It’s official. Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) has made their announcement. Comcast is now the first cable television service provider to offer HBO in high definition. This smart business move will definitely give Comcast the edge over their competitors for the millions who enjoy the HBO channel.
Derek Harrar, Senior Vice President and General Manager of [...]
As Todd Spangler of MultiChannel News reported, DirecTV has supposedly added 100,000 “new” DirecTV subscribers, but ATT&T only reported a net gain of 5,000 satellite TV customers. Todd goes on to suggest that this means roughly 95,000 AT&T customers switched to DirecTV away from Dish Network.
There is one other possibility. AT&T has a pretty high [...]
A federal judge in Texas has scheduled a July 28 hearing regarding TiVo’s request for nearly $1 billion in contempt-of-court sanctions from Dish Network.
The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas last month ordered Dish to disable roughly 4 million DVRs and pay TiVo over one hundred million dollars in damages plus interest, [...]
Dish Network recently settled with the Kentucky attorney general (Jack Conway) to pay $6 million for the states involved in the investigation and as restitution to customers. Why exactly? It’s mostly involved with “deceptive business practices” which can be any number of things. Apparently people being called on the “Do-Not-Call” list are especially upset with [...]
Haven’t gotten around to the site in a while, but that should change. I’ll be resuming coverage of the DirecTV and Dish Network competitive situation in the satellite TV market, maybe even try to cover some foreign services.
Being aware of how users may end up on this page, hopefully no one is looking for how [...]
