Recent content by Ira Lacher

I go back a little farther: the CBS NFL theme of the late 60s/early 70s. Also, the NHL on NBC theme of the early 70s.

Told me they wouldn't renew mine. Period. Never missed a payment. Frequently upgraded to Premier, so I could have hardly been called a low-budget customer. Have been a sub for 7 years. Go figure.

Steff3, thanks; very thoughtful answer. Sports are important to me, but not enough to spend $500 for NFL-ST or MLBEI. Would like OTA capability with the Hopper, though, so will probably wait awhile -- as my D* bill goes up, and up, sigh.

Obviously, there are a lot of these so-called "bugs." Is the Hopper.Joey really worth it? Thinking of switching from D* to save some money and get latest equipment, but is it really worth the aggravation with such buggy hardware?

It was because we had no access to our RSN that we dumped cable for satellite years ago. And even though we would love to have AMC and BBCA in HD, the passion for having our RSNs in HD (as well as GOL TV and the UEFA soccer channels) far outweigh the additional HD channels we would gain if we...

No . . . when a game is rained out, you get a rain check that you can exchange for a ticket to any other games for which tickets are available that season .Rain checks have never been a guarantee of seeing the makeup of the game you were rained out of. And of course you can have one admission. I...

Don't know whether it's changes to the Swype sub-app or the OS but it's now far easier to navigate when writing. A zoom window hones in on your text, making it far easier to get right to the spot where you want to edit! And it's easier to copy or cut and paste as well.

Yeah, but they stayed longer and bought more concessions, which are hugely marked up.

Huh? If you already have a night game scheduled on Day X, there is no need to schedule a day game at 1 p.m. or so with a separate admission. Just move the start time of the night game to 4 or 4:30 p.m. and play the second game 30 minutes after the end of the first. (Thus the definition of a...

Seems that every made-up game as part of a "doubleheader" is now a day-night separate-admission deal.

Baseball: Price no ticket above $20 so kids can attend games. The idea of paying Broadway show prices for each of 81 games is obscene. Restore scheduled Sunday doubleheaders and eliminate the day-night separate admissions ripoff. Start the season in mid-April and end the World Series before...

Have had them all: US Cellular (horrible roaming rates, backward phones), Sprint (good network, kludgy Windows Mobile phone, bad upgrade policy, lousy customer service), T-Mobile (good rates but horrible data service), Verizon (good network, overpriced), AT&T (for iPhone, horrible network) and...

If you only get SD boxes though, you'll need to upgrade your receivers if you ever upgrade your TVs, not only having to pay more for the new boxes but also extending your contract for another 2 years from that point. You might be better off getting all HD equipment now, as a new customer.

Called and they too gave me 3 mos. free. It's all over the map. Some are getting the full monty, some a few months, others not at all.

I believe they're having a free preview of Choice Xtra for a few days.