bcshields said:and off of 121/105... does that mean Dish will have the capacity, once it stops mirroring the local channels, for even more locals? Maybe a push to carry all DMA's?
Or should I just go back to sleep since I'm dreaming.
bcshields said:Nah, they have plans to use 105 for satellite broadband... but that doesn't have anything to do with what channels are on it, isn't that a seperate part of the hybrid bird?
As for LIL HD. Now, I don't dabble too much in HD, but isn't for the most part the programming everyone wants to view is broadcast nationally on the network stations? Who wants to see local news in HD (I especially don't, you should see the gap toothed newscasters we have here)? So wouldn't it make much more sense for Dish to launch the major markets in HD in every time zone.. say, NY, LA, Chicago, Denver, and Atlanta and have your HD subs subscribe to them like distant local channels?
Tom Bombadil said:mpeg4 is the only HDLIL hope for everyone outside of a few major markets. Between 61.5 and 129, they may be able to offer a few HDLILs. Everyone else is going to be waiting for a while (1yr? 2yrs? 3yrs?)
Of course as my indoor antenna pulls in every network in HD for free, I could care less if Dish ever offers HDLIL in my area.
Tom Bombadil said:When I said they may be able to offer a few from 61.5, I was meaning now, with mpeg-2. As Dish has not yet announced a strategy for mpeg-4, or any receivers compatible with mpeg-4, offering a large number of HDLILs may be a ways off.
But I agree that the capacity is there for covering many markets.
Problem is, that offering HDLILs off of 61.5 is a tough sell. You are talking a two-dish solution for the entire East Coast. A lot of people in cities are not going to be thrilled about that. Sure a lot of us enthusiasts on this board are okay with it but the typical homeowner wants a one-dish solution. A D1000 would be fine on a roof, but two D500s is going to drive people to D* for their HDLILs. This would be a tremendous marketing advantage for D* to exploit.