Recent content by telstar_1

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    Major Bluetooth Vulnerability Discovered!

    Great video, but could have used it a couple years ago... CT- innovative technically, awful realistically.
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    Do people still watch satellite TV these days

    DTV & DiSH collectively hold a pure duopoly over DBS. It wasn't quite so at the outset of DBS, as there was requirement for more separate entities in the category. Along with DTV there was also USSB, and along with DiSH there was Sky Angel. OK, so really effectively still a duopoly, you just had...
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Remember Charlie's announcement of merger with Sky? After he was visited at home by Rupert Murdoch, who would later comment "I like Cholly".
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    LEGO Smart Bricks: Bringing Your Childhood Toys to Life! #shorts

    Toys don't need to be "brought to life" by technology. Children bring them to life.
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    Just got this bad boy

    SD didn't represent any kind of gain for the customer. It was only adopted out of Charlie's scramble to get more sat locals up as he was being forced to shut off nets going to out-market subscribers. He was probably looking ahead to being able to continue to grow sub #s moreso than worried about...
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Then you'd really love a SuperDiSH!
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Interesting that they have conditioned people to regard smaller dishes as outdated. Remember when tiny was all anyone was wanting? The 500 is the closest thing to reverting all the way back to the original single-slot dish, when the actual size of it (or lack thereof) was its big selling point...
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    Happy New Year! The future of SatelliteGuys

    Right, just like people had trouble pronouncing "Echosphere" so Charlie changed it to "Echostar".
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    Cold weather signal loss

    Just put it in a hopper box.
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    Cold weather signal loss

    All you need is the new 'Y' adapter and DPPH Twin LNBF. And any old D500 if you don't already have one. Prowl eBay- some dealer's gonna put it up there, you might have to pay...
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    Just got this bad boy

    I hated it! Dish's "bait & switch" on my customers
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    Space X to Merge with EchoStar?

    DiSH was a hard break from previous involvement in home satellite as Echo. Echo wasn't DBS. Echo wasn't even a service provider. When a co. is telling me that it's "trusted," I'm immediately suspicious. I sure don't "trust" them
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    Festivus - Airing of Grievances

    Does it do 3D?
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    Space X to Merge with EchoStar?

    Huh, DiSH 45 years? It's barely cracked 30...Unless this is a dealer counting back through c-band and offair