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Last reply Sep 9, 2025 · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Class Action against media "ownership"

You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon

A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.

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AZ.

Aug 26, 2025

The "other" (20.43%) represents everyone else, including "mini-majors" such as A24 (an independent studio), Amazon MGM Studios (owned by Amazon), and Lionsgate.

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meStevo

Aug 26, 2025

Ok, and how has that negatively impacted this topic?

I get the concern, but the consolidation is not new. It's FUD unless there's already been an impact that I (a relatively heavy user of PVOD) have yet to be impacted by.

The closest any of us deal with that is just the ebb and flow of content available on the different streaming services - which is also just business as usual.

AZ.

Aug 26, 2025

meStevo said:
Ok, and how has that negatively impacted this topic?

I get the concern, but the consolidation is not new. It's FUD unless there's already been an impact that I (a relatively heavy user of PVOD) have yet to be impacted by.

The closest any of us deal with that is just the ebb and flow of content available on the different streaming services - which is also just business as usual.

I am very pessimistic they way all business is run now.
Think of it as the old saying, its my football so Im going home.
Its my content, if you want to see it, buy my programming!
No doubt in my mind. They have eliminated, cable, satellite, then go after cord cutters(YTTV and everyone else), and eliminate the middle man.

Its why we have? had? Anti-trust laws.

Your being optimistic, I am not!

navychop

Aug 26, 2025

AZ. said:
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The "other" (20.43%) represents everyone else, including "mini-majors" such as A24 (an independent studio), Amazon MGM Studios (owned by Amazon), and Lionsgate.

Link? Cannot read.

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AZ.

Aug 26, 2025

navychop said:
Link? Cannot read.

Its in the article, I should have edited it.

Mergers and Acquisitions of Major Film Studios

What does Disney own? Who owns Universal Pictures? Check out our timeline of film production company acquisitions to learn who owns what.

wyomingllcattorney.com

meStevo

Aug 26, 2025

AZ. said:
I am very pessimistic they way all business is run now.
Think of it as the old saying, its my football so Im going home.
Its my content, if you want to see it, buy my programming!
No doubt in my mind. They have eliminated, cable, satellite, then go after cord cutters(YTTV and everyone else), and eliminate the middle man.

Its why we have? had? Anti-trust laws.

Your being optimistic, I am not!

I'm being neither optimistic or pessimistic, but rather acting on data. I've been consuming content this way for more than 15 years. There has never been a merger or consolidation that I can point to that ever impacted this use case, in my experience.

It's like complaining about data usage or pricing or something - it's a solved problem, I have unlimited data, and if it gets too expensive then I will change my habits and spend my money elsewhere. I won't raise the specter of data usage and pricing in every topic that it's remotely relevant in. That's how I see the point of consolidation - it's not new, and hasn't impacted the space to date, so where is the reason to be concerned? If something changes as a result (fewer players, so trying to raise prices, for example) then I speak with my wallet and rely more on streaming libraries and promotions. If streaming services are too expensive, again, I speak with my wallet and subscribe more precisely instead of maintaining a library of services to access when things were cheaper.

AZ.

Aug 26, 2025

meStevo said:
I'm being neither optimistic or pessimistic, but rather acting on data. I've been consuming content this way for more than 15 years. There has never been a merger or consolidation that I can point to that ever impacted this use case, in my experience.

It's like complaining about data usage or pricing or something - it's a solved problem, I have unlimited data, and if it gets too expensive then I will change my habits and spend my money elsewhere. I won't raise the specter of data usage and pricing in every topic that it's remotely relevant in. That's how I see the point of consolidation - it's not new, and hasn't impacted the space to date, so where is the reason to be concerned? If something changes as a result (fewer players, so trying to raise prices, for example) then I speak with my wallet and rely more on streaming libraries and promotions. If streaming services are too expensive, again, I speak with my wallet and subscribe more precisely instead of maintaining a library of services to access when things were cheaper.

Yet we have never seen such consolidation on any level like this. Have you?
All it takes is one of them to pull it, then what you bought is no longer yours. Correct?
So if they do that you only have one place to go to get that TV show or movie.
Its all about leverage, and getting the most profit.
Havent we seen it with local broadcasting?
Hold back a few hundred channels, is dozens of cities?
That is a huge reasons prices shot up over the last 20 years.

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navychop

Aug 26, 2025

AZ. said:
Its in the article, I should have edited it.

Mergers and Acquisitions of Major Film Studios

What does Disney own? Who owns Universal Pictures? Check out our timeline of film production company acquisitions to learn who owns what.

wyomingllcattorney.com

Still can't read the chart. But it's in the text.

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meStevo

Aug 26, 2025

AZ. said:
Yet we have never seen such consolidation on any level like this. Have you?
All it takes is one of them to pull it, then what you bought is no longer yours. Correct?
So if they do that you only have one place to go to get that TV show or movie.
Its all about leverage, and getting the most profit.
Havent we seen it with local broadcasting?
Hold back a few hundred channels, is dozens of cities?
That is a huge reasons prices shot up over the last 20 years.

There are already studios that don't participate in Movie's Anywhere, it sets a higher bar for if I buy their titles. That's the closest to any of that.

The more they make their content harder to watch or buy, the less they sell. It's not in their best interest to hoard these after their theatrical releases, they make money from subscriptions and licensing. Entire libraries shift from streaming service to streaming service, but to date nobody's suddenly invalidated PVOD purchases that I'm aware of, and it wouldn't make any sense to do.

AZ.

Aug 26, 2025

meStevo said:
There are already studios that don't participate in Movie's Anywhere, it sets a higher bar for if I buy their titles. That's the closest to any of that.

The more they make their content harder to watch or buy, the less they sell. It's not in their best interest to hoard these after their theatrical releases, they make money from subscriptions and licensing. Entire libraries shift from streaming service to streaming service, but to date nobody's suddenly invalidated PVOD purchases that I'm aware of, and it wouldn't make any sense to do.

5 studios controlling 80% of all content? Like I said your optimistic.....why sell it to a separate party?...you want to see everything Disney does...ABC, ESPN, ect....you need to buy right from us.....

Foxbat

Aug 28, 2025

navychop said:
Still can't read the chart. But it's in the text.

Here's the last 25 years of Mergers and Acquisitions:

This is why I started this thread in the support forum: Uploaded Graphic Images Look Like Crap

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Yespage

Aug 28, 2025

Don't know why people are complaining. The cost of cable/sat and streaming has dropped and the amount of new media put out there is the greatest it has ever been!

Why else would they have allowed all of this consolidation if it wouldn't result in lower bills and more programming... because of umm.... cost cuts... and uh... efficiency...

You know what... maybe I need to rethink this...

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meStevo

Sep 7, 2025

I've never been happier with the media landscape, personally. Never had more options.

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mwdxer1

Sep 9, 2025

For decades I have recorded what I like. First it was Beta, then VHS, and for the past 20+ years on DVD. So when I rent a TV Show or movie off any source, I burn it to a DVD. Only 480' but it works with me. That way if the movie goes away, I still have it. I have never trusted streaming as it can be here today and gone tomorrow. The hard copy I own.

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dishstaller

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Last reply 5 minutes ago · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hughesnet cancelling email addresses

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.

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Foxbat

Today at 2:37 PM

Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…

dishstaller

Today at 2:57 PM

Well, I helped him set up a gmail acct....I actually wanted to see what the new process is for setting up a gmail acct since it had been years since I set mine up. Anyway, I showed him how to forward the emails he wanted to keep over.

navychop

Today at 3:16 PM

Foxbat said:
If Earth had shorter days,

Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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Foxbat

56 minutes ago

navychop said:
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…

klang

5 minutes ago

Foxbat said:
Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

I still have one of those although I've been trying to wean myself off it.

Bobby

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Last reply 29 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish 4K Event Listings (No Discussion)

This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.

As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.

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Bobby

Sunday at 11:00 AM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Wednesday 10-14, 5PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:48 PM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:50 PM

CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:52 PM

NASCAR, Freeway Insurance 500, Sunday 10-18, 12PM PDT, Channel 148-04.

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Bobby

29 minutes ago

CFB, Ohio State at Indiana, Saturday 10-17, 9AM PDT, Channel 148-01.
CFB, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Saturday 10-17, 12:30PM PDT, Channel 148-01.

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Last reply 44 minutes ago · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center

Site is slooooow

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.

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Foxbat

Today at 1:22 PM

Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

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Scott Greczkowski

Today at 2:49 PM

I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now.

We are rocking now!

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Foxbat

48 minutes ago

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Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

I rebooted my MacBook Air and it's zipping right along. Sorry, but it was taking over 20 seconds to load pages, with the pulsing blue bars so it was munching on something.

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Scott Greczkowski

47 minutes ago

Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

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Foxbat

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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

WTF… …What the Foxbat!

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dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 3:00 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Man falls to his death on roller coaster at 6 Flags in GA

Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.

Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster

Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:02 PM

Back on the Goliath Roller Coaster ... I'm interested to find more details as well ...
Like where on the track did this happen (somewhere I read that it was on the climb up the top), which is impossible ...

They really need to take that ride and add at the very least, seatbelts ...

The Park is opening back up on Friday, the ride will Not be opening ... personally, I would keep it closed until different type of restraints can be designed and installed (over the winter).

I find it hard to believe that this ride is even allowed to be running with the restraints that exist at the moment, there are other rides that use the same type and they have been shut down across the country.

You got to believe that every ride has at least 2 types of restraint systems in place.

I wonder what and when we will hear from the Manufacturer ... and whatever governing bodies control these ...

Just think, this is a Major Amusement Park .... I would not have any problem getting on the Roller Coasters I have rode ...

Imagine what these County Fairs and others like them, I would not be caught Dead on one of them ... they get put up and tore down every other week, where is the safety for those rides ... No Thank You.

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Yesterday at 11:10 PM

Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

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navychop

Yesterday at 11:17 PM

Jimbo said:
I would not be caught Dead on one of them

Yet IF you were on one, you might be caught dead.

dishstaller

Today at 10:07 AM

Jimbo said:
Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

bgtsafari.com

Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

Jimbo

Today at 2:18 PM

dishstaller said:
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.

Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...

NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system

I'm glad to see ...

dishstaller

Today at 3:00 PM

Jimbo said:
with a Seat belt as last resort.

According to the article, when you see a seat belt on a ride like this, it is basically used as a way of making sure the rider isn't too large/fat to safely ride the ride.

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Today at 2:52 PM · posted in Ham Radio 2.0

Kenwood TM-D750 vs ICOM ID-5200: Don't Buy One Before Watching This!

Time for another AWESOME video from Ham Radio 2.0!

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Houston Rockets

Last reply Today at 2:39 PM · posted in FTA Receiver / Equipment Support

OTHER Mini Multiswitch

I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....

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Titanium

Today at 2:00 PM

Have you tested using external power? Over the years, have found unpowered polarity switching to be unreliable. Especially problematic when used with DiSEqC motors or switch stacking.

Houston Rockets

Today at 2:39 PM

No I have not. I just got it the other day and it is connected to six receivers working just fine. What I do is non power mini multi-switches work best with LNBF's and with LNB's

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Tech News Weekly 459

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!

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

Direct YouTube Link - Tech News Weekly 459
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TheRatPatrol

Last reply Today at 2:13 PM · posted in TV Shows

NCIS

Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?

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TheRatPatrol

Monday at 11:11 AM

Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:47 AM

TheRatPatrol said:
Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

Was Gibbs still there when you quit watching ?
If so, A Lot has happened ....

It's been pretty good all along , once you get use to Gibbs being gone.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:41 PM