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847badgerfan · « **Reply #37072 on:** September 09, 2024, 12:31:24 PM »

We're in a pretty good space here. Out provider is Broadstar, which is a company out of West Palm Beach that serves HOA's. They are generally a broker.

Our service is actually backboned by Comcast/Xfinity. Internet is fiber and TV is streaming only. Broadstar provides two Fire Sticks at no additional charge, and we can get extras for $5.99/month.

The problem is that we cannot use Broadstar on a computer. Their app only works on Apple and Google stuff. A Chromebook would work, I'm told.

Gigem · « **Reply #37073 on:** September 09, 2024, 12:45:10 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on September 09, 2024, 10:35:42 AM

I'm at $80/month with youtubeTV but I get everything I need - live sports

Me too. I like it. Can get it on my phone, computer, or TV app.

FearlessF · « **Reply #37074 on:** September 09, 2024, 12:57:09 PM »

Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on September 09, 2024, 11:32:11 AM

The issue is that their subscriber base is quite "sticky", by which I should say "rural without adequate broadband / cable access". A lot of these folks just don't have other options.

But as long as they're the sole provider to rural areas without adequate broadband service, they've got a captive market. They already invested the CapEx to put satellites into space, so it's not like they have to run new cable or fiber to the backwoods to deliver TV.

seems like there should be many more than 11 million

Cincydawg · « **Reply #37075 on:** September 09, 2024, 12:58:45 PM »

We have over 200 residents in our building and might be "one subscriber".

FearlessF · « **Reply #37076 on:** September 09, 2024, 01:01:11 PM »

stats

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #37077 on:** September 09, 2024, 02:40:15 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on September 09, 2024, 12:57:09 PM

seems like there should be many more than 11 million

Well there are only 127M households in the US (according to Google) and the sub would probably be at the household level.

I don't know the market share between Dish and DTV but assuming it's anywhere near 50/50 that's equal to more like 22M households/subscribers.

According to Wiki, 17.9% of the population in the US lives in rural areas. If we assume the household split is similar, that's 22.7M households.

So the number doesn't seem THAT low to me...

Mdot21 · « **Reply #37078 on:** September 09, 2024, 03:39:48 PM »

utee94 · « **Reply #37079 on:** September 10, 2024, 12:05:40 PM »

I hear a lot of people saying these days, that the cars all look the same, and it was better in the old days.

Here's a picture of a drive-in theater from small-town Texas (Kingsville) in the 50s. Hmmm....

Cincydawg · « **Reply #37080 on:** September 10, 2024, 12:14:33 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on September 10, 2024, 12:05:40 PM

I hear a lot of people saying these days, that the cars all look the same, and it was better in the old days.

When I was a kid, it was a "thing" to be able to recognize cars, circa 1960, in part because there weren't that many models to learn. They did look fairly different then, though the overall shapes were pretty much the same. Obviously these CUVs like we have are VERY common these days, I was surprised when I started noticing that. Ours looks "different" from the front, but side and rear view is pretty much the same as a CRV or Toyota.

This "sitting up high" is a thing that has largely killed station wagons I think. It also makes egress easier for us old folks. And it's only a few inches.

FearlessF · « **Reply #37081 on:** September 10, 2024, 01:24:26 PM »

station wagons have been dead for a long while

they're killin sedans now

the cars from the 40s and early 50s at least had some curves and some style

Gigem · « **Reply #37082 on:** September 10, 2024, 03:10:44 PM »

I think car makers just sell what people want. If you go back to the 80's, when today's form factor first evolved, the American cars were still pretty distinctive. I clearly remember the Chevy Caprice type cars (and all the variants from Oldsmobile and Pontiac), the Ford sedans, and Chrysler cars. You still had station wagons galore, big bumpers. You know what the top selling car was at the end of the 80's? The Ford Taurus. Front wheel drive, unibody, bleh. Fast forward a few years, all the car makers were making front wheel drive unibody. No style at all. There were still a few models sprinkled in here and there, like the Thunderbird, but slowly cars drifted toward the unibody, and bleh.

Now it's just CUV's and SUV's and more bleh.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #37083 on:** September 10, 2024, 03:33:41 PM »

I would not have predicted these trends in 1980, at all. I was biting on the "peak oil" story at the time, and has was "expensive". So, mpgs became a priority for me, meaning slow cars and minivans with manual transmissions. I thought the minivan was a super vehicle type, and probably would have guessed we'd have some smaller minivans by 2020. EVs? Nope, GM did have an abortive poor attempt ca. 2000.

Maybe the "CUV" is sort of the small minivan I might have forecast. I have found the size to be about right, it's usefully larger than the GTI without being a hog. The back seat is sittable for adults.

We didn't have hybrids of course, and turbos were unwieldy things in a few cars that had bad lag. And today very few cars off manual transmissions, and Cadillac is one of them.

utee94 · « **Reply #37084 on:** September 10, 2024, 03:36:15 PM »

Yeah here in the USA, minivans effectively killed off station wagons, and then SUVs and CUVs have greatly diminished minivans.

Station wagons or "estate wagons" are still fairly common in Europe. As are the small hatchbacks that are like their Euro-sized versions of CUVs.

FearlessF · « **Reply #37085 on:** September 10, 2024, 03:56:02 PM »

SUVs and CUVs are glorified minivans.

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