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    Any update on PBS???

    I don't understand this whole no PBS in HD thing. Can someone summerize in a nutshell? Deadline, why would there be a deadline? I thought there was some FCC rule about stations being offered in SD had to be offered in HD if available at no charge, obviously this is not so (Dish & disney...
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    Items stored on an external HD

    Never owned any of the HD Tivos, but the SD ones did indeed encrypt the shows. The encryption however was broken and tools are readily available to strip the encryption. I am actually quite surprised that nobody has broken the encryption on the DISH external disk. Oops, gotta go, there is a...
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    Dish Commercials Very LOUD!

    LOL, I was thinking the same thing, sounds a lot easier than all that demultiplexingfragilistics...
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    Palladia gone from Dish SD lineup, 158 replaced with a slate.

    Yes, being a new subscriber I even have a laminated channel card listing from them with it. Perhaps it will become a valuable collectors item some day...;)
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    Consumers Dropping Pay TV Services

    Well, I have a history of being wrong on streamed video, so take this with a grain of salt..... The limiting factor here is bandwidth to the home. I am 'lucky' to be able to get 3Mb DSL. Based on my experience with Netflix, this is enough to get ONE stream that is perhaps 480p quality. My...
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    Rail Fade and DVR Recording

    Just had Dish installed about 2 weeks ago and the tech said once the DVR records an episode of a show, it will never record the exact same episode again. So last night we had a major rainstorm and I had rain fade during a recording. The partial recording is on the DVR, will it rerecord this...
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    Is Fuse Coming Back Since they Launched AMCHD

    I agree. In the year I had it in HD, I found after 6 months I had watched most everything I wanted, perhaps one concert would show up a month that I wanted. For some reason, I still lament for HD palladia, but I'm not paying $10/month to go to platinum for it.