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    Oh boy...

    Oop, did you see what happened there, lightning-quick? Haven't had that.
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    Oh boy...

    Same observation.
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    Why does dish network down convert some channels to SD?

    So again, I'm still curious- Have any downconverted SD versions of carried HD channels been dropped altogether yet? Including locals? Why would they need to stay up at this point? Also what is the total discrete channel count on DiSH, including both HD & SD versions- it must be or have been at...
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    Site Speed

    Absolutely.
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    Oh boy...

    I also noticed a change from this time going forward- previously there had often been long delays in posting. Now don't even see any short ones.
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    Auto Racing 2024

    There are all kinds of things that can lengthen the race time.
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    Should you permanently mount your TV antenna to your RV?

    "Surviving what you (were) doing" is no indicator that you were "safe enough". There is always simply dumb luck. Yesteryear's potential for TV-driving distraction has been supplanted by far more universal distractors of mobile devices and in-dash screens. I didn't know that the new TV can't be...
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    Which LNB is for which satellite?

    As a DiSH dealer I hated 129 for the tough look angle, plus it wasn't a good solid signal. We were already at a disadvantage to DTV in having to look farther west to 119.
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    Why does dish network down convert some channels to SD?

    Has DiSH significantly dropped SD channels since dropping 129 and moving that HD over to 110/119? Hard to think it's a 12:1 bandwidth ration- I was thinking more like 4:1. Maybe moreover, what SD-only receivers, if any, do they still serve? As to NASA, much of their archival source material is...
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    Its TEAM SUMMIT week!

    When I dealt sat I was in it long-term for the customer, not someone they'd see at the install and then never again. I found it demeaning for DiSH to be telling me not to expect to make much doing DiSH because DiSH is just a "door opener" for you to get your foot in there and sell other stuff...
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    Its TEAM SUMMIT week!

    Nobody wants to attend a "fix things and start to wind them down" tech & business convention. Rather, they want to see presentation of new greener pastures.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Especially with the attached conditions. But he was the golden boy of that age.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    But at bottom, who would really want the "asset" of DiSH (or of now DiSH-re-merged Echostar? At the end of the day, Charlie's simply stuck with it, bankruptcy or no.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but what I see is a tsunami of crap. It's basically that or sports, which is a crapstorm all of its own. Forget Newton Minow, the "vast wasteland" is more applicable today than ever. I'd ask here what's good to check out, but much or most of what gets...
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Greed is as old as mankind and included in the "deadly sins". To say that "greed is good," as per one famous movie line from the 80s, reduces it to simple profit motivation that drives capitalist economies, when in reality it's more complex- it's ultimately corrosive to commerce and usually...
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Maybe they could "deal with it" like DiSH, DTV and some of the cables did, by paying people to switch to them on a 2-year contract.
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    New Install, new equipment?

    Those could be combined.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Are they required to put on small independent broadcast stations under "must carry"?
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    Been with dish for 12 years - needed faster hardware!

    At least they won't be updating the 722.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    I would suppose that streaming will become more seamless as it becomes more mainstreamed. Maybe. With cable/sat, you can literally turn it on and then just step through all of your available channels, or short list thereof. If you add streaming you have to switch from the sat remote to the TV's...
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    New Install, new equipment?

    Or else a combined service would need to operate dual systems. Did they merge because they were losing subs? Back in the day, there were separate VHF & UHF "markets"- with just 12 VHF channels (no ch.1) and need to not slot adjacent in same area, the bigger urbs which were assigned slots first...
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    Been with dish for 12 years - needed faster hardware!

    That would drive me crazy. My 722 is virtually instantaneous.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Streaming will be the next senior seminar deal. 722 here as well. Uninterested in hopper, which probably contributed to my getting out of satellite dealing. My focus was on whole-house systems where there didn't need to be a receiver box at every TV set, or at any set.
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    Is “Everybody in a rush to leave DIRECTV and DISH?” Really? Even on enthusiast forums?

    If they were really hobbyists there remains plenty to play with as far as satellite beyond the DBS duopoly. Simply, they probably really weren't. There's always the impetus toward newer is better. DBS is now old hat while streaming is the new shiny object. The anecdote about the beginnings of...
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Is this their original HQ, or like when did they buy it? At TS98 (the first one) we toured their then executive HQ they'd set up in a dead shopping mall.
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