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Directv to limit pay per view viewing time
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 In a move that can be interpreted as a cave in to major movie studios, DirecTV has recently announced that they will begin limiting pay per view movies recorded to the Directv DVR. Effective April 15, 2008 all pay per view movies recorded by the DirecTV DVR will automatically be deleted 24 hours after initial recording.
"Major movie studios have required that satellite and cable providers alike may no longer allow their customers to view these recordings for longer than 24 hours” reads the DirecTV announcement.
This move will eliminate the ability to view a PPV recording several times, or even the ability to view a recording made more than a day after recording, which will force consumers to pay for each viewing, or go out and purchase the movie from a retailer. For example, a customer may record a pay per view movie on a Sunday night, intending to watch it the next day, but does not have the opportunity until Tuesday. The recording that has been paid f ...
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 Posted on Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:30 PM
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Bell Expressvu dishes out new signal security upgrade
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Similar to its security upgrade in July 2005, Canada’s leading satellite broadcaster, Bell Expressvu is in the process of a new signal security upgrade in an effort to curtail its’ rampant piracy problem.
Bell Expressvu utilizes equipment and signal encryption technology manufactured by Echostar, the U.S.’s second largest digital satellite broadcaster. Echostar’s Dish Network has been plagued by piracy issues for many years, despite numerous expensive attempts to resolve the problem. This has lead to widespread piracy issues for Bell Expressvu due to the similarity in technology. Recent estimates peg more than 2 million pirates are currently receiving Dish Network and Bell Expressvu programming without payment.
The Bell Expressvu satellite signal is encrypted, allowing only authorized users, such as subscribers to decode the signal and allow them to view the channels that they are subscribing to. Signal pirates exploit vulnerabilities in the encrypti ...
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Posted on Thu 28 Feb 2008, 6:12 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Liberty Media closes deal to assume control of DirecTV
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 The deal allowing Liberty Media LLC to acquire control of DirecTV Group Inc., the leading U.S. direct to home satellite company was closed this week.
Liberty and News Corp. entered an agreement in December 2006 to trade Liberty’s 16 percent ownership of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for News Corp.’s 39 percent controlling interest in the El Segundo, California-based Directv.
Earlier this week, the deal was approved by the FCC, which was the final hurdle needed to make it a reality. In its decision, the FCC required that business relationships between Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico and Directv be severed within a year.
For Liberty Media’s founder John Malone, the agreement creates a domestic television empire not seen since his TCI cable conglomerate was purchased by AT&T Inc. TCI is remembered by many for running very aggressive anti-satellite ads nationwide in the mid 1990's while fighting for subscribers which were flocking to th ...
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Posted on Thu 28 Feb 2008, 4:58 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Directv leasing program triggers class action lawsuit
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 A Chicago-based law firm has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against Directv Inc., charging the satellite broadcaster with failing to adequately inform customers that they must return their Directv receivers upon cancellation of their Directv service, even if they paid hundreds of dollars for them at retail.
The suit, which also includes electronics retailer Best Buy, accuses the companies of not adequately disclosing that a customer cannot keep their Directv receiver after canceling their Directv service even though they paid for it, with prices now ranging from $69 to $199.
Directv considers the set top receiver purchase a “lease”, charging additional monthly lease fees which range from $4.99 to $10 per month. Previous to their lease program, which began on March 2006, customers were required to pay outright for their receivers. The leasing program allowed subscribers to get Directv with a lower upfront cost.
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Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2008, 10:18 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Directv launches an additional 11 new high definition networks
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Directv has launched an additional 11 new high definition networks, adding to the 21 added last week. The latest additions include premium movies, sports and also specialty channels.
In the specialty category, we have the addition of;
Bravo-HD
Sci-Fi-HD
USA Network-HD
In the sports category we have the addition of;
Sportsnet Chicago-HD
Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic-HD
New England Sports Network-HD
Sportsnet New York-HD
YES-HD
And finally, we have the latest additions in the premium movie category;
HBO-West-HD
Cinemax-East-HD
Cinemax-West-HD
Directv has announced that they are committed to offering up to 70 high definition channels by the end of October and up to 100 by years end. ...
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Posted on Thu 4 Oct 2007, 9:41 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Directv launches 21 new high definition channels
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Directv, the United States leading direct to home satellite provider has added 21 new high definition television channels, upping their nationwide HDTV channel service to 31 channels. The new networks include;
CNN HD
TBS HD
Big Ten Sports HD
NFL Network HD
Smithsonian HD
A&E HD
History Channel HD
Animal Planet HD
Discovery Channel HD
The Science Channel HD
TLC HD
The Movie Channel HD
Showtime 2 HD
Showtime West HD
Starz Comedy HD
Starz Edge HD
Stars HD East
Starz HD West
Starz Kids & Family West
The Golf Channel HD
Versus HD
The Weather Channel HD.
Directv also has announced that 18 more high definition channels are coming in October, which include; Bravo HD, Cartoon Network, Cinemax HD East, Cinemax HD West, CNBC HD, Food Network HD, Fox Business, Fuel HD, FX HD, HBO West HD, HGTV HD, MGM HD, M HD, NBA HD, Nat ...
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Posted on Wed 26 Sep 2007, 8:20 PM
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Echostar anounces plans to split up Echostar, purchase Sling Media
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Echostar CEO Charles Ergen has announced plans to split Echostar up into 2 separate publicly traded companies, one for Echostar’s Dish Network satellite broadcasting service and a separate company for Echostar’s technology and satellite assets. Ergen will remain as CEO of both spinoff companies. Ergen also announced that Echostar has agreed to purchase Sling Media Inc., which offers the popular “Sling Box” media sharing products. The Sling Media division will be controlled by the new technology spinoff, along with its satellite unit, various international assets and its wholesale satellite unit.
Sling Media has sold over half a million of its Slingbox products, which allows people to stream television programming or other media sources, such as a digital video recorder remotely over the Internet.
The announcements helped put to rest speculation about Echostar’s long term plans among growing competition from cable and satellite ...
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Posted on Tue 25 Sep 2007, 9:29 PM
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09/19/2007 12:08 AM
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Hellboy
FXEAST 8:00 pm ET
Don't hate him because he has the name from hell; he's a good guy. A member of an "X-Men"-like team with special powers, the title character (Ron Perlman) battles a villain (Karl Roden) who wants to tap into Hellboy's darker side and engulf Earth in evil in this visually impressive 2004 interpretation of Mike Mignola's comic book. Selma Blair portrays the firestarter Hellboy loves, with John Hurt as the paternal leader of the good guys.
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NCIS
CBS 8:00 pm ET
Ducky (David McCallum) must be feeling like the Jessica Fletcher of the NCIS team. Like the "Murder, She Wrote" heroine who kept losing friends to murder, he's had one assistant incapacitated by a gunshot, and now his current right-hand man, Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen), has become the target of a killer. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the team scramble to solve the case and save their friend. Cote de Pablo also stars in the new episode "About Face."
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Women's Murder Club
ABC 10:02 pm ET
Nobody ever said their jobs would be dull. Last week, the women's investigation of a crime put Cindy (Aubrey Dollar) in jeopardy. In this new episode, it's Lindsay (Angie Harmon) who puts her own life on the line to capture a serial killer. And her romantic life could take a hit from this, too. Paula Newsome, Laura Harris and Joel Gretsch also star in "Never Tell."
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According to Jim
ABC 8:00 pm ET
It's still on. Sigh. But this week, the tired family sitcom is behaving more like a clone of "Seinfeld" than "The Honeymooners." Andy (Larry Joe Campbell), apparently channeling his inner George Costanza, wonders why his relationships with women never last more than six weeks. Dana (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) gets the answer via hypnosis: low self-esteem. She hypnotizes some self-confidence into him, which may end up costing him the relationship anyway when he gets too cocky.
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Beauty and the Geek
CW 8:00 pm ET
The season finale is full of surprises for the remaining three teams. It starts with the news that one team is being eliminated immediately, based on its performance on a pop quiz. Then the previously eliminated teams show up at the house, and two girls get into a fight over one of the guys. When it's time for the final challenge, host Mike Richards shocks the two remaining pairs with the news that there's no way to prepare for it in "The Fixer-Uppers."
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Nova
PBS 8:00 pm ET
A sad but ultimately hopeful story is told in the new documentary "A Walk to Beautiful." It profiles three Ethiopian women who face lifelong ostracism because of obstetric fistula, a complication of childbirth that leaves them incontinent and unable to have more children. There's a hospital in Addis Ababa, the capital, that specializes in treating this condition, and getting there is a long and difficult journey, but worth it.
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Steel Magnolias
TCM 8:00 pm ET
Mention this 1989 comedy-drama, and most people will flash on its tear-jerker ending. That's a pity, because it's packed with laughs before and even after the tragic event. Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts light up the screen and pepper the air with commentary that's occasionally sweet, often acidic, but always witty. The byplay between Dukakis and MacLaine is priceless.
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Frontline
PBS 9:00 pm ET
Stunning footage of Earth's tallest mountain and moving comments from those who survived its deadliest day make the new episode "Storm Over Everest" a must-see. Filmmaker David Breashears, who was there during the storm on May 10, 1996, that left five climbers dead, re-creates the events of that day in terrifying detail. Several of his fellow climbers share their memories, including Beck Weathers, who was left for dead twice.
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Reaper
CW 9:00 pm ET
You've heard the expression "when hell freezes over"? Bet you didn't know it could spring a leak, too. In this new episode, a soul named Mike (Richard Burgi, "Desperate Housewives") keeps escaping from hell. The devil (Ray Wise) orders Sam (Bret Harrison) to find out who's responsible for the breach. He does -- and it turns out to be someone he'd rather not rat out. Tyler Labine and Christine Willes also star in "The Leak."
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The Zen of Bobby V
ESPN2 9:00 pm ET
Brash and confident former major league manager Bobby Valentine made some enemies during his time in the bigs, but a world away in Japan he's become a treasured icon. This new two-hour documentary, made by three New York University film students, shows Valentine doing what he loves -- managing the Pacific League's Chiba Lotte Marines during the 2007 season and continuing as the biggest American ambassador of Japan's national sport.
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
AMC 10:15 pm ET
From the "Inferior Sequels" file comes this 1985 follow-up to the far better "Missing in Action." It's actually a prequel, which takes Chuck Norris' character, Col. James Braddock, back to his own days as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Soon-Tek Oh plays his nemesis, the camp commander and his opponent in the climactic fight scene. Stick with the original.
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