[godwine]

On the licensing fee topic. I am not surprise that they will charge a licensing fee for satellite, but a bit shock for a licensing fee for cable.

I can somewhat understand the need of charging a licensing fee for satellite. Its not something I can easily explain, but it has to do with the "rights" to legally use high power data transmission over the air (via satellite)... its quite common in the telecom industry. Some company suck up on the expense (like radio stations), while others (Cell phone for example) charge something like a system access fee....