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I would say the greatest majority of people that want porn get it off of the Internet now. I do not think that Hits offering porn would bring in hardly any subscribers. They would have to offer it mighty cheap.

Yep, it would have to be cheap. Like 10 dollars a month. $13 max! Pizza i think charges $20. But, regardless the "value" needs to come back to the BUD that left 7 years ago. I remember thinking how dumb people were for getting ripped off by Pizza and Cable. They were paying way to much compared to us who had Cband. Now, it's not the same. Pizza's actually cheaper on a channel for channel what the channel actually cost the seller basis.
 
I'm glad the conversation has turned to discussing options and ways to enhance our c-band systems. We all know pizza sucks, we just want to figure out what we can do to work with hits to get their other channels. I agree with highskies on his channel selection, I don't think playboy would add any numbers to our cause. I'd pay for hbo too, but if they're dealing dirty with pizza, let them get sued. If motorola helped us switch the 4d to get the hits feeds, would they possibly help convert the shaw receiver to hits also ? Hopefully someone from hits might chime in and throw us a bone ?
 
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I'm glad the conversation has turned to discussing options and ways to enhance our c-band systems. We all know pizza sucks, we just want to figure out what we can do to work with hits to get their other channels. I agree with highskies on his channel selection, I don't think playboy would add any numbers to our cause. I'd pay for hbo too, but if they're dealing dirty with pizza, let them get sued. If motorola helped us switch the 4d to get the hits feeds, would they possibly help convert the shaw receiver to hits also ? Hopefully someone from hits might chime in and throw us a bone ?

Heck they could do the 4200V and others also with no skin off their @$$ but they just plain won't. Most programmers don't think there are a nough of us to care about. Considering most programmers don't have anything worth paying for in the first place and put logos and popups all over the place what are we arguing about? No matter the form of delivery you end up behind the reved up manure spreader. Just like the crapola advertisers on this list that just tried to take over my computer!
 
These are the options.

- Get funding for a new receiver.
- Adapt a Shaw box to H2H.
- Get programmers that jumped ship due to pressure from pizza conform to selling to all.

Who wants to get the ball rolling? my plate is full right now...

When you sit around talking about it and do nothing else, nothing will happen. Grab the bull by the horns and get involved! This is our industry, C band was built by small fry doing the impossible. It still holds true today.
 
These are the options.

- Get funding for a new receiver.
- Adapt a Shaw box to H2H.
- Get programmers that jumped ship due to pressure from pizza conform to selling to all.

Who wants to get the ball rolling? my plate is full right now...

When you sit around talking about it and do nothing else, nothing will happen. Grab the bull by the horns and get involved! This is our industry, C band was built by small fry doing the impossible. It still holds true today.

Great post! I'm mailing it now to SRL,Skyvision and Comcast! :D
 
Great post! I'm mailing it now to SRL,Skyvision and Comcast! :D

If your seriious about getting involved and contacting different people to make it happen then more power to you. If you posting just for the sake of posting don't. What we need are dedicated people that can get stuff done. SRL & Skyvision need a game plan drawn up by us then handed to them to implement. It has to be something of substance. They won't do it by themselves.

Where would the 4D be now without making changes to the game a year ago testing etc? Where would all our maps be if I didn't get involved to do Map Master? Just goes to show you it can be done. Talk is cheap doing is the winning move. :D Lets get going guys!
 
SRL & Skyvision need a game plan drawn up by us then handed to them to implement.

Yeah, make sure to include a check for 1 million dollars!
Serious, are you saying these company's have know clue of their customer needs after all these years of people begging for a new receiver that does more than just mpeg2 non mega-pipe? Come On!
 
Where would the 4D be now without making changes to the game a year ago testing etc?

More like a last ditch, lowest cost effort to save thier business of selling programming. Maybe when HITS starts migrating all their channels to S2 or whatever. There will be another re-birth of 4DTV? Hopefully, they stashed a few dollars away from all the years on easy street. Mike took the money and started sobongo! Who knows what SRL is saving for! ATM's?:D
 
All these comments remind me of an old series that used to air on HBO. What was it called, umm let me see. Oh yea "Dream On"

Funny show and funny thread.

Glad I sold my 920 I picked up for free a while back since the 8" dish had to go with it too.. made 200 bucks too on faded technology. Paid my DTV bill for 2 months. Man I need to find more and sell lol.

Happy Saturday to ya'll.

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Being technologically challenged, if a shaw receiver is capable of working, what type of adapting would be required?
 
made 200 bucks too on faded technology. Paid my DTV bill for 2 months. Man I need to find more and sell lol.

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That's crazy! You could have got close to 4 months of SRL's get-it-all pak for $200 and it includes the "word network" among others!
 
I can't help but wonder if a Motorola HD Cable TV box can understand the muxes on X4 if signal were to be converted to the proper signal range for it to be able to tune it.
 
What would be cool is if SRL would let you order the MTV pack and allow you to pick another channel from the pick 10 list to replace Tv Land.
 
Anony55 said:
I still don't see why this has to be one against the other. In fact, I don't see anything wrong with having both. Pizza can cover some stuff that you can't get on HITS, and HITS can cover some stuff that's in the highest tier on pizza (as well as some that's not available on pizza). If that works for you, then good.

There can be other advantages to having both as well. Such as being able to view one more additional source of programming on more than one TV. Plus, when those thunder clappers come rolling through, HITS is one more source that won't go out. When the skies are clear, pizza lets you watch TV Land, or the game on FSN or ESPN. They both have something to offer.

I know there can be personal feelings about each. But if you don't get caught up in that, you could possibly benefit from both.

Cheers

Well said Anony55, take advantage of the selection, I drink more than one brand of coffee!

For the BigDish folks, I think this "forced feeding" of "pizza" is the issue, I think this came down to business and greed and developments in technology. You can't ignore the 4dtv is old, no longer made, limited data type support etc.

If we ignore the evil empire perception, this comes down to "good business" for pizza, small dish, compact receiver, DVR, record one - watch another, these are advancements that 4DTV was excluded from....unless you include Shaw in Canada!

More of the same said in a different way with a fresh dusting of optimism!
 
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Then will we be able to get it? Why would Disney let us have XD and not Jr?

Many in the family are going to be PO'd about SoapNet going away, many rely on it for watching Y&R during non work hours without a DVR. Guess I'm going to have to show them how to watch it online on CBS.com?

How do you get soap net?! I don't get :(
 
jens59 said:
Being technologically challenged, if a shaw receiver is capable of working, what type of adapting would be required?

I'd like to understand this as well.

My limited understanding is this:

1) Get HITS maps into the box - depending on the box used this is as "easy" as master reset and sitting on the right sat
2) Activating the box thru HITS - again an "easy" one, BUT I understand that Motorola (?) control which UnitIDs can be activated by which providers.

The activating thing really ticks me off, I have a bunch of DCII boxes with valid IDs and I would give SRL money to activate them for programming. The boxes aren't 920/922/410 but SO WHAT! Why should that matter to anyone other than me?!
I'd accept responsibility for the hardware, just let me activate and send re-hits I'll do the rest!

Mumble...mumble..
 
I'd like to understand this as well.


The activating thing really ticks me off, I have a bunch of DCII boxes with valid IDs and I would give SRL money to activate them for programming. The boxes aren't 920/922/410 but SO WHAT! Why should that matter to anyone other than me?!

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