By last Thursday night, my guide had fixed itself, the weather was clear and warm, and TV life was fine. (Which is good, because there's no way I can reach the DISH on my two-story roof. I can't even see it clearly.) Until late Monday night (actually, Tuesday), when all the local channels began...

Now, Wednesday night, the guide is wonky again. The guide shows all satellite-based channels as "No signal", but my recordings of the local NBC channel seem to have worked. Right now, when I choose a channel with streaming automatic backup, I get the network stream rather than the satellite...

Everything is back to normal now. And my driveway was just dug out. Happy March!

Between 9:00 and 9:30 pm CST Tuesday night, during the President's unending speech, I lost all my local Twin Cities channels suddenly. On the guide, it looks like I lost all satellite-provided channels. Since my Hopper 3 is connected to my Internet service, I still have all the streaming...

Well, they're new to me. A year ago, I didn't need streaming to get many college soccer games. And it looks like BTN, ACCN, SEC, and ESPNU will still be showing some, not requiring streaming.

OK, the Olympics are over (except for the Paralympics, starting the last week in August), and I'm ready for some fall college sports. (Women's soccer, mostly.) With the consolidation of the college sports conferences like the Big Ten and ACC, and with teams moving all around, I have no idea...

An easier way to find the channels (on my Hopper 3): 146 the DISH App (147 a static screen? telling you where the app is) 148-01 USA 148-02 OLA4K1: mostly USA but in 4K HDR 148-03 PARS1: another Olympics channel 148-04 PARS2: yet another Olympics channel 148-05 E! 148-06...

I was surprised to see how few of the women's soccer matches were being broadcast live. In previous years, NBC Universal used many of its channels to carry live competitions and events. This year, it looks like they moved most of that live coverage to streaming on Peacock. Fortunately, a month...

(Please don't flame at me for what may be a stupid question.) I have a Hopper 3 with Top 250, using DISH Anywhere a lot. I have tried streaming subscriptions with Hulu (still), Paramount+, MAX, Showtime, and Peacock (for Olympics now), but I don't find any of them worth the money. Can anyone...

Me too--same problem with 1 recorded movie. It's okay that I can't watch it, but I need to delete it.

Hooray! Someone (Santa?) somewhere is listening, because yesterday and today tpt channel 2 evening programming has returned to widescreen HD. (At least in the shows I watched.) My thanks and holiday cheer to everyone who contributed here. Have a merry!

I have now confirmed that KTCI, tpt channel 17, is now shown as SD (Standard Definition) on my DISH locals, which explains why its programming appears fuzzy and letter-boxed. I had not noticed that change before--thank you, syphix. But KTCA, tpt channel 2, still shows as HD (High Definition) in...

So DirecTV figured this out while DISH has not?

After some experimentation, I can now report what I see. National PBS programming that fills the widescreen on Lakeland PBS KAWB (channel 22), appears in lower resolution (fuzzy) and boxed on tpt KTCA (channel 2) and KTCI (channel 17). I assume that DISH does some conversion of the incoming...

The timing is about right, October 25th, for your analysis to be correct. But how do the ATSC changes affect DISH local channels? And, is it my imagination that some of the tpt programming that used to fill my 4K (non-HDR) HD widescreen now displays in boxes? Also, the DISH guide for the local...