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We are told by DISH Network that the below article contains a number of inaccurate facts. I have worked digging for answers and believe I have found most of the inaccuracies which I posted at http://www.satelliteguys.us/pub-members-bar-grill/275184-dish-hopper-coming-ces-15.html#post2742800 however DISH will not officially confirm the information, so please take all information here with a grain of salt. In other words it's not gospel!
We will know everthing FOR SURE next Monday afternoon when we kick off our 2012 CES Coverage from Las Vegas! STAY TUNED!
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DATE: 01?10?2012
HEADLINE: Clayton Gets Hopping With Dish Campaigns
The new multi?room home?networking tools are central to the subscriber?challenged satellite TV service's
new marketing push and promise to, among other things, allow subscribers to record and cache all of the
prime time programs from local CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX affiliates each night between 8 and 11 p.m. and
hold them for up to eight days. That way, viewers will rarely miss a favorite major network program again,
Clayton said.
Dish CEO Joe Clayton presents the Hopper and the Joey (in his hands), key components in a new multi?room
DVR networking system.
Dish has named the automatic network recording capability Primetime Anytime, and will use it as part of a
massive advertising campaign Clayton has planned to grab eyeballs away from DirecTV, cable and telco TV
competitors.
The Hopper, which uses a kangaroo as its trademark, is a DVR and household server on steroids. It contains
2TB of internal storage capacity, three tuners, the ability to record up to six programs at a time, and can relay
programs from the Hopper's hard drive and tuners to up to three remote rooms in the house.
Viewers, in effect, gain the ability to "hop from room to room" viewing the same program on different TVs.
"We want people demanding a Hopper," Clayton said. "It's fun, it's entertainment, it's emotional and it's
different from what everybody else has."
It's smaller partner, the Joey (as in a baby kangaroo), is actually a thin?client box that is tethered via a MoCA
coaxial cable system to the Hopper to share live and recorded TV programs in up to three additional rooms.
The system will incorporate a new interactive program guide that features a more ergonomic look and feel,
and provides access to programs recorded on the Primetime Anytime service.
In addition to launching the Hopper here, Clayton is also polishing up the Dish facade by dropping "Network"
from the brand name ? it's just Dish now on the marketing side ? introducing a new logo and amping up a
commercial advertising blitz to appeal to families.
"The new Dish is about fun and family entertainment," Clayton said. "It's not about model numbers or set?top
boxes. Each member of the family can be entertained together or with different programming playing at the
same time."
Clayton will be appealing to potential subscribers with the pitch: "more music, more magic, more memory,
more movies."
On the music end, Clayton is leveraging his past role as CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio to enhance and expand
SiriusXM music channels available on the Dish TV platform.
"We believe music is under served by cable TV and DirecTV," Clayton contended. "Today, we offer in our
higher?end packages up to 65 channels of SiriusXM commercial?free music. We are going to expand that
virtually across our entire platform and move it from channel 6000, where it is hidden, down to channel 99,
and when you hit 99 and then hit 61, you'll see SiriusXM Blue Grass come up and play, along with a picture
of the cover of the album the song comes from."
Clayton said in addition to existing SiriusXM channels, Dish plans to add a couple of additional music
services, hinting that "the Latino market is a growth market in an otherwise saturated pay?TV field, so we
will be adding 15 channels to appeal to that audience."
Dish will launch the Hopper and Joey with a promotional campaign, starting with Blockbuster At Home. The
new effort will play off of the previous Blockbuser Movie Pass campaign offering additional family and
children's programming in the package.
Subscribers who sign up will receive three months of free DVD rentals by mail, more than 40 channels of HD
programming, and more than 3,000 children's and family titles added to the existing library of streaming
Blockbuster on Demand movies, for a total of more than 8,000 movies and television programs.
For those without broadband service, Dish will offer a program called Blockbuster Unplugged, which will
download via satellite more than 500 movies at a rate of 10 a day.
Dish will also offer a program this spring for existing Dish subscribers who do not have a DVR?equipped
tuner decoder. This will provide an external hard drive that will plug into legacy equipment to deliver DVR
functionality to a standalone tuner box.
To engage consumers curious about Dish service, Clayton's team has developed a 72?hour sampling service
of the most popular movies and TV shows, called Dish Test Drive. This will use a downloaded app and cloud
service to provide live broadcast TV channels.
"You sign up online and we will provide Dish service to your phone, tablet or portable PC to try out," Clayton
said. "We believe people will get hooked on the service, plus it is a lead generator for us."
Dish will play up the various promotions with a new advertising campaign leveraging national TV spots to
talk about new products and features. The ads will center on Dish delivering more variety, more innovation
and more value.
Dish plans to tie the spots into its online efforts by launching a redesigned website, Clayton said.
Highlights: satellite, DirecTV, cable, Satellite, broadband
**** NOTE FROM SCOTT ****
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We are told by DISH Network that the below article contains a number of inaccurate facts. I have worked digging for answers and believe I have found most of the inaccuracies which I posted at http://www.satelliteguys.us/pub-members-bar-grill/275184-dish-hopper-coming-ces-15.html#post2742800 however DISH will not officially confirm the information, so please take all information here with a grain of salt. In other words it's not gospel!
We will know everthing FOR SURE next Monday afternoon when we kick off our 2012 CES Coverage from Las Vegas! STAY TUNED!
*************************
*** END NOTE FROM SCOTT **
*************************
DATE: 01?10?2012
HEADLINE: Clayton Gets Hopping With Dish Campaigns
The new multi?room home?networking tools are central to the subscriber?challenged satellite TV service's
new marketing push and promise to, among other things, allow subscribers to record and cache all of the
prime time programs from local CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX affiliates each night between 8 and 11 p.m. and
hold them for up to eight days. That way, viewers will rarely miss a favorite major network program again,
Clayton said.
Dish CEO Joe Clayton presents the Hopper and the Joey (in his hands), key components in a new multi?room
DVR networking system.
Dish has named the automatic network recording capability Primetime Anytime, and will use it as part of a
massive advertising campaign Clayton has planned to grab eyeballs away from DirecTV, cable and telco TV
competitors.
The Hopper, which uses a kangaroo as its trademark, is a DVR and household server on steroids. It contains
2TB of internal storage capacity, three tuners, the ability to record up to six programs at a time, and can relay
programs from the Hopper's hard drive and tuners to up to three remote rooms in the house.
Viewers, in effect, gain the ability to "hop from room to room" viewing the same program on different TVs.
"We want people demanding a Hopper," Clayton said. "It's fun, it's entertainment, it's emotional and it's
different from what everybody else has."
It's smaller partner, the Joey (as in a baby kangaroo), is actually a thin?client box that is tethered via a MoCA
coaxial cable system to the Hopper to share live and recorded TV programs in up to three additional rooms.
The system will incorporate a new interactive program guide that features a more ergonomic look and feel,
and provides access to programs recorded on the Primetime Anytime service.
In addition to launching the Hopper here, Clayton is also polishing up the Dish facade by dropping "Network"
from the brand name ? it's just Dish now on the marketing side ? introducing a new logo and amping up a
commercial advertising blitz to appeal to families.
"The new Dish is about fun and family entertainment," Clayton said. "It's not about model numbers or set?top
boxes. Each member of the family can be entertained together or with different programming playing at the
same time."
Clayton will be appealing to potential subscribers with the pitch: "more music, more magic, more memory,
more movies."
On the music end, Clayton is leveraging his past role as CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio to enhance and expand
SiriusXM music channels available on the Dish TV platform.
"We believe music is under served by cable TV and DirecTV," Clayton contended. "Today, we offer in our
higher?end packages up to 65 channels of SiriusXM commercial?free music. We are going to expand that
virtually across our entire platform and move it from channel 6000, where it is hidden, down to channel 99,
and when you hit 99 and then hit 61, you'll see SiriusXM Blue Grass come up and play, along with a picture
of the cover of the album the song comes from."
Clayton said in addition to existing SiriusXM channels, Dish plans to add a couple of additional music
services, hinting that "the Latino market is a growth market in an otherwise saturated pay?TV field, so we
will be adding 15 channels to appeal to that audience."
Dish will launch the Hopper and Joey with a promotional campaign, starting with Blockbuster At Home. The
new effort will play off of the previous Blockbuser Movie Pass campaign offering additional family and
children's programming in the package.
Subscribers who sign up will receive three months of free DVD rentals by mail, more than 40 channels of HD
programming, and more than 3,000 children's and family titles added to the existing library of streaming
Blockbuster on Demand movies, for a total of more than 8,000 movies and television programs.
For those without broadband service, Dish will offer a program called Blockbuster Unplugged, which will
download via satellite more than 500 movies at a rate of 10 a day.
Dish will also offer a program this spring for existing Dish subscribers who do not have a DVR?equipped
tuner decoder. This will provide an external hard drive that will plug into legacy equipment to deliver DVR
functionality to a standalone tuner box.
To engage consumers curious about Dish service, Clayton's team has developed a 72?hour sampling service
of the most popular movies and TV shows, called Dish Test Drive. This will use a downloaded app and cloud
service to provide live broadcast TV channels.
"You sign up online and we will provide Dish service to your phone, tablet or portable PC to try out," Clayton
said. "We believe people will get hooked on the service, plus it is a lead generator for us."
Dish will play up the various promotions with a new advertising campaign leveraging national TV spots to
talk about new products and features. The ads will center on Dish delivering more variety, more innovation
and more value.
Dish plans to tie the spots into its online efforts by launching a redesigned website, Clayton said.
Highlights: satellite, DirecTV, cable, Satellite, broadband
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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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iJustine
Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bmgQFnQEqVo
Direct YouTube Link - New colors of the HomePod Mini 2! Blue, pink and green!
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bmgQFnQEqVo
Direct YouTube Link - New colors of the HomePod Mini 2! Blue, pink and green!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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House Passes AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act
(Washington, DC) - The U.S. House has passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, marking a major step forward for broadcasters and listeners who have pushed to keep AM radio available in new cars and
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. can we say over priced garbage!!!
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1gKXwyGz68c
Direct YouTube Link - Will AI Be Rejected in Game Development's Future? #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1gKXwyGz68c
Direct YouTube Link - Will AI Be Rejected in Game Development's Future? #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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Hello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank 
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Take the cover off, show me pics of the board of the bad one and also the bottom of the board. I'm an old hardware electronics tech plus a satellite dealer; I fixed a lot of FTA and regular receivers. I may be able to fix it for you. And yes, they got hit by lightning; it's best to email me the pics at diamondsatellite@snet.net or call me at 203-232-8888. I give you a 50-50 chance of fixing it; I do have spare parts. my phone is a fliptop phoneHello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank
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a good surge protector will help to.Hello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank
Seems like I remember that now, with my V9 I manually entered anyway on 105, easier for me to pick the channel later
IS Amiko MIRA 3 any good ???
Can you recommend the best to cover all bases. NO BEEPS on certain channels 101w (NEWSMAX ,NEWS NATION), a clock that keeps working STEADY for timed recording ,solid unit with good lifespan. My Amiko died AND my Linkbox has NO Favorites Button and BEEPS on many channels. Picking up 105 west with a NEW SHED IN THE Way with 6 foot Cband ..95 percent quality ...unbelievable.
Can you recommend the best to cover all bases. NO BEEPS on certain channels 101w (NEWSMAX ,NEWS NATION), a clock that keeps working STEADY for timed recording ,solid unit with good lifespan. My Amiko died AND my Linkbox has NO Favorites Button and BEEPS on many channels. Picking up 105 west with a NEW SHED IN THE Way with 6 foot Cband ..95 percent quality ...unbelievable.
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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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Once the 24 gets here, there won't be anymore Conference Championships .... or so they say.
Oh what the hell, we really don't need Conferences anymore either ...
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPQDqqbatQ
Direct YouTube Link - Whiskey Pick: Frey Ranch Straight Bourbon
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPQDqqbatQ
Direct YouTube Link - Whiskey Pick: Frey Ranch Straight Bourbon
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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