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Actually, that was when Hughes then sold D* to NewsCorp.

Then one might want to rename the service "Doom". ;)

Sat providers will ALWAYS be short on bandwidth. The cable guys have wire-based UWB coming soon that will give them orders of magnitude more bandwidth (the issue is one of patents - while most companies were out fighting for UWB OTA, one company patented it for wireline...). For D/V/E*, the...

WM9 would be a great idea for ALL of the sat providers given the bandwidth constraints, but one of the things that might hold up V*'s early adoption would be, drumroll please, current negotiations to sell V* to E* (or D*, but this latter option is unlikely, IMHO). The transition will be much...

I agree with the spirit of your statement, but the problem is that for Cablevision, who is stuck with not only the assets, but also the debt, Rainbow Media decreases the value of their stock. Technically, that makes RM less than worthless for an equity owner. The issue is why would Charlie, or...

Voom would need to add almost an order of magnitude more customers to remain viable. Barring some new way for Voom to attract and retain customers better than it has in the past, it is pretty much doomed to acquisition and/or liquidation. One thing I find curious is why so many people are...

To clarify Scott's point, Companies who are going public are not allowed to make any kind of non-fact-oriented statements during the run-up to the IPO. Google's founders gave an interview to Playboy, and that almost required them to pull the IPO. Salesforce.com DID have to pull its IPO due to...

Yep, it's wishful thinking, but what else is there to talk about? ;) AS for Voom keeping anything separate in a deal, remember the worthless bit. If either D* or E* were buying just the satellite, then that would hang a lot of debt and hassle around Cablevision's neck. Since Cablevision has...

These are fairly sensitive documents, so unless you are party to the process, you will not see them publicly until they after they announce and then file with the SEC/FTC/FCC/DoJ. Given D*'s position as the subscriber lead, I would bet that Charlie would have a pretty good case that D* can't buy...

Given that V* is theoretically worthless right now as a company, I doubt that Charlie would take the pass on the content. Content is king right now, and Charlie needs some that he alone owns (ST is a big part of the franchise for D*...). BTW, a 921 is $999, not $99...

Sorry for the newb question, but would you still need two dishes, though, to get both V* and E* content? Can the new superdish really cover 40+ degrees of arc (61.5 to 100+)? I'd give up on the HD Tivo for this, and suck it up and get the 921 if this were true... Later, Bill