 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Why Murdoch bought it to begin with.... Half (if not all) the reason Murdoch bought his share of DirecTV is because he owns the company that makes the new (crappy) DirecTV Plus DVRs, and by buying his 40 or so % of DirecTV, he could force DTV to use his DVRs.
(And trust me when I say crappy, I install DirecTV for a living, and I replace a LOT of defective units.)
He is now realizing that just because he makes the DVRs and can force DirecTV to use them, that doesn't mean they are any good and that he can actually make money off of them (especially when about half - yes, I honestly mean about half - of them are defective).
The other reason - I assume - ol' Rupert bought his share was to try to control DirecTV channel lineup and offerings. And IMHO, DirecTV has always had a good channel lineup and provided their customers with the programming they wanted, and needed no input from Murdoch to help.
Side note:
I've only had DirecTV since 1999; half of that in rural BFE, and the other half in a city of 300,000 people. I pay $50/mo for 185 all digital channels. Comcast wanted about $100/mo for that, and their first 70 channels are analog no matter what, and often(depending on neighborhood)have poor picture quality as a result.
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| Murdoch bought direct tv for a number of reasons
1. To stop the NDS lawsuit. NDS who had made the access cards for the recivers since day one had a falling out with Direct after the Acces 4 card came out. Then DTV came out with there own in house made card and file suite against nds over some business practices. Rupert bought DTV the lawsuit went away and nds started making cards again.
2. As Aaron said he wanted to push his half baked recivers. They did not get great reviews from people in the UK using SKY TV service and did not get good reviews here either.
3. Because He could not buy Echostar. Long before Echostar tried buying DTV... Murdoch tried buying Echostar from Charlie and they could never settle on a price. Why does Murdoch want Echostar because unlike DTV it knows how to make a profit. YOu have two satellite companies with the same general prices and channel lines ups but one is in the red and the other is in the green. HMMM. I belive that murdoch wanted to merge dtv and echo together and have Charlie Ergen be CEO over the merged company as if anyone could turn around DTV profit margins it would be charlie.
4. Murdoch hates Nagravision ( competition to his NDS ) and Echostar being the largest consumer and provider of Nagravision cards and technology ( Nagravision and Echostar's joint venture company Nagrastar) the old buy them out to get rid of them tatic works quite well .
5. I belive murdoch saw dtv and thought he could turn it around and make it profitable but couldnt and wants to get rid of it . |
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PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Thanks, Stonecold. I'm suprised I didn't know all that. And I though I kept up!
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PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Aren't they all? Even our (at least in my neck of the woods) local news networks can't report accurate facts. Just this week I saw a report on our local NBC affiliate talking about a police crackdown on a particular traffic law. They didn't bother to even quote the law, and only gave a factually incorrect paraphrasing of it. I looked up the law on my state legislature's web site, and found them to be quite wrong.
In my experience, the only news source I can trust is my local newspaper, and I am sure not all of those are trustworthy, either. But at least when a newspaper prints an error, they usually have the decency to correct it in their next issue.
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