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Last reply Oct 22, 2017 · posted in The Phone & Tablet Zone

Samsung benefits even more off the Iphone X

Nothing new but everyone try's to keep up with Samsung when it comes to phones Apple finally comes out with a phone that does things that many other devices have been doing for the last couple of years. Either way its the best looking phone they have came out with so far.But even Apple is in the race to keep up with Samsung and Samsung is the only between the two that makes money even off their competition.

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After Apple, Samsung will be the biggest beneficiary of the iPhone X

After Apple, Samsung will be the biggest beneficiary of the iPhone X

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Foxbat

Oct 10, 2017

Well, you may like SGA resolution, but don't force the rest of us to compromise. I'll make sure to post smaller photos in the future.

I believe in taking pictures in full resolution and deciding later how they should be used. I don't mind using a computer to do that. I'm an old fart who isn't about to give up the general purpose computer just so I can claim to have it all in my pocket. Which means I don't want to back my pictures up directly to the NAS, but to my iMac. Since my ancient iPhone needs a hardwire connection to charge, plugging it into my iMac works fine. Really, it isn't a big deal. Don't feel too bad for me and my old man habits.

Maybe Scott needs to start up the "Apple vs. The World" forum like he had the "DirecTV vs. Dish" forum so threads don't get sidetracked with the inevitable "My phone can beat up your phone" posts.

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harshness

Oct 12, 2017

Foxbat said:
Maybe Scott needs to start up the "Apple vs. The World" forum like he had the "DirecTV vs. Dish" forum so threads don't get sidetracked with the inevitable "My phone can beat up your phone" posts.

I offer my criticisms as an iPhone vs asking price wakeup call. If they're going to ask industry leading prices, they should indeed offer an industry leading phone than does pretty much everything one could want.

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TheForce

Oct 20, 2017

Roland- When I send photos to my PC via the app and wifi it is very fast. It is the full resolution single file converted to a jpg. Then to post it, I create a smaller copy of it. Just use the windows Paint program and down size the image to 20% which seems to work well for these threads.

harshness said:
I offer my criticisms as an iPhone vs asking price wakeup call. If they're going to ask industry leading prices, they should indeed offer an industry leading phone than does pretty much everything one could want.

I believe most Apple users perfer the Apple line of products, not because they want to be a computer geek, but rather because they can operate a Mac or smart phone and not have to understand all things computer. Most of the stuff you fret over, they really don't care about. However, if they do need to get more detailed into specialties, like me, they rig up a custom configured PC. I asked my wife what she likes most about her iMac. She said it never hangs and needs rebooting and it looks good in the Kitchen, matches the other appliances. It just works. I asked her what don't you like. She said when the batteries go dead in the mouse and keyboard.

There is a new feature for Macs now that allows a user wearing an Apple watch to wake up the computer and go right to the desktop screen when you get near the Mac.

harshness

Oct 20, 2017

Don Landis said:
Roland- When I send photos to my PC via the app and wifi it is very fast. It is the full resolution single file converted to a jpg. Then to post it, I create a smaller copy of it. Just use the windows Paint program and down size the image to 20% which seems to work well for these threads.
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I believe most Apple users perfer the Apple line of products, not because they want to be a computer geek, but rather because they can operate a Mac or smart phone and not have to understand all things computer. Most of the stuff you fret over, they really don't care about. However, if they do need to get more detailed into specialties, like me, they rig up a custom configured PC.

You've put a remarkably fine point on what I've been lamenting.

Having to develop workflows and go through steps is not something a typical computer or device user should have to suffer. It is a lot of hair to do something that the other guys have been doing without the aid of multiple apps, third party services and carefully derived processes. How nice would it be to be able to shoot pictures in the resolution you wanted and avoid three lossy conversions and a scaling just to post an illustrative photo? Posting snapshots is not a highly specialized function. Having to think carefully about what platform your friends and/or associates use and how you can accommodate them is way beyond silly.

In the end, something that it thrice lossy compressed is much larger than if it had been saved in JPEG at the desired resolution in the first place. Lossy compression negatively and irretrievably impacts quality and multiple applications compound the artifacts. Raw would be nice, but that doesn't appear to be an option.

As good as HEIF might be, few are ever going to see their work natively on a display large enough to worry about full resolution until such time as it is supported in more than a handful of not all that sophisticated applications.

TheForce

Oct 20, 2017

harshness said:
Having to develop workflows and go through steps is not something a typical computer or device user should have to suffer. It is a lot of hair to do something that the other guys have been doing without the aid of multiple apps, third party services and carefully derived processes. How nice would it be to be able to shoot pictures in the resolution you wanted and avoid three lossy conversions and a scaling just to post an illustrative photo? Posting snapshots is not a highly specialized function. Having to think carefully about what platform your friends and/or associates use and how you can accommodate them is way beyond silly.

But if you understood the mind of a TYPICAL Apple user he doesn't care about all that manipulation or even how things work in the PC world. Yes, there are Apple geeks who do and they have to suffer with the Apple infrastructure by choice. I never understood that self limitation either but then again, I am "bilingual" here. My most powerful systems here are run on windows with dual boot on two of the machines. This one is for business and runs both windows XP and windows 7. My primary video edit system runs dual C drives, windows 7 and windows 10. Only my wife uses the Mac, ipad, and iphone with Apple watch. She doesn't feel limited at all and her photography skills have grown considerably since we installed the Apple system here. Integrating it with our PC home was a bit of a chore but it is possible as I need. The trick was adding certain Microsoft products such as Office and Adobe PDF to her Mac. Keep in mind the typical Apple user I know is happy to just shoot a picture and post to the social media sites. If I didn't do Facebook and all it's cousins, didn't do Face time for calls, and share family stuff in icloud, I would miss out since my whole family is Apple ONLY. One of them is even an Apple certified engineer. There is no special thought process Apple users have to go through. But those who try to do something custom would, of course, be better served in the PC world.

Foxbat

Oct 20, 2017

Back to OLED screens for the iPhone X, it's good for Apple that Samsung was able to provide the screens. The Verge definitely finds faults with the OLED screens that LG provides for the Pixel XL 2 and V30.

TheForce

Oct 21, 2017

My beef with the X is it's oddball aspect ratio and pixel density. I understand why they did it but don't agree. I wait for the iphone* that is 3840x2160. Maybe an X + ?

navychop

Oct 21, 2017

Let me know when an iPhone supports band 71. I give it a year. Then I really will have to look at Androids.

harshness

Oct 22, 2017

Don Landis said:
I wait for the iphone* that is 3840x2160. Maybe an X + ?

It seems like Apple has carefully avoided common matrices in the past so your hope that they will somehow fall in line with the rest of the World seems excessively optimistic.

Of course if Apple doesn't make it markedly different, head-to-head comparisons are sure to happen and that rarely ends well for products with a relatively high asking price (see more at Bose). Apple dragged their feet with OLED and now that they've had to go there, they're bringing up the rear.

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Scott Greczkowski

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge

Last reply 17 minutes ago · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center

Tapatalk Removed

Due to security concerns and the fact that the Tapatalk Plugin for Xenforo is no longer being updated we have removed Tapatalk support from SatelliteGuys.

For those who were using it we recommend using our PWA App instead which is faster and does not have all the spam Tapatalk had. Below is a graphic showing how to add SatelliteGuys to your devices home screen. (While iOS is shown the process is mostly the same for Android.)

Thanks for your understanding.

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Foxbat

Yesterday at 9:28 AM

Thank you, Scott, for adding years to my Life and dropping my BP a few millimeters! Money well spent…

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dweber

Yesterday at 10:19 PM

Foxbat said:
Thank you, Scott, for adding years to my Life and dropping my BP a few millimeters! Money well spent…

What is PWA app? PWA utilities seem to be a Spanish app. I hope you are seeing this since nothing seems to be working. I will miss SatelliteGuys. Tapatalk worked well. The Siri browser doesn't seem to work well.

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Peter Parker

Today at 12:27 AM

Foxbat said:
Thank you, Scott, for adding years to my Life and dropping my BP a few millimeters! Money well spent…

Hooray!

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Peter Parker

Today at 12:29 AM

dweber said:
What is PWA app? PWA utilities seem to be a Spanish app. I hope you are seeing this since nothing seems to be working. I will miss SatelliteGuys. Tapatalk worked well. The Siri browser doesn't seem to work well.

Do you mean the safari browser?

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Foxbat

Today at 3:22 AM

dweber said:
What is PWA app? PWA utilities seem to be a Spanish app. I hope you are seeing this since nothing seems to be working. I will miss SatelliteGuys. Tapatalk worked well. The Siri browser doesn't seem to work well.

Actually, PWA stands for "Progressive Web Application" and is basically just saving a site's homepage to your desktop where it appears as an "App" with the rest of your smartphone's Apps.

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Scott Greczkowski

17 minutes ago

A PWA is a custom version of SatelliteGuys which is optimized for mobile devices. While it may look like the website, its actually different so that only the files needed for mobile are sent, meaning its a much faster experience all around.

TapaTalk is essentially dead. It was written for PHP 5.4 and we are now running PHP 8.4. There have been a LOT of PHP security updates since then and since Tapatalk for Xenforo has not been updated in a long long time it is not the safest idea to keep running it.

In addition those trying to view the site on their mobile devices using a browser were getting spammed on the top of the screen for people to install TapaTalk, this ad in some cases would take up 20% of the users screen. We could get rid of that ad but we would have to pay $20 a month to get rid of it.

In addition TapaTalk could and was inserting their own ads on SatelliteGuys in the app which only benefitted them, SatelliteGuys was not paid for those ads they were displaying on our site. Again we could pay to get rid of those ads.

And here was the cost of the Premium Tier.

Now to make matters worse Tapatalk recently announced that they are going to start charging users of the app 99 cents a month to continue using it.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tapatalksupport/our-mobile-app-is-transitioning-to-a-paid-model-t48360.html#p261675

So soon you would be paying them each month to access SatelliteGuys via their app, again all the money going to them... and you would still see all their ads too.

Tapatalk was a great program which we run for many many years, and for a long time we DID pay for the premium tier. But now with such a small offset using it (My numbers show a total of 6 members) it wasn't work paying for any longer.

In addition Tapatalk was sold to a different owner who made lots of promises of improvements and updates but then that owner has been really radio silent since, instead they have been letting TapaTalk rot on the vine.

If you visit their support forum at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tapatalksupport/ you will see there is not much going on, in fact most of the support questions posted there go unanswered.

Please give the PWA a try, I was a die hard Tapatalk user myself but now only use the PWA on devices. It is a much better all around experience, with no bloatware or additional ads based on your user membership level.

I don't have an android phone so I could not make a graphic showing you how to add SatelliteGuys PWA to your phones apps or home screen. But here is a site that explains how to do it on all kinds of devices. How to Install a PWA on iOS, Android, Windows & Mac [2025 Guide]

The above link also explains PWA's better as well.

If Tapatalk were to update their plugins so we know we are more secure and up to date and allow us to remove the "Smart Banner" without having to pay $20 a month, we would consider adding it back. I don't even care about their ads, as if a user wants to use their app and is willing to sit through their ads in order to use that app then I am ok with it.

But hopefully that explains better why it was removed. It was not done to cut anyone off from the site.

Please give the PWA a try.

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Scott Greczkowski

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge

Last reply 33 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

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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RaiderPower

Yesterday at 7:47 PM

King Of The Road - Roger Miller

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Yesterday at 7:55 PM

King Of Pain - The Police

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Today at 2:39 AM

Haven't Got Time For The PAIN-Carly Simon

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ClarkGable

Today at 6:48 AM

No Time - The Guess Who

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Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

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dfergie

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!

Last reply 36 minutes ago · posted in The Sports Section

Auto Racing 2026

New thread or keep this one?

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/AgOI9DNCmPg?si=l-YcZmHl7GXXF8fX

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Foxbat

Sunday at 8:20 PM

Awesome pictures, Yespage! Thanks!

I caught the end of the four hour race on YouTube so I wasn't "spoiled", but got to see the exciting last lap action in the TCR division!

Yespage

Sunday at 8:30 PM

Foxbat said:
Awesome pictures, Yespage! Thanks!

I caught the end of the four hour race on YouTube so I wasn't "spoiled", but got to see the exciting last lap action in the TCR division!

I heard on the radio, after the final pitstop, Turner Motorsport were resigned to second place. 'You're in second. Don't worry about it. First is McLaren, we aren't catching them.'

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Yespage

Tuesday at 7:48 AM

Caught up to the 500... err... k in St. Louis. What a race! Andretti Motorsport were doing very well with Ericsson and Kirkwood, meanwhile Power was moving up the grid. Veekay started cautiously. He was working the tires just right, becoming more lethal later in the stint. Rasmussen was racing likewise, not nearly as insane as he has in the past. Palou was leading the race, in a shocker to all. Caio Collet was having a wonderful ride, making Ferucci potentially sweat a bit. Rain came, rain went, rain came, rain went. Generally mild sprinkles, but enough to pause racing on an oval.

Palou would kind of send Siegel into the wall. Siegel really didn't do much wrong. As he noted, you have to turn at some point. Palou had acres of room below and Siegel might have had his ticket out of Indycar stamped. Dixon was doing the fuel thing and got busted twice by yellows, not pitting before the flag came out. Then the most critical happened... Palou ran out of gas on pit lane, effectively giving Newgarden the race lead and win. Newgarden had a very early pit, so he was able to slide in, get service and go. Meanwhile, everyone else was confused and stuck behind Palou for a bit. Once people figured what was happening, Newgarden had a major advantage of several seconds. Newgarden wouldn't look back and when it went green again, he'd hold the lead for the win.

Massive credit to Juncos Hollinger who bested Penske in getting Veekay out before Malukas in a transition that was oddly bizarre. I haven't had time to check, but I'm wondering if Veekay was about to run out of fuel or cut a tire. He was charging late in a stint, got up to fifth, and then tailed back for a few laps to 10th or 11th. It looked like it was over. Went into the pits, and after the pitting sequence was over, Veekay was well inside the top ten again. It was weird. And he charged, getting up to fourth. He made a late move on Rasmussen, but Rasmussen held his position with some great driving. In fact, there was a ton of incredible racing passing, not passing all race long. Veekay would finish 4th. A podium would have been awesome, but it is a great outcome for a guy who hopefully will get a break with a big team. We saw what Veekay could do with a Honda last season with fuel save, imagine replacing Simpson on Ganassi and having speed to go with fuel saving. His 6th at Indy and 4th at St. Louis get him up to 13th in the points standings and only 5 points outside of the top 10.

Ericsson finished second, resigned to finishing behind the current best in the world guy on a short oval. Rasmussen got the final step on the podium, a nice rebound to what has been an otherwise bad year for him, and a good reward to ECR who just extended his contract.

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osu1991

Tuesday at 7:52 PM

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Yespage

Yesterday at 9:09 AM

They raced USAC cars at Daytona once. Once! People died. Aj Foyt said 'f this', and left after the first go around. AJ freaking Foyt thought it was crazy! And cars weren't nearly as fast as they are now.

I think they tried Talladega once too.

Yespage

36 minutes ago

LeMans qualifying on going. WEC has d9ne a great job expanding the automotive company entries. Even without Porsche, a large nunber of manufacturers.

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TFLEV

Today at 7:12 AM · posted in TFLEV

How the Heck Do You Tell the NEW 2027 Rivian R2 from the R1? I Compare Both Side-By-Side!

Time for another AWESOME video from TFL Electric Vehicles!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7CB6m89_RY

Direct YouTube Link - How the Heck Do You Tell the NEW 2027 Rivian R2 from the R1? I Compare Both Side-By-Side!

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Peter Parker

Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 6:53 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Brave Browser for Androud

I have had good experiences with Brave but lately I am frustrated with it.

Now when I launch the app it shows a box at the bottom asking if I want to go back to the last opened page. It is in conveniently located and I would prefer to eliminate it.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Please let's not sidetrack the discussion into an exploration of why I don't care for it or a lecture about all the wonderful aspects of the feature. I just do not care for it.

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b4pjoe

Yesterday at 7:50 PM

I don't have an Android phone so I don't know if this will apply to the Brave settings on your android device but it works on the desktop for me.

Change this setting to either startup to a different website or a new tab page. I have mine set to open to google.com instead of where I left off and it doesn't ask me at the next startup if I want to open the last opened page unless it crashed.

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Peter Parker

Yesterday at 9:27 PM

b4pjoe said:
I don't have an Android phone so I don't know if this will apply to the Brave settings on your android device but it works on the desktop for me.

Change this setting to either startup to a different website or a new tab page. I have mine set to open to google.com instead of where I left off and it doesn't ask me at the next startup if I want to open the last opened page unless it crashed.

View attachment 191721

Thank you for trying to help. However thrse choices do not appear in Android. There is a setting for "New Tab Pages" that is similar but does not include your choice. I have tried all of the existing entries with no success

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Juan

Today at 6:53 AM

Something like this maybe

Option 2: Set a custom Home button URL

Click the menu icon in the top-right corner and select Settings.
Click on Appearance in the left sidebar.
Toggle on the Show home button switch.
Under the home button settings, select the option to Enter custom web address and type in your preferred website. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

BlackHitachi

Supporting Founder

Last reply Today at 6:26 AM · posted in Movie Talk

Last & Next Movie Watched

Since the Reds have there thread we should too!

Last watched Nine inch Nails
Next 3:10 to Yuma

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osu1991

Saturday at 9:48 PM

Rooster Cogburn.

Keep forgetting the free movies on youtube are ad free with my premium subscription.

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dfergie

Sunday at 8:42 AM

osu1991 said:
Rooster Cogburn.

Keep forgetting the free movies on youtube are ad free with my premium subscription.

There are some really good movies on youtube.
Saving Private Ryan 4k, Dolby Atmos...

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harshness

Tuesday at 9:58 AM

dfergie said:
Saving Private Ryan 4k, Dolby Atmos...

These are severely limited. Getting better than stereo audio is improving, but still has a long way to go.

dfergie

Tuesday at 10:07 AM

harshness said:
These are severely limited. Getting better than stereo audio is improving, but still has a long way to go.

I went with my 4k disc after checking out that version.

osu1991

Yesterday at 9:56 PM

View: https://youtu.be/I68627xyDPA?is=gUZB0Yv_08pE0DR3

Tonight revisiting one of my favorites. Ranks up there with Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Hunt For Red October.

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dfergie

Yesterday at 10:45 PM

Watching Monterey Pop, been awhile, had the DVD, but probably lost in the fire 10.5 years ago. HBOmax

"MysteryMan"

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scott520

Today at 3:59 AM · posted in FTA Manuals Section

GI cu2700r receiver

Looking for a manual. Want to do some radio astronomy with it. Realize it's old but, since it's not for tv use don't need any decoders, just the RF section.

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N5XZS

Last reply Today at 1:35 AM · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info

New low power station with CP has been granted. "Albuquerque "

New low power station has been granted by the FCC and the new call leter is K33OB-D on RF ch. 33.

Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.

It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.

This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.

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Mr Tony

Yesterday at 12:28 PM

N5XZS said:
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time

probably the same programming they have been putting on their other owned stations.
The 'get after it media' stations

Get After It Media

www.getafteritmedia.com

Like Heartland, Retro, rev'n, Action etc

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comfortably_numb

Yesterday at 4:35 PM

Mr Tony said:
probably the same programming they have been putting on their other owned stations.
The 'get after it media' stations

Get After It Media

www.getafteritmedia.com

Like Heartland, Retro, rev'n, Action etc

We already have those diginets here.

N5XZS

Yesterday at 4:51 PM

Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets on like the Rev'n, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station. :hatsoff2

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comfortably_numb

Yesterday at 4:54 PM

N5XZS said:
Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets like Revn, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station.

I watch MovieSphere Gold channel a lot. Many recent movies on that digitnet

N5XZS

Yesterday at 4:59 PM

Yes that's a good channel MovieSphere, only thing is the missing CC on it.