I seem to recall, back in the early 90's when DBS was in its infancy, and many people had money invested in the large C-band systems - people were saying that the DBS systems would never take hold. After all: who would want to pay for packages of channels when you can get alacarte packages on C-band? Both existed in parallel for years, but has anybody even seen a recent C-band system?
DBS will be around for a while - streaming may work well in urban areas where you have a strong cell signal, or reliable wired broadband systems, but get out in the world, away from your home and there are places where you don't even have a 3G cell signal and streaming simply does not work! We recently stayed at a resort in Point Arena, Ca and there was NO cell coverage at all - we had to drive a few miles into town to get a cell signal, How does Roku work in that case?
