The other thing you didn't consider is that in the US, satellite TV providers currently provide service to 20% of the nation's pay TV subscribers. On a "country road" such as in your example, that percentage will be MUCH higher. I see 100%(!!!) satellite penetration on many roads in rural areas of Georgia. Your estimation that 90% will sign up for cable (especially basic cable, with its crap analog quality) seems excessively high. I'd guess more like 20%, with perhaps another 40% signing up for broadband only.
Glad you didn't get past the talking stage...since Dish doesn't carry Trio (much to my dismay). Aside from that channel and Oxygen (which my wife is interested in), our Dish lineup is quite complete. I am happy with the lineup and (especially) the price, and I am willing to lose a couple of channels for a few days to keep my rates low. (In case anyone else besides me is reading this story late, the channels in dispute are now officially off the air on Dish.)
There won't be any internet access provided by this particular satellite. Echostar IX has a grand total of one Ka-band transponder. The rest are Ku or C-band. This is not nearly enough bandwidth to provide any sort of widespread service. The consensus over at DBSForums is that Echostar IX will be a test bed for future Ka-based services (which may include both internet access and HDTV programming). Echostar has 96 Ka-band licenses spread over two orbital locations. This WILL be enough to provide both video and data services (someday).
I wish that the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back would write Episode 3. Could turn out pretty good...
Unfortunately, she's dead.:( Leigh Brackett only received co-screenwriter credit, but it is well known that Lucas and Kasdan only made a few revisions to her work.
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Replace every mention of "PVR501" with "Echostar/WebTV Dishplayer" and you'd be correct. The PVR501 has NO MS code in it, and its hard drive is not (currently) upgradable.
TiVo boxes have the same 30-second skip feature (at least the new ones do). It's an undocumented feature, and you have to have a bit of technical savvy to enable it. I would expect that most/. readers could enable this feature, though
Technical savvy? Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select on the remote is all it takes.
An interface for advanced programming of various TV/home theatre remote controls by Universal Electronics (makers of Radio Shack and OneForAll remotes).
To protect DVDs they will have to force develop a similar system whereby the player must get a new decryption key from the movie company every time you play the DVD.
You mean like the now-defunct Divx? (may it rest in pieces)
There should be a much less expensive USB version out by the end of the year. Still limits you to Windows, but it's not quite as bad. Minimum ping times should be just under 500ms, not 1000 (which still sucks). As for avoiding Radio Shack, well, it will also be available from Dish Network (Echostar is a major investor).
Biggest reason not to go with Starband: The monthly cost is $69.95.
Apparently you didn't read carefully enough either. Despite the competition with Teledesic, the fact remains that both Microsoft and Echostar have invested heavily in StarBand (formerly Gilat-To-Home) and the system uses MSN as the ISP.
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Unfortunately, she's dead. :( Leigh Brackett only received co-screenwriter credit, but it is well known that Lucas and Kasdan only made a few revisions to her work.
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6,327,418 - filed April 7, 1998
6,233,389 - filed July 30, 1998
Tivo was incorporated in 1997. Furthermore, patent 6,327,418 references (and describes how it is different than) Pause's 1992 patent.
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Technical savvy? Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select on the remote is all it takes.
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That doesn't work, because nobody benchmarks using Diablo II or The Sims.
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Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jp1 for more info.
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You mean like the now-defunct Divx? (may it rest in pieces)
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Biggest reason not to go with Starband: The monthly cost is $69.95.
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Apparently you didn't read carefully enough either. Despite the competition with Teledesic, the fact remains that both Microsoft and Echostar have invested heavily in StarBand (formerly Gilat-To-Home) and the system uses MSN as the ISP.
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