Recent content by telstar_1

Nobody wants to attend a "fix things and start to wind them down" tech & business convention. Rather, they want to see presentation of new greener pastures.

Especially with the attached conditions. But he was the golden boy of that age.

But at bottom, who would really want the "asset" of DiSH (or of now DiSH-re-merged Echostar? At the end of the day, Charlie's simply stuck with it, bankruptcy or no.

Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but what I see is a tsunami of crap. It's basically that or sports, which is a crapstorm all of its own. Forget Newton Minow, the "vast wasteland" is more applicable today than ever. I'd ask here what's good to check out, but much or most of what gets...

Greed is as old as mankind and included in the "deadly sins". To say that "greed is good," as per one famous movie line from the 80s, reduces it to simple profit motivation that drives capitalist economies, when in reality it's more complex- it's ultimately corrosive to commerce and usually...

Maybe they could "deal with it" like DiSH, DTV and some of the cables did, by paying people to switch to them on a 2-year contract.

Those could be combined.

Are they required to put on small independent broadcast stations under "must carry"?

At least they won't be updating the 722.

I would suppose that streaming will become more seamless as it becomes more mainstreamed. Maybe. With cable/sat, you can literally turn it on and then just step through all of your available channels, or short list thereof. If you add streaming you have to switch from the sat remote to the TV's...

Or else a combined service would need to operate dual systems. Did they merge because they were losing subs? Back in the day, there were separate VHF & UHF "markets"- with just 12 VHF channels (no ch.1) and need to not slot adjacent in same area, the bigger urbs which were assigned slots first...

That would drive me crazy. My 722 is virtually instantaneous.

Streaming will be the next senior seminar deal. 722 here as well. Uninterested in hopper, which probably contributed to my getting out of satellite dealing. My focus was on whole-house systems where there didn't need to be a receiver box at every TV set, or at any set.

If they were really hobbyists there remains plenty to play with as far as satellite beyond the DBS duopoly. Simply, they probably really weren't. There's always the impetus toward newer is better. DBS is now old hat while streaming is the new shiny object. The anecdote about the beginnings of...

Is this their original HQ, or like when did they buy it? At TS98 (the first one) we toured their then executive HQ they'd set up in a dead shopping mall.