[ale] All the way to OT: Satellite/Cable (was Re: bandwidth competition (changing the subject))

[Jason Fritcher]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Brian Stanaland wrote:
> AT&T has a deal with DirecTV. I have DirecTV and it's ok. Tons of
> channels and I can think of 3 times the service was out because of
> rain. There is no real "on demand" service like I had with Charter. I
> watched the free on demand stuff all the time. With DVR I don't miss
> it quite so much.

AT&T is now pushing Dish instead of DirecTV.

If you have a DirecTV HD-DVR, they do have a VOD system in testing  
that you can access. Works ok the couple times I've tried it. Their  
system works through your broadband connection.

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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org