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Cowtowney

Posted on 09/13/2011 7:04:34 PM PDT by cowtowney

Anyone experiencing outage on their Dish Network?


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cable; dish; dishnetwork; dishtv; television
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To: papasmurf

I’m having trouble recording a show but switching to a different channel at the same time.


41 posted on 09/13/2011 9:00:46 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: Round 9

I’ve always had problems doing that or trying to do it anyways. lol So I resorted to doing it my own way.

I have 3 sets on Dish. One of them has a PC connected to it, and a shared 1 TB hard drive. All wireless. I use VLC to stream from the shared hard drive to any connected PC. Which is nice since we have a PC or Laptop in every room. Of course, I can burn the content and play it on either of the other TV sets in the house, as well. Very reliable.


42 posted on 09/13/2011 9:27:12 PM PDT by papasmurf (I support Palin & Perry, singular or plural & I pledge to vote (R), regardless.)
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To: cowtowney

That rumor isn’t new...ask Larry Sinclair.


43 posted on 09/13/2011 9:33:13 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Huck
TV sucks.

No surprise. It went from local markets to cable to home dishes faster than anyone could stuff all that bandwidth with anything worth watching. There is probably enough relatively good programming out there for a half-dozen channels, scattered among 200+, unless you are into sports heavily, and then it cycles every few hours and repeats.

Frankly, I couldn't care less about people who get paid huge sums of money for bouncing, throwing, or hitting a ball, so I just keep a little better than basic cable to see the odd movie. Most of what is on cable is dreck, too.

44 posted on 09/13/2011 9:39:38 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: cowtowney

All my HD channels are off line.


45 posted on 09/13/2011 9:41:09 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: cowtowney

Not in Las Vegas.


46 posted on 09/13/2011 9:59:00 PM PDT by UncommonJudge (Captions on for the hearing impaired.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

My HD channels returned about 7pm Central and we’ve had no problems since.


47 posted on 09/13/2011 10:12:47 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

That’s not the case nationwide with those who get much of their HD from the 129 satellite.


48 posted on 09/13/2011 10:15:24 PM PDT by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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To: John W

129w is currently having issues but should be resolved by Wednesday.

And for all of you that complained about “rain fade” on your sat setup, you dish wasn’t peaked correctly.

Most of these installers are paid by the job, so if they get a decent signal, they tighten down the dish and don’t peak it properly for an optimal signal.

Remember, that dish is catching a signal from a sat 22,500 miles away, and if the mounting post is not 100% plumb, and the Dish not 100% aligned, you will get rain fade.

I’ve subbed to both providers over the past 15 years and only lost signal for a few minutes in a massive hail storm.

If you’re losing your signal in rain, even heavy rain, your dish is not correctly peaked.

I can install and aim a dish just by looking at the position of the Sun.


49 posted on 09/13/2011 10:35:07 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield ("President Obama blames ________ for his inability to _____.")
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To: Smokin' Joe
That's a good point about all the time to fill. Plus you remember when cable first came out? Wasn't it commercial free? That was part of the point of paying for it. It had no commercials, it was unedited, and you got movies you couldn't get elsewhere.

Now, it has commercials but you still pay for it, the movies are often times edited for television, and you can get the same movies elsewhere.

That's why I cancelled my tv a couple years back. It's worthless. I pay 8.99 for netflix streaming, and if there's a new movie I want to see (very rare), I go to redbox.

50 posted on 09/14/2011 5:24:35 AM PDT by Huck (If you are in a union, then bow to your COMMIE masters.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

My library has a decent collection of DVDs also. And no, I dont need to watch sports either. I am a Mariano Rivera fan, but reading the box score is enough for me. If I REALLY wanted to watch, I’d go to a local saloon.


51 posted on 09/14/2011 5:26:28 AM PDT by Huck (If you are in a union, then bow to your COMMIE masters.)
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