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Well here are my thoughts and what has happened in my household. Since I have just recently purchased a HD-DVD player I am in a since on the losing end of the stick or so it seams. I will say that I do not hate Blu-Ray I just made my choice based of of value for the system when I made my purchase.
What has changed in my household.
Well I will purchase any HD-DVD movies from Warner that are available that intrest me thru the end. Well this applies to all distributors actually.
I have also told my wife that if its not on HD-DVD that DVD purchases are now ok. She is happy since I have now reoped purchasing of DVD's.
Will I ever purchase a blu-ray player? Maybe the value/price has to meet my range that I feel is ok. This is likely a big no tho.
I feel that more than likely the Blu-Ray movement probably will not gain enough in the long run to take out DVD. I feel this way because it is still a disc media and that most purchasers will not see a benifit. In my opinion the only real winner will probably be a flash drive type media. This will be interesting. Will I be back eating my words? More than likely not, just because at the time I will forget about this post. If and when I ever purchase a Blu-Ray player I will at least post that I have.
What has changed in my household.
Well I will purchase any HD-DVD movies from Warner that are available that intrest me thru the end. Well this applies to all distributors actually.
I have also told my wife that if its not on HD-DVD that DVD purchases are now ok. She is happy since I have now reoped purchasing of DVD's.
Will I ever purchase a blu-ray player? Maybe the value/price has to meet my range that I feel is ok. This is likely a big no tho.
I feel that more than likely the Blu-Ray movement probably will not gain enough in the long run to take out DVD. I feel this way because it is still a disc media and that most purchasers will not see a benifit. In my opinion the only real winner will probably be a flash drive type media. This will be interesting. Will I be back eating my words? More than likely not, just because at the time I will forget about this post. If and when I ever purchase a Blu-Ray player I will at least post that I have.
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Yikes!!:yikes My bad. What I meant to say was analog would be off the air. I need to elaborate my posistion, when a station goes digital the equipment needed to do that provides that station with the ability to broadcast HD if they want to. Talk to any station engineer if you doubt me on this one. Station engineer I talked to works at WRAL in Raleigh, NC (I fix his personal tools). The first 24 hour high def OTA station in this country. Any feeds that they get from the parent company CBS or shows that were not shot in HD are upconverted on 5.1. This will be the way most of America will be viewing in 2010.
Right now all new shows are shot in HD. All sporting events shown OTA are in HD. About half the soaps are now in HD and most of the game shows are moving to HD. All news shows are in HD now. And here in Raleigh were are starting to see local advertising in HD.
So, tell me, after the switch, why would your station broadcast SD on new shows when the cost will be the same to broadcast those shows as they are being downloaded to you in HD?
Lets take a look at WRAZ/Fox here in Raleigh. 50.1 shows HD 60% of the time now. They upconvert the rest just like WRAL/CBS does. Heck, they even have some local HD advertisement now. On 50.2 they show the old SD shows. And on 50.3 they show weather and news.
I would expect that over 80% of the OTA market will be working this way by 2010. By that time when you replace a tv the new one will be an HDTV. That is all Costco, Sam's and BJ's are selling now. That is all Circuit City is selling now. I expect Best Buy to be there in 2008. The future in HD is happening right now, and with the prices coming down even more in 2008 for smaller HDTVs (You can buy a 24" HDTV LCD for $300 now) those SD sets will probably not see the end of the year in 2008.
Sorry for my miscue and I hope this more fully explains the point that I was trying to make.
Right now all new shows are shot in HD. All sporting events shown OTA are in HD. About half the soaps are now in HD and most of the game shows are moving to HD. All news shows are in HD now. And here in Raleigh were are starting to see local advertising in HD.
So, tell me, after the switch, why would your station broadcast SD on new shows when the cost will be the same to broadcast those shows as they are being downloaded to you in HD?
Lets take a look at WRAZ/Fox here in Raleigh. 50.1 shows HD 60% of the time now. They upconvert the rest just like WRAL/CBS does. Heck, they even have some local HD advertisement now. On 50.2 they show the old SD shows. And on 50.3 they show weather and news.
I would expect that over 80% of the OTA market will be working this way by 2010. By that time when you replace a tv the new one will be an HDTV. That is all Costco, Sam's and BJ's are selling now. That is all Circuit City is selling now. I expect Best Buy to be there in 2008. The future in HD is happening right now, and with the prices coming down even more in 2008 for smaller HDTVs (You can buy a 24" HDTV LCD for $300 now) those SD sets will probably not see the end of the year in 2008.
Sorry for my miscue and I hope this more fully explains the point that I was trying to make.
Because the affiliates feel they can rake in more advertising dollars by broadcasting multiple SD streams. And they can since they hold their DMA's hostage. Most still broadcast an HD channel but sometimes in name only since many are so bandwidth degraded due to all of the subchannels.So, tell me, after the switch, why would your station broadcast SD on new shows when the cost will be the same to broadcast those shows as they are being downloaded to you in HD?
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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The TPN Map Excel Presents all DIRECTV Channels:
Understanding the TPN Map
Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions
National (50-States or wide/NAT+PR beams)
Local (Local-Into-Local or narrow/Spot beams)
Local (Local-Into-Local or narrow/Spot beams)
Additional tabs provide:
OTA the (Over-The-Air) Database
VOD (Video On_Demand) Records
Offline Records
Engr Records
Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
VOD (Video On_Demand) Records
Offline Records
Engr Records
Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
Domestic Satellites
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8
Understanding the TPN Map
Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions
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For the naysayers who did not think this service would make it, just added another 4.9M subscribers and that was after the removal of 1.2M Russia subscribers.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
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So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
Paramount+ has always had the CBS shows on the CBS local channel and yes with commercials. What they are doing now is releasing the OnDemand versions of the show which I believe they don't release until after the shows air on the west coast. And they will be commercial free if you subscribe to the ad free version of Paramount+.So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
I wasn't up at 3:00 am to check but they are there at 8:00 am today.
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
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Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA Told me How to Benchmark RTX Spark
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Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA Told me How to Benchmark RTX Spark
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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