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12-02-2009, 07:25 PM
| | SatelliteGuys Regular | | Join Date: Apr 12th, 2007
Posts: 346
| | | International Channel....GONE
Did Dish Network change the International Channel signal again?
Earlier, all the international channel which I did not subscribe was still on the listing (RED). Today, all of those stations are gone on the listing except for a few "free preview" stations. |
12-02-2009, 08:27 PM
|  | SatelliteGuys Junkie | | Join Date: Jan 4th, 2007 Location: Fairfax, VA
Posts: 2,613
| | | If I understood the commentary, much of the uplink report for today involved hiding the international channels from those who can't receive them. |
12-02-2009, 11:12 PM
|  | SatelliteGuys Regular | | Join Date: Dec 20th, 2008 Location: FL
Posts: 463
| | They are hidden from those that can "receive" them but do not sub to them. If you couldn't receive them then of course they would be hidden anyway. |
12-03-2009, 03:56 AM
| | SatelliteGuys Junkie | | Join Date: Apr 9th, 2006
Posts: 1,843
| | | OP, which satellite are this Internationals in red? 61.5 or a core? 118.7 has been the new home for all Internationals for quite some time. I believe that Dish will put a few Internationals on the 61.5 or even on a core satellite in order to promote it to all subscribers, but then the channels are removed as those channels are only available 24/7 at 118. So, yeah, those channels will be hidden for a time one uplinked, then opened for free promotional access, then hidden, again and taken down. Certainly everyone has been migrated to 118 from 148 as the wing sat died, and there is no functioning sat at 148 today. I suspect that virtually everyone has been migrated from 61.5. This means that there really are no Internationals to hide as they are all at 118. Any sub who has the dual-band 119/118 LNBF will see a whole lot of red Internationals at all times, as I do. Hope that makes sense. |
12-03-2009, 08:18 PM
|  | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
Posts: 56,845
| | Basically Dish hid the international channels. So folks who dont subscribe dont have to see them in the guide (if you show all channels) or for some reason if you are a channel up/down person getting channels that say "you dont sub to them"
So for most folks, channels 600-900 are gone in the guide
__________________ Winegard 76cm dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual KU LNB/DirecTv dual..... Directv Phase III.... Fortec 6 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 99W... Primestar 84e aimed at 105W.... WSIDigital 4 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 121W with 2nd LNB for 125W.... GeoSatPro 36" dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual LNB
Coolsat 5000 on motorized....AZBox HD Elite on 99,motorized,105, 121,125....Viacast DSR1500 on 99....GeoSatPro DSR200c on 2nd motorized.... Directv R22 DVR on 101/119W.... Pansat 1500 to aim dishes.... few receivers not set up yet
Other 6 foot Fortec dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB "ghetto moved" to various C-Band satellites 
Third 6 foot Sadoun dish with GeoSatPro Prime Focus KU LNB on it for maximum rain fade combatting  |
12-03-2009, 09:58 PM
| | SatelliteGuys Regular | | Join Date: Dec 20th, 2008 Location: FL
Posts: 463
| | | In all channel mode when you channel up and down all unsubbed channels in the guide were skipped anyway except PPV so this could not be the reason. Why would anyone have 118 connected anymore if they didn't want to see internationals? |
12-03-2009, 10:03 PM
| | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
Posts: 56,845
| | | 118 use to have some HD locals but they got moved to 129 or 61.5
The removing of Int'l channels also frees up memory in the receivers
__________________ Winegard 76cm dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual KU LNB/DirecTv dual..... Directv Phase III.... Fortec 6 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 99W... Primestar 84e aimed at 105W.... WSIDigital 4 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 121W with 2nd LNB for 125W.... GeoSatPro 36" dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual LNB
Coolsat 5000 on motorized....AZBox HD Elite on 99,motorized,105, 121,125....Viacast DSR1500 on 99....GeoSatPro DSR200c on 2nd motorized.... Directv R22 DVR on 101/119W.... Pansat 1500 to aim dishes.... few receivers not set up yet
Other 6 foot Fortec dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB "ghetto moved" to various C-Band satellites
Third 6 foot Sadoun dish with GeoSatPro Prime Focus KU LNB on it for maximum rain fade combatting |
12-06-2009, 12:06 AM
| | SatelliteGuys Regular
Topic Starter
| | Join Date: Apr 12th, 2007
Posts: 346
| | I do have a 118 signal. I guess International channel subscribers are upset seeing the channels they subscribe to are free for a while. |
12-06-2009, 07:31 PM
| | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
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| | | freebies will still show up
__________________ Winegard 76cm dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual KU LNB/DirecTv dual..... Directv Phase III.... Fortec 6 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 99W... Primestar 84e aimed at 105W.... WSIDigital 4 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 121W with 2nd LNB for 125W.... GeoSatPro 36" dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual LNB
Coolsat 5000 on motorized....AZBox HD Elite on 99,motorized,105, 121,125....Viacast DSR1500 on 99....GeoSatPro DSR200c on 2nd motorized.... Directv R22 DVR on 101/119W.... Pansat 1500 to aim dishes.... few receivers not set up yet
Other 6 foot Fortec dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB "ghetto moved" to various C-Band satellites
Third 6 foot Sadoun dish with GeoSatPro Prime Focus KU LNB on it for maximum rain fade combatting | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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