- Two Sought By FBI For 2003 Hack
- Digital Trends News - October 7, 2008
- In 2003 the satellite TV market was pretty cutthroat, and retailers would do almost anything to have an edge on the competition. In the case of Web retailers Miami-based Rapid Satellite and Weaknees in LA, that anything included a denial of service ...
- AT&T to Bundle DIRECTV Satellite TV Service in 2009
- Press Releases - September 26, 2008
- GE Partners with Tatung on HDTVs, Content
- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2008
- General Electric has announced the formation of a new joint partenship with consumer electronics maker Tatung called General Displays & Technologies. The new company will produce, market, and service a new line of GE-branded high-definition telev...
- DirecTV and TiVo: Together again
- CNET News - September 3, 2008
- DirecTV and TiVo have agreed to develop and sell a new TiVo DVR for DirecTV's satellite TV service. This announcement is long overdue, but very welcome.
- TiVo and DirecTV Re-Team For New DVR
- Digital Trends News - September 3, 2008
- Satellite television provider DirecTV and DVR pioneer TiVo used to have a very cozy relationship. The companies got together back in 2000, and shortly DirecTV was moving the majority of TiVo DVR devices and creating oodles of TiVo subscriptions. Howe...
- Sky Offers New Music Service
- Digital Trends News - July 23, 2008
- BSkyB – or Sky, as it’s generally known – rules the satellite TV market in the UK, and has begun to wade into broadband. Now it’s planning to start a subscription Internet music service this year, using tracks from the massive...
- AT&T ends Dish satellite TV partnership
- CNET News - July 2, 2008
- AT&T is gearing up for negotiations to strike a new satellite TV deal.
- AT&T and Dish Network Parting Ways in 2009
- Digital Trends News - July 2, 2008
- AT&T and Dish Network have had a deal since mid-23003 to sell a "triple-play" package of satellite television, telephone, and Internet service in a combined offering. However, the company has informed Dish Network that, as of the end of it year, ...
- Dish drops unpopular Voom HD channels
- CNET News - May 14, 2008
- Satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network has dropped the 15 specialty Voom channels from its high-definition lineup.
- Mobile Satellite TV Has Great Growth Potential in Europe
- Press Releases - May 8, 2008
- Freesat Launches In The U.K.
- Digital Trends News - May 7, 2008
- It sounds like a great idea, a satellite system with a set-top box that allows users to access 2000 channels without paying a monthly fee. All they’ll spend is $100 for the box ($240 if you want to go HD), and another $160 for the dish and inst...
- Is HDTV Compression Damaging Picture Quality?
- PC World News - April 25, 2008
- To deliver more HDTV channels, cable and satellite services are resorting to new compression algorithms. But some viewers fear that quality is suffering as a result.
- DirecTV Puts Limit On PPV Movies
- Digital Trends News - March 24, 2008
- If you’re a DirecTV subscriber and you watch their pay-per-view moves, you’ll shortly notice a c change. A big change. The company offers the moves via digital video recorders, but from April 15, once you’ve downloaded the film...
- Dish Network may be eyeing mobile TV biz
- CNET News - March 21, 2008
- The new 6MHz of spectrum that satellite TV provider Dish Networks won in the 700MHz spectrum auction is ideal for mobile TV.
- Satellite lobbying push could mean higher cable bills
- CNET News - February 14, 2008
- DirecTV and other satellite television providers want taxes "equalized" on fairness grounds -- which could mean higher taxes for cable providers and their subscribers.
