Recent content by telstar_1

Satellite cannot be worse "tarnished" than has already become

Wasn't there more in this thread? I remember commenting that in my admittedly brief experience with the 54 remote, it's horrible. Still using 20.1 on the daily for 722, still great

But the tv service isn't insolvent. The trouble is coming from something that isn't "running"- c's overleveraging on auctioned spectrum that came with requirements he has failed to fulfill. Remember he was always taunting telling the dealers "Follow the rules, get paid. Don't follow the rules...

I always shortened to xpdr. TP was for something else

Right, but BK proceedings take time, sometimes a lot of time before approval of restructuring and asset allocation. So right now he's probably trying to stretch out as far as possible the start of all of that

So what they do is make junk tv they can re-run 1000x to make $ from the commercials. But how much does it cost to run old movies? At least there's still American Movie Classics.

What, you kicked out the plug?

Yeah, It just crashed on me as well

not again...

MLB has apparently bought big into softball, maybe looking for the next breakout womens' sport

What kind of ants would crawl up posts to get into a sat dish? The only kinds I see around here are strictly ground-dwellers, nesting either in anthills or rotting wood.

They won't hurt the signal

But what about streaming or paying for nonsense in online games? You seem to be of the opinion that the youth is simply blowing it all on frivolity

Without it going political?

I wish younger people had more access to that. Those stories are few and highly anecdotal as far as what to anticipate. I'm actually going on my 1st cruise in about a week, however it's not on one of these megaships but rather a European river trip on Viking. No kids, no casino. So I'll see how...