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Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/29/lg-is-making-another-nexus-meet-the-nexus-5x/

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/29/google-nexus-6p-announced-specs-pricing-release-date/

https://store.google.com/category/phones


All I can say is the 6P is WOW!

I've been looking at replacing my almost 2 year old HTC One Max for a while now, and have come up empty with what I'd like to replace it with. I've always had higher end phones, usually from HTC, this is the longest that I've ever owned a smartphone, but they are a dying company and don't seem to be interested in releasing premium products anymore.

I'm not interested in Samsung phones, HTC is dying, never cared for LG anything, Sony doesn't release many mobile products in the US, Motorola doesn't seem to be in high end market. I would have never guessed I'd be highly considering a Huawei. 5.7" screen at 1440p, the powerful Snapdragon 810 v2.1 processor, that isn't plagued by over heating, 3450 mAh battery, the new USB C connector, 3GB of RAM, front facing speakers. I'm a little disappointed in no removable storage, but I could probably live with 64 GB for $50 over the base price. After having no external storage on my Droid DNA, I swore that was it, As long as it it compatible with Sprint's Spark triband network, I think I'm sold. It will be my first Nexus device
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You only did a factory reset or did you root as well?
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EarDemon
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I didn't get the opportunity to root. The original set of instructions I saw didn't make much sense to me and I didn't want to risk anything. Last night, after looking over what was posted on XDA, I feel more confident, but I need to do it when I have time I can dedicate to doing it. The whole TWRP Recovery thing is new to me. Couldn't tell you want that means or does without looking it up. I don't believe I had to mess with that with my Evos. Once I have the opportunity to familiarize myself with the process, I'll do it

http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928
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EarDemon
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My Nexus 6P is just about toast, well the battery is anyway. For a few months now, my battery has been absolute garbage. On Easter Sunday when at a relative's house I got six hours' worth of battery life. I did a full factory reset on my phone, cleared the cache partition, ran phone with zero apps on it for a handful of days, other than the preinstalled Google apps and didn't achieve anything much better. Now, nearing the end of June I'm at about half that. Three to Three and a half hours max is what I get out of the 6P, and that's barley even touching it. My 20 minute ride to work with Bluetooth not connected, eats up 15%. Normally I'm against running battery apps, but I downloaded AccuBattery and have been using it for about a week and it reports that I'm at 16% battery health, or a whopping 535 mAh.

I've really come to like this phone, and do not have the desire to use any other Android phone that's on the market right now as I'm waiting for Taimen. It's a good thing I only wear cargo pants, because if I am planning to be away from a charging source for more than an hour and I want to take my phone with me, I keep the big Anker power bank that supports USB C in a spare pocket.

I'm guessing this will only get worse. I'm highly considering moving over to the Windows Phone platform with the HP Elite X3 for the next 6 months. But that means I would have to switch carriers since that phone us GSM only, and I use Sprint. Over the next week or two I'm going to weighing my options.
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What's wrong with the "battery replacement" option? :confused:
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EarDemon
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Not worth it. Pretty much have to be a heart surgeon to take the thing a part. I don't have the patience or steady hand it requires to disassemble the phone and put it back together without destroying it. Besides, it's impossible to find a Huawei OEM battery.
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Ramy
Ramy
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Last reply · posted in The Sports Section

2026-27 NCAA College Football

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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24 team playoff seems to be real close.

Are we really that far from a 64-team tournament?

The benefit of the 24 team playoff:
  • All the cartel teams that cartels want in playoff are in playoff
    • Independent of record too! Bonus.
  • MONEY!!!!! for the cartels.
  • I'm out of ideas.
Cons
  • Regular season really doesn't matter now other than the rivalry games
    • Top cartel teams can lose three games and still make the playoff
  • Going to start resting players?
    • The playoff is going to be *checks notes* several games!
    • Resting players could make games dumb.
    • Maybe even restrict NIL players from games played.
  • How much are streaming sub costs going up a month to pay for this?!
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osu1991
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College Football Playoff nears agreement on 24-team expansion that could end title games

The College Football Playoff field is about to get much more crowded as the conferences near a deal to double the size of the field to 24 teams starting next year
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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AZ.
AZ.
Yespage said:
24 team playoff seems to be real close.

Are we really that far from a 64-team tournament?

The benefit of the 24 team playoff:
  • All the cartel teams that cartels want in playoff are in playoff
    • Independent of record too! Bonus.
  • MONEY!!!!! for the cartels.
  • I'm out of ideas.
Cons
  • Regular season really doesn't matter now other than the rivalry games
    • Top cartel teams can lose three games and still make the playoff
  • Going to start resting players?
    • The playoff is going to be *checks notes* several games!
    • Resting players could make games dumb.
    • Maybe even restrict NIL players from games played.
  • How much are streaming sub costs going up a month to pay for this?!
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One of the pro's I see is in a year with so many undefeated teams they have a good chance of an opening. Few years back you had lower divisions that didnt get a shot. I love collage football and I have no problem with that addition.

We are in what week 5 now? Been two real good ranked games to watch.....Other than that top 25 teams are playing nothing.
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Jimbo
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Yespage said:
24 team playoff seems to be real close.

Are we really that far from a 64-team tournament?

The benefit of the 24 team playoff:
  • All the cartel teams that cartels want in playoff are in playoff
    • Independent of record too! Bonus.
  • MONEY!!!!! for the cartels.
  • I'm out of ideas.
Cons
  • Regular season really doesn't matter now other than the rivalry games
    • Top cartel teams can lose three games and still make the playoff
  • Going to start resting players?
    • The playoff is going to be *checks notes* several games!
    • Resting players could make games dumb.
    • Maybe even restrict NIL players from games played.
  • How much are streaming sub costs going up a month to pay for this?!
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This will be a SAD DAY when this passes ....

They complained the last year that we had a bunch of Blow Outs in the Playoffs ... heres an idea, lets Double the amount of teams and hope for Closer games ... ya right.

This never should have went past 8 teams, 10 at the most.

Now, I have heard that play in games are being talked about, such as #13 plays #24 and so forth, to cut the field down (why cut it down, just don't expand it.)
I'm not sure exactly how thats going to work out or if it was just someone talking.

They were also talking about starting the Season earlier ...

I really don't like the National Championship game being the end of January ... if the Semi Finals are over New Years, thats fine with the Championship game the next week.
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AZ. said:
One of the pro's I see is in a year with so many undefeated teams they have a good chance of an opening. Few years back you had lower divisions that didnt get a shot. I love collage football and I have no problem with that addition.

We are in what week 5 now? Been two real good ranked games to watch.....Other than that top 25 teams are playing nothing.
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There are 68 Power 4 teams, so eventually they will get there I wouldn't imagine ...
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AZ.
AZ.
Jimbo said:
There are 68 Power 4 teams, so eventually they will get there I wouldn't imagine ...
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Far from it but you know that....You dont like the larger playoff.....Its ok.....
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"MysteryMan"
"MysteryMan"
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Windows 10/11 Download

I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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EarDemon
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If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.
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EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything. ☹️
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WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything. ☹️
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For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
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EarDemon
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I have no OEM bloat, on CTO devices where I can access the drive, I order it with the smallest allowed drive and crack the device open throw the factory drive in the garbage and put in my own WD Black and install Windows from bootable media. For Windows bloat, I install Windows using the English - World option which limits preinstalled MS bloat.

Windows and Office features I wish to block, like CoPilot and Cortana, macro enabled Office files and others are blocked with GPOs.

Between keeping all software up to date, doing firmware updates, putting IoT devices on a separate VLAN, running Symantec Endpoint (say what you want about it, it's been good to me) and practicing safe hex, I'm vigilant but not paranoid about security.

With NVMe SSDs, my cold boot up time on all devices is under 30 secs as well. Fast boot disabled, BitLocker drive encryption enabled.

I have nothing against Linux, been paying with it on and off since 2004ish, it's just not the right solution for me.
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HipKat
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EarDemon said:
it's just not the right solution for me.
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As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.

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EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.
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What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.
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What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?
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Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.
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I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.
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dfergie
dfergie
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NCIS: Origins

Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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Really good one with OG Gibbs bookending it...
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dfergie said:
Really good one with OG Gibbs bookending it...
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Will the OG Gibbs be on NCIS or will Tony be on NCIS Origins?
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Tony was there at the end of the episode with Gibbs.
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dfergie said:
Tony was there at the end of the episode with Gibbs.
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I saw Gibbs walk into the door, but I did not see Tony.
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dfergie said:
Tony was there at the end of the episode with Gibbs.
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Tony was Not in this episode ... you may remember Gibbs walking into the office and those around Welcomed him home, Voices only.

If you also watch the Mothership, Tony has been in that one ...
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Jimbo said:
Tony was Not in this episode ... you may remember Gibbs walking into the office and those around Welcomed him home, Voices only.

If you also watch the Mothership, Tony has been in that one ...
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I must have seen that in previews
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osu1991
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Frisco King - Paramount Plus


View: https://youtu.be/RHYQYYm5jLM?is=cwxm9t1efsWNl6yy


December 18, 2026 Paramount plus
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Scott Greczkowski
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Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge
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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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Kiss - The Art Of Noise
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Beautiful Noise - Neil Diamond
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White Noise - Jessie Baylin
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White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
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White Sun - The Doobie Brothers
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dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hughesnet cancelling email addresses

Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.

I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.

Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…
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If Earth had shorter days,
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Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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navychop said:
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…😉
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Foxbat said:
Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.
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I still have one of those although I've been trying to wean myself off it.
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JSheridan
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Among my many email accounts I still have a .netscape.net which AOL assimilated a while back.
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Yep, I got the notification a few days ago. I'm not totally surprised.

Never used the address for anything, so no big loss to me.
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meStevo
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Last reply · posted in TV Shows

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Starting a thread klang !

After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.

Keri Russell Wow GIF by NETFLIX
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Probably starting season 3 tonight. :D
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Finished it this evening. General impressions with no story spoilers, but will spoil it anyways as it just came out today.

Not quite as impactful of a finale as past seasons I thought, we'll see how far down the rabbit hole things go as the latest plot twists and turns unravel. Thought this season had a full episode or two too much rom-com style disagreements, but it was more or less paid off later. Ultimately didn't enjoy that being more of a throughline in the stories this season compared to what I remember of the priors.

My least favorite of the 3 seasons, but still very good. Really wonder how far they'll go with things, hard to see a nuclear attack or something ever actually happening. They just had a better story to tell and more meaningful beats in the prior season.
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KAB
Not in a hurry to watch it this time.
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klang
Finished season 3 last night. Still one of my favorite shows.

Anyone else wonder if there might be something else going on with Callum? Seems to me he has too much access to Russian intelligence.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...

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Bobby
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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

4K Events Discussion Thread

This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Regarding the no sound bug when watching 4K HDR events or DVR recordings with Dolby set to ON:
I got rolled back to H708 last night after getting an email from the support team. It fixed the bug.

The email indicated that they believed they found the issue, and if the fix works, they would roll it out via an update in the coming weeks.

So... we should see that bug exterminated in the near future.
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148-04 says the NASCAR race on at noon on Sunday. Be interesting to see if it is.
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MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.
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Bobby said:
MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.
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Bobby said:
CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.
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Bobby said:
CFB, Ohio State at Indiana, Saturday 10-17, 9AM PDT, Channel 148-01.
CFB, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Saturday 10-17, 12:30PM PDT, Channel 148-01.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.🙁

I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.

edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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Foxbat said:
Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.🙁

I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.

edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.
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Bobby said:
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.
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As an edit, you need to sub to the National Action Pack at $12 a month to receive those channels.
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A State Cyber-emergency in Japan

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5R5Aw27yr0


Direct YouTube Link - A State Cyber-emergency in Japan
TWIT's Website
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AI and Mathematicians

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEmNun8Ms4s


Direct YouTube Link - AI and Mathematicians
TWIT's Website
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