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Will94
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Eyes of Texas now upon Longhorn Network - TexasSports.com - Official website of University of Texas Athletics - Texas Longhorns

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For any of you who don't know, ESPN's The Longhorn Network launches Friday, August 26. I was curious as to what you non-partisans thought of this. I will freely admit that I despise Texas and realize that might cloud my judgement. That having been said, here are my thoughts.

First, I wish the the Big 12 had created the Big 12 Network when the Big Ten made theirs. We might even have been able to keep Nebraska (I couldn't care less about losing Colorado) if we had done this. The Longhorn Network makes a Big 12 Network impossible now, but I don't think that the conference will be around in five years, so that isn't terribly important at this point.

My other thought is what are they going to show 24/7? They get two football games, a lot of non-conference basketball, and an unknown amount of baseball. The Big 12 has a dismal baseball contract with FSN, so I don't know how much The Longhorn Network would be allowed to show.

The 11 teams of the Big Ten have a hard time filling that channel 24/7. How many times do they think that people are going to watch the same volleyball game or swim meet? In the Spring they have track and field, golf, and tennis. I just don't see where they will be able to get content.

Supposedly they are going to show high school football. High school football is just absurdly popular in this state. That having been said the University Interscholastic League (UIL) doesn't allow friday night games to be televised. Also, wouldn't airing a game that has a kid they are recruiting be an NCAA violation? The only response that I have heard on this subject is that they would have ESPN select the games that they are going to air. If they are going to air games from any of the football factory high schools in Texas, they are going to be loaded with Longhorn recruits, and I don't see how it would be legal.

Then there is the issue of carriage. With them having no professional sports, DirecTV and Dish won't pick them up even with the eternal bully ESPN pushing for carriage. I can't see this station being carried on cable systems outside of this state, and even then, I don't see it as a basic channel outside of a few of the big markets and Austin.

One final thought, this network is a 20 year, $300 million agreement. 20 years?!? What if it goes they way of the KC Royals network or the Trailblazers network? To me, this thing has disaster written all over it.

What do you guys think?
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Derwin0
Texas probably doesn't care if it's carried outside the state or not. And pretty much every cable system in Texas will carry it, so it'll be doing it's job.
Directv & Dish could probably just put it onto Texas spotbeams and that'll make the subscribers there happy.

As for showing high school games, that would be very popular, of course which games do you show? There are hundreds going on every Friday in Texas, if not thousands.

As for being an NCAA violations, the NCAA has no controls over schools TV contracts (per the Supreme Court), so Texas is free to do what it wants with it's Television network. And if ESPN is the one picking the channels, then I don't see any kind of violation. Texas isn't getting any recruiting benefit by showing the kids on TV. If anything it hurts them, as other schools would get a better look at the kid.

For football season, while it would only show 2 Longhorn games, they could easily show other non conference games from within the State, all it takes is a deal with that school. After all, why wouldn't A&M (or Houston, or any other school in Texas) not want it's non-conference games shown, even if it's on the Longhorn network, it would still be shown statewide.
Will94
As for showing high school games, that would be very popular, of course which games do you show? There are hundreds going on every Friday in Texas, if not thousands.
They can't show Friday night football. The UIL won't allow it. Any games they show would have to be at another time. The few games that FSN shows are usually Saturday afternoon. FSN is starting a kind of Red Zone Channel for high school football in Texas this season, and they can't show live coverage either.

TV-Radio notebook: Friday night TV lights warming up | David Barron | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
It won't be entirely analogous to RedZone in that there will be no live action, owing to the University Interscholastic League's rule against live Friday night football broadcasts. But Fox will incorporate camera crews at several dozen sites for highlights that will air throughout the evening, and stringers will use Skype for live updates.
Fans also will be encouraged to send in score updates via social media that will run on a crawl throughout the evening.
Local plans remain up in the air for the 11 p.m. time slot.
As I understand it, the Longhorn Network won't show any road games. The Big 12 just signed a big contract with Fox. As I understand it, ESPN will have to buy rights from Fox to keep airing Big 12 games.


Sources Say Annual Value Of Fox-Big 12 TV Deal To Increase 350% - SportsBusiness Daily | SportsBusiness Journal
The deal would have FSN double the number of football games it is allowed to carry, from 20 to more than 40. Fox also is keeping all digital and mobile rights to those games, and it would retain cable exclusivity for all Big 12 contests. That means that ESPN will be able to show Big 12 games only if it buys them in syndication from Fox. It also gives Fox flexibility to carry games on its other cable channels.
mdonnelly
It should be handled like the BYU channel that's been on cable for years. Let them show baseball, swimming, volleyball and track, but not football.
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What do you guys think?

I agree. I do not see this as a successful network. It has every chance at being virtually "stillborn", and gone within a year.

Programming: You covered it. A couple of football games, really its two worst games. Big deal. Non-conference basketball. Big deal. And "olympic sports" and baseball. And what. This is about 40 hours of worthwhile programming crammed into 8736 hours.

Carriage: They want a whopping 40 cents per subscriber in Texas. And, shockingly in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico. And an unknown amount elsewhere. Lets think about that. A general rerun based channel like TBS or USA gets maybe 5 cents, and lesser channels are often a part of a package and might get 5 cents for the whole package. 40 cents? And they want to be in either the "basic" package (the standard minimum package everyone gets) or, as a fallback in the "sports tier" (in a mix with the likes of the extra ESPN varriants, NFLN, etc). Believe it or not, there are millions of people in Texas who fall into the following groups: don't follow sports; don't follow college sports; don't follow UT; and lastly and most importantly, might loosly follow UT but are not willing (or able) to pay that much for this little content and are content to listen to a football game or two on the radio, or to head to BW3.

They have to convince an entire state's set of cable operators. And DISH and DirecTV. At 40 cents!!

Then comes the other three states. Yes, like any broad-based school, there are Texas alumni around its region, indeed around the country. But as a part of a basic package. In OKLAHOMA!!! No system with any on-the-ground knowledge of its customers in the surrounding states is going to tell them their bills just went up so they can watch Texas girl's volleyball.

Then the nation. This is a huge problem. Texas is a nice program. But no better nor more passionatly followed than 30 or 40 other programs we all could name. If this deal actually worked, then what? You can forget cable out of state. No cable system has the capacity to carry 30 or 40 such channels, and it would be a burden to DirecTV to do so.

The only way I see this working is as an internet based deal, and I think we are still a decade away from enough people having enough bandwidth and savy to do that.

And then you have A&M. IMHO, while it still would have been a bad idea, it would have been a less bad idea to have doubled the amount of available material, and maybe added, some substantial %age more fans, by making this a joint venture with A&M. Or even with several other Texas colleges.

I say this goes the way the Royals network, etc. Its just not viable.
Ramy
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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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Best fan sign I saw during the ND-BYU game: "Bear ate your Lucky Charms!" (Bear being the Cougars' QB). I was going to suggest, "Have you or your team been involved in a Carr crash?"
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
Yup, I agree, I'd rather be 2 or 3 till the last few weeks.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
After having experienced Gus Ferguson trying to call soccer games, I'm uncertain why NFL football analysts get hate. Even the "worst" of them are pretty good.
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Jalen Hurts out indefinitely as they treat and monitor a superficial blood clot in his leg.


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Browns lead the AFC North 🤣

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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
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No idea what improvements might be involved.
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bookworm370
Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.
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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.
My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning. She hit FF and it went to 15x FF.
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Wife bought me a t-shirt that has "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Here's the one I need:
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dishstaller
Here's the one I need:
Just ordered one....that's great.
jsmit86
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
long_time_Dish
They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
Oh, you mean "soon"? :biggrin
Almighty1
It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
I guess they will be busy when lots of people start asking for rollbacks to H708 now that you mention that downgrades of software does exist because it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner and the IR Remote problems in H710-H713.
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navychop
it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner

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SuperDish_Fan23
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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HipKat
I think they were more of a transitional receiver bridging the VIPs to the Hopper. They were a PITA to install and were buggy. Personally, I thought at the time that they were the best receiver out there. The versatility of the VIP's with the new Hopper GUI and, by far, the coolest-looking front plate and lighting.
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Well if it is because of reliability that wouldnt shock me.I went through 5 or 6 of them in little over 2 years. I loved the Sling when it worked! Saved lots of money having it in the day. That was probably 15 or 16 years ago?
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I think they were more of a transitional receiver bridging the VIPs to the Hopper. They were a PITA to install and were buggy. Personally, I thought at the time that they were the best receiver out there. The versatility of the VIP's with the new Hopper GUI and, by far, the coolest-looking front plate and lighting.
I don't recall that they came out just before hopper, but rather that they came out even before 722. Or could be thinking of 921.

As to the title pf the post, "rare" does not necessarily mean valuable or desirable.
Nominal
I don't recall that they came out just before hopper, but rather that they came out even before 722. Or could be thinking of 921.

As to the title pf the post, "rare" does not necessarily mean valuable or desirable.
You are thinking of the 921. The 922 was the first DVR with Sling functionality built in (that was eventually disabled along with the Sling Adapter for the 722s and the 1st Hopper because they relied on now-defunct Adobe Flash technology). With the bugginess described by others and the removal of its marquee feature (Sling) the 922 faded into obscurity once the Hopper 2 with built in Sling was released and they finally made the concept into a fully functional product.
dishdude
I had one, the front panel lighting was cool, the menus were fresh and a lot more modern looking than the ViPs. However, it was very buggy and the Sling functionality just didn't work well - I think it was due to internet speeds at the time. I think I had to pay $40 for the Sling app on my phone iirc.
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Scott Greczkowski
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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....
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Take It To The Limit - The Eagles
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Take It To The Limit - The Eagles
The two instances of "The" should have been highlighted.

Take
Me to the River - Talking Heads
dishstaller
Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Bobby
I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren
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Little Bit Of Light - Strange Weather
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A Little Bit of Soap -- The Jarmels
dfergie
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We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Two Chicago style hot dogs and a Fanta orange soda.
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Little mini pepperoni pizza, green beans, apples and chocolate milk.
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Fanta orange soda.
Sitting in fridge cooling off, bought 1 along with 2 Mexican Cokes at La Tienda... (I keep a few cokes stashed as well as in fridge and camper fridge)
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Garlic cheese bread
Green beans
Apples
Chocolate Milk
Some weird noodles. ;)
(They have salad and a couple other fruits if wanted)
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Last reply · posted in TV Shows
Stargate SG-1 cancelled, Atlantis renewed
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Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
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The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show's milestone two-hundredth episode on Friday.

Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season, with the network hoping to see that the spin-off series can stand alone, according to a source.
Source Gateworld
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dfergie
The Tokra pt 1, I know pt 2 will be next...
(came across on Pluto tv live, went to media server for "clean" version)
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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
osu1991
long_time_Dish
I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
R
Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.