What would be the purpose of having the internationals on the 118 sat?We already have them on the 61.5 and the 121 sat . It would be a waste of space to triplecate it.
Now national hd channels would make the most sense to me. It would end the duplication of hd channels at 61.5 and 129 sat since there are problems with everyone in the country receiving either one. They could still use the 61.5 and the 129 sats for hd locals , especially when they add the spotbeam sat for 129. Dish needs to simplify this a bit .
I don't see the reason to have all three kinds of dishes. It should be one standard dish 500 + and depending on whether you need the 129 sat it would become a dish 1000+ . The dish pan is the same size so the only thing that would change is the added 129 lnb. The dish 1000.2 is plain stupid. Why keep adding dishes and then changing them. ONE standard should be applied to ALL .
What are they going to do with the 121 sat that they own and the 105 sat that they lease? Dish has more satellites then they can use and still we don't have all the locals in standard def yet for the rest of the country? Dish needs to do some actual long range planning and settle on one standard for everything. It is a waste of effort, resources by both Dish and for its customers , who have to keep upgrading and $$$PAYING to do the upgrades to get hd. I mean come on first the hd channels were at 61.5 /148, then they were at 110 ,61.5 and 148 and now finally we have them at 61.5/148/110 and now 129 soon to have them at 118.
Settle on one dish standard, and put the hd at the 118 and LEAVE it there.