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ANIK F2 has been offline since early this morning - so no HD for ShawDirect for now. -Mike

In 2011 Shaw Direct might have 5% of it's customer base with an MPEG4 capable receiver, which means any station SD broadcasts in MPEG4 only will have almost no one to watch it, so who will care? What kind of business plan is that? Bell has at least a 2 year head start selling MPEG4 receivers...

The 9241 lacks a RF coaxial output, so you'll need to purchase a composite to RF converter, which should be inexpensive. -Mike

The 9241 includes a UHF remote, so you could use that to control the second television, and get another IR remote to control the local television. How did you want to connect the second television? You can use any of the video outputs of the 9241, but you'll have to cable it appropriately...

Great episode! Sheldon and Penny have shared a few intimate moments now. I wonder if they'll do a show where Penny becomes interested in Sheldon (after she breaks up with Leonard), and of course Sheldon will have no clue. -Mike

I was wondering if it was just me. I don't like the relationship Leonard now has with Penny. She is supposed to be the unreachable hot girl that nerds long for, but never get. Now it just seems like a regular relationship, and suddenly Penny seems a lot more "obtainable". Anyway, I like the show...

It is 72, not 82, and DirectTV is using that orbital slot with their own satellite, not Nimiq 5. Since the frequencies can't be shared, that doesn't leave the other half of Nimiq 5 available for use until the Direct TV contract is up in December, 2010. Bell must have had plans to use Nimiq 5...

Bell ignores the US market because they can't sell there, simple as that. Ditto for any other Canadian service including FreeHD, if it ever comes to pass. -Mike

Is your 9242 still in dual mode (i.e. is the Blue light on)? -Mike

No, they were the first to be converted. Have a look at The List. -Mike

The rumor is that Bell converted more transponders to 8PSK yesterday, but I haven't seen a new report. Are things still as they were? -Mike

Er, you can connect an external USB hard disk to either a 6141 or 6131 HD receiver, to make it a single tuner PVR. Perhaps he meant you can replace the 4100 with the 6141!? -Mike

If you're getting the model 9242 receiver, it will feed one HD television and one SD television and comes with one IR remote (for the local TV#1) and one UHF remote for the remote TV#2. Both televisions can be watching different programming at the same time. You can connect to HD television...

Does this work if a Canadian wanted to subscribe to Dish, for example? -Mike

Last year Bell did the Superbowl simsub properly, or at least better than they usually do. They offered a second raw feed to those outside the "simsub zone". I imagine they'll do that again this year. -Mike