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turbosat
Last reply · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion
Just found PBJ channel on 83w ku , same tp as RTN/Tuff tv channels. New to me, may not be so new though, haven't scanned this one in a week or two. Delete if this is old news!
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AcWxRadar
OK, so that wasn't really related to PBJ. I got caught up in a flashback from the 60's/70's! LOL Just look what cartoons will do to your mind!

Ha ha!

These are more appropriate for the thread theme...

Road Runner Show TV Theme Original Opening - YouTube

"The Flintstones" Opening - YouTube

THE JETSoNS Opening Theme - YouTube

Foghorn Leghorn Plop Goes The Weasel - YouTube

Scooby Doo Theme Song - YouTube

24th Century Part 2 - YouTube

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Dee_Ann
OK, so that wasn't really related to PBJ. I got caught up in a flashback from the 60's/70's! LOL Just look what cartoons will do to your mind!

Ha ha!

These are more appropriate for the thread theme...

Road Runner Show TV Theme Original Opening - YouTube

"The Flintstones" Opening - YouTube

THE JETSoNS Opening Theme - YouTube

Foghorn Leghorn Plop Goes The Weasel - YouTube

Scooby Doo Theme Song - YouTube

24th Century Part 2 - YouTube

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Now we're talking! I miss those cartoons! I'm over 50 so when I was little it was very common for them to run cartoons from the 30's, 40's and 50's too.
So there are cartoons that are now 60 and 70 years old that I still long to see again.
This new cr*p they make with computers? They can stuff it all right back up their computers.

It's too sterile looking. There's ZERO artistic value in any of it. There's zero art in any of it. It's garbage.
The Tom & Jerry toons of the 40's were gorgeous! The water color backgrounds and the cell art was magnificent! HUMAN hands did 100% of it.
From what I understand, men drew the outlines on the cells and women painted them in. Men totally dominated pretty much everything back then so it was amazing they let us do anything at all.

I went over to the Dark Side the other day (became a Dish customer) so I'm hoping to find some old REAL cartoons on there.

I love the old Harvey Toons on PBJ, I just wish they would play a lot more of them. Those are some of my favorites! I could do with some Felix the Cat toons too.
We didn't have a color TV until the 70's. My grandparents did though so I pretty much spent the entire 60's over there watching cartoons. Harvey Toons rocked my world! :heart

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AcWxRadar
Dee,

I was just trying to recall all of the cartoons that I used to watch. Gosh I miss being that young and watching these! Heh heh! Guess I am still watching them, just not as young! Well, young at heart still. There are some things in this life that no one should really ever outgrow.

Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn, Peppy LePue, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry, Rockie and Bullwinkle, Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinx, Snagglepuss, Auggie Doggie, Huckleberry Hound, Chip n' Dale, Donald Duck, Yakky Doodle and Chopper, Quick-Draw McGraw, Hokey Wolf, The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Magilla Gorilla, Popeye, Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Archies, Wally Gator, Lippy the Lion, Sam the Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf and so many more!

Sam Sheepdog & Ralph Wolf - Woolen Under Where (1963) - YouTube

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AcWxRadar
Dee,

You are so right about the modern cartoons. They are so lame. There is no hint of the human touch there. No art and no class.
They aren't even funny. They are just animated soap operas. And what was that talk back when, when some folks said that OUR cartoons were too violent? Hmmph! Look at the cartoons now. Talk about violence will ya.

If you are interested, you can find hundreds of our old cartoons on YouTube. I thought I was just getting lucky to find a few sketches and clips for my earlier post, but I have been browsing around and there are hundreds and thousands of all the best ones that I remember. The whole cartoon, too, including opening and closing credits! I am kinda having a hay day downloading all my fav's! I am working on the Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons (I loved these as much as I did RoadRunner and Wile E. Coyote).

Funny, I didn't think that these cartoons were that old when I was a kid. But, I look at the dates on some of these and they predated me by 10 to 20 and even 30 years. Some were from 1940 - 1950 - 1955 - 1960 - 1965! Jimminny Crickets! Some are indeed 70 years old now! That is amazing! And you know what? They are still the best there ever was and nothing can ever top them!

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Dee_Ann
Dee,

I was just trying to recall all of the cartoons that I used to watch. Gosh I miss being that young and watching these! Heh heh! Guess I am still watching them, just not as young! Well, young at heart still. There are some things in this life that no one should really ever outgrow.

Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn, Peppy LePue, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry, Rockie and Bullwinkle, Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinx, Snagglepuss, Auggie Doggie, Huckleberry Hound, Chip n' Dale, Donald Duck, Yakky Doodle and Chopper, Quick-Draw McGraw, Hokey Wolf, The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Magilla Gorilla, Popeye, Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Archies, Wally Gator, Lippy the Lion, Sam the Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf and so many more!

Sam Sheepdog & Ralph Wolf - Woolen Under Where (1963) - YouTube

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Wow! That's a real blast from the past! Yep. I remember about 99% of those.. I wasn't exactly crazy about all of them but I watched them all none the less..

And yeah.. I miss being that young. And being that far away from death. When you're that young you're immortal, tomorrow is a Jetson's dream world, yesterday was the Flintstones and nothing matters except the moment.

Maybe that's why old folks like me love the old cartoons, we're trying to recapture THAT moment in time where nothing else mattered. Maybe if we watch cartoons 24/7 we will become immortals again.. :D

Hey, it's worth a try. Right? :rolleyes:
Dee_Ann
Dee,

You are so right about the modern cartoons. They are so lame. There is no hint of the human touch there. No art and no class.
They aren't even funny. They are just animated soap operas. And what was that talk back when, when some folks said that OUR cartoons were too violent? Hmmph! Look at the cartoons now. Talk about violence will ya.

If you are interested, you can find hundreds of our old cartoons on YouTube. I thought I was just getting lucky to find a few sketches and clips for my earlier post, but I have been browsing around and there are hundreds and thousands of all the best ones that I remember. The whole cartoon, too, including opening and closing credits! I am kinda having a hay day downloading all my fav's! I am working on the Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons (I loved these as much as I did RoadRunner and Wile E. Coyote).

Funny, I didn't think that these cartoons were that old when I was a kid. But, I look at the dates on some of these and they predated me by 10 to 20 and even 30 years. Some were from 1940 - 1950 - 1955 - 1960 - 1965! Jimminny Crickets! Some are indeed 70 years old now! That is amazing! And you know what? They are still the best there ever was and nothing can ever top them!

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You're right. The Harvey Toons I grew up with that I loved so much, those were from the 50's mostly. Flintstones, Looney Toons, etc.. A lot of those were mid 50's and up but airing in the early 60's when I was little.
The GOOD Tom & Jerry toons were from the 40's and 50's. They changed hands and "artists" in the 60's and from there it went down the chute, rapidly. They had Tom and Jerry farmed out to a guy in Poland that didn't speak a lick of English.
He so called art work was so flat and one dimensional, it didn't even come close to qualifying as two dimensional. It was terrible. Somewhere along the way they had them make nice and the mayhem ended.
And Loony Toons came up with all the babyfied versions of their characters, I guess in the early 80's? By then I quit watching cartoons. I had kids a few years later and they started watching cartoons that were so stupid I couldn't stand to watch them so I just did my chores while they watched. Who has time to sit down when you have two kids?

New cartoons are just plain and simple cr*p... I hate that my daughter lets my grandsons watch that BS. But there's nothing I can do about it. They think it's great stuff. (I wish there was a 'vomit' smilie I could insert here.)


Oh yes, one last thing. Disney.. :mad:

Walt is spinning in his grave. We could hook a generator to his feet and power the world.

The old hand painted movies from the 40's - 60's were gorgeous.. 70's not too bad either. But from the 80's on, things got bad. And once they went to 100% computers, absolutely useless.
You couldn't pay me to watch a modern Disney (computer) animated anything. :mad:
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Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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dfergie
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Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
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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TRG
TRG
Pork shoulder, refried beans, cheddar and chopped green chile burrito with a pint of pale ale.

Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life. 🍺

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Pork shoulder, refried beans, cheddar and chopped green chile burrito with a pint of pale ale.

Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life. 🍺

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Leftovers for lunch, bacon wrapped salmon fillet from Saturday and a KFC thigh from Friday, Tea.
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Congrats! I love retirement, no wake ups, no e-mails...
Leftovers for lunch, bacon wrapped salmon fillet from Saturday and a KFC thigh from Friday, Tea.
I've been retired since October. It was very strange at first. But I'm loving it now.
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Creamy flat chicken enchiladas with green chile, beans and rice.

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Layered Spicy Dorito / chili cheese Frito pie casserole…real sugar Pepsi
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I had a very unusual but delicious 1/4lb hotdog with cream cheese, raspberry preserves and chopped Hatch green chile. It is an unlikely combination but it works.


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N5XZS
Last reply · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info
New low power station has been granted by the FCC and the new call leter is K33OB-D on RF ch. 33.

Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.

It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.

This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.😎
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N5XZS
Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets on like the Rev'n, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station. :hatsoff2
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comfortably_numb
Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets like Revn, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station. :hatsoff2

I watch MovieSphere Gold channel a lot. Many recent movies on that digitnet :)
N5XZS
Yes that's a good channel MovieSphere, only thing is the missing CC on it. :rolleyes: :hatsoff2
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According to the FCC listing, the tower is near I-40 and Juan Tabo:

primestar31
According to the FCC listing, the tower is near I-40 and Juan Tabo:

Many of these in my DMA are on cell towers, so don't always reach very far because the towers aren't very high.
zippyfrog
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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
Did anyone have a price increase today on their equipment? I own my VIP211k's, and they have been $5.00. My bill that I received last week shows the "add-ons" as being $5.00. However, I just logged into my Dish account, and my "add-ons" are now $10.00. Did the additional receivers go up by $5.00 recently?

As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
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zippyfrog
However, when I make a change (tried to add the Columbian pack for $2 so I could generate my bill) and there is a new line - it says "Access for TV" - whereas previously that line item was not there. I hope they aren't charging $5.00 for the initial TV now...

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Apparently it's not an "owned receiver" fee but rather an extension fee that's applied to 2nd and subsequent viewing. Maybe that played into their decision to force a box at every TV- garnering those fees
zippyfrog
Apparently it's not an "owned receiver" fee but rather an extension fee that's applied to 2nd and subsequent viewing. Maybe that played into their decision to force a box at every TV- garnering those fees
Possibly. In theory, $9 of the base pack has a rental fee built in. But now is this $5 a chance to get a little more? I don't know for sure. According to chat, it is a glitch and will be resolved in a timely manner, but we shall see. Part of my thinks there is a going to be a new charge, whether it is now or this fall. Here in Illinois, the law requires we are given 30 days notice of any fee changes, but I have not been given anything.

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MikeD-C05
These fees are why streaming has caught on so well across the country and DISH is losing subs each quarter. Soon won't be enough subs to be profitable.
T
Does cable charge box rent?
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Bruce
Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
With the 1st Quarter Report just released, Dish lost another 180,000, now at 4.84 Million.

Sling now at 1.79 million subscribers, down approximately 190,000.

For comparison, YouTube TV now has about double the subscribers of Dish and Sling combined.

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fmj77
I'm surprised Dish still has that many subscribers. I don't know a single person in my area that is still with them after getting either Starlink or fiber at their home. They all cancelled Dish and went with streaming. I used to get offers pretty regularly in the mail to come back to Dish, but no more. Haven't seen one in a couple of years now.
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Bruce
I'm surprised Dish still has that many subscribers. I don't know a single person in my area that is still with them after getting either Starlink or fiber at their home. They all cancelled Dish and went with streaming. I used to get offers pretty regularly in the mail to come back to Dish, but no more. Haven't seen one in a couple of years now.
Only about 3.6% of Households in the United States, still have Dish Network.

For comparison, YouTube TV has about 10%.
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$25 a month for 1 gig, for two years with Spectrum. I'd be darned that their router was MUCH better than AT&T's. I didn't realize that what I thought was something else was the bloody router. Those buffering issues stopped when I swapped... after AT&T refused to lower my bill, after 25 years of high speed internet service. They wanted $80 or so a month for 1 gig, with no drop to a lower speed.
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I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?
T
$25 a month for 1 gig, for two years with Spectrum. I'd be darned that their router was MUCH better than AT&T's. I didn't realize that what I thought was something else was the bloody router. Those buffering issues stopped when I swapped... after AT&T refused to lower my bill, after 25 years of high speed internet service. They wanted $80 or so a month for 1 gig, with no drop to a lower speed.


1gbit up and down here from att start out great was suppose to be $60 for life of service, with years time it went back up to $80 I complained about they gave us $49 for year which about to end, I Wonder what prices will be when it "up" I in no way like ATT fiber service there DNS that are hardcode and unchange able in the router are some WORSE DNS I ever used. you know how much of pain it is to change DNS setting on EVERY single wireless device...
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mwdxer1
Only about 3.6% of Households in the United States, still have Dish Network.

For comparison, YouTube TV has about 10%.
I dropped Dish a couple years back after having them for 25 years. The pricing got higher and after we got high speed internet, I watched it less and less. It got to the point all I watched was TCM for classic movies. Many of them are on You Tube now and a Premium subscription is $14 a month. A far cry of the $100 a month was paying with AT180, Supers, and locals. I get locals OTA anyway. I took down the dish several months ago and tossed it. I owned all my my equipment, so nothing to return. Do I miss a traditional cable type service? No way. If I want one I have all of the free live streaming with Roku, the Fire Stick, as well as Google TV. Right now as I type this, I am watching episodes of "The Midnight Special" from 1976 on You Tube, ad free. Dish was fine for many years. I do not regret buying the equipment and installing it myself (No installers in 1999). I enjoyed Dish for many years. My thoughts, Dish & Direct will be forced to merge in time, or they both will be gone. Even cable companies are getting out of TV. Some are only selling the internet and phone packages.
tanman
I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?
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nelson61
A lot of it flows back to the 4 big networks.
Cable and satellite are their money tree.

But, in reality, each market need 1 or perhaps 2 news feeds - not 4 or more
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MikeD-C05
A lot of it flows back to the 4 big networks.
Cable and satellite are their money tree.

But, in reality, each market need 1 or perhaps 2 news feeds - not 4 or more
In my area we get 2 news feeds spread over 4 local stations.
ABC/NBC (TEGNA)
Same news cast simulcast over both channels.

CBS/Fox (Sinclair)
Same news casters at 5pm, 6pm, 10pm.
Fox shows an hour at 9pm but same news casters.
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lordodogg
Last reply · posted in DIRECTV General Forum
Hello again, haven't posted here in a while.

This morning, around 6:30am, I woke up and found the front panel lights on my HR44 on (I leave it off all the time as it is co-located with one of my Geminis).

Immediately thinking that either a reboot or power outage occurred, I checked the software version, and found that it's still the same release that was sent out last month.

I then ruled out a power outage by checking the clocks on my appliances and seeing that they're still correct (they reset when there's an outage, somewhat similar to the "blinking 12" on VCRs).

I then confirmed a reboot by checking the Upcoming Recordings (fka To-Do List) and seeing that the number was much lower than before (it always resets after a reboot).

I am definitely guessing what happened (and it may very well be actually what happened) is that the "Reset Required" prompt may have come up sometime overnight, and it eventually timed out and rebooted automatically. IIRC that prompt comes up when new software "plugins" have to be installed.

Would like to hear your thoughts, especially since I probably haven't talked to some of you reading this in a while (was a former CE member, left almost a year ago).

Thank you all in advance!
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Tom Speer
My HR54 blue light is on this morning. I think you ae right about the plugins. They are tweaking things in the customer National release. What version does your HR44 Genie have now? I think you are probably on the same varsion as the CE group today.
lordodogg
I believe mine says 0x1D7F
Tom Speer
That is what I have.
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Happened again today & have new software, 0x1d88