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Everybody,

Dish is moving channels again onto and off from different transponders on 61.5w.

There are only a few of our customers affected, at this point we are going to wait until they are done and then look for the best solution to fix the issue !

Have a great day

Mike

First pictures from the New Casino in the Coco Palm Hotel, Bar, Restaurant and Sports Bar. We have been working for almost 5 days to setup two new dishes, adjust one old dish, install 16 high resolution security cameras, recording equipment, 10 satellite feeds from Dish and DirecTV, eight plasma HDTV’s, add twelve channels into the existing but rewired Hotel Cable Network, Sirus satellite radio for restaurant / bar, casino and sports bar. Amplifiers for sound, HD projector  for the Lazy Frog Bar, Internet access point and a Boxee HDTV media player for Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube and all other live internet apps on HD plasma TV in the sports bar for the customers. Battery backup and surge protection throughout.

When we finished and left, other guys still worked hard to get everything going, the gaming equipment looks great, slots, video, real poker and a high end computerized roulette. This is probably one of the most desirable combination of high end entertainment, gaming, sports bar, restaurant and hotel you can find in CR. The  Coco Palm has it all, this is to our knowledge the second place with HDTV setup for the public right after the Win House. However, the Coco is the first one on the beach !

We like to take this opportunity to say Thank You for all the support and help we had from the Coco Palm team and of course from John !

We really appreciate business like this and will do our best to keep our customer as happy and satisfied as possible !

Pictures here: http://photos.dishcr.com/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=2421832

Thank YOU

Mike

p.s. the pictures to this are taken at night with a resolution camera, we will update those in a couple of weeks when we go back to this location to make some free of  charge adjustments to the system and give some more  training to the Coco Team

Here is THE FIRST SPORTSBAR with HDTV !

Many of our customers have the HD equipment installed but modulated into the cable network for the whole place. They have a HD signal on the receivers, but standard SD on the  TV’s.

The Win House owners did this right, they have four HD signals going to 16 TV’s and a total of 12 satellite feeds into the cable network. They have REAL HDTV in their Bar going, Twitter and FaceBook in HD on the screens, they even have TV’s in the bathrooms !

When we finished the Job, there was still some work to do, but the Win  House Team is confident to have a “Soft Opening” just for the Super Bowl. They have experience in the Bar / Restaurant business and they are doing this thing right ! The place has full A/C, a fantastic sound system, comfortable seating, great deco and 3 TV’s to the outside where you can sit as well and party with your friends.

The 1^st WinHouse is located in the New Momentum commercial center in Curridabat - http://www.facebook.com/TheWinHouse

Here are some pictures: http://photos.dishcr.com/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=2399659 . We will go back there to take some more when the job is done, if you like to see our systems in action, this is the place to go !

This is the new standard for Sports Bars in Costa Rica !

Mike

We are not really going “Green” but we like to accommodate the wishes of our customers as much as possible. This particular gentleman ordered “Green Dishes”, both are “ Martin 300’s” , but he liked them not to be seen or not to stand out as much as our typical white satellite dishes. We have been skeptic about this experiment,  but they turned out really great with fantastic signal strength even in a difficult zone where the customer is located.

The customer is going to plant some trees and other things around to have them even more disappear or blend in as do already.

You might think now, “what’s the big deal ?”, the problem was that a satellite dish cannot get painted on the front without losing signal,   we mixed the resin used to build those with some special green additive to turn the normal white into green.  The results can be seen in out photo section with more pictures.  http://photos.dishcr.com/

TOTAL SUCCESS !

Great Signal and a happy customer

Mike

The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled.  “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."  

Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up  - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause

We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.

#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form.  But when they do, we'll be ready.  Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future, to help us keep this fire going? 

We changed the game this fall, and we're not gonna stop.  $8, $20, every little bit helps. 

13 million strong,

Tiffiniy, Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore... Fight for the Future!


P.S.  China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important:

In the New Yorker:  "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know).
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After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:

‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’"

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(press release is here: https://fightfortheftr.wordpress.com/press-releases/)

January 09, 2012

Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas DISH CEO Joe Clayton introduced our new Whole-Home HD DVR entertainment system, featuring the Hopper and Joey.
The Hopper HD DVR and accompanying small Joey set-top boxes create a whole-home HD DVR entertainment system that lets DISH customers easily record, pause, and play back shows from any room in the home. While most whole-home DVRs do not have the same DVR functionality on every TV, the Hopper and Joey whole-home system offers the same DVR functionality on every TV, letting customers pause, play and rewind both live and recorded HD programs in up to four rooms.

Hopper unit features:

 Three satellite TV tuners

 A two-terabyte hard drive for up to 2,000 hours of video entertainment

 Up to 250 hours of HD or up to 1,000 hours of SD user recordings

 Bluetooth for linking to devices such as wireless headphones

 Picture-in-picture for watching any two channels simultaneously

Combined with a Joey, the Hopper whole-home HD DVR system offers more advanced features:

 750 MHz Broadcom processer – the fastest satellite receiver processor available today for a quick, responsive on-screen guide

 Approximately 50 percent more energy efficient for a four-room installation than previous models

 ZigBee RF4CE using a proprietary protocol remote with “remote control finder” alert

 High definition user interface

 Easy-to-use, fast, graphical, tile-based user interface with predictive search

 Small, sleek chassis for convenient placement

PrimeTime Anytime™

The Hopper’s new, unparalleled feature, PrimeTime Anytime allows customers, with one click, to record using a single tuner all of the primetime TV programming from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC – the networks that deliver the most popular shows during primetime. Once activated by a customer, PrimeTime Anytime records network programming in high definition, where available, every night and stores them for eight days after they have aired. This creates an on-demand library of approximately 100 hours of primetime TV shows, and makes it easy to catch up on episodes from last night and last week’s airing.

Additional Hopper Benefits

 Recording Capabilities: The Hopper can record up to six TV shows at once (two live programs and four PrimeTime Anytime shows) while allowing viewers to watch up to four different recorded or on-demand shows in four rooms of the house, simultaneously. This gives a family a variety of options to control or view their recordings and to watch shows in any room from a single Hopper.

 Blockbuster @Home™: The Hopper’s on-demand capabilities give access to DISH’s Blockbuster @Home™ for $10 per month which is now enhanced with more than 10,000 total titles streaming to the TV.

 Dish Unplugged: The Hopper also offers on-demand content for customers with limited or no Internet access with a feature called DISH Unplugged. This feature delivers via satellite hundreds of the most popular movies and TV shows to the hard drive, including transactional and authenticated videos on demand. DISH Unplugged provides a high quality picture without buffering and makes available many of the same streaming movie choices offered by Blockbuster @Home, including premium movie access.

 SiriusXM: For subscribers of DISH’s America’s Top 120 programming package or greater, the Hopper provides whole-home music distribution from 73 SiriusXM channels, including album art and a unique collapsible list of music channels located at the top of the channel guide at Channel 99, making it faster and easier for SiriusXM music fans to find their favorite music.

 Apps: The Hopper will features TV apps that give viewers real time access to Facebook, Twitter, Pandora and photo sharing, as well as games, news, weather, sports, and stock quotes.

TV Everywhere

Customers can manage the Hopper via the Internet at www.DishOnline.com or the DISH Remote Access app, providing the ability to control DVR recordings on their tablets, smartphones and computers. Connecting the Hopper with DISH’s Sling® Adapter provides customers the ability to watch and control all live TV channels, PrimeTime Anytime programs and the DVR on their computer, tablet or smartphone wherever they go.

we have no pricing info at the moment, but will post as soon as availible !

On Jan. 18th there is going to be an all-out strike on the internet. Websites across the internet are going dark in protest of the internet censorship bills in the U.S.Congress, SOPA and PIPA.

Some of the biggest sites in the world are participating: Reddit, eBay, Google, Amazon, Mozilla. And some others may join (e.g. a leading micro-blogging platform and a popular collaboratively-written encyclopedia), but they need a nudge. If we can get them to join this will be EPIC.

Ask the biggest sites on the internet to join the strike. Click here.

If you're on Facebook or Twitter, please use these links to share this:

 

Thank You!

Language      Channel Name

Arabic               2M TV www

Arabic               Abu Dhabi Sports www

Arabic               Al Alam News www

Arabic               Al Anwar www

Arabic               Al Fayhaa www

Arabic               Al Hayat www

Arabic               Al Kalema www

Arabic               Al Kass www

Arabic               Al Mareef www

Arabic               Al-Forat www

Arabic               Al-Iraqiya www

Arabic               Alkarma TV www

Arabic               Almaghribya TV

Arabic               Arab News Network www

Arabic               Canal Algerie www

Arabic               Coptic TV www

Arabic               Hope Sat TV www

Arabic               Jordan TV www

Arabic               Kuwait TV www

Arabic               Kuwait TV 1 www

Arabic               Kuwait TV 3 www

Arabic               Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting www

Arabic               LLBN Arabic www

Arabic               Logos TV www

Arabic               Middle Eastern American www

Arabic               Palestinian Sat Channel www

Arabic               Payam-E-Afghan TV www

Arabic               Qatar TV www

Arabic               Salaam TV www

Arabic               Saudi Arabian TV 1 www

Arabic               Saudi-Quran

Arabic               Saudi-Sunnah

Arabic               Sharjah TV www

Arabic               Sudanese Space Channel www

Arabic               Sultanate of Oman TV www

Arabic               Syria Drama

Arabic               Syria Satellite Channel www

Arabic               The Truth www

Arabic               The Way www

Arabic               Tunis 7 www

Arabic               Yemen TV

Aramaic           Aramaic Broadcasting Network www

Aramaic           AssyriaSat www

Aramaic           Suroyo TV www

Armenian         AMGA www

Armenian         Armenian/Russian TV Network www

Armenian         USArmenian www

Azerbaijani      Azerbaycan Televiziya www

Chinese            Da-Ai TV 2 www

Chinese            Hwazan Satellite TV www

Chinese            LLBN Chinese www

Chinese            New Tang Dynasty TV www

Dari                   Ariana TV Network www

Dari                   Ariana TV Network www

Dari                   Noor TV www

Dari                   Radio and TV of Afghanistan www

English              3ABN www

English              3ABN Proclaim www

English              Al Jazeera English www

English              Alhubayt TV www

English              Amazing Discoveries www

English              Amazing Facts www

English              Apostolic Oneness Network www

English              Ariana Afghanistan TV www

English              Bible Explorations www

English              Christian TV Network www

English              Christian Youth Channel www

English              Church Channel, The www

English              CNC World www

English              Cornerstone TV www

English              Daystar www

English              Ebru TV www

English              Emmanuel TV www

English              Fashion One www

English              Global Christian Network www

English              God TV www

English              God's Learning Channel www

English              Guide US TV www

English              Hope Channel www

English              Hope Church Channel www

English              House of Yahweh www

English              JCTV www

English              Kingdom of Jesus Christ www

English              Kuwait TV 2 www

English              Life and Health Network www

English              LLBN www

English              Manmin TV www

English              Melli TV www

English              MRTV/ABN www

English              Nigerian TV Authority

English              Press TV www

English              River Broadcasting Network www

English              Russia Today www

English              Saudi Arabian TV 2 www

English              Smart Lifestyle TV www

English              Smile of a Child www

English              SonLife Broadcasting Net www

English              Supreme Master TV www

English              Tele Anacaona www

English              Trinity Broadcasting Network www

English              University Network, The www

English              Word Network, The www

Farsi                  AFN Music Channel www

Farsi                  Ahlebait TV www

Farsi                  Andisheh TV www

Farsi                  Appadana International www

Farsi                  Asre Emrooz www

Farsi                  Channel One TV www

Farsi                  Channel One TV www

Farsi                  Didar Global Plus

Farsi                  E2 Channel www

Farsi                  Ganj e Hozour www

Farsi                  International Program Network www

Farsi                  Iran TV Network www

Farsi                  Iran Zamin TV www

Farsi                  Iranian News Network www

Farsi                  Iranian TV Canada www

Farsi                  Jaam-E-Jam International www

Farsi                  Jame-Jam TV 2 www

Farsi                  National Iranian TV www

Farsi                  Niruye Penhan TV www

Farsi                  Omid-e-Iran www

Farsi                  Pars TV www

Farsi                  Pasha TV www

Farsi                  Persian Bazaar TV www

Farsi                  Persian Entertainment Network www

Farsi                  Persian Music Channel www

Farsi                  Persian Music Channel Family www

Farsi                  Rang-A-Rang TV www

Farsi                  Sada e Afghanistan www

Farsi                  Simay-Azadi www

Farsi                  Simay-Azadi www

Farsi                  Tamasha International Network www

Farsi                  Tapesh TV Network www

Farsi                  Ten TV www

Farsi                  Time TV www

Farsi                  Vatan TV www

French               Office of Radio & TV of Mali www

Italian                Tele Radio Padre Pio www

Italian                Tele Radio Padre Pio www

Italian                Telepace Roma www

Kurdish             Kurdistan TV www

Kurdish             KurdSat

Lao                    Good Idea TV www

Lao                    Lao National TV www

Lao                    Laostar Channel www

Lithuanian         LTV World www

Malayalam        Divine TV www

Portuguese       RTP Internacional America www

Portuguese      TV Cancao Nova Internacional www

Romanian         TVR International www

Russian             Belarus TV www

Russian             CNL www

Russian             Impact TV www

Russian             Rodnoy TV www

Russian             Soyuz TV www

Spanish            3ABN Latino www

Spanish            Bethel TV www

Spanish            Esperanza TV www

Spanish            Nacion TV www

Spanish            TBN enlace www

Thai                  Dhamma Media Channel www

Thai                  MKTV www

Thai                  Nat Lakorn www

Thai                  NAT News www

Thai                  Network of Asian Television www

Thai                  Thai TV Global Network www

Turkish             Markazi TV www

Turkish             Natural TV

Turkish             Samanyolu TV www

Turkish             TRT 1 www

Turkish             TRT 4 www

Turkish             TRT Turk www

Ukranian          Ukranian TV & Radio www

Urdu                Velayat TV www

Urdu                Velayat TV www

Vietnamese     Little Saigon TV www

Vietnamese     Saigon TV www

Vietnamese    Vietnamese Broadcasting Service www

Vietnamese    VTV-4 www

more Arabic spoken channels

Syria Satellite Channel

Abu Dhabi TV Europe

Oman TV Satellite

Al-Iraqiya TV

Saudi Arabian TV 1 Satellite

Qatar TV

Sharjah TV

Al Quran Al Kareem TV

Sudan TV

Jamahirya Satellite Channel

Holy Quran Radio

Emarat FM

Radio Sout Al-Sha'ab (Voice of the People)

El-Bernameg Al-Aam (Main General Program)

Program One

Radio Quran (Saudi Arabia)

Sudanese Radio

Nour Radio

Qatar Radio

Radio Omdurman Holy Koran

Radio Oman

Radio Sout Al-Shbab (Voice of the Youth)

Sharjah FM

Republic of Iraq Radio

Sana'a Radio

Aden Radio

KTV 3

Kuwait Space Channel

Radio Kuwait Main

Holy Quran

Radio 2M

if the channel you are looking for is not listed here, please don't hesitate to contact us and just asked !

Mike

 what happened ?

Over the last couple of days we are getting calls from customers experiencing signal loose on some channels. After checking this issue we found that the dishes are slightly off and need a re-alignment!

So far we have clients asking about ESPN on 72.7w, CBS on 61.5w, B4UM on 61.5w and Univision on 72.7w all in Costa Rica
 

Some customers might not even have noticed this since the signal overall is strong  on our dishes and only certain weak channels are going out earlier than before. I am sure there is still a lot of people out there blaming the weather for the weak signal, but it’s a fact that the signal from some transponders moved.

Something happened, the systems need a small adjustment to get back to normal !

Give us a call, we are happy to help

Mike

+506-8821-8976