Team Summit General Assembly Notes

**pdxsam** · 05-07-2007 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by kstuart

Someone joked in a thead about HD Shopping Channels, but I expect they will be HD in months rather than years, because there is $$ at stake, and they have probably the lowest costs for conversion to HD of any channels.

QVC is already in the midst of converting their entire broadcast center into a HD production center. I thought I read somewhere they're shooting for Q4 2007 to do QVC-HD.

I suspect you'll see QVC -HD sooner than later. Dish will charge them more for the transmission costs and QVC will pay because they have a virtual license to print money.

**RedSavina** · 05-07-2007 01:08 PM

Cool idea, Scott!

And of course, the same would be true about savvy west coast users grabbing east coast feeds.

Another potential benefit would be the possibility of alternate LOS for many customers. I'm not sure what the actual numbers are, but I've come across a handful of people who are not E*/D* customers due to LOS issues with foliage, etc.

Continuing with your vision, how do you see utilization of the other orbital slots (61.5, 118.7K, 129, 148, and the others)?

Red

**pdxsam** · 05-07-2007 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

I hear that the bandwidth savings on the SD channels is amazing, plus the PQ is as good or better then what we have now.

I would hope that what we end up is quality better than we have now. If they're going to switch all this over they should at least up the quality to boot.

**DWS44** · 05-07-2007 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by pdxsam

QVC is already in the midst of converting their entire broadcast center into a HD production center. I thought I read somewhere they're shooting for Q4 2007 to do QVC-HD.

I suspect you'll see QVC -HD sooner than later. Dish will charge them more for the transmission costs and QVC will pay because they have a virtual license to print money.

There's one good use for HD-lite. Crank the compression up as far as possible and not waste any more capacity than necessary.

(Of course...how much you wanna bet the HD shopping channels get full 1920X1080?

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**MikeD-C05** · 05-07-2007 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

They didn't say.

However here is what I would like to see done.

When MPEG2 is shut off, the two satellites 110 and 119 I would like to see them also be a MPEG4 service, however this time gear it to those on the West Coast with West Coast feeds of all the networks that have west coast versions such as USA, Disney, A&E etc. Also move all of the HD locals that serve the West onto 110 and 119 which will open up room on the East Coast birds.

This would also alow folks on the east who are savy enough to put up a second Dish and have both East and West Coast feeds.

Its win win all around in that situation.

That would be great except we still don't know what kind of lnb and dish they will be using . THis reverse band for dbs comes to mind as more room for more hd, that hasn't been decided how this fits into their plans either. I just wonder how many more dishes and lnbs and combinations that Dish would offer?

It seems like they are leasing the space on a lot of birds and they won't need it once they move everything to mpeg 4. Did they give you any kind of idea what the 18 inch would have for lnbs Scott? I would hope that you could continue to use the dish pro plus twins , triples etc and just flip your sat dish you already have to the new mpeg 4 sats . If all you need is an 18 inch dish then the 1000.2 sat dish would be a hell of a rain fade killer.

**MaryS910** · 05-07-2007 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by RJohn

How about the local HD cities they promised last year.

They haven't completed that list, so what are the chances they will complete this one?

All Big talk and no action.....

How about completing last years list of promises, before making new ones.

Where is this LIST? I saw where someone said their city was #35 and another was #100. Is this list online?

Thanks~