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08-12-2007, 03:42 PM
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Just got my DirecTV HD upgrade. I expected one of the following dishes to replace my non-HD dish:
But the Slimline isn't available in Hawaii, so I ended getting two huge ass white dishes (one for HD, the other for regular)...my roof looks like a frickin' TV broadcast station.
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08-12-2007, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
Just got my DirecTV HD upgrade. I expected one of the following dishes to replace my non-HD dish:
But the Slimline isn't available in Hawaii, so I ended getting two huge ass white dishes (one for HD, the other for regular)...my roof looks like a frickin' TV broadcast station. |
A Pacific Buckeye listening post?
Yep, the 2 dish need, that is also true for D* in Alaska as well.
So do they look like these - but with a DirecTV logo?
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08-12-2007, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
my roof looks like a frickin' TV broadcast station.
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I guess your house could look worse. 
Run-down house in West Virginia: $35,000
12 satellite dishes for said house: under a grand
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08-12-2007, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by sandgk
Yep, the 2 dish need, that is also true for D* in Alaska as well.
So do they look like these - but with a DirecTV logo?
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Very similar, but flat white with no logo and the heads are a little different...
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08-13-2007, 05:25 AM
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DDN
BTN likely to be cast off as quick as ESPNU
By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer
Monday, August 13, 2007
Last October, the Ohio State football team hosted Indiana in a relatively nondescript midseason Big Ten game. But it became hugely important to Buckeyes fans when the game was broadcast only on ESPNU, a station to which cable subscribers didn't have access.
All that week, we ran lists of sports bars and restaurants in the paper that would be showing the game, which ended up a 44-3 rout.
Cont...
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08-13-2007, 10:58 AM
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