Recent content by telstar_1

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk... I wouldn't capitalize "college football" or "collegiate sports" (or federal prosecutors), but do always ask how and why the term "student athlete" has come to such universal usage. If one is on a college debate team, he isn't often referred to as a "student debater," or a...

Great video, but could have used it a couple years ago... CT- innovative technically, awful realistically.

DTV & DiSH collectively hold a pure duopoly over DBS. It wasn't quite so at the outset of DBS, as there was requirement for more separate entities in the category. Along with DTV there was also USSB, and along with DiSH there was Sky Angel. OK, so really effectively still a duopoly, you just had...

Remember Charlie's announcement of merger with Sky? After he was visited at home by Rupert Murdoch, who would later comment "I like Cholly".

Toys don't need to be "brought to life" by technology. Children bring them to life.

SD didn't represent any kind of gain for the customer. It was only adopted out of Charlie's scramble to get more sat locals up as he was being forced to shut off nets going to out-market subscribers. He was probably looking ahead to being able to continue to grow sub #s moreso than worried about...

Then you'd really love a SuperDiSH!

Interesting that they have conditioned people to regard smaller dishes as outdated. Remember when tiny was all anyone was wanting? The 500 is the closest thing to reverting all the way back to the original single-slot dish, when the actual size of it (or lack thereof) was its big selling point...

Right, just like people had trouble pronouncing "Echosphere" so Charlie changed it to "Echostar".

Just put it in a hopper box.

All you need is the new 'Y' adapter and DPPH Twin LNBF. And any old D500 if you don't already have one. Prowl eBay- some dealer's gonna put it up there, you might have to pay...

I hated it! Dish's "bait & switch" on my customers

DiSH was a hard break from previous involvement in home satellite as Echo. Echo wasn't DBS. Echo wasn't even a service provider. When a co. is telling me that it's "trusted," I'm immediately suspicious. I sure don't "trust" them

Does it do 3D?

Huh, DiSH 45 years? It's barely cracked 30...Unless this is a dealer counting back through c-band and offair