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I am getting divorced and don't want to pay $100/month for two people to watch tv (plus I don't need two 622's for two people). Here is my present bill:

America's Top 250
69.99
HD/SD (2TV) DVR Receiver
17.00
DVR Service
6.00
HD 250 Free ($10/Mo)
0.00

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Total
$ 92.99


I do have two HDTV's that I want to supply with DVR programming and one SD tv via a second tuner DVR. My thinking is to get rid of one of the 622's and go for a 211k with external hard drive. Would this lower my bill by $17/month? As I understand it my first DVR is free with the package and I am paying $17 for the second (?).

Also, I paid the external hard drive fee once for my 622's (as I understand it one no longer has to pay this fee for this receiver), will I have to pay it again for the 211k or should my previous payment count?

I know that I can also reduce the programming package but I must have NBC Sports and NHL network for the NHL season. I have the online center ice and it is a tremendously awesome deal (much better than purchasing through Dish) but they have two day blackouts on both of these channels....
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renegade734
Get rid of all 622's and replace them with 211k's. External hard drives. Consider backfeeding the SD tv off one of the receivers. Good outdoor OTA antenna. Will save you a bunch in the long run, at least $16/month.
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With regards to NHL Network and NBC Sports, give a really good thought as to whether you must have them. Latino Dos (a rather impressive slate of channels), as mentioned earlier, is $45 a month. At $25 a month savings, that'd pay for Gamecenter and Netflix, and then some! So it'd be worth while to at least think a bit harder on whether NHL Network and NBC Sports (Also ESPN, ESPN2, and most other Disney owned channels) are worth $25 a month extra. Latino Dos asks a bunch of the subscriber, but it also does pay out (in price and channel selection) well.
Get rid of all 622's and replace them with 211k's. External hard drives. Consider backfeeding the SD tv off one of the receivers. Good outdoor OTA antenna. Will save you a bunch in the long run, at least $16/month.
But this would include buying two EHD's for at least $160 total, and then $80 in activation fees. It'll take around 18 months to break even!

Probably best to wait for the Hopper.
Jimmerinwi
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With regards to NHL Network and NBC Sports, give a really good thought as to whether you must have them. Latino Dos (a rather impressive slate of channels), as mentioned earlier, is $45 a month. At $25 a month savings, that'd pay for Gamecenter and Netflix, and then some! So it'd be worth while to at least think a bit harder on whether NHL Network and NBC Sports (Also ESPN, ESPN2, and most other Disney owned channels) are worth $25 a month extra. Latino Dos asks a bunch of the subscriber, but it also does pay out (in price and channel selection) well.
But this would include buying two EHD's for at least $160 total, and then $80 in activation fees. It'll take around 18 months to break even!

Probably best to wait for the Hopper.

It would only be $40 activation fee. It's one fee per account.

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But this would include buying two EHD's for at least $160 total, and then $80 in activation fees. It'll take around 18 months to break even!

Probably best to wait for the Hopper.

1 $40 fee per acct and that covers all the 211k on acct
edit: jimmer beat me to it :)
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I already have five or six EHD's that I use with my 622's so the price of those won't matter. Can I watch programming that was transferred with a 622 to the EHD on a 211k with EHD?
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I already have five or six EHD's that I use with my 622's so the price of those won't matter. Can I watch programming that was transferred with a 622 to the EHD on a 211k with EHD?

Nope. The 622 uses the EHD differently than the 211k uses it. If you hook up an EHD that was previously on a 622 to a 211k it'll ask to format it before it uses it and vice versa.
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I guess I will hold out for Hopper, I would really like to have HD on all of my tvs. Thanks.
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Don't know if any of you have watched this series yet, it would be interesting to see if you feel this review was accurate. It was very humorous to listen to however.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tsDO3y8I2c
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KAB
KAB
What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.
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What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.
If the review is like the article, oi! Eighteen paragraphs into the review and... all they've done is not really talk at all about the actual thing they are reviewing.

Halfway into the "written" review, I know more about how the writer "thinks" than I do about what they are writing about. I understand their politics, their self-overestimated understanding of film, their inability to be funny.

Takes about 22 paragraphs to get to one that starts "Anyway, the story kicks off...". Talk about Slop! 😂
K
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Last reply · posted in TV Shows
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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K
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.
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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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.
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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harshness
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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MikeD-C05
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?
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.
harshness
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.
MikeD-C05
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that. ;)
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osu1991
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that. ;)
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping
MikeD-C05
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
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Jimbo
Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin
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long_time_Dish
Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...
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primestar31
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.
star trek GIF by HULU


Just sayin...
MikeD-C05
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin
For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

All In The Family Nostalgia GIF by Sony Pictures Television
All In The Family Singing GIF by Sony Pictures Television
harshness
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.
long_time_Dish
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.
Was never a huge of the Ferengi-centric episodes in Trek...
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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.

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Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


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Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys and Bums - Norman Greenbaum
Bobby
I Wish I Was Eighteen Again - George Burns
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I Wish - Stevie Wonder
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Lonesome Road -- The Wonder Who?
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Lonesome Loser - Little River Band