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W6k

Last reply Sep 20, 2023 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Backing up HD on Dish 722 to EHD

I understand there is no Dish company support for EHD so hopefully I can find my answers here. I have my 722 up and a Hopeer 3 ready to be installed. I want to back up the 722 HD prior to the migration. I bought a SanDisk 1 terabyte EHD and plugged it in the USB in the back of the 722. I get a message that only one device is supported and I have too many connected. Totally bogus message. I have never used the USB before except for a wireless Internet adapter at one time. What is that all about?
Next question is, can I migrate to the Hopper and work on the 722 back up after it is deactivated? Will the HD transfer all the saved info like what favorite programs to record along with the recorded movies?

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RobMeyer1

Sep 19, 2023

Dish has this info on their website: "The external hard drive must not use flash memory and should only be a single-hard disk drive." Your SanDisk EHD may not meet this requirement.

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W6k

Sep 20, 2023

I ordered a 2 TB back up drive. It is in a very nice totally sealed solid case and measures 2X4". It could be a flash drive. It wouldn't be a 2 TB SSD for $100. How can i determine if it is a Flash drive vs a HDD.

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W6k

Sep 20, 2023

Boy, am I out of touch with technology. This is an SSD, far better than an old clunky HDD and very inexpensive. SSD were not around when they designed the 722, so i guess that is the problem.I'll find a use for this SSD and find a used HDD somewhere.
Thanks for the heads up.

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Almighty1

Sep 20, 2023

W6k said:
I ordered a 2 TB back up drive. It is in a very nice totally sealed solid case and measures 2X4". It could be a flash drive. It wouldn't be a 2 TB SSD for $100. How can i determine if it is a Flash drive vs a HDD.

If you knew the make and model, i would be easy. A external HDD for 2TB is around $60-$80 depending on where you buy it if it is on sale or not, a good example is Target has a 2TB 2.5" Western Digital which is $79.99 at the store but $69.99 if you buy it online for either delivery or store pickup but the store also will match the online price, it may even be cheaper elsewhere but until you try it, it's hard to know if the make/model is compatible or not as it could depend on the controller and even the firmware of the drive among other things. SSD's are not totally new as they have existed in even the 1980s but just physically larger and expensive. SSD might be better for other things but not for DVR's as it does have limited read and write cycles before it will fail among other reasons which others might be better at mentioning compared to spinners which is another name for the traditional HDD's. In your case, unless the product is from a actual storage manufacturer, they will use a drive from one of the few remaining storage manufacturers and then there will be a controller sitting between the internal drive before it reaches the DVR and hopefully the controller is compatible since from experience, it's not the drive itself that is the problem but the controller but I could be wrong because I haven't had a incompatible drive yet as I have only used either the portable 2.5" WD 2TB drives or other internal bare drives on a docking station or using a direct SATA to USB cable, and when I had the docking station issue which worked on the Hopper 1 but doesn't work on the Hopper 3, connecting the same drive to the direct SATA to USB cable allowed the drive to work correctly and seeing all the contents. And while that same EHDD was used on the Hopper 1, what I did was clone the EHDD to another identical 2TB HDD but different manufacturer on the computer and then used the later as the HDD on the Hopper 3 should the Hopper 3 decide to format the drive, I will have a backup to clone from and try again instead of losing all 4 years worth of unwatched recordings as I only move things to the EHDD so the DVR has room to record and I delete each recording after watching it unless it was something I really wanted to keep.

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Jim5506

Sep 20, 2023

Almighty1 said:
If you knew the make and model, i would be easy. A external HDD for 2TB is around $60-$80 depending on where you buy it if it is on sale or not, a good example is Target has a 2TB 2.5" Western Digital which is $79.99 at the store but $69.99 if you buy it online for either delivery or store pickup but the store also will match the online price, it may even be cheaper elsewhere but until you try it, it's hard to know if the make/model is compatible or not as it could depend on the controller and even the firmware of the drive among other things. SSD's are not totally new as they have existed in even the 1980s but just physically larger and expensive. SSD might be better for other things but not for DVR's as it does have limited read and write cycles before it will fail among other reasons which others might be better at mentioning compared to spinners which is another name for the traditional HDD's. In your case, unless the product is from a actual storage manufacturer, they will use a drive from one of the few remaining storage manufacturers and then there will be a controller sitting between the internal drive before it reaches the DVR and hopefully the controller is compatible since from experience, it's not the drive itself that is the problem but the controller but I could be wrong because I haven't had a incompatible drive yet as I have only used either the portable 2.5" WD 2TB drives or other internal bare drives on a docking station or using a direct SATA to USB cable, and when I had the docking station issue which worked on the Hopper 1 but doesn't work on the Hopper 3, connecting the same drive to the direct SATA to USB cable allowed the drive to work correctly and seeing all the contents. And while that same EHDD was used on the Hopper 1, what I did was clone the EHDD to another identical 2TB HDD but different manufacturer on the computer and then used the later as the HDD on the Hopper 3 should the Hopper 3 decide to format the drive, I will have a backup to clone from and try again instead of losing all 4 years worth of unwatched recordings as I only move things to the EHDD so the DVR has room to record and I delete each recording after watching it unless it was something I really wanted to keep.

/rant on
I have stopped reading your long paragraph replies please try to be more concise
/rant off
Sorry but 4 or 5 a day grates on me.

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TheKrell

Sep 20, 2023

RobMeyer1 said:
Dish has this info on their website: "The external hard drive must not use flash memory and should only be a single-hard disk drive." Your SanDisk EHD may not meet this requirement.

I've tried SSD's before and they worked. I did not do an extended test.

Almighty1 said:
SSD might be better for other things but not for DVR's as it does have limited read and write cycles before it will fail among other reasons

The speed of an SSD is certainly wasted as an EHD. But I think it doesn't get that many write cycles since it's an archive disk. It's not like a Windows disk that's getting beat up all day every day.

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Almighty1

Sep 20, 2023

Jim5506 said:
/rant on
I have stopped reading your long paragraph replies please try to be more concise
/rant off
Sorry but 4 or 5 a day grates on me.

/rant on
When communicating online, there is something known as netiquette which are rules for electronic communications since the 1980s:

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

/rant off
My apologies anyways.

Yes, it might be long paragraph replies but you have to remember that it's a contribution and as I read a lot of forums daily including this one and barely have time to sleep, 1-2 hours daily or every 48 hours and also taking care of my 95 year old mom who lives with me, I am typing the entire message in 2-3 minutes flat and most of the time, my hands actually type about 3 seconds faster than the text shows up and while I do catch mistakes that I correct but if I try to be more concise, I will forget what else I was going to add. I am already running on a 13 year backlog with over 850,000 unread emails among other things and also, being in California, for people who either have businesses or lives in any of the counties considered disaster areas, our April 15, 2023 tax deadline has actually been extended been changed to October 15, 2023 which is 6 months later and unlike the others who have regular deadlines, I don't think we can extend it. Why I mention that, before I can even do my taxes which takes 1-2 days for both myself and my mom, I also have to basically manually do the following for each of my financial accounts which is close to 100:
1) Bank accounts - copy the current balance and update it into Microsoft Money
2) Investment Accounts - this is the one that takes long as I have to manually put everything since February 28, 2022 into Microsoft Money where I will also copy the current cash assets, the total account balance which needs to be compared and updated after I finish entering the transaction data and ofcourse for the transactions, I will just select everything on the account I am working on from February 28, 2022 until now then copy and paste it then what I do is I need to go through each date and delete the useless lines which are either blank and the useless transactions like deposits and interest payments which includes Money Market Fund Dividends and Reinvestments. Then after that, the events I keep are stock splits, dividends on securities, dividend reinvestments, stock spin-offs, foreign tax paid for dividend and ADR management fees. Stock splits are easy as I just need to find out the split, it takes 2-3 seconds. Dividends on a security for each event also takes 10 seconds because I manually memorize the date to type it in and copy and paste the $ value, then for dividend reinvestments, I also memorize the date/the number of shares, copy and paste the per share price and hopefully the total price matches the dividend value - any fees and foreign taxes paid on the dividends. If not, then I have to delete the per share price and instead put in the dividend value - any fees and foreign taxes paid on the dividends and the program will put in the correct per share price as it needs the qty of shares and either the cost per share or total cost with 2 out of 3 variables. And this is the easy part. If there was a stock spin-off, merger, etc, then there would need to be manual adjustments done for all transactions for that security which may date back 30 years as well as things like cash paid as part of the spin-off/merger and the shares that got converted to cash also needs to be recorded which now requires looking at the online PDF copy of the statement for the month it happened as the transactions will show cash-in-lieu but only the amount, it never shows how many shares were sold to get that cash amount and spin-offs and mergers also has another issue, that is determining how many % of the original investment amount went to each of the securities to figure out the cost basis like AT&T spins off Warner Discovery Media, after getting the AT&T shares because AT&T bought Time Warner Cable, the original transaction as well as all transaction $ amounts will need to be adjusted so the % of the original investment goes to each one correctly and also add all the transactions to the from the AT&T record into the new Warner Discover Media with the correct $ amount based on the % of the amount on the AT&T side before all the % adjustment and that takes time because one or more mistakes in the $ amount will cause incorrect calculations for now and the infinite future as I won't have the original $ amount on the AT&T side after I changed it to correct the issue. And for each transaction, after I input it, I will still confirm it is correct before deleting it in notepad. The other thing is I need to compare the names and symbols to companies to make sure they are up to date since some companies have changed names along with a new symbol so until I change it, there will not be updates to the prices of that security. After all is done, I adjust the cash balance to match what was copy and pasted and also compare the total account value which was copy and pasted which can't be change. And that is only one account. I honestly don't know how long it will take for all the accounts as it depends how many different things happened in each account.

I know I can read the forums every few days but that hasn't worked well as basically there are more unread threads in the Dish and Dish Hopper+ forum which requires even more time spent.

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techristian

Last reply 14 minutes ago · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion

NEED SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW FTA BOX

IS Amiko MIRA 3 any good ???
Can you recommend the best to cover all bases. NO BEEPS on certain channels 101w (NEWSMAX ,NEWS NATION), a clock that keeps working STEADY for timed recording ,solid unit with good lifespan. My Amiko died AND my Linkbox has NO Favorites Button and BEEPS on many channels. Picking up 105 west with a NEW SHED IN THE Way with 6 foot Cband ..95 percent quality ...unbelievable.

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primestar31

14 minutes ago

techristian said:
IS Amiko MIRA 3 any good ???
Can you recommend the best to cover all bases. NO BEEPS on certain channels 101w (NEWSMAX ,NEWS NATION), a clock that keeps working STEADY for timed recording ,solid unit with good lifespan. My Amiko died AND my Linkbox has NO Favorites Button and BEEPS on many channels. Picking up 105 west with a NEW SHED IN THE Way with 6 foot Cband ..95 percent quality ...unbelievable.

Have you tried a new power brick on your Amiko? It's slim pickings out there anymore. The FTA market in the US has pretty much been abandoned.

This would likely be your best bet, and Rick is a good seller. I've never had any issues with him:

Ricks Satellite Satellite Receivers

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Updates on Artemis III?

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klang

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Last reply 34 minutes ago · posted in TV Shows

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Paramount+

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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klang

Jul 28, 2025

I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

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klang

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
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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MikeD-C05

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
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

Oct 13, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
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

Sunday at 12:51 PM

harshness said:
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.

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harshness

Sunday at 2:00 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
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

Monday at 1:35 PM

harshness said:
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

Monday at 1:59 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
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

klang

Monday at 2:04 PM

I just thought her behavior, including the bare feet thing, was disrespectful to her position.

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harshness

Tuesday at 5:36 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes.

That is your right.

I couldn't buy hiding behind the dirty-feet argument.

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MikeD-C05

34 minutes ago

osu1991 said:
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though

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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Last reply Today at 11:56 AM · posted in The Phone & Tablet Zone

Apple Event September 2026

Apple Fall Hardware Event takes place today, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. It marks the debut of new CEO John Ternus and the expected reveal of Apple's first foldable phone.

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TheForce

Oct 7, 2026

Heard a story from one of the Apple influencers on YT that the 18PM has a bug where it stops connecting to AT&T service. Doesn't affect Verizon or T-Mobile. Apple is replacing the phones. Anyone else hear of this? Defective Modem?

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harshness

Oct 8, 2026

TheForce said:
Defective Modem?

It seems the phone gets locked into Sat mode. A software patch is coming to avoid that pitfall, but it comes too late for those who already fell in.

Apple confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T cellular issues, affected devices require hardware replacement - 9to5Mac

Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular...

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Oct 10, 2026

Can't remember if I've posted this yet..

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Foxbat

Today at 11:47 AM

If you ponied up for an iPhone Duo, keep it away from anything other than your soft, fleshy fingertips. No fingernails, no dust, sand, dirt, or other particulate matter. And don't bend it more than it needs to. Zack has destroyed $2,000 of Apple hardware to get those views, which should cover his expenses.

comfortably_numb

Today at 11:56 AM

Foxbat said:
No fingernails, no dust, sand, dirt, or other particulate matter

And definitely no medieval chain armor!

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Last reply Today at 11:26 AM · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Traditional/Streaming Live TV Providers Losses, 3rd Quarter 2026 Edition

Comcast is the first to report, with a massive 274,000 loss in video subscribers.

In the 3Q of 2016, Comcast had 21.42 million video subscribers and was the #1 provider, now at 10.39 million and is the #3 Provider, YTTV is #2 ( who also surpassed DirecTV-8 Million and Dish-under 5 Million), Charter/Spectrum is #1.

Comcast Just Lost 274,000 TV Customers & 144,000 Internet Customers In Just Three Months | Cord Cutters News

Comcast Corporation reported its third-quarter 2026 results on October 22, showing continued erosion in its domestic residential broadband internet and video customer bases as competitive pressures intensified across the connectivity market. The company recorded a net loss of 144,000 domestic...

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dishstaller

Thursday at 10:18 AM

Losing 144,000 internet customers surprises me more.

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savarese04

Thursday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Losing 144,000 internet customers surprises me more.

people are moving to fiber, which is better up and down and also not Comcast.

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dishdude

Thursday at 2:02 PM

savarese04 said:
people are moving to fiber, which is better up and down and also not Comcast.

dishstaller said:
Losing 144,000 internet customers surprises me more.

Cord cutting 2.0. Not just fiber, 5G is really taking a toll on the cable companies.

AZ.

Thursday at 2:24 PM

dishdude said:
Cord cutting 2.0. Not just fiber, 5G is really taking a toll on the cable companies.

I agree, for $35 it aint perfect but just as reliable as my cable was. And that was twice as much and still rising

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ncted

Today at 7:45 AM

Comcast called fiber pricing "irrational" because the ROI is over three years. What is irrational to me is Comcast internet is based on lines they put in the ground decades ago at this point, for the most part. Is copper that much more expensive to maintain?

brice52

Today at 11:26 AM

ncted said:
Comcast called fiber pricing "irrational" because the ROI is over three years. What is irrational to me is Comcast internet is based on lines they put in the ground decades ago at this point, for the most part. Is copper that much more expensive to maintain?

yes. even copper lines in a house degrade over 70 years, I doubt coax would last that long. Fiber Optic on the isp side will last over 70 years with very dedgration

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Last reply Today at 11:03 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

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:

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Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

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dishstaller

Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 10:51 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

You can't even trust the cost per ounce info in grocery stores anymore

I'm surprised Walmart hasn't banned this guy from all of their stores. He has been on their CASE the past few months.

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telstar_1

Wednesday at 2:22 PM

Juan said:
You are paying for the whole thing

Well, the bag can't weigh that much, right? But by law food product packaging must display the actual net weight of the product, i.e., the contents of the container, so by any logic, if not law, a store's stated per-ounce cost should reflect that figure. But since there's not any law regulating shelf statements, a store can say whatever it wants without violating any rules. So I guess the answer is more consumer legislation. Or simply caveat emptor.

Jimbo

Wednesday at 6:26 PM

telstar_1 said:
Well, the bag can't weigh that much, right? But by law food product packaging must display the actual net weight of the product, i.e., the contents of the container, so by any logic, if not law, a store's stated per-ounce cost should reflect that figure. But since there's not any law regulating shelf statements, a store can say whatever it wants without violating any rules. So I guess the answer is more consumer legislation. Or simply caveat emptor.

I would think that the Vendor/Maker of the product would have a say in it, showing the Correct weight ...
You would think it would be in the contract.

I do look at the ounces of items, but unless its way off, I don't check the math, may have to start now.

Remember when you use to get a 13.5 oz bag of Chips .... Thats a PARTY Size now.

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TRG

Wednesday at 6:41 PM

Jimbo said:
I would think that the Vendor/Maker of the product would have a say in it, showing the Correct weight ...
You would think it would be in the contract.

I do look at the ounces of items, but unless its way off, I don't check the math, may have to start now.

Remember when you use to get a 13.5 oz bag of Chips .... Thats a PARTY Size now.

I remember when a pound of coffee was 16oz. Now its 12oz, they don't call it a pound anymore and its three times the cost of the 16oz pound.

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Jimbo

Wednesday at 7:05 PM

TRG said:
I remember when a pound of coffee was 16oz. Now its 12oz, they don't call it a pound anymore and its three times the cost of the 16oz pound.

Well, they don't call it a pound anymore ....

Ice cream is that way too, use to be a half gallon, now its 1.5 quart or some say 48 oz

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NYDutch

Wednesday at 7:39 PM

Jimbo said:
Well, they don't call it a pound anymore ....

Ice cream is that way too, use to be a half gallon, now its 1.5 quart or some say 48 oz

We have a regional ice cream company here that advertises that their ice cream containers are still a full half gallon.

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Jimbo

Wednesday at 8:54 PM

NYDutch said:
We have a regional ice cream company here that advertises that their ice cream containers are still a full half gallon.

Now check and see if any of them (probably a few) are actual Ice Cream ...

Most Ice Creams are Not actual Ice Cream.
Bryers for example, call Most of thiers "Frozen Dairy Dessert"

Jimbo

Thursday at 9:27 AM

harshness said:
Unless the specific product or its packaging is known at the time of weighing, estimating the tare weight for a PoS system is a tall order.

I'm pretty sure that produce bags can't get any thinner.

You certainly don't want to put unbagged produce on a belt, scale, or in a clerk's hands (gloved or not).

I would think that all the packaging would already be accounted for ... they weigh the container, subtract that from the scale, then add the product , so its weighing the Product only

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harshness

Yesterday at 4:42 PM

Jimbo said:
I would think that all the packaging would already be accounted for ... they weigh the container, subtract that from the scale, then add the product , so its weighing the Product only.

You would be thinking wrong when it comes to goods that are sold by weight (meat, produce, nails). Those items typically go on the scale wrapped without an associated tare. The weight only excludes the sticker because it hasn't been printed yet.

Jimbo

Yesterday at 5:08 PM

harshness said:
You would be thinking wrong when it comes to goods that are sold by weight (meat, produce, nails). Those items typically go on the scale wrapped without an associated tare. The weight only excludes the sticker because it hasn't been printed yet.

Thats ridiculous ....

Thats not how Deli does it, I know your talking pre packaged.
They need to CHANGE that.

harshness

Yesterday at 6:50 PM

Jimbo said:
Thats not how Deli does it, I know your talking pre packaged.

Perhaps only for sliced meat and cheese. Salads and similarly "shifty" or "drippy" items are typically weighed in deli cartons of some sort.

My monster burritos (up to two lbs.) are weighed in their foil jackets or paper mache take-out trays, and the jacket/tray is then "sealed" with the printed label as it comes off the printer.

Precision has to give way to practicality in situations like that.

TRG

Yesterday at 8:38 PM

Jimbo said:
Now check and see if any of them (probably a few) are actual Ice Cream ...

Most Ice Creams are Not actual Ice Cream.
Bryers for example, call Most of thiers "Frozen Dairy Dessert"

I only buy Tillamook and Alden's ice cream. The first ingredients are milk and cream.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 9:16 PM

harshness said:
Perhaps only for sliced meat and cheese. Salads and similarly "shifty" or "drippy" items are typically weighed in deli cartons of some sort.

My monster burritos (up to two lbs.) are weighed in their foil jackets or paper mache take-out trays, and the jacket/tray is then "sealed" with the printed label as it comes off the printer.

Precision has to give way to practicality in situations like that.

What ever I get out of the Deli is put into a container when I ask them for it, they weight the container and then add the deli product, thats the way its suppose to be, if the rest of the world is screwing you, you should try the place down the street.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 9:20 PM

TRG said:
I only buy Tillamook and Alden's ice cream. The first ingredients are milk and cream.

$7.50 a 1/2 gallon, thats worse than Bryers price wise.

Jimbo

Yesterday at 9:23 PM

TRG said:
I only buy Tillamook and Alden's ice cream. The first ingredients are milk and cream.

1st Big Question is ... How Much Sugar is in it and Sodium and Carbs ...
I' m really not suppose to have Ice Cream, or at least Moderately ....
Depending on the amount of sugar and sodium (don't think theres sodium in it, but Carbs probably is.)

Jimbo

Yesterday at 9:24 PM

Jimbo said:
$7.50 a 1/2 gallon, thats worse than Bryers price wise.

I'll give that a try next time, if I can find some in the right sugar areas.

Juan

Yesterday at 9:25 PM

Jimbo said:
What ever I get out of the Deli is put into a container when I ask them for it, they weight the container and then add the deli product, thats the way its suppose to be, if the rest of the world is screwing you, you should try the place down the street.

They are probably cheating you by swapping store brand product for name brand...those store deli's are very sketchy

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Bobby

Yesterday at 9:40 PM

Jimbo said:
I'll give that a try next time, if I can find some in the right sugar areas.

22g per serving.

Juan

Yesterday at 9:51 PM

Bobby said:
22g per serving.

How much is a serving?

Bobby

Yesterday at 9:58 PM

Juan said:
How much is a serving?

2/3 of a cup, a large scoop.

Jimbo

Yesterday at 10:46 PM

Juan said:
They are probably cheating you by swapping store brand product for name brand...those store deli's are very sketchy

They are made every day at this place ... it's a little Ma and Pop store ...

When ever I order something, they weigh the container (like everyone is suppose to) then weigh the product, so you actually get what your paying for lb wise ...

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Juan

Today at 8:48 AM

Jimbo said:
They are made every day at this place ... it's a little Ma and Pop store ...

When ever I order something, they weigh the container (like everyone is suppose to) then weigh the product, so you actually get what your paying for lb wise ...

I apologize...I was thought you were talking about a supermarket deli

Jimbo

Today at 9:14 AM

Juan said:
I apologize...I was thought you were talking about a supermarket deli

Well, it is a Super market deli, just not a MAJOR one .

navychop

Today at 9:33 AM

Bobby said:
2/3 of a cup, a large scoop.

Awwww. You missed your chance to say "22 grams."

navychop

Today at 9:34 AM

Jimbo said:
don't think theres sodium in it

According to "Miss A"" there is. Especially for higher end ones.

Jimbo

Today at 9:39 AM

navychop said:
According to "Miss A"" there is. Especially for higher end ones.

I did look into that ... the ones I get have about 65mg, which is very little ... but then I wouldn't expect much to be in Ice Cream.
Carbs are more than I would have liked ...

Bobby

Today at 10:51 AM

Jimbo said:
I did look into that ... the ones I get have about 65mg, which is very little ... but then I wouldn't expect much to be in Ice Cream.
Carbs are more than I would have liked ...

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