Recent content by telstar_1

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    Terrible call to DiSH

    So the Joey itself has no tuners but enables use of one of the Hopper Duo's 2 tuners by a 2nd user in HD? I would thusly allege that calling that Hopper, by itself, a Duo could be misleading. A combo of Hopper Duo plus Joey could be unitarily considered a Duo system. To me, as I've previously...
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    Terrible call to DiSH

    My understanding is that systems designated by DiSH as Duo are usable by 2 users independently from each other. There's the Duo ViP222, the DuoDVR ViP722, etc. They actually started in with Duos way back with the 322/522. Through this time they also referenced single-user only units as Solo...
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    Terrible call to DiSH

    So where does the Hopper Duo slot into this timewise, and does it do same as ViP Duo, to be able to have 2nd independent user with UHF control?
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    Dish Scapes on 199 is interesting

    I don't much follow these but do note that this recent one looked like a xmas scene with turkey day elements added. Also 2 fireplaces- "modern" and traditional.
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    Is Free Football Actually Going Away? Inside the Broadcasters' Astroturf Campaign

    So at some point the broadcast nets will deal with these money-grubbing affiliate groups by ditching them altogether for direct streaming. "Free football" via broadcast affils isn't free by a long shot over cable or satellite. Just by antenna, which comparatively few now use.
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    Ads Update

    "The painter of light," right? This guy was right up there though perhaps no longer greatly appreciating. So yeah, there should be a decent market, and waiting isn't adding to valuation. Especially given your fiscal situations, it would seem to behoove to monetize at least some of this art in...
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    EchoStar / Dish’s Path Forward

    There was some original thinking that was put into the hopper, so to speak. They'd gotten so far into DVR that they could only think more recording is better, and hey, let's make it automatic so folks don't have to fuss with setting timing. Oh and let's apply it specifically to the broadcast...
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    System Work

    Site was unavailable approx. 5:30 central.
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    What deals has dish given you

    Huh? You start a service and they're giving you free streaming of competing service?
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    Upcoming Panama Canal Cruise in March

    Malaria shot?
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    Terrible call to DiSH

    What are current hoppers and what is diff between hopper 3 and hopper duo?
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    How things have changed

    Well, not quite like in 1966, but it still follows with the broadcast nets.
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    Terrible call to DiSH

    All I can say is that on attempting to help someone out with his tv and he had the 54, I was dumbfounded at what I saw as a regression in both user-friendliness and simply build quality. Compared to the "classic" 20s I found it cryptic just to navigate menu screens and the like, and it appeared...
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    buying from dish

    What is hopper duo? 722 is a duo; isn't hopper a solo-user box, that you have buy another box to run to for a 2nd user? Doesn't the new hopper do sling?
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    buying from dish

    But maybe they could say they don't sell them anymore so you have to lease