Bill.Satellite wrote:
Come on folks, get real! It a joke. Timmac is mad as heck with satellite TV providers for no known good reason. He has been posting ramblings about the death of satellite TV at any opportunity for quite some time. The countdown goes on, and on, and on, and on........I guess he is the one and only person on the Planet who knows what's going on so he wants to make sure that everyone understand that his self-proclaimed prophecy WILL happen despite any proof to back it up.
You know, even a broken analog clock is correct twice a day..
Perhaps in 30, 40, 50 yrs from now his fantasy, er, "prophesy" might come true :B
He doesn't seem to understand that it took nearly 25 yrs AFTER the little mini dishes were introduced to finally kill off consumer programmers selling sat programming on the BIG "C" Band.
I used to work for a big C band dish installer back in the late 1980s. I personally used Big Dish until around 2005 - 2006 ish. Around 2006 the last programmer was General Instruments and they decided that there was no longer enough C band consumers to continue selling to non commercial customers..
Technically, C Band distribution is STILL alive and kicking today, that is still how all cable companies and even DTV and Dish get their programming. EVERY channel you can find on cable, DTV or Dish IS being sent up to C band satellites then down linked to the facilities.
Hate to break it to him or anyone else who has this fantasy of free or low cost Internet from Mr Musk, not gonna happen. The supposed "target" price of service is $80 per month, does not state how fast or even if data capped..
Pretty darn good chance with adding so many more of this space junk that the cost WILL be far more than quoted (hints of Tesla cars here), will not work as well as advertised.
Satellites REQUIRE constant monitoring and course adjustments which is all done pretty much by humans, not so much by computer. Humans must interact.. That means there must be a control station(s) and people to operate the stations and putting up hundreds to thousands of little satellites that are not in a geosynchronous orbit is going to be an extremely costly operation..
And that is just assuming only the control, not the actual Internet payload connections..
Might see it cost $160 or more a month if you are lucky..
Musk is a modern day PT Barnum and lots of folks follow everything he says without question..
