Thread: 7/6/2011 1:46pm - Uplink Activity Report - 173 changes

Originally Posted by digiblur

Dish has plans to do the opposite, convert national beams into spotbeams since the bird at 119 is not running at full spotbeam capacity at this time.

What does that mean in terms of our current national HD programming? If they convert national beams into spotbeams, wouldn't we lose some national programming?

Originally Posted by zippyfrog

What does that mean in terms of our current national HD programming? If they convert national beams into spotbeams, wouldn't we lose some national programming?

Once they convert from QPSK to 8PSK on WA they will go from about 32 megabits a TP to 40 megabits, they will consolidate the TPs to gain space. Then going from MPEG2 SD to MPEG4 SD will allow them gain almost double space.

No loss of national programming at all. Just one small key factor to make the transition happen. All of the receivers on WA have to be 8PSK compliant for the first transition then the second transition they have to be a VIP receivers...just like EA requires.

Yeah they've been trying to replace the legacy receivers with 311s so everyone will be ready for the 1st transition to 8PSK only. Although, to me if Dish really wants to get a jump start on converting WA to MPEG-4 only, then I think Dish should only install VIP receivers to ALL new customers from now on (doesn't matter if it's SD or HD) That way Dish would only have to deal with the MPEG-2 only receivers that are already out on the field. And when an MPEG-2 receiver needs to be replaced, Dish could replace it with an equivalent VIP receiver (example: broken 625, replace it with a 722) At least this way, Dish will make some more progress with the transition and they can convert WA to MPEG-4 sooner.

Originally Posted by ckhalil18

Yeah they've been trying to replace the legacy receivers with 311s so everyone will be ready for the 1st transition to 8PSK only. Although, to me if Dish really wants to get a jump start on converting WA to MPEG-4 only, then I think Dish should only install VIP receivers to ALL new customers from now on (doesn't matter if it's SD or HD) That way Dish would only have to deal with the MPEG-2 only receivers that are already out on the field. And when an MPEG-2 receiver needs to be replaced, Dish could replace it with an equivalent VIP receiver (example: broken 625, replace it with a 722) At least this way, Dish will make some more progress with the transition and they can convert WA to MPEG-4 sooner.

I know a buddy of mine several months ago ordered a system for 4 TVs...all SD. His locals are on WA and they gave him VIP equipment.

Cool. At least one installer from Dish is thinking the same way I do.