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  1. Local Reception
    You might want to check out Antenna Man's reviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/antennaman He has to deal with WPVI (low vhf 6) in Philadelphia in a marginal signal area. It might help you narrow your set of choices in terms of antennas.
  2. TV Show Talk
    Bingo. I said this in the Days of our Lives thread - they want people over on Peacock. Days moved over there because the audience is fiercely loyal and skews old, so it's likely to yield new subs that they can use to make Wall Street happy. Primetime programming costs money. News is cheap...
  3. Internet Streaming Services
    I'm not so sure. I think this is an experiement to see what this does for Peacock numbers. Comcast has been racking up losses wrt the Peacock platform with very little to show for it in terms of subscriber growth. Days of our Lives may not be drawing tons of eyes, but it does draw super loyal...
  4. General DISH™ Discussion
    The folks who are out of luck with this one are rural or terrain-challenged customers without access to OTA. This has probably discussed elsewhere, but I suspect as streaming has taken hold, the percentage of Dish's customer base without reliable broadband has risen. I think that's part of...
  5. DIRECTV Programming
    Don't forget that the Kraken will be on Root as well. I expect an alternate feed is an almost certainty.
  6. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Channels DVR. You set up your own local DVR that can serve up any Apple TVs in your home (or your iPhones remotely). It uses TV Everywhere logins + OTA feeds from an HDHR to capture the video. All recordings are locally available and can be consumed on a regular PC as well. Commercial skip...
  7. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I'd recommend removing that check image. It contains account and routing numbers...
  8. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The big difference there is that those were installed when your roof was installed, and the work was done by a roofer who does this for a living. If properly installed, a dish on a roof should be fine, but you won't be able to remove the foot without risking a leak, and you're also trusting...
  9. DIRECTV Programming
    Of note there is CBS in Seattle. I am sure the NFL is an interested third party in ensuring the Super Bowl is televised by their Sunday Ticket partner in the 12th largest DMA in the country. I suspect this gets settled sometime this week. If not, KIRO has some of the best OTA reception of the...
  10. DIRECTV General Discussion
    What AT&T is attempting to do reminds me a lot of what Verizon did when they sold off large swaths of their legacy wireline telephone business to companies like Frontier and Hawaiian Telecom. Verizon made out like a bandit -- saddling Frontier with a ton of debt and IIRC, somehow was able to...
  11. DIRECTV Programming
    I feel like the networks have the upper hand in these negotiations... customers can just hop onto a streaming service that has an agreement with TENGA if OTA is not an option. Once they get a taste of OTT delivery, it can often lead to subscriber loss for the provider. Of course, those who are...
  12. DIRECTV Programming
    Same here with KING (NBC affiliate in Seattle) on OTA. The location was about 15% of the way down from the top of the screen and was featured prominently during the Thanksgiving Day parade and the dog show. I figured there would be discussion here :). With the number of easy alternatives...
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Off topic, but the best advice I can give you is to follow Gordon Ramsay's technique. You make a lemon and herb infused butter, rub it all over the skin, and then carefully separate the skin from the breast meat using your fingers. Proceed to rub the butter all over the meat, leaving a layer of...
  14. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I disagree. This is a new development on AT&T's part that's worth discussion - they've gone from activist investor demanding changes, to public calls for Stephenson to admit this is a failure, to this article where they look like they are trying to dump the service altogether. Stephenson and...
  15. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I can pretty much guarantee you that AT&T didn't pay Apple "pennies on the dollar" for the Apple TVs. Those things retail for an MSRP of $179 which of course includes holdback. Maybe AT&T got them for $125 wholesale but I doubt it was less than that - just look at AT&T's subscriber acquisition...
  16. DIRECTV General Discussion
    FWIW, I trialed Fubo about 6 months ago and found the frame rate to be real choppy. Perhaps now they are up to 60fps on their sports channels but at the time, they weren't up to snuff with other options. As much as I complained about DirecTV Now above, the one thing they did have was a decent...
  17. DIRECTV General Discussion
    They need to find a way to turn those customers into higher profit subscribers. I was one of those customers that got the free Apple TV with 3 months of their "Live a Little" package. I was a former D* subscriber so I was an ideal candidate to move to this product. The DVR was broken more...
  18. DIRECTV General Discussion
    For me, it was a combination of continual price hikes, terrible software (at least, compared to the Apple TV), and lack of compelling content. I get the networks OTA for free. I can get most everything I want to watch from Philo. For a company that sends collection agencies after deadbeats, I...
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    As we've moved to streaming, we have been increasingly happy with OTA and a select few cable channels - mostly the A&E networks. One thing these guys aren't taking into account is competition - cable and satellite were a duopoly. With streaming services, there is significantly more competition...
  20. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I'll be part of this statistic in the fourth quarter. I just cancelled last night after being a customer since 2007. I suspended my service back in May to trial streaming. For me, it was a combination of price increases and terrible software on the HR24. Performance really regressed over the...
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