Recent content by silvanthalas

Bloody hell. I don't even have satellite service any more and I still have to suffer the :censored matches when trying to watch Blackhawks games on NHL GCL. I thought about it the other night: if I had to go back to traditional service, would I go back to Dish or DTV? It would probably have...

An update: like I said, I really don't want to do something outdoors. Another option with my apartment is that my north wall is not flat across the entire face of my apartment. I've got a chunk of it that sits further out due to a fireplace (in the living room) and a closet (in our 2nd...

I could probably mount an antenna, seeing as I've already got both Dish and DirecTV dishes up there. But if I have to go outdoors I'd prefer to try on my balcony first. While they'd rather dishes be on the roof rather than our balconies, a small antenna might be able to hide fairly easily; I've...

Sure. I had checked out AntennaWeb.org a little bit earlier, but hadn't stumbled across this one yet.

After several years of Dish and several more of DirecTV, I'm finally considering cutting the cable and going OTA for locals. The main problem: I'm in the 2nd floor of an apartment building, facing north, and where I'm located in Denver means all of the stations are practically due west of me...

Oh, it'll lower costs... for AT&T/DirecTV. It certainly won't for their customers.

As soon as the NHL playoffs are done, I would have been putting my account on suspension for the summer and saving myself a few hundred dollars, just like last summer. So, yeah, this will make it a helluva lot easier to just call and cancel instead. This isn't improvement. It's a merger for...

Well, the BreakingNews/BreakingMoney twitter account just tweeted a bit ago that AT&T will announce the acquisition of DirecTV tomorrow. But then, their source is BuzzFeed, of all places, so be sure to have your grains of salt handy. Mergers like this are bad for everybody. We don't need less...

I'll cancel my service before I drop to a package without Altitude. Not to mention, Root Sports RM is owned by D*, which means each month they're dropping by for an extra kick in the sack simply because they can.

No exception here. I'm now paying another $1.82 for a channel - Root Sports RM - that between the wife and I we watch a handful of hours a year at most and could most certainly live without. Just effing lovely.

I'd rather pay $75/m for the 20 channels I actually watch than $75 for hundreds that I don't. At this point, I'd be perfectly happy with some kind of sports-only pack. There are so many ways of getting TV shows that I don't need cable/satellite; I only need it anymore for live events.

Wouldn't it be nice of these guys were all honest for a change? But then, judging from Twitter this morning, DirecTV is losing the PR war to Viacom; many people are convinced that DirecTV was going to pull the plug on the channels (ignoring that they really have no incentive to do so). I'm sure...

This is now trending in the US on twitter (or at least, DirecTV itself is). Interesting how Viacom doesn't bother to list all 26 channels at risk on their crappy website, but only the top half a dozen. I mean, we wouldn't want anybody to actually know about the other 20 complete crap channels...

I'm curious to know what the current fee is that they want to raise it by 300%.

Murphy's Law indeed. Went to watch a recording of The Late Late Show from 2 nights ago, no audio. Turned TV only off, then back on, audio back on. Digging out the component cables now, and will have to toy with them as well as the other HDMI cable/port, which is in use with the PS3 and see if I...