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Ok, I'll start. On another thread telstar_1 posted the above about the early days of LNA, LNBA, LNB, LNBF development progression. And at the end asking about how DPH works; I'd like to know that too. Can anyone give a detailed description on how DPH works?

Nice history, I didn’t know all of that. And I also would love a detail explanation of how DPH works, but I suggest a new thread for that so as to not hijack this thread.

In the olden days, the only name we had was LNA (Low Noise Amplifier). Then block down conversion come along as LNBA (Low Noise BLock converting Amplifier). That’s mostly fallen out of favor, but I still use it out of habit. Both LNB and LNBF are the common acronyms these days. But, no matter...

Aren't there EA territories that can't or conveniently see the WA?

What do you mean by the “label”?

Oh I think it can, but there will likely be real limitations on the number of channels that can be recorded simultaneously. I think the current one-at-a-time recording is just a first step in getting this feature working. Think of it as version 1.0 of this feature. It was simpler to implement...

Sorry for a new thread, but searching didn’t find anything. Back on the old VIP722 recorders, it was possible to setup a manual timer with the title of a show, with no exact show time or channel. That way, whenever that show showed up in the future, regardless of time or channel, it would get...

That’s what I do. I have the phone output from my VOIP adapter in my service closet connected to the old phone lines that go throughout the house. So the VOIP adapter acts just the old POTS phone service we use to have and got rid of. The VOIP companies tell you that their adapters don’t have...

Uhhh… That would be going the wrong way. They should make the Dish Anywhere guide look like the Hopper guide. The guide shouldn’t be made more simplistic and stupider.

Can someone post a quick list of the remaining SD channels?

I know someone would have some real history. Thanks.

Who is that?

Maybe “a three hour tour” would be how long it would take for the skip-forward/backward buttons to start working.

Yes, I understand the implications of the name. But there could have been alternatives. For example, they could have use “Skipper”. That name would have been more directly to the point of skipping commercials. Or how about “Spider” for an obscure MOCA reference. I’m sure we could come up with...

A random question for the new year. Does anyone know how the Hopper got it’s name of “Hopper?

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...