Directv and technology
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:43 am
As a guy who lives in an apartment and went through absolute hell trying to get a satellite dish installed on the screened in patio (for Sunday Ticket purposes only), I don't get why in today's increasing internet speeds that they don't provide a streaming service of sorts.
Like your box is connected to your network and you just have an account similar to netflix. You have a remote control and everything but when you send commands to your box, it just links up to a "satellite farm" of sorts and brings back a menu just like what you're used to seeing. I'd gladly wait a few extra seconds if I didn't have to worry about having the extra equipment on my patio / house and I'm sure that would work a LOT better for apartment dwelling folks that don't face SW or have stipulations on being able to mount dishes.
I know you can buy the extra 10 bucks a month "on the go" to get the games to your computer which in turn you could display on your TV, but in a smaller-is-better, high speed connectivity world, having less equipment would be the direction they were heading.
Random thought of the day....
Like your box is connected to your network and you just have an account similar to netflix. You have a remote control and everything but when you send commands to your box, it just links up to a "satellite farm" of sorts and brings back a menu just like what you're used to seeing. I'd gladly wait a few extra seconds if I didn't have to worry about having the extra equipment on my patio / house and I'm sure that would work a LOT better for apartment dwelling folks that don't face SW or have stipulations on being able to mount dishes.
I know you can buy the extra 10 bucks a month "on the go" to get the games to your computer which in turn you could display on your TV, but in a smaller-is-better, high speed connectivity world, having less equipment would be the direction they were heading.
Random thought of the day....