Comments on: DirecTV aiming to kill TiVo? http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=616 Helping PC users make sense of Microsoft software since 1991 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mm http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=616&cpage=1#comment-1309 mm Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=616#comment-1309 I just stumbled across the same dirty secret while researching a possible move from Comcast to the DISH Network. (When I asked the hard questions, the supposed Big Kahuna Sales Rep claimed he knew nothing, then hung up to do research and get back to me. What he returned with wasn't pretty.) DISH will happily sell you a $600 HD/DVR box, with no mention that it'll be obsolete when they roll out their new mpeg4 technology in the second half of 2005. He tried to argue that their current box won't be obsolete-- you'll still receive what you currently receive-- you just won't be able to receive any of the new HD channels they plan to roll out in mpeg4. (They must have similar plans to Direct TV's new advertising campaign. The future is coming... you just won't be able to see it.) I told the guy, "So it won't go black... it'll just be like black & white." So obviously, I'm staying w/ Comcast until the new technology shake down. I just stumbled across the same dirty secret while researching a possible move from Comcast to the DISH Network. (When I asked the hard questions, the supposed Big Kahuna Sales Rep claimed he knew nothing, then hung up to do research and get back to me. What he returned with wasn’t pretty.)

DISH will happily sell you a $600 HD/DVR box, with no mention that it’ll be obsolete when they roll out their new mpeg4 technology in the second half of 2005.

He tried to argue that their current box won’t be obsolete– you’ll still receive what you currently receive– you just won’t be able to receive any of the new HD channels they plan to roll out in mpeg4. (They must have similar plans to Direct TV’s new advertising campaign. The future is coming… you just won’t be able to see it.)

I told the guy, “So it won’t go black… it’ll just be like black & white.”

So obviously, I’m staying w/ Comcast until the new technology shake down.

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