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Hi, I'm getting away from cable for several reasons and will probably go with dish network.

Just wondering how much extra (taxes, etc.) is tagged on to the $52.99 price for America's 180. How much will it actually cost per month?

Also I'm thinking about getting one of the foreign language packs for a short time while some relatives are here and the package requires a superdish. Is the superdish good for programming other than the foreign language channels?

Lastly are there great deals that come around every so often or is what the gold sponsers of this site charge pretty much as good as it get?

-David
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K
welcome to the site.

you will come to see that every provider adds extras charges to make a little extra cash.
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chaddux said:
First, welcome.

Second, you'll have to give a lot more info because we aren't psychic. Taxes are charged (or not charged) based on where you live and the amount varies widely. Your local channels, if available, may or may not be on a SuperDISH. We don't know how many TVs you want hooked up or if you want DVRs. So, tell us where you live (zip code), how many TVs you want hooked up, how many DVRs you want, and if you want HD or an HD DVR.

Third, the best deal is usually ClubDISH. Be warned: there will be 19,459 posts from people BEGGING to give you a ClubDISH code.

Ok. To get specific here's what I'm thinking about doing:
1) One receiver/DVR in the family room with America's 180, maybe 120 but I like VH 1 Classic. No HD right now.
2) One receiver with the foreign language pack in a guest bedroom. No HD.
3) After a year or less when the relatives leave, I'll drop the guest bedroom receiver and foreign language pack.
4) Need local channels.
5) My zip is 27519
6) Also, I need digital sound (PCM or bitstream) out of the receiver in the family room.
7) and want the best deal for all this. :)

The clubdish code seems to benefit the giver. What kind of deal would I get taking the above info into account and using a clubdish referral?

And given the above info how many junk fees are added on to the base price quoted - for example my earlier example America's 180 for $52.99/month. If sales tax is all (7% here) then fine but I'm asking about cell phone junk fees type stuff.

regards,
-Dave
chaddux
wireless200 said:
Ok. To get specific here's what I'm thinking about doing:
1) One receiver/DVR in the family room with America's 180, maybe 120 but I like VH 1 Classic. No HD right now.
2) One receiver with the foreign language pack in a guest bedroom. No HD.
3) After a year or less when the relatives leave, I'll drop the guest bedroom receiver and foreign language pack.
4) Need local channels.
5) My zip is 27519
6) Also, I need digital sound (PCM or bitstream) out of the receiver in the family room.
7) and want the best deal for all this. :)

The clubdish code seems to benefit the giver. What kind of deal would I get taking the above info into account and using a clubdish referral?

And given the above info how many junk fees are added on to the base price quoted - for example my earlier example America's 180 for $52.99/month. If sales tax is all (7% here) then fine but I'm asking about cell phone junk fees type stuff.

regards,
-Dave

First of all, all your receivers will have the same programming so you won't have AT180 in one room and foreign language channels in another room. They will all get the same.

One DVR will add a $4.98 monthly fee unless you subscribe to America's Everything Pak. Every receiver beyond the first will add $5.00/month to the cost. If you choose to get a dual-tuner receiver such as the 625 and as long as you keep it continuously connected to your home phone line, the extra fee will be waived. So you could have a 625 (which is a dual-tuner DVR) which would serve two rooms. You could watch independently in both rooms, record independently in both rooms and watch your recordings on either TV regardless of where it was originally recorded. As long as it's plugged into your phone line, it would be just $4.98 on top of the package price.

You will receiver Raleigh/Durham local channels. All of your locals are on one of the main satellites (119). You would not necessarily need a second dish. Obviously, many foreign language channels will require a SuperDISH (for 121) or an entirely separate dish (for 61.5 or 148).

ClubDISH benefits both people. The referrer gets a $60 discount. The person being referred gets the activation fee waived (plus a $50 credit on your first bill). Normally, you pay $50 and then get the $50 back.

North Carolina appears to have a 5% satellite tax. I don't know if that is the only tax or if it is above and beyond the regular tax rate. Maybe a North Carolina subscriber can provide more info.
boba
wireless200 said:
Ok. To get specific here's what I'm thinking about doing:
1) One receiver/DVR in the family room with America's 180, maybe 120 but I like VH 1 Classic. No HD right now.
2) One receiver with the foreign language pack in a guest bedroom. No HD.
3) After a year or less when the relatives leave, I'll drop the guest bedroom receiver and foreign language pack.
4) Need local channels.
5) My zip is 27519
6) Also, I need digital sound (PCM or bitstream) out of the receiver in the family room.
7) and want the best deal for all this. :)

The clubdish code seems to benefit the giver. What kind of deal would I get taking the above info into account and using a clubdish referral? :) :) :)


The same programming package is on all receivers so I would guess you will need to sign up for 1 year of the programming /receivers under something like DHA12. To give you DVR and digital output you will need something like the DVR522/625. The 625 will cost you $4.98 /Mo. for Dish Video on Demand fee (DVOD) and if it is not connected to a land based phone line a $4.99 second receiver fee. So add $10 to the $52.99 then add the state sales tax fee and you will pretty much be there.
tjbeckett
LIke the previous posts have indicated you will probably be best with a 625 which will allow you to have dvr in two rooms. which will only add on 4.98 a month as long as you have a phone line connected to the reciever. Now i don't know which international package you are refferring to, the prices do vary on that. Before the international package, with the phone connected you are looking at 57.97 + taxes. Then you would just need to add on the cost of the specific international package you are looking for. Which language are you needing internation channels for?
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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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Q-LED and Mini LED panels have improved the picture quality and the tv's are so thin and nearly without bezels now. I've thought about replacing the 75in 4k DV/HDR LED Sony in my living room with a newer 86in. That's as big as I can go without construction changes. I watch the 75in 4k DV/HDR Q-LED in my bedroom and the difference between the two is very noticeable. There's nothing wrong with the living room tv though and I don't now that I actually watch enough anymore to really justify it. I could move it out to the patio but the 65in Q-LED out there looks really good and I'd have to change the mount to accomdate a larger tv out there.
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I'm at a limit for TV sizes at this time. My Father-in-Law crafted a custom entertainment center for our family room and we were restricted from going too big based on the side cabinets and central bridge fitting in the width of the room. It turns out to be where a 55" screen with bezels fits but no 65" bezel-less screen can fit. I think there was a brief period where 58" screens where a thing, but no more.

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I'm at a limit for TV sizes at this time. My Father-in-Law crafted a custom entertainment center for our family room and we were restricted from going too big based on the side cabinets and central bridge fitting in the width of the room. It turns out to be where a 55" screen with bezels fits but no 65" bezel-less screen can fit. I think there was a brief period where 58" screens where a thing, but no more.

So, no huge screens for the Foxbat's…

55" is plenty big.
dishstaller
55" is plenty big.
And to think....I was SO proud of myself when I bought a 27 in TV in the late 80s. Everyone just had a 25 in so I was really in high cotton.
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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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Breakfast for lunch. Crispy corned beef hash, home fries, two over easy eggs and sourdough toast.

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I've pretty much done most things in Ireland and I'm thinking about the other side of the Irish sea. I'm thinking about traveling to Wales this summer. My second choice would be Scotland. I don't want anything to do with London except maybe landing in Heathrow and then escaping quickly.

Any tips or experiences to share?
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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....
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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
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. :mad:

Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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dishstaller
I hear complaints from customers each and every day. I chose not to install OTAs with a doggle for a reason.

BTW, I like your user name


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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.
So, you want the ability to, for example, scan while your antenna is pointed to the east and save those channels to your list. Then, you want to scan again with the antenna pointed to the west, and add some of those channels to the list also while retaining the original channels you added from the east?

How would that work? If you move the antenna and some of your channels are no longer are accessible, there's no point in having them on the list. Unless, you want to re-point the antenna each time you switched from an east channel to a west channel and vice versa.

I suppose you could have one of those remote controlled antenna mast like we had back in the 60's. In that case, I can see your point. I think DISH has just designed the system to fit what the vast majority of users actually have. I'm guessing your situation is a pretty narrow use case scenario. I'm just really happy to be able to have my locals without having to pay the $17 month for them.

I just wish DISH would fix the remote control issue that the last few software downloads screwed up. I use the 54 remote and my Hopper is jumping around from off to on, from live to recording.......................like a Kangaroo.
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To Dishstaller, I appreciate your compliment. That was an epic SNL skit !!

To RVvaquero, I appreciate your coments but everything you mention has been considered:

Firstly, I use OTA very rarely - mainly for sporting events.
Secondly, I'm well aware that, since certain channels may scan from one directon while others from another directions, and remembering the difference, for certain stations I will point the antenna in a suitable direction. Some stations come in for almost any direction. In my original list (which has now been discarded), I had about 18 OTA stations and all of them were scanned from the same antenna direction. Even so, the Dish receiver was very particular about ABC (local KOAT 007-01). In the new geographic setting, it gets KOAT easier. Several months ago, due to a contract dispute, CBS (formerly local KRQE on 013-01) was dropped; it hooked up with KOAT as KOATCB (007-04) which is the one station I really needed. But I had to rescan to get it ...

All of ths points to the flaw in Dish's OTA software that prevents scanned stations from simply being appended to a master saved list. The user should be left to manage antenna pointing per OTA station since in many areas (like mine), they don't all come in from the same direction.
Bobby
To Dishstaller, I appreciate your compliment. That was an epic SNL skit !!

To RVvaquero, I appreciate your coments but everything you mention has been considered:

Firstly, I use OTA very rarely - mainly for sporting events.
Secondly, I'm well aware that, since certain channels may scan from one directon while others from another directions, and remembering the difference, for certain stations I will point the antenna in a suitable direction. Some stations come in for almost any direction. In my original list (which has now been discarded), I had about 18 OTA stations and all of them were scanned from the same antenna direction. Even so, the Dish receiver was very particular about ABC (local KOAT 007-01). In the new geographic setting, it gets KOAT easier. Several months ago, due to a contract dispute, CBS (formerly local KRQE on 013-01) was dropped; it hooked up with KOAT as KOATCB (007-04) which is the one station I really needed. But I had to rescan to get it ...

All of ths points to the flaw in Dish's OTA software that prevents scanned stations from simply being appended to a master saved list. The user should be left to manage antenna pointing per OTA station since in many areas (like mine), they don't all come in from the same direction.
As rvvaquero mentioned, you are in a very small population who actually need to move their antenna to receive various TV channels. There are a few reasons why it is not advantageous for Dish to do what you are asking for. First and primary, there are anomalies in the software that can cause issues when you have scanned channels in the mix that have little or no signal. You get error pop ups and cannot watch any channel, OTA or satellite. I have seen these even with my antenna pointed to one direction. Second, you are asking Dish to adapt their software to your needs while the very vast majority don't need that. This is an expense that everyone is going to have to pay for while few gain any advantage.

Have you thought about adding a second antenna so that you are pointing at both directions to fulfill your needs. There are ways to do this and it would fulfill your individual need.

Foxbat
Televes makes an antenna signal combiner that will support two different antennas pointing towards two different locations, and has filters to drop the signals from the channels that interfere with the 2nd antenna channels. This produces a signal that would contain all your receivable channels in one feed. It would probably cost less than a single antenna on a rotor controlled by a smart box that would relocate the antenna mast towards the TV station you wanted to tune in, plus it's instantaneous, without waiting for the antenna to slew towards its target.

Why Choose the Televes SmartKom?

SmartKom combines filtering, combining, and amplification in one outdoor preamplifier. Its three inputs and 32 programmable digital filters allow installers to select, combine, and level channels from different antenna sources, while the included ASuite app supports both automatic and advanced Bluetooth programming.

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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.
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