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  1. DIRECTV General Discussion
    DirecTV please give me a package that excludes the Viacom stations for less money. I now pay more for a few hours of TV each week than for phone and Internet combined. I am looking for an alternative... So I do not want a dime of my money going to Viacom in this situation. Sure I watch some...
  2. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I posted that I'd pay, but that I'd drop at least one premium channel. I dropped them all today. The reason? This stuff is just starting to add up ... I'm already way over my threshold for what I'd consider reasonable.
  3. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I decided to give it one more shot. Had to turn on the charm/psychology/Jedi mind tricks this time, by saying "ok, I'm playing CSR roulette, but I know that some of you know about this." She started out saying I needed DECA too, but then decided to just give it a try. It worked. Both of us...
  4. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Ok, I am really ticked off now. This might be the end of my relationship with D*. Nickel and dime me, for another $3, and now this... First agent I spoke with said no problem, but wouldn't follow the instructions I read off. He said "I've done this before." Said it was all set... and then...
  5. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Doug's point was only that this didn't have anything to do with new features. The issue likely had nothing to do with the software in the boxes... Maybe your point is that resources should be diverted from building new features to making things more fault tolerant. Fair -- but I think we're...
  6. DIRECTV General Discussion
    All this conversation is why CEO's make millions. One mistake, probably a judgement call months or years back, and everybody gets fired up. Who wants that stress? We do it to ourselves. People are human. Companies are made up of people. Bad things happen; burning them at the stake before...
  7. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Good catch, my HR20-700 thinks the same. My HR21-100 seems ok, oddly enough.
  8. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I don't totally get why this is such a huge debate, other than the fact that it is poorly explained, in general, and poorly understood. Drop the "i" vs. "p" as it doesn't matter with most modern displays. An interlaced picture is de-interlaced on most modern televisions, before it gets...
  9. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Ok, at the risk of sounding foolish... (and with the desire to learn from the experts). Doesn't 720p give you 60 fps, while 1080i is basically only 30 fps? If that's the case, I'd think that you would want your set to work with the 720p resolution whenever the content is transmitted that way...
  10. DIRECTV Programming
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :new_sleep :new_sleep :new_sleep (After staying up all day and night for more than a week, making sure I didn't miss the second they turned them on, this is my way of saying "we got 'em!" Unfortunately, I'm now too exhausted to spend any time watching the new channels)! :D
  11. DIRECTV General Discussion
    +1 9300 not purchased, 9301 ok.
  12. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I have a pilot's license, and my experience in flying (granted, I'm not an airline pilot) also says no two planes would hit the spot accurarately enough, often enough. ATC rules typically require 1000 ft vertical separation at lower altitudes, and more than that horizontally (I think 2000 in...
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    This discussion probably isn't about DirecTV, but I can't resist... I'll try and tie it back in. I'm in software (was a devloper, now more of a manager), and I've heard similiar (maybe a bit less abrasive) gripes about he industry, both from programmers and non-programmers (Vista, the fact that...
  14. DIRECTV General Discussion
    NGC on 9300...!
  15. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Picture in HD, too! (well, 16:9 anyway).
  16. DIRECTV General Discussion
    88 in Denver, CO (103b/11 only). Weather here in Vegas is clear, but I don't think that's a factor (Slingbox). Weather in Denver is reported as overcast.
  17. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I think the forum just happens to be where the most passionate and knowledgeable customers are, and we expect more, so we tend to share more stories and complain more. I think this is part of what the site is for, though -- it's not supposed to be a 24x7 pep rally for D*. I have had some GREAT...
  18. DIRECTV General Discussion
    It was a corporate chain (he was a manager, not owner), so I doubt that more than I would if it were a privately owned deal (it wasn't a franchise -- literally a corporate store). I honestly think this was a blackout screwup -- I've heard D* does that alot. I wonder how that works... I have...
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I worked on a billing system for a company that owned several networks, years ago. The billing system was to charge cable MSO's and DirecTV for network access. So I can confirm the CNN on 202 thing is highly likely to be related to pricing. The organization I worked for had billing rules...
  20. DIRECTV General Discussion
    One thing I still wonder about is the sports blackouts. I heard from a bar manager that his establishment paid for a "blackout override" of some kind, and that he was sure he could get a game that I couldn't. It certainly worked -- my GamePlan had my game blacked out, but I went down there...
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