DirecTV Spinoff Announcement
In todays news AT&T is spinning off DTV and other pay services to private equity firm TPG Capital as a 30% owner which will provide AT&T $8B in cash. Valued at $16.25B compared to the 2015 purchase fo...
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For us DTV or Dish provides us news and entertainment from one company at home or on the road. Furthermore having a receiver that records and hence provides continuinity across the home/road and road/home transistions is appreciated.
Let me also state that we largely watch recorded shows when we want and skip over commercials. We are OK with watching the news hours later or shows weeks later. Generally we watch news or shows in about 60% of the air time.
Perhaps we'll switch to Dish as it appears to be the better provider. For us it involves setting up Dish at home (apparently involves buying the receiver?) and purchasing the RF Mogul dish kit to convert the RV to Dish.
The various DTV transistions and future outlook are troubling. Looking further ahead at technology advances I suspect satellite TV like DTV/Dish/Shaw etc will fade into history.
Let me also state that we largely watch recorded shows when we want and skip over commercials. We are OK with watching the news hours later or shows weeks later. Generally we watch news or shows in about 60% of the air time.
Perhaps we'll switch to Dish as it appears to be the better provider. For us it involves setting up Dish at home (apparently involves buying the receiver?) and purchasing the RF Mogul dish kit to convert the RV to Dish.
The various DTV transistions and future outlook are troubling. Looking further ahead at technology advances I suspect satellite TV like DTV/Dish/Shaw etc will fade into history.
