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Don't Leave Installation Dollars On The Table
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, accessories are the most profitable product category in retail. This starts with all the A/V cables and hardware necessary to distribute the signals.
Those of us in the wholesale consumer electronics industry are all very fortunate. While sales of practically everything else have slowed dramatically, more and more Americans are staying home trying to save a buck in this economy and looking for ways to stay entertained while they're doing it. Nielsen Media Research just said people are watching more television than ever before and buying HDTVs, which are cheaper than ever thanks to manufacturers' price cuts.
Audio and Video Cables: Does Quality Matter?
The opportunity available to installers and integrators is to make their customers realize that any home theater set-up is only as good as the signal distribution products used to distribute the digital information.
At 6 feet or under, some say a cable is a cable. But not all cables are designed or manufactured the same, nor do they perform the same or deliver the true digital experience possible with the home theater systems of today. In a recent article entitled "Audio and Video Cables: Does Quality Matter?", Ralph Graves, one of the blog editors for Crutchfield, recently wrote, "Whether you're a hardcore gearhead or you just bought your first home theater system, you want to get the most out of your audio/video equipment. Poorly made cables can allow noise and interference to compromise the signals coming from your source components, resulting in a subpar listening or viewing experience."
Considering the expense incurred by your customers in the purchase of their home theater equipment, shouldn't you encourage them to take advantage of the full picture and sound quality available by upgrading those supplied signal distribution products or selling HDMI or Optical cable where none was supplied by the manufacturer?
You have seen the quality of the cables that come FREE with home entertainment equipment. It's dictated by manufacturer's price considerations and is obviously not the highest quality. Some of this equipment comes with standard 20 year old cable technology.
Your opportunity is to replace or upgrade those standard cables with ones that deliver the full impact and HD experience of what your customer's home entertainment equipment can deliver to televisions, computer monitors, digital games and home audio systems.
And when it comes to selling A/V cables, the education of your installers and sales personnel and/or your customer is paramount. It is very difficult for sales people to accept the concept that someone would pay 2 or 4 times as much for a cable, not realizing that a large volume of the public will pay more for quality and performance in a cable in a "big box store" such as Best Buy.
They simply do not understand that all cables are not manufactured the same or perform the same. Your sales people will ask you when they see the prices for quality wholesale cables, "Why would anyone pay this much for a cable?"
Ask them to unscrew the connectors on your present cable lines or manufacturer supplied cables. When they see the way the quality cables are manufactured compared to the "cheaper" cables supplied by the component manufacturers, they forget about the flashy outside cover and understand the value difference.
Why should distributors, retail dealers, installers, builders, integrators and general wholesale consumer electronics dealers be interested in quality cable lines? By adding to and/or expanding your present business product offerings in the home theater signal distribution accessory category, you become a more competitive player in one of the few retail categories still alive, well and very profitable.
And installers and integrators should carry quality cables and upgraded antennas on their trucks. Much of the expense in installing cable, satellite and Off-Air antennas is in the truck roll, so while you're on-site, maximize your profits by selling upgraded cables or missing HDMI cables, Optical cable and RF Passives and Hardware and installing them to supplement your new cable, satellite or home theater installations revenue.
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, accessories are the most profitable product category in retail. This starts with all the A/V cables and hardware necessary to distribute the signals.
Those of us in the wholesale consumer electronics industry are all very fortunate. While sales of practically everything else have slowed dramatically, more and more Americans are staying home trying to save a buck in this economy and looking for ways to stay entertained while they're doing it. Nielsen Media Research just said people are watching more television than ever before and buying HDTVs, which are cheaper than ever thanks to manufacturers' price cuts.
Audio and Video Cables: Does Quality Matter?
The opportunity available to installers and integrators is to make their customers realize that any home theater set-up is only as good as the signal distribution products used to distribute the digital information.
At 6 feet or under, some say a cable is a cable. But not all cables are designed or manufactured the same, nor do they perform the same or deliver the true digital experience possible with the home theater systems of today. In a recent article entitled "Audio and Video Cables: Does Quality Matter?", Ralph Graves, one of the blog editors for Crutchfield, recently wrote, "Whether you're a hardcore gearhead or you just bought your first home theater system, you want to get the most out of your audio/video equipment. Poorly made cables can allow noise and interference to compromise the signals coming from your source components, resulting in a subpar listening or viewing experience."
Considering the expense incurred by your customers in the purchase of their home theater equipment, shouldn't you encourage them to take advantage of the full picture and sound quality available by upgrading those supplied signal distribution products or selling HDMI or Optical cable where none was supplied by the manufacturer?
You have seen the quality of the cables that come FREE with home entertainment equipment. It's dictated by manufacturer's price considerations and is obviously not the highest quality. Some of this equipment comes with standard 20 year old cable technology.
Your opportunity is to replace or upgrade those standard cables with ones that deliver the full impact and HD experience of what your customer's home entertainment equipment can deliver to televisions, computer monitors, digital games and home audio systems.
And when it comes to selling A/V cables, the education of your installers and sales personnel and/or your customer is paramount. It is very difficult for sales people to accept the concept that someone would pay 2 or 4 times as much for a cable, not realizing that a large volume of the public will pay more for quality and performance in a cable in a "big box store" such as Best Buy.
They simply do not understand that all cables are not manufactured the same or perform the same. Your sales people will ask you when they see the prices for quality wholesale cables, "Why would anyone pay this much for a cable?"
Ask them to unscrew the connectors on your present cable lines or manufacturer supplied cables. When they see the way the quality cables are manufactured compared to the "cheaper" cables supplied by the component manufacturers, they forget about the flashy outside cover and understand the value difference.
Why should distributors, retail dealers, installers, builders, integrators and general wholesale consumer electronics dealers be interested in quality cable lines? By adding to and/or expanding your present business product offerings in the home theater signal distribution accessory category, you become a more competitive player in one of the few retail categories still alive, well and very profitable.
And installers and integrators should carry quality cables and upgraded antennas on their trucks. Much of the expense in installing cable, satellite and Off-Air antennas is in the truck roll, so while you're on-site, maximize your profits by selling upgraded cables or missing HDMI cables, Optical cable and RF Passives and Hardware and installing them to supplement your new cable, satellite or home theater installations revenue.
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Marques Brownlee
Time for another AWESOME video from Marques Brownlee!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
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The official MKBHD Website!
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iJustine
Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m44iKsdN1-Q
Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA RTX Spark launch party!!!
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m44iKsdN1-Q
Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA RTX Spark launch party!!!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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Has anyone subscribed to NBA League Pass for 2026-27 and try to link their account to NBA.com to stream League Pass? I purchased it for 2026-27, and when I linked, I got a message saying success, but then I receive an error that my linked subscription does not include the preseason games for NBA League Pass. Is that how it has always been? I know satellite doesn't have the preseason games on the NBA League Pass channels, but I thought that I was able to stream the preseason once I linked my account on NBA.com?
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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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Nah, you just don't understand how ignore works, which is why you made your own NFL thread thinking there wasn't one
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
You're no fun.
I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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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.
www.apple.com
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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
You should have looked in the APP STORE instead.
