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True, unless you consider Bigfoot skiing through the middle of town silly.

Well there sort of is, I recorded the 199 version. But it was mostly just a rehash of last year with very little changed or updated. So let this be the comment.

The new November Thanksgiving DishScape 199 has a farm scene with a stream running through the middle of it, a vegetable garden to the left, and a cornucopia picnic table to the right. initialize Brother_day; begin_scene: Cats and dogs are friends; Turkeys do a conga line...

Watched the new November streamed DishScape on 198 and saw a couple of interesting things. It’s a snowy vintage ski town (1950s ish as per the cars) with a main street that looks up the mountain ski slopes. To the left is a building that, if you squint real hard, is labeled the “Bigfoot...

1 minute early and 3 minutes late.

Here is a H3 bug still in H383 that I haven’t seen reported yet. It seemed to have started around H380 or a bit before, I’m not exactly sure when it started. If you have live video paused and buffered, and the pause crosses the time boundary when a new recording is to start, the buffered video...

Is it always the same patterns?

That’s largely a function of having updated LNBAs to block convert to a identical frequency range for a common receiver. But after that there are other minor differences to take into account: channel bandwidth considerations, channel order, possible data encoding scheme differences, etc. I...

My apologies if my simplified description left some confusion. Before I try to answer your question, let me give you a brief overview of MPEG-4 video compression. The MPEG-4 standard is huge with only a part of it dealing with video compression, so I will only describe the compression part...

It’s not a matter of having a data buffer. Rather, it’s how the data in the data buffer gets to the hard drive for recording. Move data is a very CPU intensive operation; tight loops to move the data one word at a time, and that means the CPU can’t be doing anything else. Using the CPU like this...

My guess is that it’s a hardware implementation issue of the H3. Likely there is some kind of HW assist to move the satellite data directly to the hard drive Independent of the H3 CPU. And that HW assist is likely hardwired tailored for just satellite data as streaming data was never conceived...

Planning on going somewhere?

None of the streaming channels are currently recordable. It was rumored in another thread awhile back (don’t remember which one) that the ability to record streaming channels was coming later this year. But we’ll have to see.

At first I was also shocked and saddened by this. But when you go look at NASA+, it looks better than I was expecting. Everything is in either HD or 4k (as opposed currently NASA TV is only SD). And it all streams on demand, or stream repeated live events. So there is no need to be slave to a...

Let’s start a new acronym, SAFE (Spouse Acceptance Factor Equation). It Allows you to always make the “safe” choice.

The WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is always a key and important part of the equation. (Or maybe to update it a bit, SAF (Spouse Acceptance Factor)

Dooo! Reading comprehension. Thanks Bobby.

What orbital slot is 11 in?

I also got 376 last night. The first thing I noticed is that in the “schedule” tab (that shows the up coming recordings) the “show skipped” preference got reenabled. I always keep that off. This keeps happening with each update (for that last half dozen or so updates). It’s easy to put back, but...

Yes this is correct. As tjboston5676 says, having a power supply that has a higher current rating will make no difference and will work the same (as long as the current rating of the power supply isn’t exceeded). What can make a difference however is have a defective power supply with a thermal...

So I tried out the Dish Anywhere Apple TV app. I am very underwhelmed. The UI is almost nothing like the H3 interface. There are almost no settings for configuring it. For example, you can’t set whether the Guide list goes up of down. And it always in dark mode. Navigation is very clumsy. Yes...

There was a big opps on Dish this morning about 10:30 PDT. While I was watching TV, all of sudden the picture froze, went black, then come back onto a Pay Per View channel. When I went to the guide, there was nothing there except for all the PPV channels and a couple of minor streaming...

Hmmmm…. Like a lot of TV these days, the April Dish Scape may just be a repeat. Yawn.

Last comment on the streaming Bora Bora (Boring Boring) Dish Scape on 198. As I said earlier, the action is pretty minimal. There are beach waves that somehow come from a completely waveless lagoon. The scene goes light, then dark, then light again, and continuously repeats this for some...

The streaming Dish Scape on 198 is Bora Bora. It’s a nice sedate tropical beach scene, but not much happens. I think it could be renamed Boring Boring.