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L L Cool J needs to lose weight. He's starting to look like Steven Segal in his later years when he started wearing black to cover up his tummy.

Honestly don't have high hopes for this one. Don't particularly care for Scott Caan.

teachsac said:

Honestly don't have high hopes for this one. Don't particularly care for Scott Caan.

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Same here, aggravated that Origins is delayed for this.

Well lets see LL Cool J has been cancelled on NCIS L.A. and then went to NCIS Hawaii and they got cancelled, and now he will be on NCIS New York? How long before they cancel that too? He seems to be bad luck.

Scott Caan was ok on Hawaii Five-0, but liked the dynamic between him and his costar Alex O'Loughlin on the show. He wasn't that great in the Fox show Alert: Missing Persons Unit he did for a couple of years. He seems to keep playing the same character with different names. One trick acting.

MikeD-C05 said:

Well lets see LL Cool J has been cancelled on NCIS L.A. and then went to NCIS Hawaii and they got cancelled, and now he will be on NCIS New York? How long before they cancel that too? He seems to be bad luck.

Scott Caan was ok on Hawaii Five-0, but liked the dynamic between him and his costar Alex O'Loughlin on the show. He wasn't that great in the Fox show Alert: Missing Persons Unit he did for a couple of years. He seems to keep playing the same character with different names. One trick acting.

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I'd say those shows could have been gone without LL just as well ...
LL probably was the reason Hawaii stayed on the last few years.

LA should Still be on, but 13-14 years is more than enough for most shows ...

If This Is It - Huey Lewis & The News

What Is This Generation Coming To? - Robert Mitchum

My Generation - The Who

Who Are You - The Who

Squeeze Box - The Who

Sitting in okc service center waiting on tire rotation and comprehensive inspection. Apparently my rfid card is dead or the reader in the door isn't working. I've never used it, just the fob and my phone. Hopefully they don't need to keep it as I don't want to deal with a rental and having to drive back. They don't have any loaners at the moment and it's 1hr 40 min drive home.

Guess I'm coming back in a month once parts are here. RFID reader in door handle is bad and handle will need to be painted. Control arms bad which I thought as it had a rattle going slowly over speed bumps and some seepage around the front drive unit so they're replacing it too. Glad I did the inspection now and not waited a year or another 8k miles before the warranty was closer to expiring.

SO- Can I interest you in a R2T?

Control arms bad in under half a year?

telstar_1 said:

Control arms bad in under half a year?

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3 yrs. Its a 2023 R1T Quad motor large pack adventure package. Just under 53000 miles so I wanted to get the comprehensive inspection done and have any warranty work performed before the warranty expires at 60K miles or March 2028

Dish hasn't really had any big disputes that I can remember in a few years now.

I would love to see when they renew the ESPN deal that we get access to ESPN Unlimited like DIRECTV folks do, as I don't feel like paying an additional $29.99 a month just to watch the WWE Pay Per Views. (But thats just me)

Scott Greczkowski said:

Dish hasn't really had any big disputes that I can remember in a few years now.

I would love to see when they renew the ESPN deal that we get access to ESPN Unlimited like DIRECTV folks do, as I don't feel like paying an additional $29.99 a month just to watch the WWE Pay Per Views. (But thats just me)

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Id'e love to see em give ceo's pay cuts!!! all these rate increases are insane

John2021 said:

Id'e love to see em give ceo's pay cuts!!! all these rate increases are insane

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Would a dollar a year per subscriber be a fair CEO paycheck?

NYDutch said:

Would a dollar a year per subscriber be a fair CEO paycheck?

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YEP!!!

John2021 said:

YEP!!!

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I'm sure Charlie and Erik would have appreciated the raises back when Dish wasn't in such dire straights as it's been until recently.

These are the latest numbers I could find:

As Chairman at DISH Network CORP, Charles W. Ergen made $3,219,778 in total compensation. Of this total $1,000,000 was received as a salary, $0 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $0 was awarded as stock and $2,219,778 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2022 fiscal year.

As President and Chief Executive Officer at DISH Network CORP, W. Erik Carlson made $10,820,717 in total compensation. Of this total $1,000,000 was received as a salary, $1,000,000 was received as a bonus, $5,562,541 was received in stock options, $3,251,156 was awarded as stock and $7,020 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2022 fiscal year.

https://www.salary.com/tools/executive-compensation-calculator/charles-w-ergen-salary-bonus-stock-options-for-dish-network-corp

NYDutch said:

As President and Chief Executive Officer at DISH Network CORP, W. Erik Carlson made $10,820,717 in total compensation. Of this total $1,000,000 was received as a salary, $1,000,000 was received as a bonus, $5,562,541 was received in stock options, $3,251,156 was awarded as stock and $7,020 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2022 fiscal year.

https://www.salary.com/tools/executive-compensation-calculator/charles-w-ergen-salary-bonus-stock-options-for-dish-network-corp

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Erik is now the CEO of RE/MAX.

Scott Greczkowski said:

Erik is now the CEO of RE/MAX.

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Yep, as I said, the latest info I could find. 2022...

Scott Greczkowski said:

Dish hasn't really had any big disputes that I can remember in a few years now.

I would love to see when they renew the ESPN deal that we get access to ESPN Unlimited like DIRECTV folks do, as I don't feel like paying an additional $29.99 a month just to watch the WWE Pay Per Views. (But that's just me)

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Or whatever ESPN Unlimited has to offer (of course mainly ESPN+ content since you already get the linear stuff.

NASCARfan18 said:

Or whatever ESPN Unlimited has to offer (of course mainly ESPN+ content since you already get the linear stuff.

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Don't forget AI Sportscenter for you based on your favorite teams. I watched that once, it was one too many times.

Bringing this thread back up because we are closing in on the Dish contract with ESPN expiring, and to my knowledge, they have not resolved the litigation with the daily passes nor have they signed a new contract extension.

The last 3 Dish contracts with Disney have expired on September 30/October 1. It would not surprise me at all if this upcoming contract expires at the same time as there is leverage with ESPN and College Football/NFL. Only in 2022 were the Disney channels pulled. In 2013, there were multiple threats and mini extensions before the long term extention was announed in March 2014.

Next possible dispute:

From everything I am seeing this issue is ONLY happening with the single tuner OTA adapter, please correct me if someone is having the issue with a dual tuner adapter.

Rick Durham said:

From everything I am seeing this issue is ONLY happening with the single tuner OTA adapter

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That's enough....fix the issue or at least send existing customers a FREE fix rather than sending work orders to retailers like me, expecting ME to fix something you KNOW I can't fix.
Sorry for the rant but unless you lace MY shoes, don't judge.

dishstaller said:

That's enough....fix the issue or at least send existing customers a FREE fix rather than sending work orders to retailers like me, expecting ME to fix something you KNOW I can't fix.
Sorry for the rant but unless you lace MY shoes, don't judge.

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I'm not judging you, and I definitely appreciate the knowledge you bring to the forum. However, Rick and Brittany have been very helpful over the years also. I don't think you should be calling them out publicly on the forum, especially for something they probably have very little control over. Get a private room for your family squabbles.

rvvaquero said:

I don't think you should be calling them out publicly on the forum, especially for something they probably have very little control over

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That's the problem we retailers face on a near daily basis. I am constantly told that either I'm the only having a certain issue, when I've talked to multiple dealers facing the same thing. Or, I get no response.
It is VERY frustrating to be bombarded with irate customers when I have actual work to do.
I have YET to get a single piece of communication explaining this issue or any type of fix or update. The ONLY way I knew that this was a problem was because of THIS forum....otherwise I would have gone out to the first customer's house with no clue as to what I was facing and probably would have wasted a lot of time, effort and money trying to solve a problem that is, as of now, unsolvable. I would have replaced the OTA adapter, which wouldn't solved the problem. I would have swapped the H3, which would not have solved the problem. Many hours of MY time would have been utterly wasted, whereas a simple heads up email would have cleared things up.
The "that's not my dept" line is not well received these days by those of us in the trenches.

dishstaller said:

That's the problem we retailers face on a near daily basis. I am constantly told that either I'm the only having a certain issue, when I've talked to multiple dealers facing the same thing. Or, I get no response.
It is VERY frustrating to be bombarded with irate customers when I have actual work to do.
I have YET to get a single piece of communication explaining this issue or any type of fix or update. The ONLY way I knew that this was a problem was because of THIS forum....otherwise I would have gone out to the first customer's house with no clue as to what I was facing and probably would have wasted a lot of time, effort and money trying to solve a problem that is, as of now, unsolvable. I would have replaced the OTA adapter, which wouldn't solved the problem. I would have swapped the H3, which would not have solved the problem. Many hours of MY time would have been utterly wasted, whereas a simple heads up email would have cleared things up.
The "that's not my dept" line is not well received these days by those of us in the trenches.

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You can reach out to me directly with any issues you encounter, I work with Retailers on a regular basic, mainly ones who I met at Summit a couple years back.

If you're a retailer/installer and feel as if you are not getting sufficient information regarding any issue from the business, please reach out so we can remedy this.

Why can't DISH send out replacement ota tuners for 2 ota channels at a time and get rid of the single ota tuner? That seems to be the best way to fix it , unless they have a software fix that can be downloaded quicker. But, I haven't seen things fixed that quickly before - when I had a software problem that broke something.

I contacted Dish Network and was told that the newer dual OTA adapters are out of stock.

We are working on a solution with other internal teams. As much as I would like to be able to instantaneously fix everything, we unfortunately need time to better understand what is happening and why.

Once we have a solution, I am happy to share here.

Looks like I might be waiting a while to catch it on streaming. Doing extremely well in the theaters.

Now playing local single-screener. Skeptical of "marvel" movies. Worth a try?

klang said:

Looks like I might be waiting a while to catch it on streaming. Doing extremely well in the theaters.

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The Tinsel Town Theater we just left had Spiderman play in like 7 or 8 theaters, every hour on the hour starting another one. We hit the 12pm movie. We just left the theater and got home. This movie is going to make a ton this weekend alone. They had it in rumble vision and 3-D and normal HD as well as well as XD and Nicer seats too.

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Now playing local single-screener. Skeptical of "marvel" movies. Worth a try?

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IF you saw the other movies in the series, YES. IF you haven't seen them it won't register as strong, since it is about Peter Parker and his friends who don't remember him, due to what happened in the last movie. Cool tie in with another franchise as well.

Saw it, thought it was great! Hit all the right notes.

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Now playing local single-screener. Skeptical of "marvel" movies. Worth a try?

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A good deal of the emotional pull in the movie is about what has happened in the others. It will not translate.

I read Tom Holland is looking at a $100 million dollar bonus from his latest Spider Man movie. It has made over $2 billion world wide now. That bonus is on top of the $20 million he wanted up front to play him. The bonus could still go up with the amount they continue to rake in on ticket sales. Not bad for a decade of work playing the character.

Portland does as Portland does. One short yellow, green the rest of the way. Turn One at the start ended up being really clean. Friday was baking and the alternate tires were falling apart, but lower temps over the weekend led to the reds managing the track better. Not much passing. The straddling of the reds and blacks helped an other just fast cars driving race have a bit more drama.

Qualifying was interesting. Dale Coyne saw both cars get out to the second round and Veekay, who'd been near the top in practice also followed through. Grosjean would suffer some bad luck as his team apparently was short a set of rims, which meant he had no sticker set of reds for the Round of12. He wasn't pleased. It was odd as Coyne's cars weren't showing any pace in practice, but things were righted by qualifying. Veekay would get into the fast six, along with Palou, Rosenquist, Kirkwood, and Power. Rosenquist nudged Palou out of the pole position by 0.02 seconds.

Ultimately, this is about how the race finished as well. Veekay slipped back to sixth after a couple pitstops, but the final stop saw JHR get Veekay released before Kirkwood and Ericsson and finish in 4th, a repeat of Mid-Ohio's outcome. Kirkwood needed to pit early with a tire going down, which likely meant a tad more fuel needed in the stop. Palou's stint on reds was insane, both in speed and duration. Palou is just nuts and that was generally enough to ensure he'd stay out for the win. His victory ties him with Gordon Johncock for 17th most wins in Indycar/USAC history. That was Palou's 104th race. Johncock raced in 262 races. ECR looked like crap. Lundgaard had a dreadful qualifying, but was able to pass himself up to about 10th for a decent finish. Poor Armstrong, 3rd race in 4 that saw his engine go out. Quite the alternative to Rosenquist finishing 2nd.

Onto Markham, Ontario for the next race. Veekay podium'd there last year via fuel saving strategy. He isn't using quirks to finish higher this year.

Palou holds a 110 point lead, a fifth title seems assured. This leaves Malukus and Kirkwood to fight for second. Malukus has had a very quiet season despite fighting for second overall. Veekay is in 10th with 9th maybe being the glass ceiling unless they pull off something in Milwaukee. It'd still be his best season. Veekay could podium, but the JHR car has a lower ceiling than Ganassi.

Silly season remains silly. JHR has an option on Veekay. Ganassi has the picks of Hauger, Veekay, or maybe more likely (?) Lundgaard, who knows about an NXT driver. Ganassi was interviewed during the pre-race warmup and if Ganassi was high on signing Veekay, he sure the heck didn't emote any hints that he was.

Well, Markham has come and gone. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Literally. Friday practice didn't happen because the track wasn't ready yet.

Saturday was a day full of racing and anxiety. Fox One has been struggling to properly carry things. And drivers were getting used to a new track that had uniqueness and some... well they apparently didn't bring enough jersey barriers or a measuring tape. The hairpin was a bloody mess. Instead of a proper hairpin, it was literally just an end to the jersey barriers. This lead to major issues in the race.

The drivers acclimated to the course, some better than others. Louis Foster, of all people, perfected the lap. Blowing out just about everyone but Palou! Half second, I think. Come qualifying, it was nuts. Dale Coyne drivers were all of a sudden competitive. making the fast 12. JHR did well with Veekay who managed to slot into the Fast Six... again! The fast six included six teams with RLL winning the pole and Dennis Hauger qualifying in the top six. This is awesome!

But then the race started. And what made for great qualifying didn't make for great racing. Passing was extremely hard. Lundgaard had a slow start and that screwed over Veekay as he couldn't get by Hauger who would be losing close to a second a lap, and because they are all driving to the same fuel numbers, there is not enough speed differential, and Veekay is stuck. JHR make a bad decision to pit Veekay, so he isn't stuck behind Hauger... but the pit lane is short, they get him out in 6.6 seconds... and now he is stuck behind other cars. BLEEP!!! His race is boned. No way to get around that now. Foster was having a much better than expected race. His practice/qualifying performance was unexpectedly happening in the race. Even after the first pit stop, he came out looking good.

Then after the first yellow, Indycar started the demolition derby part of the race. A lot of it at the hairpin where there were multiple lines, but really only one exit. Cars were backing up, trying not to stall and there was lots of contact. It started looking dumb. Much more yellow than green. Foster's race would end in a pass on Ericsson in a hard hit straight into the wall. Then... about 35 laps remaining, there is a yellow. Everyone pits, except for Andretti, as they can make the finish one that last stop, with enough fuel save. The entire world slapped its forehead at the obvious stupidity of Andretti of not pitting Ericsson who was leading and Power. That was totally going to bite them in the end.

Grosjean inherits the lead after Ericsson went on a time trial and gave himself a 17 or 18 second lead on Grosjean before pitting. The race has calmed down... as everyone but Will Power and Marcus Ericsson are in fuel save mode. Grosjean is safely ahead, but then something weird happens. The Andretti cars aren't in fuel save mode, and are driver 0.5+ second faster laps. With the very short pit lane, the drop from pitting under green isn't that bad. Ericsson races forward, passing cars that are sipping fuel, and even Grosjean has to give up his spot.

The idiots in charge of Andretti turn out to the ones capable of doing math and get the race win and a third on the podium as well. Grosjean finishes in second, repeating Veekay's performance in Greater Toronto last year, that too on the alternate fuel strategy. Thanks to the demolition derby portion of the race, Veekay was able to manage a 7th place finish despite the extended fuel save (he was in 5th) and having nose cone damage from making contact on Palou's car in the hairpin.

Kirkwood crashed out, so the Championship race is a tight one for second. Palou has it all but wrapped up now with another top 5 to his credit.

A side note on Palou. He has finished in the top 5 more than 2/3's of his races. He has won more than 1/5 of his races. Podium'd about half of them. He has won 6 races this season, in what has been a 'lackluster' to some season for Palou. In all of USAC/Indycar history (going back to 1905), only 74 drivers have won 6 races or more in a career!

Still hate the street course racing. I rarely watch anymore and only if it's an oval or true road course race.

A little Freedom 250 humor. The race course makes so much more sense now.

SkyWatcher57 said:

Hello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank

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My first thought is the lightning damaged the HDMI ports if the receivers were lost if connected during event. If another device is connected for testing such as a DVD player or similar, does the HDMI operate as designed?

Perhaps the KOQIT STB is set to a video resolution outside of what the monitor can display is another possible reason.

Corrado said:

My first thought is the lightning damaged the HDMI ports if the receivers were lost if connected during event. If another device is connected for testing such as a DVD player or similar, does the HDMI operate as designed?

Perhaps the KOQIT STB is set to a video resolution outside of what the monitor can display is another possible reason.

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Hi, oh, I had a GTMedia receiver that I enjoyed using, that one I used the HDMI on the same monitors and all was fine. My monitors are fine, the GTMedia receiver and power supply both were hit, thru the power surge. The KOQIT receiver is "Brand new", my replacement, that's the one I cannot get the HDMI to work on my 2 Samsung monitors, it does work on my Samsung TV in the loving room HDMI connection no issues. Just these monitors for some reason. Either it flashes, or on for a second, pink screen, or just nothing, black screen. Monitors are only 2 years old.

SkyWatcher57 said:

Hi, oh, I had a GTMedia receiver that I enjoyed using, that one I used the HDMI on the same monitors and all was fine. My monitors are fine, the GTMedia receiver and power supply both were hit, thru the power surge. The KOQIT receiver is "Brand new", my replacement, that's the one I cannot get the HDMI to work on my 2 Samsung monitors, it does work on my Samsung TV in the loving room HDMI connection no issues. Just these monitors for some reason. Either it flashes, or on for a second, pink screen, or just nothing, black screen. Monitors are only 2 years old.

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Oh, with all the kind members out here, share what receivers you are using, I have seen some nice images that show some pretty good signal info on the screen, would spend a bit more if I had to in order to get a mid range, nicer unit that won't give me any issues and work to whatever I hook up to it. Anyone?

When the KOQIT receiver is connected via the HDMI to a monitor it operates with, what AV settings are selected in the setup menu? Refresh rate also is a consideration if set to 50 Hz as well. A mode such as 576i, 576p, 2160p if 4K may not work. Try something like 720p- 60 Hz for example as a baseline to start.

A quality known working HDMI cable if available to test with. Best practice to only disconnect and reconnect with the devices on each end powered off. HDMI port electronics are sensitive to transient power surges particularly on equipment without grounded power cords.

Corrado said:

When the KOQIT receiver is connected via the HDMI to a monitor it operates with, what AV settings are selected in the setup menu? Refresh rate also is a consideration if set to 50 Hz as well. A mode such as 576i, 576p, 2160p if 4K may not work. Try something like 720p- 60 Hz for example as a baseline to start.

A quality known working HDMI cable if available to test with. Best practice to only disconnect and reconnect with the devices on each end powered off. HDMI port electronics are sensitive to transient power surges particularly on equipment without grounded power cords.

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Well believe or not, with all the frustration I have been dealing with replacing damaged items in the house from a lightning hit, after my GTMedia FTA recevier and power supply went, I failed to check the monitor that was hooked up to it. Assuming it was just the unit, my PC has 2 HDMI outputs, thinking about it, I put my second output on that monitor and sure enough, the HDMI is gone, won't detect the monitor on the PC. I put the new FTA unit on another monitor which is my security system and there it was, the KOQIT receiver was on the screen, what a relief, but feel like a dum ass for not checking that. Now looking for a good, quality, USA FTA to invest in beside this model, any recommendations? Today was spent changing out the pool pump timer that blew and replacing the security DVR system that was damaged. Thanks

I'm using a GT media v9 Prime, but they're no longer sold new. Which is unfortunate as its my favorite, super easy to use and intuitive. I bought a couple more luckily before they quit selling them, so I have backups for a while hopefully. I was not impressed with the Amiko 4K unit as far as functionality, haven't tried any others.