No Scott, This is even faster than that; totally ridiculous, in my opinion!
We don't have this problem with our primary remote, in the living room, but this constant interruption of service is for the birds! Claudia ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Howell To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Questions about Satelite Companies If your saying your Dish remote eats batteries, yes, they do and why I have no idea, they eat them about as fast as every two months or so. On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Claudia wrote: > Michael, > > Our remotes are always deprogramming themselves, going through > batteries like crazy, to the point that we can't even watch our > second set, for days at a time. > They have come out several times and reprogrammed our remotes, very > easy, but it's not fair to us. They have replaced our remotes, and > we're stil having the problem. > Tomorrow, we have a tech coming out, and now, they're replacing the > receiver, so we'll see if this makes a difference. > If not, we are changint companies. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Baldwin > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 8:01 AM > Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Questions about Satelite Companies > > no, you can no longer purchase your own receiver, all receivers from > DirecTV > and Dish Network are rented. I guess you might be able to find and > old one > off eBay, but if that person didn't pay there bill, you will have to > pay > that before you can get the receiver activated. > DirecTV does have a Dual-tuner DVR receiver out, very similar to the > Dish > Network one, but I think it is only available with DVR. > What kind of issues are you having with Dish? i have had dish for > about 3 > years now, with no major issues, it just took them 3 weeks to come > out and > re align the dish after we removed it to put our roof on. > Oh, and 99% of the contractors that install Sat TV's system do it > wrong, > your best to deal directly with the company, not a reseller. > Michael > > _____ > > From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > ] > On Behalf Of Claudia > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:32 AM > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Questions about Satelite Companies > > Hi, > > We currently have Dish TV, as our satellite provider, but we've had > nothing > but problems with it, since we got it, 15 months ago. > Prior to that, we had DIRECTV for about 3 years! > > The one thing we like with Dish is that we only have to have one > receiver, > and we have two sets! With DIRECTV, we have to go back to having > two, if we > choose to change back! > > Does anyone know why this might be? > I hate to spend the extra $5 per month, for the leasing of the second > receiver! > Could I purchase my own, but I'm sure I wouldn't reap the benefits > for some > time financially, from its purchase? > Thanks. > > Claudia > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
