Recent content by MikeD-C05

They are paying you to watch DISH? :biggrin

I had one of those big box tv on wheels. I was going to give it to my dad when we bought a new flat screen back in the day and my brother n law didn't lock it down with the bungee cord in his flat bed truck and it went crashing down when he stopped at a stop sign. So we ended up throwing it...

Maybe they can offer the streaming version of their service and they won't need the satellites for home service except in very rural areas with no broadband. I keep saying merge both Sling TV and DISH together for a streaming interface that looks like DISH, but keep the Sling TV programming...

I loved the 942 dvrs. I had two of them back then and they worked very well. Then they did away with them. They had name based recording and worked great with mpeg 2. The 921 pvr was a nightmare for me and so was the 811 HD receiver. Kept both of them on a surge protector so I could flip...

I have to agree they need to focus on their video business since the 4th cell phone provider company plans are now gone. I think that could include buying Directv and merging the two companies and hopefully making it attractive again to new subs like they said in the article. I guess we...

Going backwards

I do. :biggrin

We don't have any in my immediate area. Conn's Appliances was a company most in our area relied on for over 75 years and they went belly up this last year. So it's between Lowes, Home Depot and Best Buy. Sears is long gone. Between all these big stores, they pushed out any small mom/pop...

There's a guy who is all about 3.0 on You tube and he said the sticking point is that the ota channels in 3.0 will use encryption, which doesn't allow recording them. The FCC has already told channel owners if they want to go to 3.0 and drop their 1.0 HD signal they can do so. But if we...

ma Maybe Charlie plans on buying up Directv and the satellites transponders by this time next year and then he gets all the transponders to himself. DISH will be in a better place to buy it by then and probably even has the money to do it without financing , once his deals with Space X and...

Lots of mpeg 4 compression. :rolleyes:

They sent the text message on the 7th, that the delivery date was set for the 24th. *I changed the wording in the original post to say that more clearly.

Here is the path forward I heard about. Sounds like Charlie is in in the cat bird seat for the future. Might not of happened if FCC Brendan Carr hadn't pressured him like he was doing. I think he will buy Directv now. But if no plan to make satellite TV more attractive to customers and...

Here is my experience with Best buy and buying a Dishwasher off their website. 1. On Sept 6, 2025 I bought a dishwasher off their website and paid for install and haul away of old dishwasher plus 3 years of warranty with the geek squad. 2. I received email confirmation and order number...

Glad I cancelled both Disney plus and Hulu because of Jimmy Kimmel. I wasn't watching either service that much anyway. Won't be resubscribing any time soon. Maybe once they offer yearly discounted deals during the holidays and end of year sales.