You guy think this will be bad for us? Personally I do.

Well if at&t does buy it.. like any massive huge ass company.. they might not know how to manage it.. I think.. unless they keep the exact SAME people at the company.. then nothing will change.. its just movement of money not people in that case..

It may be a good thing in the way of new programming and more HD.

Let's put it this way... if they end up buying Dish, they will go down the drain! Look at Cingular Wireless, how bad they are after they were bought up by AT&T... they will suck! :evil:

Perhaps AT&T will give them the money resources to clean up the "cracked code" like Direct.

yeah i was thinking more along the lines of what Grand is talking about

Local news at 6:00am springfield mo. ky3, AT&T is buying DTV and ECHOSTAR. Boy that is some bucks

I think it maybe a bad thing. AT&T has alot of money and may choose to change the systems. It could lead to the end of FTA.

FTA won't end. It will only be a matter of time. Someone like me or the original peps of FTA might get bored after work or play and just start screwing around with the devices. And were back . . .

Let's put it this way... if they end up buying Dish, they will go down the drain! Look at Cingular Wireless, how bad they are after they were bought up by AT&T... they will suck! :evil:
Just a quick correction to that, AT&T did not buy Cingular, The parent company that owned Cingular merged with AT&T a while ago, and they simply switched names. It's still the exact same people that run cingular.

But cingular service still sucks no matter what.....

Hey Shahrukh Khan

Pls start screwing acrewing around and give us the best result. Good Luck

Truth of the matter is === Cingular purchased AT&T and decided to take on the AT&T name because it is more widely known..

AT&T Wireless was once an independent company that had been spun off from AT&T Corp. Cingular Wireless LLC bought the wireless operator and eliminated the AT&T Wireless brand. Then SBC, one of the owners of Cingular, bought AT&T, adopting the AT&T brand for its landline services. More recently, AT&T bought BellSouth Corp., the other owner of Cingular, spurring the switch back to the AT&T brand for the wireless service.