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I'm thinking about modifying the LNBs on a retired Slimline/AU9 dish so that the middle LNB (for 110W) is disabled and the end LNB (for 119W) is passed through unfiltered when a 22 kHz signal is present. With 22 kHz on, transponders 8, 10, and 12 (and probably some neighbors) from the end/119W...

I try not to guess "why" anymore and just wish for things like this to stop. Yes, there's plenty of capacity on 61.5W and another transponder recently became available on 72.7W and wasn't being used as of a few days ago. Not only are there completely vacant transponders on 61.5W, but last night...

I've seen Dish Network do plenty of senseless things with their bitrates, but this could be the worst yet. Just wanted to share the attached graphs here since this is likely to have quite a visible impact on PQ for some people. The first two attachments show the bitrate on channel 9513 today...

A = HD B = SD, Western Arc In the B images I can see Dish's signature edge-enhancement (mangled details on all horizontal edges and over-emphasized edges on the limited details that are actually retained in the image), damaged color, and other problems. Also, all of the A images are zoomed /...

That's interesting about 119W, I haven't tuned into any 8PSK transponders on it before. However, everything on 61.5W, 72.7W, and 110W is about 41.2 Mbps as seen in my previous post here...

TCM HD seems to really be uplinked now :). It averaged 8.3 Mbps over a 40-minute sample about an hour ago. Of course, that's on one of the new transponders on 72.7W that only has three active channels on it right now, so that's not likely to last for long. Still, it's there, so hopefully it...

The image below shows a number of average HD video bitrates from the past few weeks. All programming is HD (nothing being upscaled). 12 different channels are represented across 3 satellites: 61.5W, 72.7W, and 110W. All samples were at least 60 minutes in duration. As HDRoberts mentioned...

It's "normal" for there to be continuity errors on that transponder with great regularity, so that's not the problem here. The problem is when the entire mux goes bad at once, not just the 0x1A0n PIDs since those always have lots of errors. The display in TSReader is generally useful enough on...

Just wanted to check if others on the forum here are encountering problems with channels on Transponder 15 (12.428 GHz) on 72.7W. I'm seeing damage to the entire mux about once every 10-60 minutes causing brief (1-2 seconds) but sometimes quite ugly artifacts in the video on all available...

Looks like this definitely factors into things. 10 more SD channels have been added to the transponder with TCM as of some time earlier today. Plenty of other SD channels showing up on other transponders as well. Guess we'll have to wait and see how things compare once everything being moved is...

Right. For the bitrate graphs, the stats are generated by a program that counts up the bits in the stream for every second on the reference clock (given in the stream), then the data points are just plotted in Excel. No, so I doubt the software issue you mentioned would be a factor. The July...

The point isn't that the difference will be scarce in some cases to some people, it is that the difference is there at all. In the end you are still getting less picture in more bits which is crazy. When bitrates go up, we all know very well that PQ should at least be the same as before and...

Late last year with the move to Nimiq 5 at 72W (Eastern Arc), Dish Network switched all transponders from QPSK to 8PSK providing ~10 Mbps additional bandwidth on each transponder. Sadly, instead of allowing the bitrates for all of the SD channels to be opened up to fill this extra capacity, Dish...

Other factors may be involved, but at the very least the bitrates on the mux carrying RetroPlex and IndiePlex are significantly higher than most of Dish's transponders across the satellites I can see (all except 129W). Only 5 channels active in it right now in the 40 Mbps mux. It's typical for...

It's still in the holding pen. The TMP HD channel was moved from ch. 4835 to ch. 263 as part of the 1/20 uplink. Pretty sure the SD channel is still on ch. 292 as it was before. The wait continues...

It wouldn't show up in the uplink reports since it wasn't a table change, but I noticed very recently that Dish has finally opened up the bitrates on the 72.7W transponders with only SD channels. Since Nimiq 5 went online, many of the SD channels were sitting in transponders with 12-13 Mbps of...

I would guess not. I had forgotten that ESPN HD is 720p so I appreciate you pointing that out. I don't think I've ever checked what resolution Dish uses on it before, but I imagine they keep it at 720p like DIRECTV does. I just cheated and grabbed a quick peek at the bitrates in the mux with...

Ok. I know at least some channels on 110W switched from 1440x1080 to 1920x1080 fairly recently without bitrates changing noticeably. You are getting ESPN from 110W, so maybe it's among the channels that underwent that switch. There were reports of Encore HD (also coming from 110W for you) having...

Might depend on which arc each of you are watching these channels on. Would be interesting to know if one is having more problems than the other right now.

Two of the five on transponder 31 at 61.5W were carrying something as of several hours ago. No idea what, but definitely something. The remaining three on there were "flat" and so was the one added to transponder 32 today. The ones added to transponder 3 on 72.7W today didn't have any audio or...

Attached is a bitrate graph for the same program on channel 9423 (HDNMV) from 110W and 72.7W last night. Trend lines showing the moving averages over 60 seconds are also given since the spikes can be distracting. All bitrates shown include both the audio and video PIDs. Each AC-3 audio PID...

Quick update on the bitrate info reported last night. The attached picture shows 9 HD channels in one mux. Most of them are pay-per-view channels, so I'm sure that makes customers paying a premium for those feel all warm and fuzzy inside. At least one other HD channel (HDNet Movies) in another...

"Off Air" was appearing in the guide when Dish was sending down two sets of event information at the same time for most or all channels and covering most or all time slots. One set included the normal scheduled events, and the other consisted of back-to-back 8-hour "Off Air" entries. The "Off...

Here's some info I just collected. Each row shows the transponder number on Nimiq 5 and the bitrate of the null PID. 1 - 4.0 Mbps 3 - 39.7 Mbps 5 - 11.7 Mbps 7 - 1.7 Mbps 9 - 2.4 Mbps 11 - 12.3 Mbps 13 - 0.7 Mbps (8 HD channels) 15 - 11.7 Mbps 17 - 1.2 Mbps (8 HD channels) 19 - 12.2 Mbps 21 -...

If you disable DSS-to-DVB, you'll find that all of the DSS SCIDs are still there. The old builds of the plugin don't detect channels not in the guide data as well as they should, but it doesn't mean the channels aren't there. This image shows TSReader after tuning into 72.5W with DSS-to-DVB...