Dish Network

[kevinpate]

to each their own. never much wanted to mess with a dish. I left cox two years back for att and have no regrets

[Martin]

+1 internets to you, good sir. -M

[Jim Kyle]

Btw, how to they fix satellites? Are they able to go up into space at anytime and quickly? I know NASA take forever to launch and when they launch, its like a big deal. But, just wondering about all the other launches that we never know about.

Depends on how high up they are. They've fixed Hubble a couple of times. However, the TV satellites are in "geosynchronous" orbit, meaning that they stay essentially parked right over the same spot all the time. That's necessary so that we know where they are to point our dishes at them. To get that to happen, they have to be almost exactly 23,300 miles above the earth. That's far too high for anything like a shuttle or Soyuz to reach. No fix for them is possible; just replace when you run out of spare channels to use.

[skyrick]

We lost all of our Dish HD here in TX last night too. It was fine @ 5:30 when I left for the Rangers game; all ausgediecht when I got home @ 10:30. All channels were restored this morning 5:45 when I turned the TV on for the weather report (102 today for a new record surpassing 1980; 71 days over 100 degrees!)

[stick47]

Wasted bandwidth to argue over providers when we should be calling congress to task for failing to force ala carte programming.

[HewenttoJared]

A la carte programming would probably kill everything I watch besides the daily show. : (