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02-08-2010, 09:04 PM
|  | The Uplink Report Dude | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Jun 8th, 2005 Location: Louisiana
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Looks like the new HD is only going to be available to pure WA and EA customers. Folks with the pseduo WA/EA setup of 110/119/61.5 are not going to get some of these channels. Of course this could change at the time of launch.... but I doubt it.
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02-08-2010, 09:05 PM
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I got word that the following HD channels are launching this week. All channels will be on 129. TRUTV hd
FOX SOCCER CHANNEL HD
Retro Hd
BBC America hd
E! Entertainment Television HD
Indie Hd
Sportsman hd
Hallmark HD
Showtime HD (west)
Only BBC America will be on 61.5 all other new HD channels will be on 72.5.
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02-08-2010, 09:08 PM
| | The Uplink Report Dude | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Jun 8th, 2005 Location: Louisiana
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Basically folks with 110/119 w/ 61.5 wing dishes will need to upgrade to 61/72/77(1000.4) or 110/119/129 (1000.2) setups to get these channels.
Why did they do this?
1. E-3 has had more failures in the past few months. They don't want to put up more HD then have to take it down. They have filed to move E-6 to E-3 incase of another failure at 61.5.
2. They have a bunch of room at 72.7 with the new Nimiq5 bird with more transponders on the way as DirecTV vacates them.
3. 129 has the room to support the channels for WA customers.
4. Why not just put it on 119? They had room before! Correct. They have room at 119, but this room is needed for the E-14 shuffle coming up when E-14 is in orbit. Plus E-14 actually requires more transponders for efficient beam utilization. This will come more into play during the 8PSK WA conversion.
So basically the E-3 life and E-14 shuffle probably forced their hand at this, and they figure most of the customers have LOS to either WA or EA.
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02-08-2010, 09:11 PM
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What is Indie hd?
Thanks for the info. Scott.
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02-08-2010, 09:14 PM
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What I find interesting about the news tonight is that this is "Phase 1" of new HD.
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02-08-2010, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by tigerfan33  What is Indie hd?
Thanks for the info. Scott. | An Encore movie channel that is likely to go into Platinum HD package.
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02-08-2010, 09:17 PM
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How many phases are we talking about here?
Please tell me that ESPNU hd is in ANY phase.
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02-08-2010, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by kstuart An Encore movie channel that is likely to go into Platinum HD package. | Cool. I will get that one.  |
02-08-2010, 09:20 PM
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BTW, in case some are wondering what this uplink changes - the answer is that they rebalanced the transponders to have more equal bitrate per transponder.
For example, HD sports takes more bandwidth than HD talking heads...
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