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Once you start using a DVR, you find it very hard to ever "go back". :) Picking what you want to watch is so much better than taking whatever is fed to you! Brad

Everyone was (is?) paying a "rural access fee," or something like that, which helped pay for running phone lines to rural locations. BTW, the same arguments that the houses were too far apart to wire applies to phone and electricity. They are still far apart and they are likely to be at the...

Good point. I tend to grab a point a bit too hard sometimes. :) Brad

I am qualified to say that Christians are supposed to "love one another" since that is a clear command in Scripture. Those who don't follow the Scriptures can certainly do whatever they please. :) "If someone doesn't love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. "...

I am a bit more shy about proclaiming I am better than anyone else Bill. Sounds a bit like pride in this case.... If your statement is true, you are certainly not staying faithful to the "love your brother" command, especially for those "in the faith". You are certainly free to believe...

Woo Hoo!!!! Now SkyAngel IPTV viewers can watch male enhancement/performance ads.... That should go over well with SkyAngel's audience! :p (They disgusted me so much I stopped watch a few local games because of them.) Brad

So? Who says DSL is the way high speed Internet will come? It took a long time to get everyone hooked up to the electrical and phone grids, with some serious challenges along the way. I don't follow it closely, but I have heard WiFi is struggling a bit too. Who knows what technology will...

They are also on the Internet. In fact, I think that is where they started, though I am not certain on that. Brad

Yes Bill, some of us are really that naive! And quite proud of it I will add! This is the SkyAngel forum, and since SA had a focus on Christian programming, it is quite reasonable to expect Christians to post on this forum, including those that take God seriously. He wouldn't be much of a...

I would expect that SA is no longer an issue since they don't own any transponders. :) Brad

That's her job! :) I agree that high-speed access will spread to many more places. In fact, it will allow much more interactivity since it won't have to be based on a single satellite sending a signal down, but it will allow signals to go all over. Just as electricity and phone service...

IPTV has troubles because IPTV has troulbes, simple as that. :) I suspect it will be a few years before it is viable, if then. It could be like VoIP (Voice over the Internet). It is only now being really good. Verizon has it as part of the package with their Fios service. It has worked...

I know this is not SkyAngel, but several people wondered here about alternatives for Christian programming and this should be a consideration for all leaving SkyAngel. I just got an email from GOD TV telling that they are trying to get on Dish. I assume this is because SkyAngel is going...

I have been gone for a while. They finally installed Verizon Fios in my area and I got a bundled package for Internet access, cable and phone for $110 per month. That saves me money on access costs, though the 2 TivoHD units I bought cost me a bit. (Once you have a DVR, you have to have a...

I am not sure which ones you are referring to, but the link had a lot of questions and answers when I just looked. Perhaps everything isn't a grand conspiracy by SkyAngel.... :) Brad

I don't think it really matters who has high speed Internet. I believe they were going under and this is a desperate grasp to stay alive.... Brad

That is only true if this were an investment. It was not. It was a consumer good of sorts. No one expected to be able to resell their lifetime sub at a profit down the line. In addition, you had use of the product along the way, something that would not be true of the investment example...

Why would they need radio channels over IPTV? Most of those (all?) are already on the Internet. :) Brad

It is only 2 M up, but that seems sufficient for me now. :) It is also the only choice. Brad

I will bet SkyAngel is struggling to survive at all. I bet we will ultimately find out they had a lot less money than anyone believed, even with all the cost increases and $5 for the extra channels. Brad

I now have 15 M down speed, sufficient enough to handle many things. I agree IPTV was tough to think of when I was at slower speeds, but with Fios it now becomes conceivable. I will not be going for SkyAngel's offering though. If I was going to do anything, God TV (Welcome to GOD.TV) looks...

Perhaps, but I can think of a lot more ways to make money easier than taking over SkyAngel. In fact, I can't see how "making money" and SkyAngel overlap a whole lot at all, which is why I find the accusations as bad as SkyAngel's behavior. Brad

How do you know that, at least in the context you imply? I think incompetence is a much more likely reason. :) Brad

It appears to be on Verizon Fios, though I only looked at the channel description last night. I am finding I barely even have enough time to watch the few HD shows I find interesting. HD (something SkyAngel was not headed for) does appear to be compelling once you start watching it. Brad

While I think they handled many things poorly, I don't see how involvement here would help them at all. A lot of hostility exists here and any rep that dared speak up would probably get thoroughly flamed, at least until the moderators stepped in. Anything short of either going back to the old...