DirecTV 10 to launch tonight at 8:30EDT
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted Jul 6th 2007 2:31PM
posted Jul 6th 2007 2:31PM
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posted Jul 6th 2007 2:31PM
The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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We will all be watching it (and chatting about it) at SatelliteGuys.
Go DirecTV 10!
Godspeed HD satellite...
I hope an asteroid hits it. I hate DirecTV.
The satelliteguys are going to sit at home on a Friday night and worry about that? People make it sound like that this will give dtv unlimited bandwidth. NOT. I can't wait to see them try and compete with switched digital.
Competition is good. If DirecTv wasn't doing this and making claims of so many HD Channels who knows how long it would take Cable to do something like Switched Digital.
Yeah, cause comcast is Comcastic. Had more outtages in one year of comcast than nearly 9 of Directv, I switched back of course, and managed to get an actual Tivo DVR instead of that craptastic moto box. I do however wish Directv would broadcast a full HD signal instead of their not quite HD version.
So, did it go up...? I set the TiVo up to record it, went to watch it just now, and instead I got the message that it was going up soon.... And that's all it recorded, the countdown to when we were going to get live coverage. :(
So far so good. Only the last burn left (3 stages plus 4 out of 5 burns by the transfer engine stage) at ~6AM EDT. Then it's up to the satellite itself.
Whether or not you like DirecTV, you should favor this, as it means that the "cable" channels will start offering HD service this September, which benefits cable subscribers, too.
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