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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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Especially with the attached conditions. But he was the golden boy of that age.

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.

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...

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...

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.

Those could be combined.

Are they required to put on small independent broadcast stations under "must carry"?

At least they won't be updating the 722.

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...

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...

That would drive me crazy. My 722 is virtually instantaneous.

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.

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.

So what's new? They direct-sold DiSH to most of my area when I needed to "hit goals" AND the people needed a local servicer they never got.

It was $19.99 to start with. I wonder what's the eldest receiver someone has still active

Not just your opinion, other than I believe he was actually that way from jump and simply conned everyone. Maybe himself included.

How splintered everything now is. Getting harder to imagine back to when virtually everyone in the country was on one of 3 network ch's.

It will run over the dog's leg.

DiSH has always leaned heavily into PPV. Whether or not it's a huge revenue stream, they've always wanted it to be. So they're not doing actual-use hard drive math, they're simply pushing out PPV (VOD) as always. Back when DiSH first launched they were pushing it. The receivers would readily...

I never really did VCR- didn't like messing with the tapes, setting timers...and never rented movies. But love DVR.