HOPPER 3 UPGRADES

I don't know, my WJ is a PITA sometimes. Never have issues with my Joey 1's.... Then again they are used in the kids rooms and have 5 channels.
 
BTW, FWIW, it is finally good to see Dish take the "customer experience" above the Charlie "Cheap" factor. I guess old Ergen finally saw the light, or was it continual net loss of customers that did that?
I think it's the nature of the entire business that required a change in philosophy. The pay-TV market is already saturated and pushing the boundaries of price causing a wave a "cord-cutting". The "low-cost leader" battle cry rings hollow, even if they are slightly cheaper than the competition, when the entire business model is bloated with ever-increasing external upward cost pressures. So the paradigm has shifted to getting more than the competition offers for the same price.
 
HBO also went down. The general concenus is that most things are going up and to think TV will be different is not wise.
Alot of people, including myself, think due to the basic law of demand & supply for this particular product, tv, that the price will have to decrease in the near future. Today there are so much more tv, alternative entertainment to tv, at a significantly lower price than cable/satellite that an eventual price reduction is inevitable just like what the cellphone market has gone through recently. The price increases you are seeing now in tv are companies taking advantage of a finite market that are currently resistant to changing their viewing habits, do not have access to or are ignorant of the current cheaper & in some cases, better alternatives to traditional tv. Some of the cable like streaming alternatives like Sling TV unfortunately are still not fully developed but the writing on the wall is there for all to see what the near future of this market will look like. That's why I like what Dish is doing, price increases but giving their customers more value for money while offering lower priced alternatives like Sling TV to get a good foothold in the future market of tv which is streaming.
 
Alot of people, including myself, think due to the basic law of demand & supply for this particular product, tv, that the price will have to decrease in the near future.
Forced bundling, overbidding on exclusive contracts and holding unrelated channels hostage in contract negotiations is the polar opposite to "supply and demand". It is the biggest driving force behind the exorbitant price increases that have outpaced just about every other industry. The price will not just decrease...the entire model will collapse, and hard.
 
And the counterpoint is that the price of pay-TV has nothing to do with inflation either. Just bidding wars and content ownership monopolies. So neither post was relevant.

My bad for participating in this tangent.
 
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So interestingly enough I went to SAMs yesterday LOL "favorite store" the direct tv woman attacked again trying to convince me the new hopper would only have 8 tuners.
 

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