When I turn any television in my house to channel 19, I get the Dish Network symbol floating around with the "press select" underneath it. I don't even Dish Network at my house!! Can someone please explain this to me? I don't even know of anyone around me that has Dish Network either.
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Do you have cable? I understand some DBS companies allow the cable company broadcast rights to some channels, if you're in an apartment building or somewhere where a cable from OTA or cabletv could be shared among tenants someone with Dishnet could be backfeeding signals without a proper trap and it is coming through the cable, and into your TV.
Yes, then it sounds as if someone has Dishnet and is sending it back through a OTA antenna. rebroadcasting their DBS signals.
So are you saying that if someone has Dish Network and also an OTA antenna it rebroadcasts some type of signal?
If it is done incorrectly, yes, that is what I'm saying, remeber though, it could be just through cabletv/coax, since coax can in itself act like an antenna, it is possible they have an inline amp, possibly making it stronger.
What he is saying is someone probably is "back feeding" a signal which is going to another room in their house but also is tied (fed) to their antenna which in turn acts as a broadcast signal.
OMG! That would be hilarious. Can you imagine seeing your television change channels by them self, only to find out your neighbor is using his newly purchased UHF remote to mess with you?
Does the DISH screen saver have a little number "1" or "2" beside the "Press Select to Continue" message? If it's a "2" then it would be from the TV2 output from a dual tuner receiver in dual mode, and if the owner of the tuner doesn't actually have a TV2 hooked up, that would explain why it is always in screensaver mode. In fact, a really easy mistake would be to just hookup the OTA antenna cable to the TV2 out connection, and presto, you'd be broadcasting your TV2 signal to the neighborhood.
