HD LILs are free, so this thread makes no sense.
Derrr... brain fart. I was thinking back to when they used to charge extra for them. Derrr. Or, in Homer language, "D'oh!"Jeremy W said:HD LILs are free, so this thread makes no sense.
Less than any additional revenue from customers that would leave if they didn't have OTA or wouldn't buy in the first place.iacas said:So how much money do you think turning OTA on will cost DirecTV? If you subscribe to LIL via satellite, will you drop them when you confirm that you get OTA locals well enough to record or will you keep your SAT LILs?
Ah, the good old days where all of the local channels were sent down on the CONUS beam from 101, so you could hack the receiver to see all of them.iacas said:I was thinking back to when they used to charge extra for them.
Sigh... yes, out-of-market "locals" are especially handy when your own locals are all carrying the exact same coverage of some major local weather event or refinery fire, or police chase, or school shooting, or...Jeremy W said:Ah, the good old days where all of the local channels were sent down on the CONUS beam from 101, so you could hack the receiver to see all of them.
Not that I ever did that...![]()
:lol:Jeremy W said:Ah, the good old days where all of the local channels were sent down on the CONUS beam from 101, so you could hack the receiver to see all of them.
Not that I ever did that...![]()
Yeah, I had a very close brush with DirecTV's SI group. They wanted $3500 or they were going to sue. Luckily my uncle had a contact high up in GM that was able to get them to back off, but it sure did suck for everyone else.Earl Bonovich said:I'll refer you all here:
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=72352