Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices
by gosub100 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:44PM
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I swear these satellite services could eliminate live tv and go on-demand only using a hard drive DVR style, with maybe 10-20 live channels. Everything else would be a stream that would download and notify you when it was ready. The bandwidth of those dishes has got to be multiple gigabytes per second. They could broadcast everything and the viewers would just opt in to the specific shows or movies they want. Completely switch the business model.
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Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices
by xp84 on Friday December 20, 2024 @09:38AM
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What would be the point though? To offer a slower imitation of streaming to people in remote areas? Most people are happy with regular internet streaming.
Dish did do something sort of similar years ago though, don’t know if they still do, but they did some thing where your DVR would automatically record all primetime shows, so in that way, as long as you were ok waiting for the next day, in a sense, “everything was on demand.” https://www.reddit.com/r/dishnetwork/s/e0wspFb7zq