Recent content by telstar_1

Oop, did you see what happened there, lightning-quick? Haven't had that.

Same observation.

So again, I'm still curious- Have any downconverted SD versions of carried HD channels been dropped altogether yet? Including locals? Why would they need to stay up at this point? Also what is the total discrete channel count on DiSH, including both HD & SD versions- it must be or have been at...

Absolutely.

I also noticed a change from this time going forward- previously there had often been long delays in posting. Now don't even see any short ones.

There are all kinds of things that can lengthen the race time.

"Surviving what you (were) doing" is no indicator that you were "safe enough". There is always simply dumb luck. Yesteryear's potential for TV-driving distraction has been supplanted by far more universal distractors of mobile devices and in-dash screens. I didn't know that the new TV can't be...

As a DiSH dealer I hated 129 for the tough look angle, plus it wasn't a good solid signal. We were already at a disadvantage to DTV in having to look farther west to 119.

Has DiSH significantly dropped SD channels since dropping 129 and moving that HD over to 110/119? Hard to think it's a 12:1 bandwidth ration- I was thinking more like 4:1. Maybe moreover, what SD-only receivers, if any, do they still serve? As to NASA, much of their archival source material is...

When I dealt sat I was in it long-term for the customer, not someone they'd see at the install and then never again. I found it demeaning for DiSH to be telling me not to expect to make much doing DiSH because DiSH is just a "door opener" for you to get your foot in there and sell other stuff...

Nobody wants to attend a "fix things and start to wind them down" tech & business convention. Rather, they want to see presentation of new greener pastures.

Especially with the attached conditions. But he was the golden boy of that age.

But at bottom, who would really want the "asset" of DiSH (or of now DiSH-re-merged Echostar? At the end of the day, Charlie's simply stuck with it, bankruptcy or no.

Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but what I see is a tsunami of crap. It's basically that or sports, which is a crapstorm all of its own. Forget Newton Minow, the "vast wasteland" is more applicable today than ever. I'd ask here what's good to check out, but much or most of what gets...

Greed is as old as mankind and included in the "deadly sins". To say that "greed is good," as per one famous movie line from the 80s, reduces it to simple profit motivation that drives capitalist economies, when in reality it's more complex- it's ultimately corrosive to commerce and usually...