"Dream mode on".
Tactical development:
- keep DTV subs with their existing antenna setup
- dump 50% of Spanish channels from DTV lineup
- move the remaining 50% to Dish birds
- give HD networks, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS to all (combined) subs
- give Show HD to DTV subs
- give HDNet to Dish subs
- show a middle finger to paranoids in Hollywood :
5C protection is the only one we will accept.
- do something about those confused people
who are about to buy DTV enabeld receivers/TV sets.
These folx have to know they are about to buy obsolete
stuff.
- accelerate work on unified Dish HDTV STB, with OTA and
Firewire, preferrably 2 moer expansion slots for the future
stuff.
- give Russian channels to DTV subs, so that my wife
can be happy at last. DTV promised these 2 years ago,
but never delivered (what else is new).
Strategic devel:
- I like having 1 ellptical dish, with ability to hit 3 birds,
much more than 2 separate dishes (the Dish way) and IMO that
should be the way of the future.
- I am not sure about differences in modulation/transport
streams used by Dish & DTV (both of them are rather
proprietory as they started before the standards we
settled), but @ this point a winner will have to chosen, may be even slightly modified/improved.
- Dish has to realize that there is a significant number of people
that CAN NOT receive signal from Dish birds, but can receive it
from DTV, and vice-versa. It might sound like a logistical nightmare
to keep all the birds, but I would do it
Is the merger/buyout still a subject to the regulatory approval ?
I think that Dish getting hold of DTV is better development compared to HD-clueless&unfriendly Murdoch taking ownership.
I hope whatever Dish does will be easy on existing sub base
and will start off by sharing content across the combined sub
base and offering more of it.
1-2Y from now, I wouldnt have problem spending more money
to acquire finalized (and much better, faster, recording-enabled)
STB from Charlie
Rashid
- former Dish sats can be used for spot beaming
Tactical development:
- keep DTV subs with their existing antenna setup
- dump 50% of Spanish channels from DTV lineup
- move the remaining 50% to Dish birds
- give HD networks, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS to all (combined) subs
- give Show HD to DTV subs
- give HDNet to Dish subs
- show a middle finger to paranoids in Hollywood :
5C protection is the only one we will accept.
- do something about those confused people
who are about to buy DTV enabeld receivers/TV sets.
These folx have to know they are about to buy obsolete
stuff.
- accelerate work on unified Dish HDTV STB, with OTA and
Firewire, preferrably 2 moer expansion slots for the future
stuff.
- give Russian channels to DTV subs, so that my wife
can be happy at last
. DTV promised these 2 years ago,but never delivered (what else is new).
Strategic devel:
- I like having 1 ellptical dish, with ability to hit 3 birds,
much more than 2 separate dishes (the Dish way) and IMO that
should be the way of the future.
- I am not sure about differences in modulation/transport
streams used by Dish & DTV (both of them are rather
proprietory as they started before the standards we
settled), but @ this point a winner will have to chosen, may be even slightly modified/improved.
- Dish has to realize that there is a significant number of people
that CAN NOT receive signal from Dish birds, but can receive it
from DTV, and vice-versa. It might sound like a logistical nightmare
to keep all the birds, but I would do it
Is the merger/buyout still a subject to the regulatory approval ?
I think that Dish getting hold of DTV is better development compared to HD-clueless&unfriendly Murdoch taking ownership.
I hope whatever Dish does will be easy on existing sub base
and will start off by sharing content across the combined sub
base and offering more of it.
1-2Y from now, I wouldnt have problem spending more money
to acquire finalized (and much better, faster, recording-enabled)
STB from Charlie
Rashid
- former Dish sats can be used for spot beaming
