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We all know what Chuck D. thinks about Voom's ultimate viability; he really put his business and reputation on the line fighting for it. His track record of bucking the "smart money" isn't bad, either.
We know that Cablevision as an organization wants to shed Rainbow DBS completely, severing all ties.
We know that there are ~50,000 customers with equipment in the field, most of whom are high-end customers willing to pay serious $$$ for good service. There may not be all that many of us, but we are very a desirable demographic to any provider.
We can pretty safely assume that Chuck D. has a renewed vigor to not only stomp all over Ergen, but also to prove Jim D. and most of the Cablevision stockholders that he was right all along, and they were just a little too antsy.
We've been told that the HD-DVR, which I think most of us will agree is the "killer app" that could have really brought Voom mainstream with some legs, is just about ready to come out of the oven.
Now, do we really think that Chuck D. is going to meekly fade into the background, given what's happened? The man was like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Voom.
I know we haven't heard so much as a peep about "what's next" officially, but consider that that may well be a condition of the shutdown. Until the service is discontinued and the Rainbow DBS division is dissolved, perhaps there's a gag order in place to alleviate any perception of continuity or connection with Cablevision for a future endeavor.
The customer database, the receivers in the field, the existing contracts with content providers, the HD-DVR development... is it not logical to assume these assets will be liquidated? And I wonder who the prospective buyers might be.
This brings me to my point (finally)... it may be many times cheaper for a new, independent entity like, say, Voom HD, LLC to acquire the liquidated assets of defunct Rainbow DBS circa 5/1/2005 as opposed to purchasing it as an existing, viable business.
Oh yeah... my glass is half-full. But I think we haven't heard the last from Chuck on this, one way or another.
We know that Cablevision as an organization wants to shed Rainbow DBS completely, severing all ties.
We know that there are ~50,000 customers with equipment in the field, most of whom are high-end customers willing to pay serious $$$ for good service. There may not be all that many of us, but we are very a desirable demographic to any provider.
We can pretty safely assume that Chuck D. has a renewed vigor to not only stomp all over Ergen, but also to prove Jim D. and most of the Cablevision stockholders that he was right all along, and they were just a little too antsy.
We've been told that the HD-DVR, which I think most of us will agree is the "killer app" that could have really brought Voom mainstream with some legs, is just about ready to come out of the oven.
Now, do we really think that Chuck D. is going to meekly fade into the background, given what's happened? The man was like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Voom.
I know we haven't heard so much as a peep about "what's next" officially, but consider that that may well be a condition of the shutdown. Until the service is discontinued and the Rainbow DBS division is dissolved, perhaps there's a gag order in place to alleviate any perception of continuity or connection with Cablevision for a future endeavor.
The customer database, the receivers in the field, the existing contracts with content providers, the HD-DVR development... is it not logical to assume these assets will be liquidated? And I wonder who the prospective buyers might be.
This brings me to my point (finally)... it may be many times cheaper for a new, independent entity like, say, Voom HD, LLC to acquire the liquidated assets of defunct Rainbow DBS circa 5/1/2005 as opposed to purchasing it as an existing, viable business.
Oh yeah... my glass is half-full. But I think we haven't heard the last from Chuck on this, one way or another.
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Doesn't matter.
My point was that the shutdown of Rainbow DBS's Voom operation could be seen as beneficial for an independent entity that wants to acquire those assets.
The obvious argument against my suggestion is that you're alienating your existing customers by putting them through this shutdown ringer without any mention of picking service back up by "new management" shortly thereafter.
However, it also makes it much easier to make a fresh start of things. New company, new brand, new marketing strategy, and a slew of expensive lessons learned by the marketing and occasional technical fiascos the first time around, all for much lower cost of entry, since you're acquiring liquidated assets and not an operating entity. You also have a head start on "starting up", since some percentage of the previous customer base will gladly sign up again because they had made their choice previously of the other players in the market, and chose none of the above.
The approval or denial of sale of Rainbow 1 has no bearing on this potentiality. The new venture would send a tech out to each prior lease customer's address, wherehe would either uninstall & pick up the equipment, or simply re-aim the existing dish to AMC-6. Oh, and slap a new logo on it, perhaps. 
Is this a lark? Yes. But there is an opportunity, lark or not.
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Doesn't matter.
My point was that the shutdown of Rainbow DBS's Voom operation could be seen as beneficial for an independent entity that wants to acquire those assets.
The obvious argument against my suggestion is that you're alienating your existing customers by putting them through this shutdown ringer without any mention of picking service back up by "new management" shortly thereafter.
However, it also makes it much easier to make a fresh start of things. New company, new brand, new marketing strategy, and a slew of expensive lessons learned by the marketing and occasional technical fiascos the first time around, all for much lower cost of entry, since you're acquiring liquidated assets and not an operating entity. You also have a head start on "starting up", since some percentage of the previous customer base will gladly sign up again because they had made their choice previously of the other players in the market, and chose none of the above.
The approval or denial of sale of Rainbow 1 has no bearing on this potentiality. The new venture would send a tech out to each prior lease customer's address, where
Is this a lark? Yes. But there is an opportunity, lark or not.
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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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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.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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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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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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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5R5Aw27yr0
Direct YouTube Link - A State Cyber-emergency in Japan
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5R5Aw27yr0
Direct YouTube Link - A State Cyber-emergency in Japan
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEmNun8Ms4s
Direct YouTube Link - AI and Mathematicians
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEmNun8Ms4s
Direct YouTube Link - AI and Mathematicians
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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