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Mike Hayden
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

No "Season Pass"?

I've been toying with the idea of changing to E* from D* due to the additional HD programming. But I read the E* DVR's do not the equivalent of the Tivo Season Pass. Is this true? This is a wonderful feature for when your show gets moved around or has changing start times. Please say it isn't so.
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MikeD-C05
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kb7oeb said:
Tivo season pass records all episodes but is limited to a single channel, its not a simple timer.

I have not used the dishpass but the wish list can be based on a title to record a show on multiple channels or it can be done by theme or actor or whatever
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The dishpass works similar. IT can be done by title /info/exact match and it can be limited to one channel or all over the whole satellite system. You can also limit the amount of episodes that will be saved as well before it is recorded over.
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Before you take the Dish plunge, you should do your research. I don't want to sound too negative, but I'll tell you my experience. I had a DirecTiVo for years before getting the 942 in May of 2005. Since that time, I've had to reboot the receiver more than 60 times. I've missed more than 30 programs due to guide glitches or unexplained phenomenon. With my DirecTiVo, I rebooted maybe once every 6 months and I recall only one missed recording the entire time I owned it. I know one person stated he never had any problems with missed programs on his 942. Well, I guess he's lucky.

There are positives to the Dish 942. It does have three tuners (two sat tuners and one OTA) so you can record three things at once; however, you can only record one OTA (abc, nbc, cbs, fox) show at a time. So, for example if you want to record two HD shows over OTA at the same time on different channels, you simple can't. You'll have to choose which one you want to record in HD. The other one you'll have to record in SD. Although, Dish has recently been offering satellite HD locals for some of the large metropolitan areas using the new receiver (vip622). Just depends on where you live. Also, the Dish 942 has a much faster guide and setting up Timers/Dishpasses is significantly faster than DirecTiVo.

Anyway, to answer you original question, a Timer is roughly equivalent to the Season's Pass. However, when you set a Timer to only record "new" shows, the definition of new is not the same as with TiVo. With TiVo, a new show means a show is well, NEW for the broadcast season. With Dish, a new show means a show is new for the current calendar year.

The Dishpass is kind of like a Wishlist, but has limitations. You cannot filter a Dishpass using themes (Movies, Biographies, Sports, etc.) and it's limited to only 15 characters.
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MPeltz, I don't think my 942 ever missed a program. I had other issues with my box but it never missed a recording.

I think they changed the behavior of "New" to more closely match what TiVo does. If the show is flagged as a new episode it'll get recorded. You can see this on the program info.

I like that I can pad the recording time on the 942 run later as well as start earlier. I seem to remember my TiVo had a problem starting earlier.

I find the "timer" function quite equivalent to TiVo's "Season Pass".
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voripteth said:
MPeltz, I don't think my 942 ever missed a program. I had other issues with my box but it never missed a recording.

I think they changed the behavior of "New" to more closely match what TiVo does. If the show is flagged as a new episode it'll get recorded. You can see this on the program info.

I like that I can pad the recording time on the 942 run later as well as start earlier. I seem to remember my TiVo had a problem starting earlier.

I find the "timer" function quite equivalent to TiVo's "Season Pass".
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I've hot a 635, and a 942. The 625 automatically records 1 minute early, and 3 minutes after for episodes and whatnot, and 30 minutes after the scedualed time for sports events.

The 942 does not do this, which is somewhat annoying. If I forget to manually do this for each event/timer, I'll often playback a show to find that I missed the first minute or so of a TV episode.
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MikeD-C05
MikeD-C05
I've had both a stand alone series 2 Tivo and the following dish dvrs;

7100 dishplayer
501/508/510
721/921
522/625/
942 and now the new 622

The 622 and the 942 are the best hd dvrs that Dish has ever made. The 522 and the 625 are the best sd dvrs that Dish makes. THe 622 provides customers the preference to do hd or sd based on what tv they have. Cool and forward thinking on Dish's part.

I like the 942/622 interface and the ability to record three things at a time. In all I perfer the Dish vip dvr to anything that Tivo made. YES presently the 622 has a vew audio/video quirks but it will soon be resolved via software update SOON , I hope.

If you take the time to read the manual that comes with it you will see that it does give you all the directions you need to figure out the way to record. The timers created from the guide are just like a season pass without having to press a whole lot of submenus to create. It gives you all the options to record new vs all or weekly or Mon thru Friday or daily. It allows you to set the channel you want it to record on and the amount to save before it records over it.

The dish pass is similar with it's ablilty as I outlined in the post a few posts back, but it basically a wish list . I figured out how to create a timer just by playing with it for a few minutes. The dishpass I figured out by trial and error. I don't use this feature unless I limit it to one channel, otherwise it will record every episode of the show I select on all the channels in the satellite system.

The one thing that Dish has not done on the 942/622 is the Tivo like Suggestions . THANK GOD! I hated this feature and I hated to try to teach the damn receiver what I liked and disliked. It cluttered my hard drive full of crap and it turned the channels all the time if I was watching something live.

I also did not like the way the picture quality degraded with a stand alone Tivo. The 622 has excellent pq on hd and in my opinion good picture quality on sd channels. As far as reliablity of recordings with the 942 and the 622, I have had no problems with this except when Stargate Alantis had the old information listed and not the present year listed. This was corrected within 2 weeks. The work around was to change from new to all and to limit the number of episodes to one. THis was a guide information error and from what I 've read of both Tivo and Directivos , this happens with their service as well from time to time.

If you like Tivo you will like the 622 receiver. It is the best of Tivo and Dish without all the bad things that both previous generation of receivers had wrong with them.:D
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Untitled Linux Show 278

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B68aUhD3vE


Direct YouTube Link - Untitled Linux Show 278
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Scott Greczkowski
Scott Greczkowski
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge
Last reply · 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:

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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ewindowman
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Dish Bankruptcy - Business as Usual

Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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www.lightreading.com

SpaceX boldly goes into 'huge' 5G network rollout with Qualcomm

After trying satellites and small cells, Elon Musk's SpaceX is to build a terrestrial mobile network across tens of thousands of sites with Qualcomm.
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For your viewing pleasure...
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AT&T, T-Mobile Are Reportedly Ready To Boot Boost Mobile If SpaceX Buys It

Semafor’s Rohan Goswami said that AT&T and T-Mobile have discussed removing Boost Mobile from their networks if SpaceX acquires the EchoStar unit, creating a potential obstacle to Elon Musk’s push to become a major U.S. wireless carrier.
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tanman said:
For your viewing pleasure...
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AT&T, T-Mobile Are Reportedly Ready To Boot Boost Mobile If SpaceX Buys It

Semafor’s Rohan Goswami said that AT&T and T-Mobile have discussed removing Boost Mobile from their networks if SpaceX acquires the EchoStar unit, creating a potential obstacle to Elon Musk’s push to become a major U.S. wireless carrier.
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That's ok, I'm sure Verizon will be happy to take them.
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comfortably_numb said:
That's ok, I'm sure Verizon will be happy to take them.
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That's ALL Verizon needs.....more congested towers :mad:
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dishstaller said:
That's ALL Verizon needs.....more congested towers :mad:
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They don't care... they're milkin' the cow. Buddying up with Elon to provide him an MVNO network will make their investors and shareholders salivate. All of their recent marketing efforts have failed, so this move makes a lot of sense.
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Bruce said:
www.lightreading.com

SpaceX boldly goes into 'huge' 5G network rollout with Qualcomm

After trying satellites and small cells, Elon Musk's SpaceX is to build a terrestrial mobile network across tens of thousands of sites with Qualcomm.
www.lightreading.com
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Mr. Morris is no journalist. That article reads like a political hit job.
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comfortably_numb said:
That's ok, I'm sure Verizon will be happy to take them.
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Yep, they could stick it in with thier other dozen or so MVNO's, including the five they own.
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal

Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal
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Given that Tubi is one of the hottest FAST services out there, I don't expect it to go anywhere. Building up intolerance for ads takes a while, and as long as the advertisers are willing to foot the bill, why not?
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harshness said:
Building up intolerance for ads takes a while, and as long as the advertisers are willing to foot the bill, why not?
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That is what I have to explain to customers all the time. They want it free with no ads :facepalm
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Hmmm. Not watching much Prime, but it would be on our Apple TV STB.

You know of any drawbacks using Ultra and Prime?
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navychop said:
Hmmm. Not watching much Prime, but it would be on our Apple TV STB.

You know of any drawbacks using Ultra and Prime?
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Prime seems to have a problem passing the DV/HDR metadata to Roku and Apple devices, but no problem with their Fire devices.
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dishstaller said:
That is what I have to explain to customers all the time. They want it free with no ads :facepalm
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The ads are boring and repetitive...same ad over and over...bring back 1970s ads..might not be as big an issue
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Shouldn't this thread be in the IPTV forum?
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Juan said:
The ads are boring and repetitive...same ad over and over...bring back 1970s ads..might not be as big an issue
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Had a customer come in a couple weeks ago to pay her internet bill. She let me know in no uncertain terms that she did NOT appreciate me running the same ads over and over. I looked at her and waited for her to laugh and say she was just joking.......still waiting for that laugh.
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Shouldn't this thread be in the IPTV forum?
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There is one there too. I would think either is justifiable as they make both the device and provide a streaming program service.

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Musk Seeking to Expand SpaceX Into a Cellular Provider

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Ramy
Ramy
Supporting Founder
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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A lot of upsets yesterday, but my LSU Tigers won.
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Parity is growing in College Football. Making it even harder to tell who is better than each other.
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Yespage said:
Parity is growing in College Football. Making it even harder to tell who is better than each other.
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I agree to a point. The transfer policy is creating parity, but only for the top 20-25 teams. The other 110+ teams in the FBS are just breeding grounds for the bigger schools which have more money and more recruiting appeal.

If a smaller school recruits, trains, and matures a quality player, they can't keep them past their sophomore year because the bigger schools snatch them up. Example: LSU didn't cultivate Sam Leavitt, they just harvested him from other schools. LSU is a top contender, in large part because of Leavitt. Michigan State and Arizona State.................are not. If either of those schools had been able to retain his services, who knows where they would be now.
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A lot of upsets yesterday, but my LSU Tigers won.
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Coach says afternoon game result of SEC "conspiracy". The rivalry game vs. Ala. will kick off in the afternoon at Baton Rouge rather than at night, which head coach Lane Kiffin says is intentional in order to neutralize fan craziness and noise, which is believed to help lead to wins for squads playing at home. "Obviously the SEC wanted to change this year from how it had been to give LSU less advantage, (considering) how well LSU plays at night and how intimidating it is to play here. So I guess when I look at it that way, I'm not surprised."

But he's come up with an ingenious solution. "Go to bed earlier Fri. night, then start your day earlier. Have breakfast earlier. Start drinking earlier. Whatever your routine is, just move it up."

Meantime ads have been running for a "Protect College Sports Act" moving through Congress.
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Bruce
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Last reply · 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.

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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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Optimum, which bought up our previous cable company, Suddenlink (originally COX), replac ed all of their coax disdribution with Fiber several years ago. They ran new fiber links to the house, but installed RFOG (RF over glass) devices on the outside of the house, which makes the house coax system look like a cable system. They used DOCSIS modems and of course we had the same assymetric bandwidth of cable internet. When I called them a couple years ago, and said I had installed a connection to the local Fiber provideer, MetroNet, They panicked and offered me the 300 MBit "Fiber powered" cable service for $20 per month. They were bleeding customers. I cancelled my Metronet and went with the $20 deal for a year, even though I didn't like the old cable technology.

Then T-moble Fiber struck a deal with Metronet Fiber where T-mobile would take over the marketing, billing and customer relations for residential Customers. They offered a "Founders Deal" for 2 Gigabit service, symmetric speeds, for $70 per month for new customers. That included all taxes and fees and was guaranteed for 10 years. I couldn't resist. That deal is no longer offered, but I am set for 9 more years.

Now the successor to the old local telephone company, Brightspeed has also installed a modern Fiber system in the neighborhood, but won't be getting my business. But their Fiber technology is also superior to Optimums cable based system.

With Fiber competition, the cable companies are eventually doomed.
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Meanwhile, my neighbor 300' away has gigabit fiber, and I'm stuck with copper solutions.
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Foxbat said:
Meanwhile, my neighbor 300' away has gigabit fiber, and I'm stuck with copper solutions.
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similar situation. almost every neighborhood around me has fiber, but our 3 block area. I called AT&T and was like, how hard is it to bring fiber over about 200 feet (I am closest to the folks with fiber and can see it on the poles from my front door); crickets and very frustrating.
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savarese04 said:
similar situation. almost every neighborhood around me has fiber, but our 3 block area. I called AT&T and was like, how hard is it to bring fiber over about 200 feet (I am closest to the folks with fiber and can see it on the poles from my front door); crickets and very frustrating.
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"Business Intelligence" is more of an oxymoron than Military Intelligence.
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Meanwhile, my neighbor 300' away has gigabit fiber, and I'm stuck with copper solutions.
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I have gigabit fiber in an underground box on my property. But it's not lit up yet so I'm stuck with copper too. For now anyway.
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Updated to H715 on a Hopper 3 from H713

After a strange reboot last night in the middle of viewing, this morning several more reboots and about a half an hour download.
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Just did the update check manually about an hour ago with Hopper 3 on H713 and Hopper Plus on P15403.
Noticed something new when I clicked on the Update Software, it presented a pop-up as follows:
"Update software 1573
Update later Update now Cancel" with those three buttons which did not exist before.

After updating the H715 - I guess there must be major bugs as both H709 and H714 were skipped.

So here are the issue(s):

Issue #1
It did fix the problem with H713 which was:
"One of the problems I am seeing is that the Available Joey Software section no longer is showing the Android TV versions even after a manual software reset twice and the nightly reboot. Until it does, nether Technician Android TV download and Hopper Plus is able to check, download and update the Android TV software."

This was a major problem with H703.

H710 removed that dependency so H711 and H712 were working without that dependency but H713 brought it back which is fixed in H715 as no P versions or Android TV versions are shown in the Available Joey Software on the main Diagnostics screen.
However, with that said, the TECHNICIAN SETTINGS, Download ATV (Android TV) Files is not working correctly as the Download ATV Files shows:
"Download ATV Files 3000
Download in progress. This operation will be
complete when the files are downloaded

Joey 4 : P554- Failed
Joey 4 : P55403- Failed
Wireless Joey 4 : P654- Failed
Wireless Joey 4 : P65403- Complete
HopperPlus : P154- Complete
HopperPlus : P15403- Failed

OK"
From what I can tell, each of them goes through the Downloading followed by the Processing stages first before it goes into the Failed or Complete stage. It seemed to be going in a loop earlier as it will start downloading from the first item being the Joey 4 each time before it eventually stopped. This is the first time ever since 2023 that I had ever seen it Failed.

With that said, the dependency appears to still be required for the Hopper Plus to check, download and update the Android TV software as it says Failed, No Target when going to "Device Preferences", About, "Software Update"

Issue #2
Still cannot cast to Hopper 3 with Hopper Plus(Software P15317) with the Hopper Plus "Google Chromecast Built-In" feature" as it shows up as a casting device when the Hopper Plus is online and disappears when the Hopper 3 and Hopper Plus does it's nightly reboots but times out when one tries to cast to it and always shows up as Not available in the Google Home app on Android phone. No one else anywhere on the internet had confirmed whether it is working for them or not. Per brittanygarden in DM on October 16, 2026:
"We've been working with Google on this. We have a fix on the Google side projected for Q4. I know we're in Q4 now, but I will try to get a narrowed down timeline for you."

brittanygarden and Rick Durham

jsmit86 and naptime - If you are able to use H715, does the issue mentioned below still exist?
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Sony MDR-3R Walkman USB-C Headphones

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Earth’s New Mini Moon: Meet Asteroid 2026 QQ8

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