HOPPER 3 UPGRADES
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Is it just me or our the wireless joey guides so much faster than the wired? That is mainly why I want majority wireless.
I'm guessing your wired Joey is the original version which is super slow. The Wireless Joey works very well.
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.
Bird Flu caused the "extermination" of millions of birds. Turkeys too. That's why. Hopper Flu?
A dwindling captive audience = greed on the broadcasters part.
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.
Price of oil and gas have nothing to do with inflation. It's based on a) price speculation and b) production.
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.
My bad for participating in this tangent.
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Folks we have got WAY off the topic of Hopper 3 upgrades.
I am working with DISH and when I have news about when you can start requesting upgrades I will post it.
I am working with DISH and when I have news about when you can start requesting upgrades I will post it.
The DirecTV salesmen at Sam's Club are aggrevating, I usually just try to sneak by or ignore them.
