Dish Satellite now under 5 Million subscribers/Sling under 2 Million.

[david_jr]

The main thing she despises more than anything is the remote has no labels, only lines. She absolutely despises that. These streamer remotes are definitely aimed at the younger set. We've had a Hopper since it came out and it just works and everything is labeled and easy to get to. She likes that.

 

[telstar_1]

An Edsel is still an Edsel.

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.

What if they had instead come out with an electric car at that time, even with limited range? Post-Edsel they were downsizing furiously, bringing forth compact models such as Falcon. The public might have caught the bug.

DiSH is an Edsel in that it remains a big full-price full linear service offering in a time where that outmoded paradigm and economic inefficacy are being questioned, ridiculed and jettisoned in a frenzy of cord cutting.

We will always have our old Model 3000 for the nostalgia shows. Just like the ol' '58.

 

[Ray_Clum]

I think we're entering VHS v. Beta territory here…

Or is it HD-DVD vs BluRay?

 

[Juan]

The main thing she despises more than anything is the remote has no labels, only lines. She absolutely despises that. These streamer remotes are definitely aimed at the younger set. We've had a Hopper since it came out and it just works and everything is labeled and easy to get to. She likes that.

Try the voice commands

 

[telstar_1]

I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?

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[Bobby]

I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?

And when that remote does what you tell it to do why can't you admire that?

 

[telstar_1]

Because I just know it won't, and that it can't. It's always going to understand what I'm asking it? Is it going to answer back that it needs more detail? it's just a little too much like I'm using AI 1.0

 

[tsunami2311]

$25 a month for 1 gig, for two years with Spectrum. I'd be darned that their router was MUCH better than AT&T's. I didn't realize that what I thought was something else was the bloody router. Those buffering issues stopped when I swapped... after AT&T refused to lower my bill, after 25 years of high speed internet service. They wanted $80 or so a month for 1 gig, with no drop to a lower speed.

1gbit up and down here from att start out great was suppose to be $60 for life of service, with years time it went back up to $80 I complained about they gave us $49 for year which about to end, I Wonder what prices will be when it "up" I in no way like ATT fiber service there DNS that are hardcode and unchange able in the router are some WORSE DNS I ever used. you know how much of pain it is to change DNS setting on EVERY single wireless device...

 

[mwdxer1]

Only about 3.6% of Households in the United States, still have Dish Network.

For comparison, YouTube TV has about 10%.

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.

 

[tanman]

I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?

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