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DISH -VS- VOOM - A Settlement has been reached!

I have to eat my words on this one. Someone posted you better get your AMC deal from Dish before the Weekend is over, and I laughed not thinking in anyway a deal would be done over this weekend. WRONG! I also would have never thought FUSE would be back.
 
And you asked them that question why? Everyone here is making it all up? Information given here can take, with no exaggeration, weeks and more to reach and be understood by the phone CSR's...

Wanted to make sure I could watch my shows tonight. LOL, just look at how long I've been a member and my post count... I'm a serious lurker to get all my info from here.
 
Beating that expired equine, VOOM DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE!


Nothing to bring back!
 
The $500M Dish settled with TiVo included $300M it reserved for the lawsuit, and $30M a year for the following 7 years to license TiVo's patents.

A $500M loss is is still a loss.

This is factually incorrect. Anything autohop related stayed with the NY court. The claims the networks made about PTAT (not covered in Dish's autohop filing) were split off and those will be heard in CA.

Your are Wrong.


$700M cash including Dish getting some wireless licenses cover 45 DMAs. It is fair to say the VOOM's star attorney is crap crap crap crap, at least as far as Mr.4069 is concerned.

That's a lot more than $200M. Closer to the $1B I predicted. Its good they settled though.

One thing for sure is the $700 million is coming from somewhere, and it sure aint Charlie's pocket. Im sure we will start seeing the effects of this come Febuary 1st when their price freeze ends and they raise everyones rates.

Dish had amassed $5.6B through debt offerings, among other things over spring/summer.


Give the guy a break, he can't help being wrong (). $700M is a long way off from $200M, so the better analysts were a hell of a lot closer.

The good news is, we all got what we wanted. The subscriber got free Roku's and credits, Cablevision got $700M and a long-term agreement to carry AMC, etc, and Dish got the MVDDS and the subscriber off their back.

What does the wireless spectrum hold for the future? I was wondering what that means for dish

Its $80 million for the purchase of Cablevision’s multichannel video and data distribution service (MVDDS - 12.2-12.7 GHz range) licenses in 45 metropolitan areas in the U.S. Dish has the wireless bug and wants that triple-threat (data, video, voice). At some point Dish was affiliated with South.com which holds 37 licenses, I am not sure if they are still affiliated, but if they are, with the 45 licenses from Cablevision, they'd hold the majority of the 214 licenses.
 
Of course its back on now, after I just spent $43 the other day subscribing to season 3 of The Walking Dead on iTunes. Seriously, I'm pissed, I would have never paid for that if this mess hadn't happened. Someone owes me $43.
 
You did not have to buy the whole season to watch it. That was your choice. Dish gave credits to what seems like anyone who asked to get the episodes.
 
LOL They've got to re-coup that money some how... got to love that corporate greed. Especially the way this whole ordeal has gone.

This is far from the first time that Dish has given away credits for a channel being lost. I will admit that it's the first time that I can recall they gave away free hardware for it but let's be honest here, a Roku isn't really that expensive especially to Dish when they probably got a discount for buying a few thousand (or a few hundred thousand) in bulk to give to subscribers. In all of their previous times where they lost a channel, gave credits etc. away they did not take back those credits. So I very much doubt that would happen here. Will there be a price increase because of this settlement? Quite possibly, although let's be honest in that we all expected some kind of increase come February of next year. It may be higher than what it may have been otherwise but really there's no way for us to know for sure.
 
Anyone try setting an auto-tune/record timer on TWD for tonight? I can't get one to set.

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Never mind, I tried a DVR once setting and it wasn't working. I just looked in the daily schedule and its now showing up.
 
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DISH got a great deal on the spectrum. Verizon just purchase 50 other licenses from Cablevision for $750 million.