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| kfdodgerfan |
I have DirecTV and would like to order Howard TV. But what is the status of getting the service on this satellite network?
Please let me know. Thanks. |
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| PAINLESS |
I"ve the same question!!!! Unforteunately no answer.
I wonder why no response on message board.....?? |
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| burningwater |
| actually, there was a caller on the show about 2-3 weeks ago with the same question and the reply was that DirecTV is technically not able to offer this service.....which I can't believe.....in my impression.....sooner or later they will come up with a solution |
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| BADAZGN |
I hat the fact that I can't get HTV. Cable is not available to me, nad the cable in town does not carry HTV.
I have both eDirect TV and Dish Network. Hopefully they are working on being able to get us this programming in some form.
Even if they just ran a schedule of the shows round the clock. I have a DVR I could record everything.
That would be sweet! |
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| cleansafe |
ok i will explain this to u satellite guys ine more time
points to go to bed with
1. directv/dish are not capable of doing on demand like cable does. unlike dish cable has its programming on a server u seledt the program u want to watch and it gets sent to your box. satellite does not have the bandwith to accomplish this.
2. howard stern has an exclusive contract with indemand.
3. this is the most important
indemand is owned by the cable companies. and u know they are not going to let its competition get a hold of this.
so u can either subscribe to cable. move if there is no cable in your area
or get it off the internet. which is illegal
sorry guys |
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| kfdodgerfan |
Quote: Originally posted by cleansafe
u can either subscribe to cable. move if there is no cable in your area
or get it off the internet. which is illegal |
Yeah. Howard TV is not that much of a draw where I need to subscribe to shitty cable here in LA or uproot myself from the condo I just bought just so I can see Richard Krispy get waxed.
BitTorrent. Here I come! |
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| LIFAN12 |
There may be hope (but don't hold your breath). This is more than a year past due.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus...11-29-dvr_x.htm
By David Lieberman, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — DirecTV is preparing to offer a digital video recorder (DVR) service in mid-2005 that could duplicate virtually every feature now available from current partner TiVo, plus provide video on demand similar to what's offered on cable, say executives of the company preparing the software.
About the only TiVo function the new service will not have, they say, is the ability to jump over commercials. That's an unadvertised TiVo feature users can activate with programming instructions widely available on the Internet.
The new service "will be simpler and faster" than TiVo's, says Abe Peled, CEO of NDS Group. His company plans to deliver its DVR software to DirecTV by April.
DirecTV remains tight-lipped about the NDS-powered DVR it will offer. Spokesman Bob Marsocci simply says that DirecTV plans to introduce "an alternate DVR product and service in the first half of next year."
It also won't disclose who's making decoders — the satellite receiver/DVR combo box — equipped for the new DVR service, although South Korea's Humax is known to be one company on the list.
Yet, comments by Peled and other executives about the NDS product offer a preview of what could be one of the key battles in the fast-growing DVR market. These computerlike devices enable users to easily schedule and record TV shows on a hard drive, as well as pause and replay live TV.
Rupert Murdoch is picking the fight. His News Corp. controls both NDS and DirecTV and is eager to see the new DVR service succeed. NDS also provides DirecTV's encryption technology and a DVR service for Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting satellite service.
But TiVo can't afford to let DirecTV go. More than 61% of TiVo's 2.3 million DVRs belong to DirecTV subscribers who pay an extra $5 a month to get the TiVo service from the No. 1 satellite company. TiVo doesn't have many alternatives: Cable operators and EchoStar's Dish Network offer their own DVRs.
That's one reason TiVo shares fell 11% last week after it reported that 75% of its new subscribers in the third quarter came via DirecTV.
If DirecTV puts its marketing muscle behind NDS, then "TiVo is going to get hurt, obviously," says Vamsi Sistla, director of broadband research at ABI Research.
Peled says that a big selling point for his DVR is in the way it handles pay-per-view (PPV). With TiVo, users must agree to pay for a PPV movie before recording it for subsequent viewing. But the NDS system will enable DirecTV to signal a user's DVR to record several movies, making each available for viewing at any time.
Customers "pay when they watch (the movie), not when they record it," Peled says.
He adds that his system "will be less expensive for DirecTV" than TiVo and that the savings could be passed to consumers. "We are not a consumer brand. We don't own the customer data the way TiVo does. And we don't sell advertising that we send to the box."
TiVo declined to discuss the NDS challenge. But it told analysts last week to beware of what could be "vaporware," unfinished software.
"NDS has delayed their product offering into later next year," TiVo CEO Mike Ramsay said. "I think we have got a fairly clear runway with DirecTV that we certainly want to take advantage of. ... When it is time to compete, we will focus on that, too. And I think we'll do very well." |
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| TechnoGek |
| I assume Direct TV will steer away from Howards show, currently they are offering XM radio stations. Does anyone know if you can get any of the shows off the net? |
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| cleansafe |
they are all over the internet
u just have to find them |
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| burningwater |
| and it's not very difficult to find the shows on the net....the quality is quite acceptable (avi files).....but I also would like to have/keep them on high quality DVD-R's...... |
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| jimi c |
:D I have dishnetwork & I'm for something to happen
because the local cable dont carry HTV
it sucks |
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| BADAZGN |
Well, I am still screwed because I have dial up so over the net is no good either. It is so frustrating listening to the show all day and Howard mentioning that this will be on HTV soon. :mad:
I know I will just have to hope that something works out for Sat TV. |
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