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Those could be combined.

Are they required to put on small independent broadcast stations under "must carry"?

At least they won't be updating the 722.

I would suppose that streaming will become more seamless as it becomes more mainstreamed. Maybe. With cable/sat, you can literally turn it on and then just step through all of your available channels, or short list thereof. If you add streaming you have to switch from the sat remote to the TV's...

Or else a combined service would need to operate dual systems. Did they merge because they were losing subs? Back in the day, there were separate VHF & UHF "markets"- with just 12 VHF channels (no ch.1) and need to not slot adjacent in same area, the bigger urbs which were assigned slots first...

That would drive me crazy. My 722 is virtually instantaneous.

Streaming will be the next senior seminar deal. 722 here as well. Uninterested in hopper, which probably contributed to my getting out of satellite dealing. My focus was on whole-house systems where there didn't need to be a receiver box at every TV set, or at any set.

If they were really hobbyists there remains plenty to play with as far as satellite beyond the DBS duopoly. Simply, they probably really weren't. There's always the impetus toward newer is better. DBS is now old hat while streaming is the new shiny object. The anecdote about the beginnings of...

Is this their original HQ, or like when did they buy it? At TS98 (the first one) we toured their then executive HQ they'd set up in a dead shopping mall.

So what's new? They direct-sold DiSH to most of my area when I needed to "hit goals" AND the people needed a local servicer they never got.

It was $19.99 to start with. I wonder what's the eldest receiver someone has still active

Not just your opinion, other than I believe he was actually that way from jump and simply conned everyone. Maybe himself included.

How splintered everything now is. Getting harder to imagine back to when virtually everyone in the country was on one of 3 network ch's.

It will run over the dog's leg.

DiSH has been mesmerized by PPV/VOD since its launch. Purchasing a distressed VOD asset would have been right in their game plan.

DiSH has always leaned heavily into PPV. Whether or not it's a huge revenue stream, they've always wanted it to be. So they're not doing actual-use hard drive math, they're simply pushing out PPV (VOD) as always. Back when DiSH first launched they were pushing it. The receivers would readily...

I never really did VCR- didn't like messing with the tapes, setting timers...and never rented movies. But love DVR.

But linear's only going to get worse & worse

There was a miniseries out recently on ID (crime channel) focusing on the rise of cable "tween" shows in the 90s (Nick & Disney) and how there were predators on sets of some of them.

Except that with streaming, the content purveyors can essentially charge a "DVR" fee for no-ad shows in a way they couldn't with service provider DVR.

But you turned to the radio first- do you have radio dvr? Whomever has the science channel has already been at defunding it for awhile.

I am NOT blaming their frontline workforce, and in many cases they too were victims. On a different DiSH-oriented dealer board the guys on there would regularly ridicule DiSH CSRs and co.-direct installers. But the reason the CSRs did and acted as they did, in customer- (and dealer-) negative...

I wouldn't say it's just for reasons of security, though regular credit card use itself is much lower for older seniors. Mainly it's simply in having to deal with both technical aspects such as using a "smart" TV and in managing disparate subscriptions. They really just want to watch TV, and...

Exactly. They were publicly TRAINED not to stay by the general loss of good regard for the provider (vs. competitor) owing to their customer-negative business practices, said training then being REINFORCED by increasing freebies handed out for switching providers. IOW DiSH found itself...

BECAUSE they had shot themselves in the feet so many times. If they had stuck to a model of "customer first" rather than chiseling at every turn, including supporting & promoting local responsible servicing, they wouldn't have had to go to such progressively greater extents of "freebies" to keep...