First Time Post!
Hello Everyone!
After several months of prodding at each login by the sysops of this site, I decided to finally sit down and write a little bit about me, introduce myself, and say hello!
I have been using this site for a while to answer technical issues with D*TV's HR-23/700, and I have to say that this site is the compendium of all knowledge satellite TV related.
I worked as a D*TV and EchoStar installer for a few years, in addition to my full time job. I liked the work, and often would contract out my services for home theatre installation, which I have become somewhat of an expert.
With the boom of HDTV sales in 2005-2006, I was always booked 5-6 days a week with installations, but then came companies like Geek Squad (which I don't recommend) and other national chains who did the work. I have been called many times by homeowners to come in and fix the problems that the "national chains" didn't address.
Home Theatre has become a bit of a hobby as well, with an emphasis on TiVo related items. My favorite is the D*TV TiVo (Not the R-10), but either the Philips or the Samsung models. I currently have 6 DVR's from D*TV, Four of them being old SD TiVo’s (each with almost 500 hours of storage (with MRV features and TiVo Web), and two HR23/700's, both with 4TB External Storage (RAID Enclosures, giving me more hours of recording than I shall ever need. I also have a stand-along TiVo, but unfortunately it only has an analog tuner. In the last five months, I've acquired the SlingBox Pro HD, which I just love, as I can watch local TV on my BlackBerry.
I want to thank the D*TV CE Program managers here at the site, I waited for almost 8 months before deciding to upgrade to a CE release, because unlike the TiVo, which uses a Linux OS, D*TVs completely proprietary systems truly are a big pain in the neck.