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Wondering if others had success using a no name brand 10 inch tablet to use the dish anywhere app. Thinking of getting a tablet instead of getting an additional Joey. I see on Amazon some are under $100.
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BTW, Fire 10 is a very good inexpesive tablet if one wants a big screen and good specs. While the no longer manufactered (AFAIK) HDX models has supreme pixel density and color accuracy that displays high quality video in all it gorgeous nuances (at least as good as the more expensive tablets like Samsung, etc.), the Fire 10's lower pixel density and slightly lower color accuracy/reproduction still makes for a very good big screen value that's easy to read and works with both Sling(box) Player app and Dish Anywhere. It also makes a great Senior Citizen tablet (easy to read) with voice dictation for emails and searches, etc. The Fire tablets offer the best value with very good specs. and performance. However, Fire Tablet is a forked Android so not all android apps will load on it, but the most important ones do. However, depending on one's usage, it is wise to have at least ONE full Android tablet for some less popular but useful apps one might need. I've got to say that I just don't use my full Android tablet that much anymore. I'm 98% on my Fire's.
FWIW, if you don't like Amazon's Silk for web browsing (just as invasive as Chrome), Firefox can be loaded as apk file. While Firefox provides the most privacy, I use it along with extensions for enhanced privacy, ad blocking, reduced tracking, blocking 3rd party sites, and cookie killing, etc.
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Actually they do work with Dish Anywhere apps: on all THREE of my various geneartions and models of Fire Tablets, including one from 2013. Fire Tablets support both Dish Anywhere and Slingbox. In fact both apps work excellent on the tablets. Both apps are at the Amazon App store and are labled as being for Amazon Fire. Also, the Amazon Fire TV (Amazon's Roku-like box) can run the Sling Player app connected to any TV. It works very well.
BTW, Fire 10 is a very good inexpesive tablet if one wants a big screen and good specs. While the no longer manufactered (AFAIK) HDX models has supreme pixel density and color accuracy that displays high quality video in all it gorgeous nuances (at least as good as the more expensive tablets like Samsung, etc.), the Fire 10's lower pixel density and slightly lower color accuracy/reproduction still makes for a very good big screen value that's easy to read and works with both Sling(box) Player app and Dish Anywhere. It also makes a great Senior Citizen tablet (easy to read) with voice dictation for emails and searches, etc. The Fire tablets offer the best value with very good specs. and performance. However, Fire Tablet is a forked Android so not all android apps will load on it, but the most important ones do. However, depending on one's usage, it is wise to have at least ONE full Android tablet for some less popular but useful apps one might need. I've got to say that I just don't use my full Android tablet that much anymore. I'm 98% on my Fire's.
FWIW, if you don't like Amazon's Silk for web browsing (just as invasive as Chrome), Firefox can be loaded as apk file. While Firefox provides the most privacy, I use it along with extensions for enhanced privacy, ad blocking, reduced tracking, blocking 3rd party sites, and cookie killing, etc.
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AFAIK the DishAnywhere app is not officially supported on fireTV (I've seen discussion of sideloading and needing to use a bluetooth mouse/keyboard to emulate a touchscreen.. tho it doesn't sound all that palatable)
DA is supported on the tablets.. not sure if one can then mirror the tablet to a FireTV box/stick... if so, one could argue the tablet would pay for itself after cost/$7 months.
As customers we'd all love this to work. Dish would hate it, as you could effectively drop a Joey from your acct and they'd no longer be collecting rental fees for it long after the actual cost has been paid off.
Actually they do work with Dish Anywhere apps: on all THREE of my various geneartions and models of Fire Tablets, including one from 2013. Fire Tablets support both Dish Anywhere and Slingbox. In fact both apps work excellent on the tablets. Both apps are at the Amazon App store and are labled as being for Amazon Fire. Also, the Amazon Fire TV (Amazon's Roku-like box) can run the Sling Player app connected to any TV. It works very well.
BTW, Fire 10 is a very good inexpesive tablet if one wants a big screen and good specs. While the no longer manufactered (AFAIK) HDX models has supreme pixel density and color accuracy that displays high quality video in all it gorgeous nuances (at least as good as the more expensive tablets like Samsung, etc.), the Fire 10's lower pixel density and slightly lower color accuracy/reproduction still makes for a very good big screen value that's easy to read and works with both Sling(box) Player app and Dish Anywhere. It also makes a great Senior Citizen tablet (easy to read) with voice dictation for emails and searches, etc. The Fire tablets offer the best value with very good specs. and performance. However, Fire Tablet is a forked Android so not all android apps will load on it, but the most important ones do. However, depending on one's usage, it is wise to have at least ONE full Android tablet for some less popular but useful apps one might need. I've got to say that I just don't use my full Android tablet that much anymore. I'm 98% on my Fire's.
FWIW, if you don't like Amazon's Silk for web browsing (just as invasive as Chrome), Firefox can be loaded as apk file. While Firefox provides the most privacy, I use it along with extensions for enhanced privacy, ad blocking, reduced tracking, blocking 3rd party sites, and cookie killing, etc.
AFAIK the DishAnywhere app is not officially supported on fireTV (I've seen discussion of sideloading and needing to use a bluetooth mouse/keyboard to emulate a touchscreen.. tho it doesn't sound all that palatable)
DA is supported on the tablets.. not sure if one can then mirror the tablet to a FireTV box/stick... if so, one could argue the tablet would pay for itself after cost/$7 months.
As customers we'd all love this to work. Dish would hate it, as you could effectively drop a Joey from your acct and they'd no longer be collecting rental fees for it long after the actual cost has been paid off.
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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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Post any of the deals you find here.
Right now HBO Max has some deals if you pay for the year. $165 for the top plan again
Right now HBO Max has some deals if you pay for the year. $165 for the top plan again
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We should be coming into the Streaming Deals time of year
I will be looking for Yearly deals, not the 7 day trial or a 1 month deal like we had the last year or so.
I will be looking for Yearly deals, not the 7 day trial or a 1 month deal like we had the last year or so.
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Now first, I'll mention that the area of FL I live in has extremely high humidity and not a lot of wind so things don't dry out very well for extended periods of time.
I'm in the process of tearing down and rebuilding a pergola with a surrounding deck that I built 9 yrs ago. 90% of the deck screws are just sheering off at the head because the screws rusted out. These are the deck screws you buy in the 25 lb box at your lumber yard. Very annoying. So I just ordered some 316L stainless steel screws to use for when I go to rebuild it.
I'm in the process of tearing down and rebuilding a pergola with a surrounding deck that I built 9 yrs ago. 90% of the deck screws are just sheering off at the head because the screws rusted out. These are the deck screws you buy in the 25 lb box at your lumber yard. Very annoying. So I just ordered some 316L stainless steel screws to use for when I go to rebuild it.
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Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Mahomes is the biggest cry baby I have ever seen. He thinks he's privileged or something.
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So is Kelce.Mahomes is the biggest cry baby I have ever seen. He thinks he's privileged or something.
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Well you see him more because he is incredibly talented. And yes, typically players try to spin things being in their favor. This isn't cricket where sportsmanship (except in Australia) is expected.Mahomes is the biggest cry baby I have ever seen. He thinks he's privileged or something.
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Over the past year I have been tracking the changes on Western Arc. The past 3 months have had a lot of changes that I posted in the other MPEG2 Western Arc shutdown thread. Now that 129 is (basically) out of commission, here is where Western Arc stands. This is just a national channel list, (no local channels) based off what I can see and what others have contributed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me come up with the locations of some of the channels – I would try and list all of you out, but I know I would forget someone! As has been suggested in other parts of the forum, it would be great to collect the spotbeam data for those who could contribute!
A couple of pieces of info:
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
A couple of pieces of info:
- Out of the 64 transponders between 110/119, there are currently 50 transponders that Dish is licensed to use. 22 are Spotbeams, 28 are ConUS transponders (14 transponders are licensed to DirecTV and Dish doesn't have access to them)
- Those 28 ConUS transponders are divided as follows:
- 10 are dedicated to National HD channels (ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc). Dish is maxing out at 16 HD channels per transponder (note – in an earlier post I said there was one transponder with 17 HD channels, that was an error on my part. When I double checked my listings, one channel changed transponders). Before the transition, there was a maximum of 14 HD channels per transponder.
- 1 transponder is dedicated to adult content
- 2 are a mixture HD PPV Movies/4k channels
- 3 are set aside for HD Sports channels that are only on for live games (NBA League Pass, the PAC 12 alternate channels, some PPV events, etc); 3 SD PPV Sports Channels are there as well.
- 7 are for SD and/or music channels. Dish is maxing out at 26 SD channels per transponder thus far on the SD transponders.
- 5 transponders on 110 I have no channels listed but Dish operates. (they are labeled as ConUS on my chart below) There are other things that could be on those transponders, like RV Distant Networks, internal testing channels, etc, that I can't see. They might be able to be used for additional content, but I am not sure exactly what is on those transponders.
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
- During this migration from 129, Dish converted 7 ConUS transponders on 119 into Spotbeams – that is how they ended up fitting on all the HD locals that used to be on 129. (for those interested, TP 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 are the ones that used to be ConUS on 119 that are now Spotbeam)
- Removed almost all SD duplicate channels that are offered in HD
- Converted remaining SD channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4
- There are also 2 subtle things that changed from the HD channel perspective
- At the beginning of the transition, Dish decreased the number of PPV Movie channels – prior to this transition the PPV channels HD PPV movies were 502-522; now they are 502-517.
- At the beginning of April when MLB, NBA, and NHL regular seasons were all going on at the same time and this transition began, there were a ton of games "joined in progress" for the HD feeds. That wasn't common since the days before the full time HD RSN's. The reason for that was prior to the transition, Dish had 4 transponders set aside for HD Sports – 2 transponders was the bandwidth set aside from the HD RSN's before Dish dropped the RSN's, then 2 transponders were for alternate channels. Now we are down to 3 transponders for HD sports.
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