The OFFICIAL DISH / HBO Thread
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Hmm... let's put it to a vote to see which name people like better. (Anything to keep this thread active, so Dish will be tricked into thinking that people still care about HBO.)
I like it. Their mascot could be the Pinky & the Brain character The Caped Opossum.
Can’t use an opossum. That would be bad marketing. Not many people have heard of a Pademelon, and once they looked it up... being smaller than a wallaby(or Wally), it fits in line with the marsupial name and is marketable, plus being a small USB device to bring an additional service, Pademelon is perfect.
That was my mother's favorite saying.
No, wait.... that was "sh*t fire!".
My mistake.
Hey we're still doing a 622 and 211k, but more and more are on fire stick or Tivo so E* is becoming more irrelevant ... watching more from the subs on sticks etc than from E* or D*, getting HBO from my D* sub and the sticks.
With so many other choices available, who even cares about HBO. With Prime and Netflix, I cannot watch all the programs that I want to watch now.
I looked at the new Disney+ service and it was so large and deep I bought a year as it will take me at least that long to go through the best.
I have been subscribing to HBO for awhile though Amazon Prime, but I don't watch it anywhere near as much as I did on Dish. It is a case of "out of sight, out of mind." Shows that I would have watched almost immediately on my DVR now go months before I watch them on the app, if at all. With Bill Maher on a break for awhile, it may be time for me to take a long hiatus.
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Filling in the gap...
Now we know what channels 303 and 304 will be used for. They are the new homes of the Holiday Yule Logs.
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Now we know what channels 303 and 304 will be used for. They are the new homes of the Holiday Yule Logs.
Uplink Activity Updates » Blog Archive » 11/20/19 at 3:20pm ET (v27) – 66 changes seen
Yule Logs are now available! 
Okay, now this is funny. Earlier, I tried using Alexa to change the channel on the Hopper Duo to the Classic Yule Log by saying "Alexa, go to channel 304 on Bedroom 1." The Hopper Duo changed to the correct channel, but Alexa responded "Tuning to three-hundred-four, HBO2 Pacific on Dish. This is Deadwood the Movie" while the screen is showing a burning log. Somehow, that seemed kind of appropriate. 
Seriously, though, it is terrible that after all this time, Alexa still thinks that HBO is on these channel numbers on Dish, especially since it breaks the functionality of the On Demand Menu (channel 300) and Netflix (channel 302) whenever I try to use Alexa to change to those channel numbers. This issue really needs to be fixed.
Seriously, though, it is terrible that after all this time, Alexa still thinks that HBO is on these channel numbers on Dish, especially since it breaks the functionality of the On Demand Menu (channel 300) and Netflix (channel 302) whenever I try to use Alexa to change to those channel numbers. This issue really needs to be fixed.
Possibly because the programmers for Alexa, bever thought to change this, thinking it would be a temporary dispute or having no knowledge at all of the Dish/HBO dispute which is most likely the case.
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Disagree. Don’t see it coming back at all. There’d be absolutely no point to it. For either company.
Still, now that Dish is using these channel numbers for something else, that means that every time Alexa users attempt to tune to these channels, they are being treated to an advertisement for "HBO on Dish," a service that is no longer available. So, you would think that Dish would make sure to alert the Alexa programmers that this needs to be changed, in order to avoid getting phone calls from customers wanting to order HBO.
It is even worse when attempting to use Alexa to go to channel 300, the new home of the On Demand Menu. I just tested this by saying "Alexa, channel 300 on Bedroom 1." Alexa responds by saying "Tuning to three-hundred, HBO HD on Dish. This is Little. It looks like you are not subscribed to this channel. To change your programming package, go to the Dish website." Obviously, going to the Dish website is not going to help anyone order HBO, so this is going to result in online chats from confused customers.
Some people may solely choose DirecTV over Dish because they have HBO and Cinemax, or at least have DirecTV to get HBO and Cinemax in the free three-month preview when they first sign up with the service. So yes, there is a point.
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