Recent content by telstar_1

Sports TV is under enough pressure now as it is without subsidizing a gambling industry.

DiSH likely wants to keep an eye on them (and your tv use) at all times

I meant between hopper and joeys

You still need a wired connection back to hopper, right? Saturn went out of business, evidently along with its marketing model. I remember when states were bidding against each other to get saturn for a big economic and jobs boost. Anything still happening at the saturn plant? Illinois lost out...

So they're entirely linear services mirroring cable?

But they might catch you watching PBS...

Not exactly a captive audience...

Aren't they raking in enough from betting to pay for tv rights?

But you keep hearing from people here who don't want to do that

That's why I don't connect DiSH to internet. Of course everyone can see where it's going, which is all to streaming, which is its own can of worms. So the "telescreens" that were everywhere in 1984 playing propaganda whilst spying on those they could see have arrived just a few decades late

What a bunch of shysters. Sock the charges to you, back off if you complain whilst figuring most will just pay. They (hoppers) are for a single screen. Add a screen, add a box. Until maybe you have half a dozen

Going from 8 ch. view to 6 is helpful? I presume you can change the # of lines presented in the guide like you can with ViP?

When DiSH first made available a replacement remote, it was $50. Or $49.99, they worked everything in oily 99s. And this was in 1996.

It is the age of the squeaky wheel. DiSH long ago abandoned any pretense of treating all comers (and customers) with due respect. They shifted to the general ethos of the milking parlor where they want to get the cows through as quickly as possible, as thoroughly drained as possible. If a cow...

I would not like a pickup delay when skipping forward. My 722 has none.