Search results for query: *

Actually the RSN's were purchased from Disney as Disney chose to keep their ESPN's and were then required to sell RSN's as per Justice Department requirements if Disney wanted the Fox purchase to proceed. Fox kept its broadcast stations group, Fox News, FS1 and FS2 and a few other things, but...

Yeah, no question that the old Hughes/GM days management viewed Dish as more of an irritant and believed DirecTV vastly superior to little Echostar/Dish and cheapskate Charlie. They would not even talk to Ergen involving industry issues about which both companies agreed. It was Dish who saw the...

Dish World on-line streaming and/or Internatinoals on SlingTV.

Hughes/DTV really had no choice but to re-purpose the Spacways for TV linear service because it would take too much time to start from square one and design, build DBS sats and then obtain DBS licences and slots, and that would allow Dish to have large lead. The Spaceway satellites were hastily...

yes, while cable TV mso's are subject to copyright law in regards to retransmission of local broadcasters, I thought from day one satellite was granted an exemption including the current, but near to expire, STELAR legislation. There have been attempts to take away satellite exemption on...

Roku has limitations of its OS that Android TV does not. Something like the full SlingPlayer app with its own interface is just not gonna happen on Roku OS, certainly not Roku's legacy (and low-end) products of even recent years. DirecTV will not be using "it's own equipment." DirecTV will be...

The UI will be much like the Sat service and probably have more features. This is NOT possible with a Roku. The advantage of the Android TV platform is that it allows a fair amount of customization so that any service can re-create the high-end experience or virtually same UI that DirecTV...

These disclosures/quarterly earnings reports are for the peasants: careful not to offend the SEC, but of no value to the REAL investors out there. It's all prose designed to create a safe,. calm place to invest your money or keep your stock rather than sell it, and there have been incidents...

Because DirecTV has said so on MANY occasions. It is their stated goal and desire, and it ends tremendous costs for a delivery system DirecTV views as absolutely awful in terms of cost. The 50 Cents figure you cited did NOT include the cost to build, cost to launch, and cost for launch...

And AT&T wanted DirecTV's critical mass of subscribers, and that was the bigger share of the price (DirecTV had lower costs for programming than AT&T Uverse or FiOS). Now all that's left to do is to move over to DirecTV Now and cut costs on the satellite infrastructure, and then when DirecTVNow...

You should also know that if you ever have WPIX taken off of your subscription dish will not put it back as part of your subscription. all those superstations on dish are grandfathered services.

Oh, they'll still own it but there will be absolutely no satellite side of the business it'll just be DirecTV now service. AT&T bought DirecTV for its contracts with content TV channels and critical mass of subscribers, not for its satellites. That has been made clear by AT&T a number of times...

That's why they don't pay for in orbit insurance on their satellites. It's a very valid business decision because statistically it's a huge waste of money provided you have some backup. Also whatever check the insurance company might cut you will not speed up the construction and launch of a...

Dish started carrying all of their RSN's in HD 24/7 about a year ago or so.

You can get a lot of the XD programming in HD from the dish VOD option. it will download the program in high definition and with no commercials. I watched the entire Star Wars rebels series when it first aired using the Dish VOD feature. I think the lack of commercials is some kind of...

I NEVER give out my cell phone # (except for a few restaurants now use your cell # to page you when the table is ready if you are in the bar or wait several feet from the restaurant) to ANYONE, even family (I broke down and gave my cell # to mom and brother). I only give the home number which...

And usually, these type of customers can afford an electrician and Geek Squad and whatnot to do the RIGHT and SAFE thing for their own protection. I know an HAVC business owner who was telling me how the guy with 4 high end sports cars and a huge state of the art house (lots of money) was just...

Add to that no telephone if one is using a VoIP phone service to replace telco phone service. :).

I might have missed a refernce to the ATSC 3.0 standard I don't think the speaker was talking about ATSC 3.0. I think DTV is waiting for an HDR standard to be adopted for the UHD (4K) format. There are a number of HDR standards, but Dolby's Dolby Vision and HDR10 are the most likely to be...

Well, Oppo UHD Blu-ray players are shipping with the ability to handel either HDR format (Dolby or HD10--the only two standards in serious consideration for being the HDR standard) with a subsequent firmware update, so I don't really buy DTV's excuse in not coming out with some 4K receiver...

Yeah, I think it's the AT&T management regarding this. AT&T is working to ditch the satellites, after all.

Correct! It was Congress and all the good laws they changed for the worse.

While I am glad to see more competition in the form of DirecTV NOW, I am left a little underwhelmed. I really expected DirecTV NOW to come out of the gate with DVR functionality and more ready for Prime Time. Instead we got something much closer to SlingTV than Vue. Vue does have the best...

But not EVERY show from a channel is always available, or it is embargoed for almost a YEAR!, or until the new season airs. I've learned this the hard way on shows I watch expecting them to be ON Demand, and they are not: taken down or never up in the first place. DVR is almost the only way I...

That's what I was thinking: a slip of the tongue.