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...DirecTV...
Long dismissed as just for rural folk, satellite dishes are now the entertainment system of choice for real couch potatoes. DirecTV has led the anti-cable charge, beaming crisp, digital pictures from 150 movie and sports channels to pizza-size discs (available from RCA and Sony) below. ($200 to $400 [dish] and $15 to $65 monthly [programming]; DirecTV...
...starting to draw blood. In what could be the next long distance-style price war, upstart EchoStar Communications of Englewood, Colorado, began offering its 18-in. dish for $199--a third of the usual price--to buyers who spend about $25 a month on programming. Market leader DirecTV, owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics, is freezing rates until the year 2000, and will probably cut the price of its $600 dish by Labor...
...dozen or so action-adventure titles a year for the foreign market, he's pleased to say R.I.P. to low-budget DTV. "The studios increased their output of theatrical films, the mom-and-pop video stores got squeezed out by the major chains, and the advent of satellite and DirecTV alleviated the necessity of driving to a corner video store. In short, the novelty of video has worn...
...customer be induced to switch to a dish? The home-satellite companies are trumpeting their higher-quality picture and CD-quality sound, as well as a larger array of channels. Primestar, for example, offers a package of 14 regional sports networks that provide college football games on Saturday, and DirecTV will soon offer pro fans a full complement of 10 to 12 n.f.l. games on Sunday (cost: $49.95 for five weekends). DSS also offers 50 pay-per-view movie channels, with a selection of films repeated continuously at half-hour intervals so viewers can see them at virtually any time...