn't know how to do that and he wanted to run extra cables inside the walls and charge me extra. I told him I could do that myself later and asked him to just install the HD-DVR in the family room. Big Mistake ! He took almost 4 hours and called in another installer to complete just one drop !! In the process, both of them stomped thro' my attic, stained my carpet and left even before the picture was on the TV. They also left me a single tuner HD-DVR when I speficically asked for a dual-tuner HD-DVR. The best part is when he asked me use my phone and used it call his girl friend at work :shocked The most incompetant, unprofessional installer I ever had to deal with !!!!Anyways, sorry for the rant -- just wanted to vent the frustration. Of course, I called Comcast next day and gave them an earful about the their incompetent installers. The whole experience reminded me about why I moved from cable to Dish in the first place. If only dish had better offerings in HD ! Well, you can't have everything, I guess.
Other than the installation experience, I am definitely pleased with the quality of signals and most definitely enjoying the HD experience
. The DVR is a little clunky compared to the Dish DVR I am used to -- but just takes a little getting used to.AN
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HTInProgress said:Good to hear that I am not alone in this
It sounds like you got a great deal from Comcast. I am assuming you are using Comcast promotions for the first six months and using the Dish buyback promotion after that. Good thinking !
I don't know what he did, but I was pissed at him because he no showed the appointment to sign the papers, so I said to him if you don't give me one hell of a deal, forget it, then of course he did.
The worse problem was the install, appointment was Wednesday 12-2, no one showed or called, called my rep. to complain, he called me back to say they rescheduled me for Monday, I said no way, I work, he then say he could push for Thursday, I said no, I work, if you can push for Thursday, push for later today since no one bother to call me, he says he can't, I then said forget it then, 6pm comes around and guess who is at my door, two installers, thats why it is better to talk to a rep, instead of a mindless CSR on the phone, the rep does not want to lose the commission
HTInProgress said:
No different from SBC.
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Well I have to tell you. I finally made up my mind and called Comcast on Saturday. I tried everything to get Dish or Direct TV (My provider ) to match or at least come cost to the cable offer. They tried, but the best Direct would do is lower the price of the HD Tivo by $300.00, Dish never called back like they said they would and Voom, well, it is too iffy.
Anyway, the cable guy showed up on Monday (Holiday) and installed Cable HD. They did take a reciever, but stated they did not care if it works or not. What they do is take the mercury from the reciever and then dispose of the rest.
Here's what I got.
1. A Motorola HD reciever with HD Tivo. 15 hours can be recorded in HD, 60 hours in SD. It also upcoverts SD to 480P, or 720P depending on your TV
2. 11 screens on HBO. (I swear HBO east is in HD it is soooo clear!)
3. HD Programing including all 4 of my local channels in HD. The HD package also includes, ESPN HD, Discovery HD, Fox HD, INHD and INHD2
4. More channels like Golf network, speedvison and too many more to name that I didn't have before.
5. On Demand with hundreds of free movies and cable channels that I can pause, rewind or save until later. I can watch when I want to. And first run movies that are still playing at the movies house for $3.99. Again I can pause, rewind or stop and come back later to finish watching.
6. All the Encore channels
The sound quality is excellent and seperation is the best I have heard other then from my DVD. 5.1 really blasts through my 6 channel stereo system.
The picture quality, well it is great. I was really impressed with the encore channels. They look almost like HD as do all (11) of the HBO channels. Living in Florida I was used to rain fade, well we had a big thunderstorm last night and the picture quality stayed the same. That's a real plus in Florida
What did this cost me. Well, the "Dish buyback proram " (where they take any reciever) is what I have and it will cost me $29.99 a month for one year! with no commitment after that. I can cancel anytime from now until the year is up and it cost me nothing. (in writting) other then the months I have already used.
With the HD recorder, and great picture and sound not costing any upfront fees, how can anyone go wrong?
The Cons? Hmmmm, so far I can't find any. Ok, maybe one could compalin about the lower channels (3 to 75) (Non Digital) The picture quality is a little iffy at best, but withl Soooooo many channels above 100, why compain.
We'll see where Direct TV, Dish , or Voom are in a year, Maybe it will be worth it to change back, maybe not. But I can tell you this. As far as I'm concerned, Comcast has the lead right now in HD, Picture and sound, Price and deals. How can anyone complain at $29.99 for a year?
I really like this board and it is still on my daily visit list though. Ok, I've rambled on long enough. I just thought I'ld share my experiance.
Anyway, the cable guy showed up on Monday (Holiday) and installed Cable HD. They did take a reciever, but stated they did not care if it works or not. What they do is take the mercury from the reciever and then dispose of the rest.
Here's what I got.
1. A Motorola HD reciever with HD Tivo. 15 hours can be recorded in HD, 60 hours in SD. It also upcoverts SD to 480P, or 720P depending on your TV
2. 11 screens on HBO. (I swear HBO east is in HD it is soooo clear!)
3. HD Programing including all 4 of my local channels in HD. The HD package also includes, ESPN HD, Discovery HD, Fox HD, INHD and INHD2
4. More channels like Golf network, speedvison and too many more to name that I didn't have before.
5. On Demand with hundreds of free movies and cable channels that I can pause, rewind or save until later. I can watch when I want to. And first run movies that are still playing at the movies house for $3.99. Again I can pause, rewind or stop and come back later to finish watching.
6. All the Encore channels
The sound quality is excellent and seperation is the best I have heard other then from my DVD. 5.1 really blasts through my 6 channel stereo system.
The picture quality, well it is great. I was really impressed with the encore channels. They look almost like HD as do all (11) of the HBO channels. Living in Florida I was used to rain fade, well we had a big thunderstorm last night and the picture quality stayed the same. That's a real plus in Florida
What did this cost me. Well, the "Dish buyback proram " (where they take any reciever) is what I have and it will cost me $29.99 a month for one year! with no commitment after that. I can cancel anytime from now until the year is up and it cost me nothing. (in writting) other then the months I have already used.
With the HD recorder, and great picture and sound not costing any upfront fees, how can anyone go wrong?
The Cons? Hmmmm, so far I can't find any. Ok, maybe one could compalin about the lower channels (3 to 75) (Non Digital) The picture quality is a little iffy at best, but withl Soooooo many channels above 100, why compain.
We'll see where Direct TV, Dish , or Voom are in a year, Maybe it will be worth it to change back, maybe not. But I can tell you this. As far as I'm concerned, Comcast has the lead right now in HD, Picture and sound, Price and deals. How can anyone complain at $29.99 for a year?
I really like this board and it is still on my daily visit list though. Ok, I've rambled on long enough. I just thought I'ld share my experiance.
I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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Saw this in Sams yesterday. I thought this was a really cool idea. Having a new grandbaby I almost bought one. I saw a lot of these back in the day.
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Yeah...I heard something like that
I just thought it was cool for the retro aspect of it. I still prefer taking video with my camcorder because I then have the video on a physical memory card which I can back up and put in my safe.
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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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Such a scam. Healthcare.gov shows me cheaper individual plans available for 2027 from ambetter that ambetter doesn't show on their website. Looked it up. I've spent $68,000 in premiums the last 5 years and got nothing out of it except a few doctors visits and labs.
Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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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....
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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After having continuing trouble with my eight+ year old Dell Inspiron laptop I am looking to hopefully catch a good deal on new one. My options to buy is Costco and Sam's Club. It seems like a lot of new laptops are 2 in 1 which I do not need. I use the laptop to mainly surf the web and keep up with my finances, money and bills. I would like to have at least a 15" screen and having a touchscreen is a plus. The keyboard would need to lighted also. I don't game any. It would have to be Windows instead of and not Mac. The brands I see the most are Asus, Dell and HP. My two last laptops has been Dell's. Of these brands are there any standouts over the other brands. My budget (hopefully) is $600+-. Also while researching I noticed that do not have ethernet ports.
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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..I hate playing in Ames.
My in-Laws came from Iowa, she was a graduate of ISU. Unranked Iowa teams beat the #24 and #25 teams on Halloween.
And I heard that your QB made a poor choice after scoring the tying touchdown, leading to a fifteen yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff. The Cyclones were then able to take advantage of the resulting field position to get close enough to score the winning field goal.
In a NCAA Football season of bizarre endings, this has to rank right up there.
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Was raining yesterday so I went to Sams up in Dothan to stock up on some things. Haven't been there in quite a while. I was amazed at how large most of the TVs were. When I walked in they had a 100 in Vizio (I think it was Vizio) that was marked down to something like $1,200. The first rows of TVs were all in the 80 in + sizes. The next couple of rows had the "smaller" models....those 75 and under. I was amazed at how small the 75s looked when lined up with the larger screens.
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I've had a H3 receiver for years but just recently began watching and recording 4k content. I'm consistently having the display revert to the upper left quarter of the screen after fast forwarding or pausing the playback of 4k recordings.
Some research I've done blames it on the Hopper as not having the processing power to quickly shift between the FF or pause playback formats and it leaves the playback device in a mode thinking that it's no longer receiving a 4k stream. So it displays the 1/4 image.
I've found that I can quickly recover back to a full screen 4k display by using the remote sequence Pause / Info / Resume.
I've tested this on two different monitors, but they're both LGs, so maybe it's the TVs, and not the Hopper? Is this a known problem? Anyone else experience this?
Some research I've done blames it on the Hopper as not having the processing power to quickly shift between the FF or pause playback formats and it leaves the playback device in a mode thinking that it's no longer receiving a 4k stream. So it displays the 1/4 image.
I've found that I can quickly recover back to a full screen 4k display by using the remote sequence Pause / Info / Resume.
I've tested this on two different monitors, but they're both LGs, so maybe it's the TVs, and not the Hopper? Is this a known problem? Anyone else experience this?
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