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    saying hi from Loja Ecuador.

    Hi everyone, I'm rick, I'm from the Netherlands but have been living in ecuador for 3 years now. Am here looking to get some help hooking my skybox S12 up to all the sattelites i could possibly receive here. want to know more about me? just drop me a message. peace, Rick.
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    Skybox S12

    I read that the Openbox s9 has been replaced with the SKYBOX S12. Both are made by the same Company. "Openbox S9 has been replaced with the new Openbox S12 / Skybox S12. The S12 model is a smaller, cooler running unit, with an upgraded main processor from 300Hhz to 398Mhz." Would all the...
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    SkyBOX: On "Free" & The New World Model

    SkyBOX: On "Free" & The New World Model by Evie Haskell Here are three new-world-order factoids to consider: 1) Microsoft is out of Comcast and 5,000 people are out (or soon to be) at Microsoft. 2) The Pope now has his own channel on YouTube; and 3) Facebook, YouTube and Digg are all...
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    SkyBOX: From Leno to A Christmas Gift for All Time

    SkyBOX: From Leno to A Christmas Gift for All Time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SkyBOX: From Leno to A Christmas Gift for All Time by Evie Haskell Smart money says that NBC's decision to move Jay Leno to a 10 p.m. time slot was ... • A...
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    SkyBOX: A Short History of Hubris

    SkyBOX: A Short History of Hubris by Evie Haskell Here’s a brief history for you to munch on with your Monday morning coffee. It has to do with entitlement ... and entitlement ... and .... Well, you’ll see. * I’ll take as my starting point 1934, when Congress gave television broadcasters the...
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    SkyBOX: Pi**ing on the Nation's Treasury

    SkyBOX: Pi**ing on the Nation's Treasury by Evie Haskell We all know that Kevin Martin is an ideologue with a capital "I". Nothing necessarily wrong with that. Among other tenets of faith, he wants to protect the nation's kids from indecency. Definitely nothing wrong with that. Of course...
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    SkyBOX: Your Weird, Weird World

    SkyBOX: Your Weird, Weird World by Evie Haskell You know you're living in a very strange time and place when: A woman in Japan is arrested for virtual murder: Really. The lady's "husband" in a video game abruptly divorced her. Said she: "I was so angry" that she accessed the dude's log-in...
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    SkyBOX: Of Fun, Fashion & Sang-Froid

    SkyBOX: Of Fun, Fashion & Sang-Froid by Evie Haskell The big Cable Hall of Fame dinner came off late last week and oooh, la, la! What a scene! The dignitaries (both old and new) were all there looking, well, dignified. John Malone chatted with all and sundry; John Sie scooted around taking...
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    SkyBOX: FOG & Other Fears

    SkyBOX: FOG & Other Fears by Evie Haskell While in New York last week, I learned that ... *The cable biz is at the end of an era and virtually no one, with the exception of one man in one corner office in Philadelphia, is happy about it; *The digerati are convinced that their time in the...
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    SkyBOX: Our Cloudy Future

    SkyBOX: Our Cloudy Future by Evie Haskell Basically I think the word “digital” needs a new definition. Maybe not definition No. 1 or No. 2 or even No. 4 or 5 in your good old Websters’. But maybe somewhere down around No. 9, the word meisters should include this: dig•it•al An admonition for...
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    SkyBOX: Gaming The Gamers

    SkyBOX: Gaming The Gamers by Evie Haskell Talk about a comeback strategy ... You cause a near-riot in London, release a slew of god-like creator tools to consumers and then have the mega No. 1 sports network showcase your technology right at the start of football season. To say that the folks...
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    SkyBOX: Chasing the Golden Peacock

    SkyBOX: Chasing the Golden Peacock by Evie Haskell Beijing is hot, damp, drab ... and dazzling. More on that later ... meanwhile I'm stalking the Golden Peacock. According to the latest reports (as of Sunday a.m. in China's capital city), NBC has handily topped $1 billion in ad revenues for...
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    SkyBOX: Gunning for Godot

    SkyBOX: Gunning for Godot by Evie Haskell The Sirius/XM saga continues ... and Samuel Beckett would have been proud. How else could one possibly explain the multilayered, seemingly endless, government-by-the-absurd tragicomedy that is the attempted satellite radio merger? In the latest act...
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    SkyBOX: Kudos to Comcast

    SkyBOX: Kudos to Comcast by Evie Haskell I know what you're all thinking ... Geez, she's finally gone round the bend. And, yea, I know. Most of the time I'm spouting fire when it comes to the Philly cable king whose general approach to business tends a whole lot more toward big-bad-bully-boy...
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    SkyBOX: The Hidden Hippopotamus

    SkyBOX: The Hidden Hippopotamus by Evie Haskell Here are three items from Friday's Wall Street Journal, all pointing to the same hippo in hiding: *After three years of restructuring, Sony Corp. unveiled a "new growth strategy centered on video downloading and electronic products that can be...
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