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Is PPV still a thing?

I haven't heard of that, except I do know that PBS affils have to remit (from 'viewers like you') based on what shows they want to run. Locals began extorting providers after legislation passed switching them from a cable "must carry" status to a self-declaratory status of either "must carry"...

The true "greed" that has propelled TV costs has come not so much from providers as from content. You have local stations demanding exorbitant amounts from sat/cable for what is otherwise free, over-the-air ad-supported content. The biggest cost driver of course is sports, which if that's your...

Great, more satellites to clutter & junk up orbital space...

This is the radiotelephony service in the UHF band that predates cellular, right? Or as I recall, it combined point-to-point with ability to contact a "mobile operator" to place a call to a phone #. We used it on the farm in the 80s. I suppose you could overhear about traffic on it, but wouldn't...

Wasn't the Apple 2e out, in color at a good deal less than 5 grand?

Great, more towers to blight the land, more microwaves assaulting the brain.

IOW we can do whatever we please, capriciously or otherwise, and you have no defensible rights here.

But can he plug into same dish?

I was going to ask how they could afford it, but....no major nets.

That's Soldier Field.

Maybe they're just gaining enough market share to start turning screws. It seems like roku's built into all of the smaller sets

It's news to me that a car can "log if (whether) an accident is your fault." Though it may be able to furnish operating parameters (such as speed) around the time of accident, either to an owner downloading data or upon subpoena to an investigatory agency, it's not going to possess any bigger...

I don't know how people still put up with commercials

Second-hand smoke hazardous to your receiver's health? Who knew?

Do those still work on today's signals?

I remember the in-receiver OTA tuner for the ViP being awful

If over-the-air television featured programming like in the 60s-80s, they might be satisfied with that. I suppose with enough of the MeTV's and the like on enough subchannels, they might get by. Broadcast TV sure isn't picking up any of a younger viewership, get the big nets aim for a youth...

Moore's Law still at work, huh, 50% more capacity, same price

You haven't mentioned having the receiver perform a "check switch" after connecting and aiming the DPP (Dish Pro Plus) LNBF. It's required for it to perform this checkout for it to know what kind of LNBF scheme it's interfacing with so that it can switch orbital slots and polarity as needed for...

Larger would always be better and never worse, simply due to stability. Smaller rocks & rolls more. Doubt you could use sat-dish internet due to its being commissioned to a fixed location(?)

Seems I spent half of my C-band career swapping out bad actuators and trying to find a type that would hold up. I was in the later C-band era of the lightweight mesh dishes, so didn't need heavy ball-screw units, but winds would take a toll. One type I tried would even turn the motor and change...

Toshiba 100, that takes me back...It was the one that had the graphic display that lit up with a pointer to indicate where the dish was moving, very cool. The 80 was really the same thing but without the graphic display. They had a capacitor that would dry out and stop the dish from moving...

I always thought it was off the coast of England, along with Guernsey, another milk cow breed. Maybe just because they're British. They played a part in the war when I believe Hitler took them. Jerseys are the typical black/white spotted, while Guenseys are an orangeish tan with some white.

I'm from the old ViP school, but I believe you should get signal directly from the dish. Was the splitter used in order to connect more than one receiver? Likely you are off-aim. Even a very cheap signal meter would help a lot, but it's possible to get back on track by making sure the skew...