loaf Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 And not offering HD Service to new subscribers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrunt Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 And not offering HD Service to new subscribers Wow... Thanks Directv! I think the problem is that there aren't many better options at this point. I don't know much about The Dish, and refuse to go back to Comcast, which I've only had horrible experiences with. But it's not like I can say many better things about Directv either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I think the problem is that there aren't many better options at this point. I don't know much about The Dish, and refuse to go back to Comcast, which I've only had horrible experiences with. But it's not like I can say many better things about Directv either. Yeah, cable sucks, and now DirecTV does too. Time to take up whittlin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 And not offering HD Service to new subscribers wierd. second link of yours that shut down all of my windows..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Wow... Thanks Directv! I think the problem is that there aren't many better options at this point. I don't know much about The Dish, and refuse to go back to Comcast, which I've only had horrible experiences with. But it's not like I can say many better things about Directv either. Comcast just jacked my price by about 8% and in the six months since they took over from Time Warner in my area, service has definitely degraded. That said, I wouldn't touch DirecTV with a very long stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 wierd. second link of yours that shut down all of my windows..... It was a link to a pdf file. Could that print be any less readable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 wierd. second link of yours that shut down all of my windows..... 2nd pdf that crashed yer machine. Are you sure you have enough RAM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I don't really mind. The Direct TV/tivo combo is one of the few things in life that I'd pay a lot more for, relative to what I'm currently being charged. Sunday Ticket is a little spendy, but still worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJoTheWebToedBoy Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 wierd. second link of yours that shut down all of my windows..... That's because you coming from a DirecTV bashing thread, and you haven't paid them for the right to read their article yet. Send money NOW before it's to late.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Oven Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Raising the price up to $3 per month? Not exactly like I'm going to have to rearrange my finances. Plus, it's way better than than POS Cox service I used to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 wierd. second link of yours that shut down all of my windows..... that happened to you in another thread with a pdf link. might wanna go here and reinstall everything, or give this a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTed46 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I don't really mind. The Direct TV/tivo combo is one of the few things in life that I'd pay a lot more for, relative to what I'm currently being charged. Sunday Ticket is a little spendy, but still worth it. They no longer offer new TiVo service just DVR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 (edited) They no longer offer new TiVo service just DVR. Sometimes I have beers with one of Tivo's VPs down the block from me (our kids are playmates). I'll see what I can do. Edited February 21, 2007 by yo mama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Misfit Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Things could get interesting in TV Land over the next two years or so. D-TV has been talking about increased bandwidth for HD broadcasts for quite a while now, but two satellites are supposed to launch this year, although there was apparently some launch explosion last month that may set back their plans. I would assume the increase and the elimation of the HD tier are related to the satellite launch. Time Warner has sued D-TV a few times over their advertsing, but the latest involves their claims of the capacity for up to 150 HD channels or three times the channels available on cable. Of course, as anyone who has HD knows, there is nothing close to 150 HD channels in existence, and D-TV's claim of "three times more than cable" apparently includes counting each HD channel in each time zone. You can actually check the last one yourself -- if you go to D-TV website, you'll see that they brag about "900 hours of HD programming each week". The only way you can get this number (approximately 37 channels) is if you include each channel, including PPV, in each time zone. D-TV has worked out an exclusive deal with MLB Extra Innings. Meaning, D-TV will soon have a monopoly on Sunday Ticket and MLB outside the home markets. And the most interesting thing is the XM/Sirius radio merger. If it goes through, many people think D-TV and Dish will attempt to do the same thing before 2008 (when monopoly-friendly republicans may lose the white house and thus control of the FCC). D and Dish have tried the merger thing before and were shot down pretty much immediately, so its reasonable to expect they will watch this merger very, very closesly. As a subset to the merger possibilities, an interesting thing that could come out of that is a la carte programming, as some people are predicting that the FCC will allow the radio merger on the condition that consumers are allowed to buy some programming instead of all of it. If that happened, the same condition would likely apply to a satellite TV merger. But before you get too excited, do remember that most cable and sat subscribers do not watch, say ESPN -- one of the reasons ESPN (and other channels) insist on being carried by basic tiers is because they are paid by subscirber, and obviously the basic tier has all the subscirbers. Meaning that if ESPN were sold a la carte only to the people who watched it, paying $20-$30 per month just to get ESPN is not an unreasable expectation. In other words, the price increase is probably pretty small compared to what you may see in a couple of years. Someone (like yo mama) can probably expound on these points much more intelligently. I'm just an amateur who finds the idea that we may soon pay like $500 a month to watch sports on TV kinda interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikesVikes Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 wierd. second link of yours that shut down all of my windows..... It's the thought police. Big Brother does not like thoughtcrime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H8tank Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Raising the price up to $3 per month? Not exactly like I'm going to have to rearrange my finances. I beleive they are also dropping channels from lower tiers as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 yeah, give'em a call. they are "restructuring" their packages. They are not dropping HD for new subscribers. Actually, he said they were adding about 100 HD channels (probably going back to what misfit said though)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10g_DBA Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72768-...n_technology_10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 They no longer offer new TiVo service just DVR. The DVR is painfully slow. Thankfully I have it on my office TV...I couldn't imagine having DVR as my main TV. Just to pull up a menu takes like 5-10 seconds longer. I wish I could get Comcast out here in the sticks like I had before I moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H8tank Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Just to pull up a menu takes like 5-10 seconds longer. There is something wrong with your unit. And you DVR is also broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowdog Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 If anyone wants to give DishNetwork a try, here is a code I'd appreciate you use. TIA. CDF448304768 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowdog Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Why didn't this go to page 1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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