I think the issue is time and hope. Look where we been. In the last few years we LOST a lot of channels. Equity bankrupt, Ohio Network going IPTV, and according to another thread ...the PBS stuff on '63 is now going IPTV. And other former free channels now encrypted. Here comes a company a year and a half ago promising to start a new service, mainly free (and also maybe hope expanding our great hobby in the process). And with all due respect, we heard nothing except promises and big ideas.
Going back to the original 100+ page thread, at one point after the announcement. I believe the company wasn't even a legal entity until someone in that thread pointed it out and then they got their business papers filed. With all the great resources and experience and contacts some of our membership has here. We heard nothing about them testing satellites, nothing in the trade papers, magazines or other industry sources in terms of an announcement or intent of launching the service except... from their own website (or other FTA sites with them being the source). What publications or industry sites have talked and are talking about them?
The start of another home satellite service (Free or not) should have created great 'buzz' in the satellite industry. Especially with the costs of satellite and cable TV going up each year making the mainstream news. It should have created buzz in the entertainment circles. It should have created buzz in geek and electronic hobbyist circles. Also someone in this industry would have been able to track down them leasing of 20 channels (and more) of satellite space.
Someone, somewhere would have said something. I can't imagine the inquiry to a satellite company to lease almost two dozen channels would be a state secret. It seems that they are making all these claims and no one in the industry can verify that they are on track. Did we lose money because they did not launch when we hoped they would? No but I mentioned time and hope. The time part, well that was the other thread and now this one. And that it is... our time talking about a service that still does not yet exist...
