Posts by antiqueradioman

Last night I switched from my over the air HD feed of Boston Legal on 40/29 to my direct TV feed from new York because the audio on 40/29 was plain stereo and the NY feed was Dolby digital 5.1. Anyone else have that problem?

Thats what I thought. Darn. Sounds like the hardware is capable but the software is not . Maybee someday.

Is it possible to do PIP with the HR20. It in essence has three tuner, 2 sat and 1 OTA. You can record on two and watch the third. Seems like more than enough HP is there. Can't find anything about PIP in the manual. Was rather...

The Zinwell WB616 will cascade. Two of them will get you to 24 drops

Test channel 490 is intermittent on a system a friend has. 6x 8 multi switch, 3 recievers all D20, 5 LNB slimline dish. Problem comes and goes. All the other test channels work fine. 490 is the odd transponders on sat 101 I think. I am...

Is there a list somewhere that lists which channels on Direct tv are on which voltage (13 volt, 18 volt, 22 KHZ, etc) and which LNB on the 5 LNB slim line dish are used for each. I have several channels that are gone. D* says it is my...

Thanks. I figured we all needed a little comic relief and as anyone around my office can tell you I am the comic in need of relief.

Am I correct that the 103b sat has (or will have ) all the new stuff. I am getting 95 and above on all those transponders. And 103a is the spot beams for locals in HD, getting little if any signal on those. I also read somewhere about an...

I was just told by a CSR that the boloflactor overloaded the hypernator drive on the turboencabulator and caused the spurving bearings to misalign. As soon as they write a python script and upload to the moxi eprom and reflash the entire...

Sounds like a software glitch of some sort. Have we all been screwed by Microsoft again.