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DirecTV Q1 2019 Results - 627,000 Net Loss Subs (DirecTV & Directv Now)

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I used to work with a guy who refused to read his text messages. Said if they wanted to communicate with him, they should call him.

His friends and some business contacts got together and held an intervention for him. “On” him?

He got the message and came around. They saw it that he thought he was too important to bother with texting. And they were right.


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Can't say I disagree with him.

Texting is pretty stupid and honestly I can't make sense of most text messages. Between the lame emoticons that include everything under the sun, and the laziness of using R, U, Y, 2, 4 instead of real words and the leet speak, I have a hard time deciphering them. Just call me and instead of trading text messages back and forth for half a day we can get the conversation over in a minute or less and then we can both move on with our lives. If you send me a text message and anything other then a yes or no response is required from me, I'll call you back at my convenience to provide a real answer. Don't like it? Tough!

This is a real problem in society and we see the impacts every day of kids who were raised on technology. That is why I am so passionate about it. Next time you are at a restaurant take a look at how many people are glued to their phones or other devices instead of having real conversations. Next time you are at at event do the same. Watch a sporting event on TV, when the camera pans the stands, take a look at how many are on their phones. If am paying the outrageous ticket prices to go to a sporting event, I am sure going to pay attention to it not look at a screen I can look at anytime. I took a co-worker of mine to a Sabres game because my buddy who was going with me was sick. She spent half the night on her phone. If she didn't want to go she could have told me that and I would have found someone else who was actually interested to give the ticket to.
 
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Not everyone has the bandwidth for streaming. I tried Amazon Prime and tried to watch several different movies and couldn’t watch it. Finally it told me I didn’t have the bandwidth. So no, not everyone can stream and this goes for a lot of people.
 
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Texting does not interrupt the recipient’s day as much as a phone call. The text can be read at leisure. Time is available for research. And there is a written record.

To really blow your mind, try Viber.
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No one says you have to answer the phone when it rings or vibrates. If the matter is urgent or important enough the originating party will leave a voicemail which can be checked at your leisure as well. And both most phone transcribe voicemails into text anyway? I've had that capability for 4 or 5 years now.

Viber looks like a Whatsapp clone. I work for a smaller company that is a division of a European conglomerate and Whatsapp is a pretty popular over there. I believe it’s because of high text messaging rates. I was strongly encouraged to sign up and use it to communicate with their IT people. I refused. Didn’t realize it was owned by Facebook until recently, now I’m even more glad I refused to use it. I would rather lose my job then lose my principles. These messaging apps are nothing but modern day replacements for AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger.
 
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That's good info, thanks.
 
5 yrs ago when I worked there the automated monitoring at that time could not detect intermittent problems like brief but ongoing audio or video glitches, that could go on for hours until a human actually saw it on a monitor. These might be problems in the audio/video before compression. What does DTV/ATT have now that is different and can it can catch those brief but ongoing issues? I and most of my friends see much more freezing, artifacting and lip sync issues on DTV than we did 5yrs ago, so something has changed.

The IP probes we used back then were used to find IP or router related problems and they could not detect audio/video problems within the stream.

 
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The video is gathered is more efficient now because the issues are now seen in realtime, and video is no longer being encoded across the network but locally. Instead, full ATSC streams are sent to centralized points where they are encoded, muxed and the video is processed before uplinked. In the future, the regional uplinks won't have any encoding gear at all. Everything is now about metrics and all that data is gathered. The blips you see are not issues with the uplink but are mostly IRD issues, especially with the HS17. (No secret)

The entire monitoring system was overhauled in the past few years and is now exclusively IP monitoring over the network, and the capabilities are now much better even though it had growing pains. This allows us to see PAT, PMT, PCR, Transport errors in real time. Including any network errors. We can see all of those errors at every point in the entire uplink chain from the incoming, to our encoder, to our mux's, ect and can track down if it's an incoming issue or something else in real time. The tools we have are much better than what we had 5 years ago, by far. AI is a great thing when used correctly.

If you want to learn more about probes and what they can do today, you should check out this link.It's only one tool of many that we now have and it is much more than IP and router-related problems. Everything can be detected in real time and the metrics of it is being gathered. It's pretty crazy but when you can find trends to help save money, it tends to push what gets implemented.

https://www.telestream.net/pdfs/iq/productsheets/cVOC_Datasheet_0416-1.pdf
 
Sounds like you were born a decade too late lol
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EarDemon said:
My aunt and uncle who are in their late 60s don't have cell phones, never have, never will.
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You should not assume that.

My father, at age 82, got his first cell phone, a basic phone, in 2014.

My aunt, at age 72, got her first cell phone, an iPhone, in 2015.

Why (with both) did that happen?

It is because the monthly costs of the landline—that is, the basic level (before long-distance calls and other miscellaneous charges)—made it no longer worth maintaining.

They both needed to make the change, as well, because of being out anywhere and having a phone on them. An elderly person driving somewhere, and the car breaking down, appreciates not having to be stranded without being able to communicate.

You can’t make an assumption that your aunt and uncle—even if they tell you so—would “never” get cell phones.
 
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I like texting. I shut off all my voice mail systems and if someone wants to contact me, they can text me. gets rid of a lot of trash calls.

Telegram is my go to text and phone app with it's seamless and simultaneous cross networking between/phone/desktop/tablet.
 
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I will still say that myself and all of my friends with DTV, one who is a dealer with lots of IRDs running all the time have seen a big increase in glitches, freezing and lip sync issues over the last 3 to 5 yrs. I'm real familiar with how things work as part of my job was finding and fixing these problems at the uplink. The most reliable times I remember were way back when there were human eyeballs on monitors 24/7 and no automation. The first wave of automated monitoring maybe around 2012 let lots of glitches through and problems could go for hours before finally being discovered by humans looking at a monitor.

Going back 10yrs or so the availability to customers was around 99.97% including provider problems, equipment problems, rain fade and human error. Any idea what the average availability is today? Its a closely guarded number, but you can tell me....


 
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