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    Red carpet service

    That's going to be the "old" 500 dish (110/119) that came out in 1998 but with the newest LNBF to handle all the newest rx's. I think the signal might be a bit better without the added 3rd slot. The 1000 dish was just a bit small for its job and 129 was weak to begin with, so by time you got...
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    Red carpet service

    Reason why they "automatically" set you up as leased gear is as the installer said, very rare for inception with owned gear. Not sure what is meant by "oval" dishes as all are ovular. If you got a 1000.2 it would have a triple-feed LNBF. As was mentioned, not needed anymore since no 129, but...
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    But there's a difference between a call-in outcome and a call-in experience. You could have a bad experience, with hold time, language barrier, lack of knowledgeability and maybe a lack proper structuring or willingness to hand you off to more knowledgeable and actionable staff, but then despite...
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    The RSNs were created, one after the other after the next, on the premise of milking the public harder & harder for sports revenues. They were put into basics packages so everyone could share in producing the sports revenues, whether they wanted any sports or not, and many have consequently cut...
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    Dish cd channels

    Why would they have their audio ch's on spotbeam?
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    relocating

    What was your first system?
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    The FCC Listened to You — NextGenTV DRM Is In the Hot Seat

    Why would they put those commercials in movie theaters rather than, well, on TV?? Come to think of it, the movies didn't even have commercials back then
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    Couldn't you do something like starlink and ditch all other ISP and linear tv?
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    relocating

    No one could "be with DiSH for >30 years". Service inception occurred in 1996.
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    I support his logic that it's a different and separate service. As he said, if he would consume no tv, he would still have it, like electricity. It's a utility.
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    I haven't heard much (or anything) about internet-access (only) subs getting hiked every year like with cable/sat tv service providers. As far as I would know, by far most have unlimited data or effectively so for the average home consumption. Also this is a service that people are going to have...
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    It may finally be time to say Good Bye

    Or rather, coax swaps?
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    It may finally be time to say Good Bye

    Is switching back & forth DTV/DiSH every 2 years still a thing?
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    Forum rules

    A smile is just a frown turned upside down....
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    Move a dish about 15 feet...

    But does the foam collapse when pressured...? I don't know of any approaching a lateral-force strength of concrete, despite claims. If it could give way whatsoever, once there would become any freeplay it would soon be all over. Have been any cases of failed foam posts? By flattening out the...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    So this says they lost 28% of audience just in Q4? And that they're responding to linear tv losses by cutting back on gaming?
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    Cable nostalgia persists as streaming gets more expensive, fragmented

    What about broadcast? There's no nostalgia for that?
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    Move a dish about 15 feet...

    But then what's actually holding the post? Just this expanded foam? At least with my method, there is direct contact with tight soil. Granted my method wouldn't work where there's a lot of sand or rock. But I grew up driving fence posts with a post driver- if that's good enough to hold cattle...
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    If it's streaming (firestick), it has an internet connection, no?
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    they're not using indian callcenters anymore?
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    It's all a racket, ESPecially the sports. They simply think they have a captive audience of sports addicts. I love to see this, people cutting the cord because they're forced to buy packages that are perpetually hiking mainly due to sports content. The cord cutting only causes providers to hike...
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    Move a dish about 15 feet...

    I just smashed the bottom 1' flat and directly sunk with a fence post driver. Ready instantly.
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    Horrible Install

    The DBS industry, between charlie & eddy et al. cooked their golden goose to death. Remember the cachet and positive buzz around satellite when DTV came out, how all the big electronics makers wanted in, how they could sell systems for $100s? And then DiSH, promising both great value AND great...
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    Move a dish about 15 feet...

    I've only seen the consumer gap-filling foam or commercial icenene foam sprayed in basements for insulation. Never for polesetting. I would be interested in documentation for this use.
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    Move a dish about 15 feet...

    Oh, OK...too much quantity and have to use it all at once. So I guess the larger one would be economical if you had 10 deck posts all set up for a 1-go run. So then...what actually is the stuff, chemically? As in icenene foam, polyurethane, etc.