DirecTV Doesn’t Suck… Much
DirecTV Doesn’t Suck… Much by Roxanne McDonald
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Direcway sucks! say the many who have numerous problems with everything from download and upload time to fallacious errors left and right. But DirecTV, now that’s another story…. |
You might remember the gripe commercials trying to sway subscribers from cable to satellite dish back to cable again: to use cable, the disillusioned subscribers told us, you had to put up with the rain and the cable going out, wind, and the cable going out; to use a satellite, the token TV viewer had to bore a five foot hole in his treasured elm tree.
The new deal with DirecTV, a “satcaster” is some of all of the above, maybe. And for me, I notice that when the weather is absolutely perfect…gorgeous…the transmission goes out. Figure that one out.
But with 16 million subscribers, reports expert Phil Swann, DirecTV (aka Hughes) is still the surest bet.
And with a zillion channels, giving us the opportunity to see things in perpetuity, we really should be grateful with the service overall.
There’s the news we need to know—mostly sensational stuff not only irrelevant beyond the connection we all have as humans but typically violent, invasive, and upsetting…save when there is material we need (such as the latest pet food poisoning debacle), which is what I thought news was for to begin with, informational, guiding, whathaveyou.
There’s docu-programming—somewhere a gazelle is screaming at her TV screen, warning her friends she is seeing on The Discovery Channel, “Don’t go near that water, you stupid asses! There are alligators in there!”
There’s the sports, which pre-empt so many of my favorite programs that I can’t help but anticipate a future where our biggest concern is not who whacked whom on what field but what Boogie said to Will as he won the Big Brother season…forget football season or how the sports fans’ HD issues are so uninteresting….
And there’s the continued slew of reality and comedy TV that competes so hard for prime schedule slots that we at home are running out of notepad paper trying to keep up with the changes in “new!” airtimes for “Identity,” “…Earl”, “The Office,” “Survivor”, “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader” and “Wedding Bells,” to name just a few that have hopped times and nights more than I hopped boyfriends and beds when I was a teen.
It’s Time for Directv and Echostar to Merge
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This time is right for Directv and Echostar (Dish Network) to merge. Rumors about a possible upcoming merger between the two have begun to circulate recently. I hope it happens this time. They tried it four years ago but were rejected by the FCC, whose members felt that a merger would violate antitrust laws. |
However, their primary competition is no longer each other but the cable and phone companies, which have more advantages.
Right now, satellite operators cannot provide competitive broadband, video-on-demand, and VoIP on their own the way the cable and phone companies can. (read more…)
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