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According to Engadget, the Dish Network is bumping up the number of HD channels it supports from 76 to 100 and expanding local service from 65 to 100 markets. Competition from DirecTV has apparently made the company fight for its title of “Top HD provider”.

Of course, this is good news for the consumer who gets a larger selection as a result. That is assuming Dish Network doesn’t justify an increase in price later as a result of this expansion.

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Filed under: Industry, OpEd, PVR Wire

According to Engadget, the Dish Network is bumping up the number of HD channels it supports from 76 to 100 and expanding local service from 65 to 100 markets. Competition from DirecTV has apparently made the company fight for its title of “Top HD provider”.

Of course, this is good news for the consumer who gets a bigger selection as a result. That is assuming Dish Network doesn’t justify an increase in price later as a result of this expansion.

Continue reading DISH Network adding another 100 HD channels

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Filed under: Industry, OpEd, PVR Wire, SoftwareFrom the CES, Disney-ABC has announced it will begin selling shows on Microsoft’s XBox gaming console via the XBox Live and XBox Live Marketplace. This includes material from two Disney Channels, three ABC Channels and material from the MGM video library.This move is yet another step in putting a ubiquitous entertainment console in the living room. Not that this is a bad thing. Some of the content will be available in HD, despite the fact that Microsoft isn’t offering HD-DVD in the console. Maybe they’re going Blu-ray?Continue reading Disney-ABC will sell Television shows on Xbox Live

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Parents are truly our first leaders, although the leading is more along the lines of ‘monkey see/monkey do’ as we copy their MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™) even as we’re shaping our own. A decade ago, we were treated to the mom in Texas convicted of hiring a hit man.

Ms. Holloway had served six months of a 10-year sentence after pleading no contest to solicitation of capital murder. She’ll be on probation for the next 9-1/2 years.

It hasn’t improved with time.

Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter’s father were untrue.

“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win. We did whatever we could do to win,” Ceballos said in an interview Friday with KDFW-TV of Dallas. “But when (Caulfield) asked me if this essay is true, I said ‘No, this essay is not true.’”

I get the feeling that she thought it was OK as long as (a) they weren’t caught and (b) she admitted it right away when they were.

(I find it a bit weird that they’re both from Texas:)

These days, more and more parents seem to be teaching their kids that winning is everything and if you don’t it’s probably not your fault.

What are you teaching your kids these days?

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