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

[Brian Stanaland]

I know a guy in Colorado who has the DirecTV "on demand" service. He
says that even though it's technically on demand, it still take an
hour to download a full length movie through his internet connection.
As for me, I have to tether my T-mobile cell phones to get online. No
way downloading movies is even a possibility. Our solution to this
dilemma  is to move when our lease is up.

Brian

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jason Fritcher <jkf at wolfnet.org> wrote:
> 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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