People irate about NASA TV channel move=$$

[jcarrera]

You do not have to buy the digital tier to get NASA tv..

Whoa..thanks for revealing that. As was clear in all my posts, I think, that was my complaint. It was drawn from earlier things which seemed to say that it had been moved into the digital TIER, not just had been made digital.

Check out my post on the 20th, when I said, "There is a major difference in making it digital, and moving it into a digital tier, no?" In fact, someone said immediately after that, "... BHN is not charging you any more for the channel (did the digital tier price go up because of?..." which sure implies that it was put into the digital tier, but price of tier not increased.

Wish someone would have said "You do not have to buy the digital tier to get NASA tv" earlier; would've saved lots of typing and lots of useless back and forth that has ensued. Was it not clear all along that I thought it had been put into the digital tier? Arghhh.

[digiblur]

I've got one better for yall.... pick up a cheap FTA box. Find someone with a dish that they aren't using, usually not a hard thing if you look a little. Point it at 119W, do a scan, and there you will have the NASA channel. It's not encrypted and free to all.

Done.

[kb7oeb]

Could be worse, cox in Phoenix dropped NASA from digital saying there wasn't enough interest, I think they replaced it with CSPAN-3 if that tells you anything.

[skottey]

Could be worse, cox in Phoenix dropped NASA from digital saying there wasn't enough interest, I think they replaced it with CSPAN-3 if that tells you anything.

Well, NASA has done everything in their power to take the fun out of space exploration over the last 30 years or so. I wish I was around during the moon landing to share in the last exciting thing they did of a positive nature. The two most exciting things that happened in our space program ever since were the two disasters. I agree they do need more funding, but they first need to prove their worth to the nation. There are a lot of people out there that think we should just kill the program. They wouldn't be saying that if we were making actual visible progress in a manned Mars mission. Instead, they continue to suck funding from the system while producing very little. For what it is worth, if we invested the equal $$$ amount in private companies, I guarantee they would have progressed further than NASA has over the last few decades. If $1B buys a new space shuttle, a private company would build 3 or 4 better designed shuttles with the same funding, dollar for dollar. NASA needs to better manage the money it has, make some actual progress, and then ask for more funding. Dumping money into NASA as it stands is not the answer.

[The Insider]

Whoa..thanks for revealing that. As was clear in all my posts, I think, that was my complaint. It was drawn from earlier things which seemed to say that it had been moved into the digital TIER, not just had been made digital.

Check out my post on the 20th, when I said, "There is a major difference in making it digital, and moving it into a digital tier, no?" In fact, someone said immediately after that, "... BHN is not charging you any more for the channel (did the digital tier price go up because of?..." which sure implies that it was put into the digital tier, but price of tier not increased.

Wish someone would have said "You do not have to buy the digital tier to get NASA tv" earlier; would've saved lots of typing and lots of useless back and forth that has ensued. Was it not clear all along that I thought it had been put into the digital tier? Arghhh.

It wasn't clear thats what you meant( at least to me and I think others, I guess its just the terminology usage), but your complaint does make sense now knowing what you meant However its not valid, as you can get the channel without upgradeing to "digital tier" however you do need a box, (ie: one of those 1$ ones which I mentioned several times) should cover you just fine.

[Khandurian]

I've got one better for yall.... pick up a cheap FTA box. Find someone with a dish that they aren't using, usually not a hard thing if you look a little. Point it at 119W, do a scan, and there you will have the NASA channel. It's not encrypted and free to all.

Done.

Oh dear god NO! Go back to your FTA area!

I can already hear the call center phone calls --

Call center - so you hooked up an FTA box and now your digital box doesnt work. Oh I see you don't have time guard. We can send a tech out to fix your problem for 40$ a line.

Customer - why should I pay for that? (complain, groan, moan)