The bank took the others, but I kept the one with the satellite dish.
He was John MacDougall, a satellite dish dealer and installer in Ocala, Florida.
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They have a joint enterprise leasing SkyPerfect TV satellite dish receivers for televisions.
For instance, though the MX has its own TV tuner, it can't change the channels of a satellite dish or cable box.
Sadly, his charitable career ended suddenly when he fell to his death while inspecting a satellite dish on the roof of his home.
One option is to combine a Stirling engine with a solar concentrator resembling a satellite dish that can harness the power of 1, 000 suns.
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Companies like iDirect are promoting an alternative - small-cell technology, which allows mobile operators to backhaul data from sites, no larger than the average satellite dish.
"We've had people out who have put a satellite dish up and run a cable to it 500 yards long all to no avail, " he said.
At the height of the Cold War, Karl had built his own secret satellite dish so he could watch the Eurovision Song Contest on Finnish TV.
The transmission from the Lyttelton theatre on the south bank of the Thames can be received in cinemas that have a digital projector and a satellite dish.
This device, developed at the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, is a microwave transmitter the size and shape of a small satellite dish that pivots on top of an armoured car.
Satellite dish allows operations independent of broadband service.
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Next year's launch of two new satellites into orbit should also help with bandwidth issues and allow the launch of new HD channels to compete with the large number currently carried by cable and competitor satellite company Dish.
One of those TiVo-like devices was the set top box supplied to users of the Dish satellite system.
Other communications companies like satellite services provider DISH and the smaller carriers Leap Wireless and MetroPCS may also need capital.
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That number includes the amount of homes Google would reach in combination with its two biggest TV Ads partners to date: satellite service providers Dish Network and DirecTV.
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Back in 2002, the FCC rejected a proposed combination of the satellite TV providers Dish Network and DirecTV, asserting that a merger of the two companies would hurt consumers by reducing competition, in particular for rural customers who lacked local cable television service.
And last year, Google held talks with satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp.
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With its more costly satellite TV play, Dish and DirecTV are the most vulnerable players in this changing landscape, said Scott Paterson, Executive Vice Chairman of IPTV technology provider, NeuLion.
Its satellite competitor, Dish Network, has made several strategic acquisitions, and even though Dish is currently losing subscribers, its efforts regarding its long-term positioning are notable given the changing industry dynamics.
The pay-TV industry has talked about cord cutting for quite sometime now, and although there is no conclusive proof yet available, many argue that emergence of Internet video and satellite providers like DirecTV and Dish is likely to lead to consumers drop pay-TV services.
Or it could spur a merger between Dish and its larger satellite rival, DirecTV.
The company also competes with satellite pay-TV providers like Dish Network and DirecTV.
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To receive content from a satellite, viewers must have their dish pointed at the angle of its orbit.
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Dish Network, the satellite TV provider, pleased investors with higher subscribed numbers, though its quarterly profit fell thanks to heavy discounting.
Another clear loser: Satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network.
One more product pick we recently came across that can enable die-hard football fans to catch multiple games on the go is the Dish Network Tailgater Portable Satellite Antenna and ViP 211k receiver.
In addition, satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network continue to lag the cable TV companies in their ability to offset program cost increases by selling their customers increasingly faster broadband services, per The Wall Street Journal.
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Curiously, a fee-based arrangement isn't the only topic of discussion, as it's also said that Sprint is exploring a spectrum sharing arrangement with Dish that would put the satellite company's unused spectrum licenses to use.
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DISH's Hopper features three satellite TV tuners and a two-terabyte hard drive that stores up to 2, 000 hours of video.
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