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Las Vegas Dave
Not sure how big a deal VOD is to other folks but VOD does not interest me at all. I had it when I was a Comcast customer and never used it. It’s available to me now as a DIRECTV customer and I probably will never use it either.
Frankly, the DIRECTV instruction paragraph did not look very complex to me.
DirecTV and Dish Network provide welcome competition to the cable monopolies. If they screw up they will lose customers, while the cable companies can screw up and still maintain their exclusive municipal franchises.
If DirecTV or Dish Network subscribers feel that they are being misled, they can always switch. That’s free enterprise.
I refuse to pay DTV $10.00 more a month for HD programming.
And the programming is still lost when it rains heavily.
When I first subscribed and purchased my equipment back in the mid 90’s it cost me nearly $500. for the recieving equipment, but about $29. a month.
Now it cost me $80. a month. Yeah I have a few more channels, and own my updated reciever, but not everything available by any means.. And no I will not pay more for HDTV.
>>>....how many customers are downloading shows via the On Demand service.
This one has... simply click & save a title to the DVR at bedtime, and while I’m getting my zzz’s it downloads, then I can watch it whenever the heck I want. Article’s author is a putz.
So it’s a IPTV supplement to DBS. I wonder if you have Comcast or AT&T as your broadband provider if they’ll sniff out this service and throttle back the download rate?
All I can say is FTA is the way to go, I made my phone call tocancel yesterday and glad of it.
All of these technologies basically dance around the issue. Sure, for those who live way out of metro areas, they will likely always need a dish, and maybe someday satellite will have the capability to go high bandwidth 2-way. But the end game is what Verizon is doing with FiOS. Pipe it into the home via a huge pipe, and you don’t need to screw around with hybrids of technology.
Um... Run a wire from your DVR to your router.
There. I fixed it so the moronic author can understand it. It should be wireless.
Comcast still sucks compared to Satellite. If only the almighty FCC, the Grand Arbiter of who can and cannot receive locals, would let me at least receive some sort of network feed for the big 4 over satellite, I’d no longer be a cable prisoner. Follow the money....
Er...no. But then, it doesn't exactly sound like rocket surgery either.
Hooked mine up months ago on Beta, just poppoed a wireless router on the back and it can right up. Cool thing is I also networked with a server to load up my music and videoes stored on the computer. I can now connect to my server from the receiver and play all of my music through my 3-2-1 system. Cool stuff.