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| Topic: | why do cable boxes suck so much!??!?! This thread has 39 replies. Displaying posts 31 through 40. |
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| OP | Post 31 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 09:21 |
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they are not easy for grandmas to operate . .
they are clumsy !
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| Post 32 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 10:29 |
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Cable and Satellite boxes suck because they're built by the lowest bidder and the consumer doesn't want to pay for a box that has little or no perceived value. The cable and satellite companies will take a loss on the box to get the customer to subscribe to the programming. Cable and Satellite companies don't make money on the boxes, they lose money. One of the local cable companies, loses over $100.00 per HD PVR even with the customer paying several hundred dollars.
The lowest bidding process creates HD PVR boxes that consume as much as 500w. That's one nasty light bulb.
Thinking green, I wonder how much power would be saved if the companies started developing efficient and controllable cable and satellite boxes.
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| Post 33 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 10:36 |
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cable boxes suck because nobady but us cares a rats ass about them
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| Post 34 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 20:34 |
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That french box is the ugliest piece of crap I have ever seen. It looks like a PC tower from '86.
The new AT&T boxes are nice. Decent GUI. U-Bar.
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| Post 35 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 21:05 |
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On October 20, 2008 at 16:46, motech said...
bastard cable boxes
still cant get over the lack of discrete power commands
on SA boxes . . 0 - Exit 0 - Exit - Power and the disabling of ir port on rear how stupid. Not disabling. They were never enabled.
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| Post 36 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 22:37 |
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...They were designed by Repulicans?
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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| OP | Post 37 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 22:42 |
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On October 23, 2008 at 21:05, SOUND.SD said...
0 - Exit
0 - Exit - Power
Not disabling. They were never enabled. wait. . are you saying that those commands are discrete on and off's for SA boxes?
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| Post 38 made on Thursday October 23, 2008 at 23:55 |
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LOL where you been? Depends on your firmware but we've been using that for YEARS!
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| Post 39 made on Friday October 24, 2008 at 02:14 |
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| OP | Post 40 made on Friday October 24, 2008 at 11:16 |
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genius!!!
ok they suck slightly less now . .
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