Orby TV Just Installd mine

[Titanium]

I've been wondering this myself. The $40/mo price tag is attractive to the budget-seeking consumer, but the cost to entry could be perceived as rather steep. Time will tell if they're able to become profitable.

Steep Price? Can tell you don't go out much. Spent more money going out to dinner and a movie with my wife last week. For the price of going on a date to one concert, you could own a complete installed system LOL!

If you're worried about upfront cost, put it on your credit card.

It is all about perspective...

 

[comfortably_numb]

Steep Price? Can tell you don't go out much. Spent more money going out to dinner and a movie with my wife last week. For the price of going on a date to one concert, you could own a complete installed system LOL!

If you're worried about upfront cost, put it on your credit card.

It is all about perspective...

Put it on my credit card? I try to live debt free. Like I mentioned previously, I paid nothing for my Dish system and refuse to shell out $250 for Orby, a service that has little HD. Think about Orby's typical customer. It's not you- you like to experiment and try new services and that's fine. I don't know anybody, personally, who is willing to shell out $250+ for TV service.

PS- If you spent $250+ on dinner and a movie, that just reinforces my view that California has the highest cost of living in the US. I can go to a 5-Star restaurant in KC, see 3 movies and still be under $250. Pespective, indeed!

 

[harshness]

I can go to a 5-Star restaurant in KC, see 3 movies and still be under $250. Pespective, indeed!

I challenge you to go on such a date and show us the receipts.

I place the obvious conditions that nothing is discounted, no gift certificates are used, it isn't Dutch and that it all take place after 5pm on a single evening

 

[comfortably_numb]

I challenge you to go on such a date and show us the receipts.

I place the obvious conditions that nothing is discounted, no gift certificates are used, it isn't Dutch and that it all take place after 5pm on a single evening

Challenge accepted. Let's eat at the Bluestem. It received a AAA 4 Diamond Award last year. Three course dinner is $75. So multiply that by 2 for a couple. Lets add $45 for drinks and wine. So that brings us to $195. Then let's see Captain Marvel 3 times. $8.99 per ticket x 6. That's $53.94. That's $248.94 total

 

[primestar31]

What, no tip! Cheapskate! LOL

 

[comfortably_numb]

Now I challenge Titanium to show us his receipts from his $250 date last weekend

 

[harshness]

Then let's see Captain Marvel 3 times. $8.99 per ticket x 6.

Full-featured (modern screens and sound) 2D theater tickets where I live are going for $12.70 each without junk food. 3D goes for $16.20 each before Milk Duds.

 

[truckracer]

No, DTV has adjusted, it's just that their offerings for the modern TV market aren't available over satellite; instead, they offer smaller, cheaper channel bundles with DTV Now and, come end of this year, they'll launch an on-demand streaming service from WarnerMedia/HBO to compete against Netflix and Hulu.

I agree that Dish's Flex Pack is a good comparison to Orby TV. I posted the following earlier today on another forum:

Yeah, I'd say Dish's $38 Flex Pack is fairly comparable to Orby's $40 package. Neither include locals or major sports channels. There's a lot of overlap between the two, although Flex Pack contains USA, Hallmark, and FX while Orby has Nick, Investigation Discovery, and Animal Planet. Dish gives you the option to spend extra for lots of different add-on channel packs, including locals, while Orby's upgrade options are much more limited.

With Dish, you have to lease your receiver/DVR ($5 to 10 per TV, I think) and with Orby you have to buy the hardware up front ($100 for a regular receiver or $200 for a DVR, per TV).

With Dish, you typically have to sign up with a 2-year contract (depending on a credit check), during which time your price is usually frozen. But I think you get free or discounted installation. With Orby, there's no contract and no credit check; service is pre-paid (like Netflix), so you can start and stop it any month, although the price could go up at any point too. You pay $150 for the installation, although that includes an OTA antenna which they install alongside the satellite system. (Again, I wonder how many folks who would consider Orby -- mainly rural dwellers, I'd think -- could pick up much OTA TV?)

Main question I'm not sure about is whether Dish offers the Flex Pack to new subscribers or if it's only something that an existing subscriber can switch to, perhaps after their initial contract is fulfilled. Assuming Flex Pack is available for new Dish subscribers, that makes the potential market for Orby that much smaller. Will be interesting to see if they can survive very long.
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For those who signed up for Orby TV, what about it appealed to you as opposed to Dish's Flex Pack?

With dish, I own my receivers. No dvr.
I pay month to month no contract flex package with news and epix.
Fairly good deal.
Or by is very comparable. I will not sign contracts with any providers. If their service is. It good enough to keep me long term, I am not signing myself into a money trap so they can jerk me around. I don't even have a mortgage on my homes.

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[Titanium]

What is the difference between putting gear on a card and paying it off monthly or being in a multi-year subscription commitment and paying an equipment lease fee each month? You don't want credit card debit, but you would accept a multi-year requirement with either monthly rental or a penalty fee? Whatever... LOL

I get it! You are happy with what you already have and that is great! I dont want a multi-year subscription commitment and willing to pay a reasonable fee upfront for options that allow me to opt out or build up.

Read my post again and you will see that I equated an installed installation to going to a concert. Dinner and movies is the cost of buying the equipment.

Copies of receipts? California cost? Really? Guess I don't care to cheap out on my lovely wife... LOL!

 

[comfortably_numb]

What is the difference between putting gear on a card and paying it off monthly or being in a multi-year subscription commitment and paying an equipment lease fee each month? You don't want credit card debit, but you would accept a multi-year requirement with either monthly rental or a penalty fee? Whatever... LOL

I get it! You are happy with what you already have and that is great! I dont want a multi-year subscription commitment and willing to pay a reasonable fee upfront for options that allow me to opt out or build up.

Read my post again and you will see that I equated an installed installation to going to a concert. Dinner and movies is the cost of buying the equipment.

Copies of receipts? California cost? Really? Guess I don't care to cheap out on my lovely wife... LOL!

A 2-year commitment isn't too bad if you plan to keep the service for 2 years. My contract is up and I own my receiver (Dish just gave it to me). I realize that offer isn't available for everyone, but to this day I'm still out of pocket $0. I guess that's my point in all this. Why spend the money if you don't have to?

PS- not meaning any offense on the California thing.

 

[Titanium]

My challenge to you is to put down the remote and navigate around all of those dishes on the sidewalk and go on a date. LOL!!!

 

[comfortably_numb]

My challenge to you is to put down the remote and navigate around all of those dishes on the sidewalk and go on a date. LOL!!!

I gave up women for Lent

 

[AE6CH]

Do you need the internet to setup the receiver?

For 24 hours I sniffed all the packets to my Orby. The only thing it did was DHCP an IP on my network and then didn't do anything else. It doesn't appear to use the network for anything at the moment. I was able to login to the thing and poke around a bit. It's linux with no root password.

 

[HoTat2]

.... It's not you- you like to experiment and try new services and that's fine. I don't know anybody, personally, who is willing to shell out $250+ for TV service.

Or perhaps you should qualify that last statement with;

"You don't really know of anyone today who is willing..."

Since admittingly many (me included) did pay $500+ for DIRECTV receivers in the early years of the mid 90s

... PS- If you spent $250+ on dinner and a movie, that just reinforces my view that California has the highest cost of living in the US. I can go to a 5-Star restaurant in KC, see 3 movies and still be under $250. Pespective, indeed!

Yep ...

For instance, two agents came to my door couple of days ago to ask if we knew anyone interested in buying a home they're trying to flip just up the street from me.

A restored single story three bedrooms, two bathrooms, modest home originally built in 1924 here in So. LA.

Hardly an "exclusive" area ...

Price $775, 000!

Totally ridiculous ....





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[primestar31]

For 24 hours I sniffed all the packets to my Orby. The only thing it did was DHCP an IP on my network and then didn't do anything else. It doesn't appear to use the network for anything at the moment. I was able to login to the thing and poke around a bit. It's linux with no root password.

Well, that's pretty stupid!

 

[harshness]

Well, that's pretty stupid!

Doing things over Ethernet is going to get harder and harder as fewer portable computers feature Ethernet. If networking was included for the benefit of installers (this seems likely to me), they probably should have gone TTY over USB rather than Ethernet.

 

[harshness]

It doesn't appear to use the network for anything at the moment.

As Orby appears to be aimed at those without a broadband option, this shouldn't come as a big surprise.

 

[Robert Dickens]

Had no problem installing and activating mine... invacom quad...and 1.2 meter dish..signal was 90s on both...activation was simple...enter info...pay...done..time invested was about half hour..but i took few breaks...

i looked up the lnb you mention you used im a newbie but i see it has linear and circle which one do you use and also what other cheap lnb would work

 

[KE4EST]

Linear

 

[fred555]

I was under the impression that you had to have Orby's subcontractor install the system.

Is this not true?