the upgrades that you are refering to are only in markets where subs had thier locals from 72.5 a second dish. the only reason directv is doing this is because the locals are now coming from the 103 which requires a mpeg4 capiable reciever, which directv is not going to make all of these subs pay for this eqipment, this is why they get free HD eqipment.
oh yah i know. but what the hassle is this... you know how busy we are everyday right? okay taking that PLUS going back to those customers and Long time loyal customers and switching everyhting out does take alot out of our days to catch up on these upgrades.
yah i can see your point bc of not evryone had locals on th 72.5 as now its all 103. i got you on that part. just stating what South Dakota had to go through. i remember they had me start installing 5 LNB slimline last fall bc they were switching and we were still installing standards recievers on a 5 LNB slimline and damn those things toast the D-11s if it was a one box install.
but those 5 LNB slimline installs i had done while they instructed me (my team leader said its a joke with this) we ended up going back and swapping it out and changing it to a 3 lnb. like my team leader said last fall, "hes has no clue what hes talking about!" and we all have to do what the regional manager says.
if had they told us 3 LNBs, we'd wouldnt had to go back and swap those 5LNBs. we STILL have techs swapping out 5 LNBs to 3 LNBs...