Recent content by telstar_1

What a frootloop. Enough to give you TDS.

I find newer content generally less watchable. Really, most of this crap I wonder how people can watch it, let alone enjoy it as they say they do.

So now they've gone down to offering a day-by-day service on Sling, only to have it help speed up their DBS demise.

So, I've recently been checking out the Sling Freestream app and have found quite a bit of 'limited" content such as a watered-down version of Fox News that apparently has its own production separate from the regular channel (and it always seems to be what the app starts you out on.). But have...

So this seems to tell me that DiSH is undercutting DiSH Boost Mobile locations with their own direct-to-subscriber Boost marketing at lower rates. Very familiar, this is essentially what they did to the dealers instead of making referrals to them. Their whole mantra was just get activations, the...

So they do this as a go-to-home service? Isn't all of that usually done at a retail location? Are they thinking such service will be a marketing advantage over the big fellas? If there's need for tech help once on the service, will there be in-home service calls for that? Will people expect or...

Why is someone at your home for mobile service?

What does a "Dish Boost Installer" do, and what does a "Boost Dish technician" do...?

Wouldn't they just love that. I remember when DTV got ST (in the 90s if memory serves) and they just couldn't activate subscriptions quick enough. I can pass on the CTE League.

Right, for the ones that weren't so solidly designed and thus flexed. I seem to recall claim made that buttonhook blocks more signal than struts, because it's blocking some of the reflected (magnified) signal rather than some of the ambient signal (before reaches the dish). But yes, far more...

I never had any issue with the buttonhook as it's very solid, sliding into a tube welded to the faceplate of the center compression hub. Somehow looked better to me than the 4 struts as well. Also with the low f:d ratio it's fairly short.

Tonight I saw a Cubs game on in a bar, evidently on the Marquee channel, the Cubs' own answer to YES, and there's of course a crawl going full time at the bottom, frequently reminding to "get the app or go to marquee.com, and call your provider to watch." :confused: It's "either, or", right...

But that's actually backward- they've only been hanging onto so many TV subs because they have them for broadband. So if they're losing more from broadband now than from TV, they're cratering. Competition like fiber is coming online in more of their areas.

As an originating DiSH dealer, I of course recall the rollout of DiSH 500. I digress, but you may have noticed that I type DiSH with a small "i"- as DiSH originally did. It stands for Digital Sky Highway, a takeoff on the Internet having been referred to as the "information superhighway"...

Well the gov't in its wisdom decided that the "airwaves" which, per the 1934 Communications Act, "belong to the people," are better sold off to the highest industrial bidder as long as he uses them to commercial gain. I don't remember if or what "collatoral" gov't may have req'd of bidders in...