Can Dish Network survive as a company?

[dishcomm]

Totally agree with this. It will take time for people to be HD experts. Thus, it isn';t as urgent as we think for providers to add HDTV.

While in Feb, many will be pissed with letterboxing and maybe then buy a HDTV, they will probably be content to just stretch the image, and won't bother getting HD. If fact, I bet most won't realize it's not HD.

Even if people finally start subbing to HD packs, they will probably still stick to cable and be content with 20 or so HD channels. I stand by what I said: People are idiots.

Yep there are idiots out there..And there sub categories of idiots..
1) those who are clueless.
2)those who think they know but are afraid to try so they call Dish when they get a new tv
3)those who are clueless and try to hook up their new tv and fail. Then they call Dish.
4)those who are sure they know, and try to tell the tech how to do the job
5)those who think that because they purchased a satellite system and pay for programming that precludes them from paying for custom work.....