So if all goes well on October 8th I can buy the Dish 1000.4 and be good to go.
I know that 72.7 and 77 channels are already using the new G3 smart card system, so the receivers will simply not work if you don't have a new smart card.
But, there is also the question of authorization.
For example, there are channels that I subscribe to, which are duplicated in the 5000 channel range, and those duplicates are transmitted on 110 which I receive, but the receiver is not authorized to tune to those channels - even though they are the exact same channels that I have subscribed to. (I can only tune to them in the 9000 channel range.)
So, does anyone know that "Western Arc" subscribers are "authorized" to tune channels on 72.7 and 77 ??