Team Summit General Assembly Notes

**pduncan** · 05-08-2007 01:09 PM

Since this tread is 17 pages long, I might have missed a conversation about this.....

Scott said "Again all on one 18" Dish with one cable coming into your house."

I take it that means one bird, therefore one cable going to a switch (in the house), which will feed each television that will still require their own cables going to the switch.

Or, will there be a way to have a "cable like setup" where there will be no individual boxes required for each tv??

Are my assumptions correct.

**Scott Greczkowski** · 05-08-2007 01:21 PM

Cable to a switch (if needed, most of the switches now have the switch built in) and then a cable going to each receiver.

**navychop** · 05-08-2007 01:51 PM

And one dish might catch two satellites.

**RVD420** · 05-08-2007 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by Dish-Direc

Is it cheaper to launch a new satellite and carry MPEG-4 or secure the encryption? I believe the cart is before the horse here. I believe retailers would benefit more from a secure service.

I think retailers would benefit from a more secure service. But I don't see that happening.

The current CAS provider NAGRASTAR is a joint venture between EchoStar and the Kudelski Group.

Thing is The Kudelski Group has lousy to no peer review process.

Now I am not going to talk in detail about hacking, but I will say that from the studying of public information that the only reason hackers can hack the system currently is because an on-die feature of the MCU used the the current Smart Cards has been disabled in in ROM.

Any peer review would have pointed out the problem.

That is all I am going to say about that.

**Scott Greczkowski** · 05-08-2007 02:05 PM

Hacking should not be be an issue when they move to all MPEG4.

Dish has a few things that they have not used yet which are built into their chipset on the MPEG4 receivers. And only their chipset has these features.

I can't wait for it to happen. (And thats all I am going to say about that)

**Poke** · 05-08-2007 02:13 PM

Thats good to hear.

**pduncan** · 05-08-2007 02:30 PM

I am surprised given todays technology, that there is not a way, once the satellite signals are in the home, that there is not a way to distribute all of the channels (at the same time) to all of the televisions in a home, without the need for individual tuners; like the way cable is currently done.

Seems like if the satellite dish can see all channels being broadcast at one time, this should be possible in theory.

Or am I just chasing my tail?

**RVD420** · 05-08-2007 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by pduncan

I am surprised given todays technology, that there is not a way, once the satellite signals are in the home, that there is not a way to distribute all of the channels (at the same time) to all of the televisions in a home, without the need for individual tuners; like the way cable is currently done.

Seems like if the satellite dish can see all channels being broadcast at one time, this should be possible in theory.

Or am I just chasing my tail?

It could be done, but it would not be a cheap piece of hardware.

It would cost quite a bit to squeeze 100+ channel modulators into a Super Tuner/home distribution node.

**mike123abc** · 05-08-2007 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by pduncan

I am surprised given todays technology, that there is not a way, once the satellite signals are in the home, that there is not a way to distribute all of the channels (at the same time) to all of the televisions in a home, without the need for individual tuners; like the way cable is currently done.

Seems like if the satellite dish can see all channels being broadcast at one time, this should be possible in theory.

Or am I just chasing my tail?

One of the problems is that there are too many satellite programs. Even the biggest analog lineups at the cable company runs at most 80 or so channels.

Dish allows 2 TVs to share one receiver to cut down on costs. In the future it looks like you will be able to send around recordings to other receivers too.

I agree it would be nice if there was a Dish box that you could use to send 30 or so channels around the house in analog (that of course you picked the channels). The other issue is going to be is if the TVs will continue to have analog tuners in them past the OTA analog cut off?

**buglemt** · 05-08-2007 02:36 PM

Nice subtle hint Scott. Futures so bright you gotta wear shades!! Nice picture!! That being said the rest of you ought to know that good things are on the horizon. Trust!