FoMoCo's Edsel was a reasonably quality upscale/personal-luxury car. It just landed in a recessionary time where people were rethinking it all, including about large, gaudy, status symbol cars. It might have made it forward as a Mercury model, but as a new-launch make, its own new corporate division, both unfamiliar and out of step with the times, it was doomed, despite the backing of Ford. It's a lesson in bad marketing, not bad quality. Even if it did look like it was sucking a lemon, which undoubtedly made the situation all the worse and also devolves to bad marketing.
Or is it HD-DVD vs BluRay?I think we're entering VHS v. Beta territory here…
And when that remote does what you tell it to do why can't you admire that?
I dropped Dish a couple years back after having them for 25 years. The pricing got higher and after we got high speed internet, I watched it less and less. It got to the point all I watched was TCM for classic movies. Many of them are on You Tube now and a Premium subscription is $14 a month. A far cry of the $100 a month was paying with AT180, Supers, and locals. I get locals OTA anyway. I took down the dish several months ago and tossed it. I owned all my my equipment, so nothing to return. Do I miss a traditional cable type service? No way. If I want one I have all of the free live streaming with Roku, the Fire Stick, as well as Google TV. Right now as I type this, I am watching episodes of "The Midnight Special" from 1976 on You Tube, ad free. Dish was fine for many years. I do not regret buying the equipment and installing it myself (No installers in 1999). I enjoyed Dish for many years. My thoughts, Dish & Direct will be forced to merge in time, or they both will be gone. Even cable companies are getting out of TV. Some are only selling the internet and phone packages.
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In my area we get 2 news feeds spread over 4 local stations.
Wow $46 billion in stock value? How can DISH even be talking about bankruptcy at this point?
You and others are the ones talking DISH bankruptcy for the past 10 years or more. Meanwhile, Charlie and DISH have just been chugging along.
Hey, 6 months to a year ago that was all I was reading in the industry apps about DISH and their future. But things can change, like Charlie Ergen selling off his 5g bandwidth to Elon and Space X and ATT. Didn't see that coming since he has spent billions to try to build out his network for the last 5 years. Now he has abandoned all those ideas for his own 5g network and he is now getting billions for the bandwidth he has accumulated. But they are still saying that he wants to sell off DISH TV and Sling TV to anyone that can take it and if not bankruptcy might be the way he goes out on these two companies. Even Cord Cutters was saying that we might see Sling TV go under by the end this year.You and others are the ones talking DISH bankruptcy for the past 10 years or more. Meanwhile, Charlie and DISH have just been chugging along.
Why would Musk even want them?
