Dish Network Issue's

[KB0VWG]

Well Here's why.
This was pulled from the dish Network site.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 13, 2011 - We are currently experiencing an interruption affecting the 129 orbital satellite location causing an HD signal outage in some areas. We have identified the issue and are working as quickly as possible to get your channels restored. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I am glad I don't work there anymore,and glad I have Directv.
Michael

 

[jim202]

Well Here's why.
This was pulled from the dish Network site.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 13, 2011 - We are currently experiencing an interruption affecting the 129 orbital satellite location causing an HD signal outage in some areas. We have identified the issue and are working as quickly as possible to get your channels restored. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I am glad I don't work there anymore,and glad I have Directv.
Michael

You think Direct TV is any better. Have you really paid much attention to the local TV stations that they carry and the lip sync problem. I do a considerable travel around the country and have seen this in just about all the market areas I have been in. Try watching a local news broadcast and see just how much of a delay there is between the time their lips move and when you hear the sound.

Have talked to many of their customer reps, had the service techs come to my house, had my receiver replaced 3 times. Then they say their broadcast engineers don't see the problem. It must be in my equipment. The service techs tried to blame it on my big screen TV. So I fired up an old TV I just happen to have and ran the signal through a splitter into both TV sets. Guess what, the old TV showed the same problem. Then on the last time they replaced my sat receiver, I find out they now are charging me a monthly rental on the sat receiver box.

Another issue that just ticks me off is their sat receivers don't supply stereo audio on the RF modulated channel 3 or 4 on the F connector feeding the TV. Just how cheap can you get. They tried to tell me it was my TV set. So again I showed them that both sets were showing mono sound. At least before when I had cable, I got stereo sound.

Direct TV must think their customers are all a bunch of stupid people.

Anyone else having any technical issues with their sat provider???

 

[KB0VWG]

You think Direct TV is any better. Have you really paid much attention to the local TV stations that they carry and the lip sync problem. I do a considerable travel around the country and have seen this in just about all the market areas I have been in. Try watching a local news broadcast and see just how much of a delay there is between the time their lips move and when you hear the sound.

Have talked to many of their customer reps, had the service techs come to my house, had my receiver replaced 3 times. Then they say their broadcast engineers don't see the problem. It must be in my equipment. The service techs tried to blame it on my big screen TV. So I fired up an old TV I just happen to have and ran the signal through a splitter into both TV sets. Guess what, the old TV showed the same problem. Then on the last time they replaced my sat receiver, I find out they now are charging me a monthly rental on the sat receiver box.

Another issue that just ticks me off is their sat receivers don't supply stereo audio on the RF modulated channel 3 or 4 on the F connector feeding the TV. Just how cheap can you get. They tried to tell me it was my TV set. So again I showed them that both sets were showing mono sound. At least before when I had cable, I got stereo sound.

Direct TV must think their customers are all a bunch of stupid people.

Anyone else having any technical issues with their sat provider???

So you are saying all people that have Directv are stupid???????
I have had Directv for 15 Years and not a single issue, except for when its stormy.
Maybe the user has issues?

 

[prcguy]

DirecTV is head and shoulders above cable and #1 ranked for all pay TV services according to all the major rating services. So if your not happy with DirecTV you can change services and be really upset.
prcguy

You think Direct TV is any better. Have you really paid much attention to the local TV stations that they carry and the lip sync problem. I do a considerable travel around the country and have seen this in just about all the market areas I have been in. Try watching a local news broadcast and see just how much of a delay there is between the time their lips move and when you hear the sound.

Have talked to many of their customer reps, had the service techs come to my house, had my receiver replaced 3 times. Then they say their broadcast engineers don't see the problem. It must be in my equipment. The service techs tried to blame it on my big screen TV. So I fired up an old TV I just happen to have and ran the signal through a splitter into both TV sets. Guess what, the old TV showed the same problem. Then on the last time they replaced my sat receiver, I find out they now are charging me a monthly rental on the sat receiver box.

Another issue that just ticks me off is their sat receivers don't supply stereo audio on the RF modulated channel 3 or 4 on the F connector feeding the TV. Just how cheap can you get. They tried to tell me it was my TV set. So again I showed them that both sets were showing mono sound. At least before when I had cable, I got stereo sound.

Direct TV must think their customers are all a bunch of stupid people.

Anyone else having any technical issues with their sat provider???

 

[prcguy]

I forgot to mention, they used to feed ch 3 and 4 from satellite boxes back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Why don't you upgrade your TV to something with HD and HDMI cables and enjoy the full potential of DirecTV.
prcguy

You think Direct TV is any better. Have you really paid much attention to the local TV stations that they carry and the lip sync problem. I do a considerable travel around the country and have seen this in just about all the market areas I have been in. Try watching a local news broadcast and see just how much of a delay there is between the time their lips move and when you hear the sound.

Have talked to many of their customer reps, had the service techs come to my house, had my receiver replaced 3 times. Then they say their broadcast engineers don't see the problem. It must be in my equipment. The service techs tried to blame it on my big screen TV. So I fired up an old TV I just happen to have and ran the signal through a splitter into both TV sets. Guess what, the old TV showed the same problem. Then on the last time they replaced my sat receiver, I find out they now are charging me a monthly rental on the sat receiver box.

Another issue that just ticks me off is their sat receivers don't supply stereo audio on the RF modulated channel 3 or 4 on the F connector feeding the TV. Just how cheap can you get. They tried to tell me it was my TV set. So again I showed them that both sets were showing mono sound. At least before when I had cable, I got stereo sound.

Direct TV must think their customers are all a bunch of stupid people.

Anyone else having any technical issues with their sat provider???

 

[kb0nly]

DirectTV and DISH both suck so why argue??

They can't compete price wise with my cable tv, and my cable tv doesn't go out every time a cloud passes over. I had both, neither of them were what i could call reliable or inexpensive. Sure they start at $30 a month, but after the first year your paying like $100 a month or more. I get cable and internet for $100 a month and my tv doesnt go out like my neighbors when a rain cloud passes.

 

[prcguy]

That's completely opposite from around here. Cable is crap and goes out all the time and the same lineup cost more than satellite. Clouds, even fat grey ones should not take out the satellite services, only heavy rain will cause any picture breakup if the system is operating properly. It sounds like your dish may not have been aligned properly. Check out the customer satisfaction for cable around the country compared to DirecTV, its not a trivial difference.
prcguy

DirectTV and DISH both suck so why argue??

They can't compete price wise with my cable tv, and my cable tv doesn't go out every time a cloud passes over. I had both, neither of them were what i could call reliable or inexpensive. Sure they start at $30 a month, but after the first year your paying like $100 a month or more. I get cable and internet for $100 a month and my tv doesnt go out like my neighbors when a rain cloud passes.

 

[MtnBiker2005]

[Some more info on these links:]

https://twitter.com/#!/dish_answers

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/266485-129-complete-signal-loss.html

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Dish-Suffers-Major-Outage-116104

 

[prcguy]

The Dish satellite having trouble is a very complex and unique one having over 80 spot beams to get their local channels into the specific local areas. I don't believe they have an in orbit spare for that one.

I'm just speculating but believe they spent the night moving channels between their other satellites and remapping their program guide to point the customer receivers to the new channel locations. They would be finding camping spots for the must have channels and possibly walking away from a huge amount of lesser value channels.

If the spacecraft is broken and they have no in orbit spare, they have a really big problem. I wonder what Dish stock is doing now?
prcguy

 

[JeremyB]

The Dish satellite having trouble is a very complex and unique one having over 80 spot beams to get their local channels into the specific local areas. I don't believe they have an in orbit spare for that one.

I'm just speculating but believe they spent the night moving channels between their other satellites and remapping their program guide to point the customer receivers to the new channel locations. They would be finding camping spots for the must have channels and possibly walking away from a huge amount of lesser value channels.

If the spacecraft is broken and they have no in orbit spare, they have a really big problem. I wonder what Dish stock is doing now?
prcguy

So Dish Network and Wild Blue are both owned by Echolink? I knew that Dish was and suspected that Wild Blue was too due to some of the content of the Dish website, and I had read on the dslreports forum of Wild Blue using spot beams.

I never had any real problems with Dish or Direct TV and my hughesnet has only had 1 problem in the 4 years I've had it when there wasn't a large thunderstorm around and that was on Sunday. My normal reception is 64 or so and it dropped to 16 in the afternoon, it only lasted 1/2 hour and was back up to 64 and I have no clue what happened as there weren't many clouds

 

[prcguy]

Echolink is a ham radio VoIP service, you must be thinking of Echostar, which was the parent company of Dish Network but not affiliated in any way to WildBlue Internet service, which is owned by ViaSat.
prcguy

So Dish Network and Wild Blue are both owned by Echolink? I knew that Dish was and suspected that Wild Blue was too due to some of the content of the Dish website, and I had read on the dslreports forum of Wild Blue using spot beams.

I never had any real problems with Dish or Direct TV and my hughesnet has only had 1 problem in the 4 years I've had it when there wasn't a large thunderstorm around and that was on Sunday. My normal reception is 64 or so and it dropped to 16 in the afternoon, it only lasted 1/2 hour and was back up to 64 and I have no clue what happened as there weren't many clouds

 

[jack103]

FIOS need I say anymore,the above services are nothing more than outdated rubbish!

 

[GB1952]

Im a going back to over the air and a dvd player AFTER ALL OF THIS

 

[KMG54]

A c-band dish and a over the air antenna and you will have the best video possible and all for free! Tons of sports feeds and news feeds all network tv, rtv. this tv, me tv and hundreds of other channels all avaolable by buying a $120 dollar reciever and hunting down a c-band dish that someone wants out of their yard.

 

[W2NJS]

FIOS: As the old joke goes, 300 channels and still nothing "on."
But seriously:
No shutdown of the data cable when the storm clouds gather, like DSL always did, loads of HD channels, and a DVR, plus telephone service, all for $85 per month for two years, which will go to about $125 per month after that. Prior to FIOS I was paying about $110 per month for two copper phone lines and DSL, so now for $25 less I get phone, high speed internet (25/25), and excellent cable TV plus a DVR. No second phone line but of course we have cell phones if ever needed.

 

[RayAir]

I was trying to watch a Tigers game on FSN Detroit HD and it had a screen saying "complete signal loss" and had a list of instructions to try to rectify the problem. I never saw that screen before. So I ended up watching the game in standard def.

 

[prcguy]

I have unlimited access to C and Ku feeds and just about every receiver currently available. There is nothing available for free that would make me want to sit down and watch TV, everything good is encrypted and if its not, its ho-hum, boring.
prcguy

A c-band dish and a over the air antenna and you will have the best video possible and all for free! Tons of sports feeds and news feeds all network tv, rtv. this tv, me tv and hundreds of other channels all avaolable by buying a $120 dollar reciever and hunting down a c-band dish that someone wants out of their yard.

 

[Hirschkorn]

I was gonna say we had a 6 dish when I was a kid and they started to scramble/ encrypt this back then. i have now dish network I have yet to have a issue , well ok my 1 year old reprogrammed every thing in to some Yiddish or some thing lol. But other wise no issues. Maybe I'm just lucky.

I have unlimited access to C and Ku feeds and just about every receiver currently available. There is nothing available for free that would make me want to sit down and watch TV, everything good is encrypted and if its not, its ho-hum, boring.
prcguy

 

[KMG54]

I have unlimited access to C and Ku feeds and just about every receiver currently available. There is nothing available for free that would make me want to sit down and watch TV, everything good is encrypted and if its not, its ho-hum, boring.
prcguy

Reread my post. I said for the best video possible. Master feeds will make your pizza dish look like rabbitt ears geting a anolog signal. I still sub my 4DTV and anolog beats my digital cable by a bunch. If you have access to feeds I would like to see your comparison of a ABC mpeg4 feed from G16 compared to your Direct tv signal. I am looking at it uncrompressed in it's true form compared to stuffing it on one transponder with 20 other channels.

 

[mtindor]

Well Here's why.
This was pulled from the dish Network site.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 13, 2011 - We are currently experiencing an interruption affecting the 129 orbital satellite location causing an HD signal outage in some areas. We have identified the issue and are working as quickly as possible to get your channels restored. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I am glad I don't work there anymore,and glad I have Directv.
Michael

I'm glad you don't work there anymore either, and I'm glad I have Dish Network

Mike