The “Break it Down” Blog

Missing HD Channels on Dish Network from Satellites 119 and 129?

Are you a Dish Network customer with missing HD channels like TBS HD (139) and TLC HD (183) because every time you tune to them your tuner box pops up the Signal Aquisition dialog box that scans all the Transponders for that given Satellite? Me too. In my case, I have the Turbo HD package from Dish [...]

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UPDATE: Samsung LNT-xx71f Dead Pixel Panel Replacement

You might have caught our coverage at the end of May of the seeming problem Samsung was having with their LNT-xx71f (LNT-5271F specifically) panels having dead pixels popup out of the clear blue after a few months of use. One of the readers, TiVoHD, pointed out that it’s a known issue and referred to as “delamination”. [...]

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Mitsubishi WD-65831 “Air Flow” Problem

Readers of the blog first started reporting the problem in this thread. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but now I’m on the 4th day of my TV turning itself off because of “Air Flow”. Following my First Incident with getting a replacement and now this White Blooming issue going on I’m [...]

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