Comcast Philadelphia Sportsnet Fight, and other Satellite related stuff

[Seabiscuit36]

even if comcast gives up CSN-philly to satellite, i'm sure they will black it out in the philly area so it won't do me any good anyway

They couldnt do that.

In fact, verizion fios in philly carries CSN without it being blacked out.

I would think that the only way that ever happens is if Comcast says the rest of the country could get it, but philly would remain under comcast and verizon.  Then the satellite companies would have to agree, then the FCC. 

The loophole that CSN Philly uses is:  They used to be on the Prism Microwave network, the old loophole said that Comcast had exclusive rights to that special type of broadcast unless the other providers had the same technology.  Comcast went to Fiber optic a few years back, and since Fios is the same, they had no choice but to share. 

[ice grillin you]

my point is the nhl package is 150 so you only be saving 30 bucks....in terms of spending another 300 on the nfl package that isnt much

[Seabiscuit36]

my point is the nhl package is 150 so you only be saving 30 bucks....in terms of spending another 300 on the nfl package that isnt much

To the wifey it is.  Its all in the presentation. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

More HD for me holla

I had to drop HD from my service because the apartment I moved into won't let me attach the dish to the building so I had to put my dish on a tri pod (which directv charged me $40 for).  But their tri pod won't support the weight of the HD dish.  Oh well.  

Ghetto.

[Rome]

If CSN Philly was added to DirecTV, I'd sign up in a second.

Dei Lynam 4 life. 

[Seabiscuit36]

More HD for me holla

I had to drop HD from my service because the apartment I moved into won't let me attach the dish to the building so I had to put my dish on a tri pod (which directv charged me $40 for).  But their tri pod won't support the weight of the HD dish.  Oh well.  

Ghetto.

Sarge, you realize you could have just purchased a home depot 5 gallon bucket, put a metal or even pvc pole in it, then attach the satellite.  Throw some quickcrete in there, and you would have saved more money than switching to Geico

[Sgt PSN]

More HD for me holla

I had to drop HD from my service because the apartment I moved into won't let me attach the dish to the building so I had to put my dish on a tri pod (which directv charged me $40 for).  But their tri pod won't support the weight of the HD dish.  Oh well.  

Ghetto.

Sarge, you realize you could have just purchased a home depot 5 gallon bucket, put a metal or even pvc pole in it, then attach the satellite.  Throw some quickcrete in there, and you would have saved more money than switching to Geico

Yes.  The only problem was that I was not made aware of the problem until the installer actually showed up at my place other wise I would have been ready.  I just wanted to get my service set up.  What I may do sometime in the near future is get the bucket and fill it with concrete and then call Directv and tell them I want to upgrade to HD again.   

[Seabiscuit36]

Make sure they do not charge you, i had a similar situation with my installer and really had to bust heads to get them to pay it. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

It seems the bucket of concrete solution would be more apropos for Jacksonville, NC.

[dis12]

If CSN Philly was added to DirecTV, I'd sign up in a second.

or try what I'm considering,  install Slingbox at someone's house in So.Jersey/Philly that has CSN. 

I have no idea if Slingbox really works as promoted.  It's probably too good to be true, otherwise people would be setting up units all over...semi-legal stealing of cable.

[Geowhizzer]

pretty people who choose to live in maryland don't deserve to see flyers post game live with al morganti

Is pretty a new filter?  Hey, i already dish out 150 bucks to watch NHL Center Ice just to watch Flyers games, if i could save that per year, that means NFL Ticket for me. 

Sun, Verizon Fios offers CSN Philly.  Comcast to make concessions may offer to blackout Philly, but offer it to the rest of the country, but i doubt the FCC would go for that.  If they open that channel for philly and the country, it would be time to dump any stock you have in Comcast immediately. 

I think what you'd find is that, except for the local station, the games (NHL, MLB) would be blacked out if you don't have the sports package as well.

[Sgt PSN]

It seems the bucket of concrete solution would be more apropos for Jacksonville, NC.

Wouldn't know.  I don't live there.  

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

It seems the bucket of concrete solution would be more apropos for Jacksonville, NC.

Wouldn't know.  I don't live there.  

Your memory is decidedly short-term.

[Seabiscuit36]

No word yet on the meeting that was to take place Tuesday, they have pushed it back every day.

Here is the new lists of HD Channels for Direct TV and what packages they are contained in