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Dish Network at a Glance
Stock quote: DISH $29.98 (-0.98)
Headquarters: Englewood, Colorado
Date of launch: March 1996
Satellites in service: 13
Available satellite channels:500+
Estimated subscribers:13.5 Million+
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Directv to limit pay per view viewing time
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 In a move that can be interpreted as a cave in to major movie studios, DirecTV has recently announced that they will begin limiting pay per view movies recorded to the Directv DVR. Effective April 15, 2008 all pay per view movies recorded by the DirecTV DVR will automatically be deleted 24 hours after initial recording.
"Major movie studios have required that satellite and cable providers alike may no longer allow their customers to view these recordings for longer than 24 hours” reads the DirecTV announcement.
This move will eliminate the ability to view a PPV recording several times, or even the ability to view a recording made more than a day after recording, which will force consumers to pay for each viewing, or go out and purchase the movie from a retailer. For example, a customer may record a pay per view movie on a Sunday night, intending to watch it the next day, but does not have the opportunity until Tuesday. The recording that has been paid f ...
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 Posted on Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:30 PM
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Bell Expressvu dishes out new signal security upgrade
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Similar to its security upgrade in July 2005, Canada’s leading satellite broadcaster, Bell Expressvu is in the process of a new signal security upgrade in an effort to curtail its’ rampant piracy problem.
Bell Expressvu utilizes equipment and signal encryption technology manufactured by Echostar, the U.S.’s second largest digital satellite broadcaster. Echostar’s Dish Network has been plagued by piracy issues for many years, despite numerous expensive attempts to resolve the problem. This has lead to widespread piracy issues for Bell Expressvu due to the similarity in technology. Recent estimates peg more than 2 million pirates are currently receiving Dish Network and Bell Expressvu programming without payment.
The Bell Expressvu satellite signal is encrypted, allowing only authorized users, such as subscribers to decode the signal and allow them to view the channels that they are subscribing to. Signal pirates exploit vulnerabilities in the encrypti ...
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Posted on Thu 28 Feb 2008, 6:12 PM
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Liberty Media closes deal to assume control of DirecTV
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 The deal allowing Liberty Media LLC to acquire control of DirecTV Group Inc., the leading U.S. direct to home satellite company was closed this week.
Liberty and News Corp. entered an agreement in December 2006 to trade Liberty’s 16 percent ownership of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for News Corp.’s 39 percent controlling interest in the El Segundo, California-based Directv.
Earlier this week, the deal was approved by the FCC, which was the final hurdle needed to make it a reality. In its decision, the FCC required that business relationships between Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico and Directv be severed within a year.
For Liberty Media’s founder John Malone, the agreement creates a domestic television empire not seen since his TCI cable conglomerate was purchased by AT&T Inc. TCI is remembered by many for running very aggressive anti-satellite ads nationwide in the mid 1990's while fighting for subscribers which were flocking to th ...
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Posted on Thu 28 Feb 2008, 4:58 PM
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Directv leasing program triggers class action lawsuit
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 A Chicago-based law firm has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against Directv Inc., charging the satellite broadcaster with failing to adequately inform customers that they must return their Directv receivers upon cancellation of their Directv service, even if they paid hundreds of dollars for them at retail.
The suit, which also includes electronics retailer Best Buy, accuses the companies of not adequately disclosing that a customer cannot keep their Directv receiver after canceling their Directv service even though they paid for it, with prices now ranging from $69 to $199.
Directv considers the set top receiver purchase a “lease”, charging additional monthly lease fees which range from $4.99 to $10 per month. Previous to their lease program, which began on March 2006, customers were required to pay outright for their receivers. The leasing program allowed subscribers to get Directv with a lower upfront cost.
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Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2008, 10:18 PM
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Directv launches an additional 11 new high definition networks
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Directv has launched an additional 11 new high definition networks, adding to the 21 added last week. The latest additions include premium movies, sports and also specialty channels.
In the specialty category, we have the addition of;
Bravo-HD
Sci-Fi-HD
USA Network-HD
In the sports category we have the addition of;
Sportsnet Chicago-HD
Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic-HD
New England Sports Network-HD
Sportsnet New York-HD
YES-HD
And finally, we have the latest additions in the premium movie category;
HBO-West-HD
Cinemax-East-HD
Cinemax-West-HD
Directv has announced that they are committed to offering up to 70 high definition channels by the end of October and up to 100 by years end. ...
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Posted on Thu 4 Oct 2007, 9:41 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Directv launches 21 new high definition channels
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Directv, the United States leading direct to home satellite provider has added 21 new high definition television channels, upping their nationwide HDTV channel service to 31 channels. The new networks include;
CNN HD
TBS HD
Big Ten Sports HD
NFL Network HD
Smithsonian HD
A&E HD
History Channel HD
Animal Planet HD
Discovery Channel HD
The Science Channel HD
TLC HD
The Movie Channel HD
Showtime 2 HD
Showtime West HD
Starz Comedy HD
Starz Edge HD
Stars HD East
Starz HD West
Starz Kids & Family West
The Golf Channel HD
Versus HD
The Weather Channel HD.
Directv also has announced that 18 more high definition channels are coming in October, which include; Bravo HD, Cartoon Network, Cinemax HD East, Cinemax HD West, CNBC HD, Food Network HD, Fox Business, Fuel HD, FX HD, HBO West HD, HGTV HD, MGM HD, M HD, NBA HD, Nat ...
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Posted on Wed 26 Sep 2007, 8:20 PM
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Echostar anounces plans to split up Echostar, purchase Sling Media
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Echostar CEO Charles Ergen has announced plans to split Echostar up into 2 separate publicly traded companies, one for Echostar’s Dish Network satellite broadcasting service and a separate company for Echostar’s technology and satellite assets. Ergen will remain as CEO of both spinoff companies. Ergen also announced that Echostar has agreed to purchase Sling Media Inc., which offers the popular “Sling Box” media sharing products. The Sling Media division will be controlled by the new technology spinoff, along with its satellite unit, various international assets and its wholesale satellite unit.
Sling Media has sold over half a million of its Slingbox products, which allows people to stream television programming or other media sources, such as a digital video recorder remotely over the Internet.
The announcements helped put to rest speculation about Echostar’s long term plans among growing competition from cable and satellite ...
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Posted on Tue 25 Sep 2007, 9:29 PM
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09/19/2007 12:08 AM
Welcome to our new site. digitalinsurrection.com is now lounge0101.com. Please excuse our mess as we complete a long overdue redesign of our website. The new primary url of our website is now www.lounge0101.com. Please update your bookmarks. With the redesign, you will find all areas of the website have been updated. Stay tuned for more coming soon.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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Sahara
TNT 8:00 pm ET
Based on one of the novels by Clive Cussler about adventurer Dirk Pitt, this well-paced 2005 escapade takes the troubleshooter -- played by Matthew McConaughey -- and his smart-aleck cohort (Steve Zahn) to the title desert, where they search for a Civil War vessel allegedly laden with treasure. Their paths cross that of a doctor (Penelope Cruz) who fears a massive plague.
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TV's All-Time Funniest
ABC 8:00 pm ET
Lucy or Mrs. C? Heathcliff or Homer? Kimmy Gibler or Cosmo Kramer? This new special may generate some friendly arguments around the water cooler. The Nielsen folks asked a sampling of viewers who they thought were the funniest TV dads, moms, kids, relatives, neighbors, friends, bosses and co-workers. The results are revealed here with clips and commentary from such stars as Marion Ross, Mary Tyler Moore and Brad Garrett.
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Crossroads
CMT 9:00 pm ET
A Grammy-winning pop band and a multiplatinum-selling country diva share the stage in "Maroon 5 and Sara Evans." As usual in this series, they talk about music, play some together, and demonstrate that good music is not confined to any one genre. In addition to teaming up to sing each other's hits, they'll also join forces on a rendition of the Don Henley-Stevie Nicks classic "Leather and Lace."
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The Good Shepherd
MAX 5:45 pm ET
One man's travels through the CIA's early years are traced in this overlong but still involving drama directed by Robert De Niro. Matt Damon has the pivotal role as a Yale graduate who secretly works for the U.S. government, becoming efficient but also highly suspicious of virtually everyone he comes into contact with. The results damage just about all his relationships, including the one with his wife (Angelina Jolie). Joe Pesci also stars.
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Must Love Dogs
OXYGEN 7:00 pm ET
A personal ad draws a recently divorced teacher (Diane Lane) and a hopeless romantic (John Cusack) together -- with each telling less than the total truth in the initial stages -- in director Gary David Goldberg's ("Family Ties") gently appealing 2005 comedy. Complicating matters are the woman's father (Christopher Plummer), who's on his own hunt for new love, and another man (Dermot Mulroney) who pursues her heart. Stockard Channing also stars.
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National Treasure
USA 8:00 pm ET
Dismissed by many critics, this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced adventure became one of 2004's top box-office hits. Nicolas Cage plays a member of a treasure-seeking clan whose latest quest involves the Declaration of Independence ... and a map on the back of it that could lead to a fortune. He races his sinister ex-partner (Sean Bean) to the document, helped by his father, a smart-aleck sidekick and a cryptographer (Jon Voight, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger).
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The Shaggy Dog
DISN 8:00 pm ET
The big-budget big-screen remake of the 1959 family classic has made this 1994 made-for-TV update superfluous, although it does stay truer to the original than the 2006 version. It stars Ed Begley Jr. and Sharon Lawrence, with Scott Weinger ("What I Like About You"), the voice of Disney's Aladdin, as teenager Wilby, who inadvertently casts a spell on himself that causes him to turn into a sheepdog. Recommended only if you like the premise but can't stand Tim Allen or Tommy Kirk -- and come on, who could hate the kid from "Old Yeller"?
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Most Outrageous Moments
NBC 8:30 pm ET
For those of you who can't get enough of the agony of defeat -- and the feet -- this episode has a couple of segments you'll enjoy. "Not Necessarily the Olympics" showcases goofs and gaffes on the ski slopes and at the ice-skating rink. "Dancing Without the Stars" is a collection of clips of people attempting to dance -- and failing miserably, of course.
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Clear and Present Danger
BRAVO 9:00 pm ET
Harrison Ford reprises his role as Jack Ryan, a CIA agent who becomes entangled in political double-dealing when he is unexpectedly called in to replace the agency's chief (James Earl Jones). Fast-paced action, a sly script and Ford's admirable performance make this 1994 adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel a real audience pleaser. Willem Dafoe and Anne Archer also star.
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Glass House: The Good Mother
LIFE 9:00 pm ET
Despite the similarities in title and plot, this tepid 2006 suspense tale is not, repeat, not a sequel to the 2001 theatrical thriller "The Glass House" -- which, while not exactly Oscar material, is a far superior film. Longtime "Law & Order" fans might get a kick out of seeing Angie Harmon as a Mommie Dearest to the two orphans she takes in, but everyone else should remember the first law of Lifetime movies: If it has an adjective like "good," "ideal" or "perfect" in its title, chances are it isn't.
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Moonlight
CBS 9:00 pm ET
A blast from the past gives Beth (Sophia Myles) another glimpse into the secrets of Mick's (Alex O'Loughlin) history in this new episode. It comes in the form of a kidnapping; the quarry is the grandson of a man whom Mick was friends with 60 years ago. Man, dude is looking good for his age. Jason Dohring and Shannyn Sossamon also star in "What's Left Behind."
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