Hear, Hear!
I'm not a beach person, but I'd sure spend some time there if I lived there. Hawaii is lovely. At least, as much of it as I could see from the airport transit area. <sigh>
AAD - Is Out of Business
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Hear, Hear!
I'm not a beach person, but I'd sure spend some time there if I lived there. Hawaii is lovely. At least, as much of it as I could see from the airport transit area. <sigh>
I spent 9 days island-hopping. Definitely an island paradise. Too bad I can't talk my wife into retiring there. She's concerned about getting a larger version of cabin fever.
We have friends that moved, permanently, to the big island. We've been on visits, and there is no way that I want to keep myself that isolated, even with nice temperate weather...
Oahu and the big island are well connected to the mainland, Asia and Australia with fiber. I would expect them to be like anywhere else in the US. While the international fiber maps do not show connections to the other islands, I am sure they have them too.
Some of the new spotbeams do not offer HD. It's like taking a step back in time.
Nah, not many, a few. And even some of the the few probably do want the locals they get out of state because that means they are closer to and associate more with the out of state locals. An example would be far south Ct.
There have been some examples of people who wanted their State locals that were not getting all of them, NH as one. But it just isn't widespread.
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I actually agree, based on the system. (Ad revenue) I just ask the complete system be upheld - don't keep charging me on the backend because I get the affiliate programming from Satellite instead of OTA. And stop holding the carriers hostage, in fact just stop charging, then the affiliate can keep me captive.
I just want my 4 major networks in HD. That's the way they broadcast them OTA and in my dumb way of looking at things, that should be the way DISH has to re-transmit them. If DISH wants to also downgrade them and do a SD broadcast, so be it. Business wise, they might be better off doing an HD only broadcast and requiring those that want spotbeam networks to upgrade to HD. I was happy to pay AAD for the CONUS HD fees and that made life wonderful on the road and when at home. Then AAD goes to SD only, so I have to "move" to get locals in HD. But I still had AAD in SD for those times on the road when I had no OTA or cable service. Many people complain about the cost. I just want the service and would like it where every night I am on the road, I don't have to screw around to get service.
Our neighbor had his SD DirecTV receiver quit and the only thing DirecTV would provide him with was a replacement HD receiver. And, I will bet that by this time next year he will be an HD customer. Especially since he acquired a DirecTV HD dish at the street that he can take to Texas to set up for the winter.
Our neighbor had his SD DirecTV receiver quit and the only thing DirecTV would provide him with was a replacement HD receiver. And, I will bet that by this time next year he will be an HD customer. Especially since he acquired a DirecTV HD dish at the street that he can take to Texas to set up for the winter.
Yea Hawaii is gorgeous, depending where you are at. Just like Florida advertising its best beaches in the world, then drive 10 miles up the road, your in a ghetto area. We got no beaches on the side of island where I live, lava and rocks.
Because we spend over 200 nights a year in our RV, we have been using AAD since Dish stopped supplying distant networks. Our service address is in Walnut Grove, CA so our local networks are Sacramento and are spot beamed. We were in Chula Vista, Ca when we lost ADD. Today called Dish Tech Support and changed my service address to our present location in southern orange county, and within a few minutes started getting Los Angeles networks. I was told that I can to that any time I move to a different spot beam area. Not the same as getting both west and east coast feeds, but better than no networks.
Our mail caught up with us today and there was a check from AAD for the unused paid time.
Our mail caught up with us today and there was a check from AAD for the unused paid time.
Wouldn't that be a complaint against Dish? The local should give you a waiver because Dish doesn't offer the signal in HD?
I don't totally disagree with you. I think folks should be charged when they're within "reasonable" OTA range. In other words, those who would have to take extraordinary measures to pick up OTA (or couldn't get OTA regardless) shouldn't be charged. Regulating that however wouldn't exactly be easy.
DISH imports all the networks for this new spot beam except for ABC and this little ABC station has complained for years about not being fed to our area. So DISH set up a new spot beam and put everything on it in SD only. And since things went digital, we get no OTA stations per antennaweb.org.
