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Mr. Porterhouse, Actually, if you went with V*, you wouldn't need an integrated HDTV tuner in your TV because the V* box has that. And they will install both the dish and the over the air (OTA) antenna to receive the local digital signals (including HD) that are available in your area. But...

I made a similar choice a few months ago and switched from E* to Comcast instead of V*. I tried to get the HD OTA stations with my E* 6000 receiver, but gave up because the antenna had to shoot through some very tall pine trees. Every time the wind blew, the OTA channels would cut in and out...

Well, if we're going to get picky about it, then SES Americom is NOT launching it either. It (AMC-15) will be launched by International Launch Service. Nevertheless, a year ago SES Americom struck a multi-year service agreement to provide satellite capacity to EchoStar Communications at the...

Last year, all of the talk about HD involved moving all the HD channels to 105 and giving all existing HD subs a free SuperDish upgrade. But that plan flopped when E* determined that the aging low powered sat at the 105 spot could not cover major areas of the north and south conus. So they...

My post was really intended to answer Orcatek's speculation on E*'s options once the injunction expires. You are correct in pointing out that once the satellite company carries one station in a dma, it must carry the other stations that want to be carried. But "carry one, carry all" is note...

Just the 13. Actually it's 17.

The 1999 SHVIA Act essentially says that neither the station owner (in this case Viacom) nor the satellite company are required to provide or carry the channel for a particular DMA area. It further states that if both parties don't agree, then the satellite company cannot carry that channel and...

Thanks for the heads up Don. Although I hardly consider myself "stupid", I wasn't aware of the fact that the Federal $50 limit doesn't apply to these Debit/Check cards. Although I have a standard credit card and use it all the time for purchasing, after reading your post, I pulled out my...

To put the bandwidth issue into perspective, realize that each satellite carries only around 24 ku band transponders. A single transponder can carry only one HD channel using D*'s older qpsk modulation, or two using E*'s newer 8psk modulation. If a typical local market has 4 channels, D*...

That's not true for all condominiums, and neither is E*'s diagram. It all depends on the wording in the Master deed and possibly the Unit deed. With my condominium, the unit owners own (and are responsible for maintaining) the outside walls and roof. Opiwan, I think you have plenty of wiggle...

Wow, check it out. There's a Dish 921 up there with a Buy it Now price of $10.00 Oops, sorry, that's for the Haeger 921 soap dish.

I can see from the replies and the way I worded the poll question, that it I was suggesting unbundling the HD channels from the HBO/SHO packages, but I wasn't. The $36 package would be the HD-package plus HBO and SHO packages at the current prevailing rates. But the issue is that a Latino...

And while you're at it Cyclone, don't forget about all those soon to be broke idiots wasting their money on 2 bottles of wine instead of a case of beer.

But if you go to the setup for local channels and add the digital channel manually, doesn't it show you the signal strength there ?

And a lot more HD channels will not happen in 2004 because there's not enough space for that on the 110 bird. Maybe 1 or 2, but that's about it. However, in late 2004 when the new sat is moved to the 105 slot, we could see a shift back to the SuperDish for additional HD channels in 2005 and...

My original Dish installation 3 years ago was a 301 with the AT150 package. But, after upgrading to a 501 and then a 6000, I dropped the AT package completely since I'm only interested in HD programming and my locals (for news and sports). A subscriber with the AT50 and a DVR will pay only...

They did get it back, on 110. It's channel 9467.

I meant to report this earlier, but didn't have time with all of the things that have happened this month with E*. A few days prior to this month's Charlie Chat, I went to the guide and selected the Chat and it set up a timer event for me. But I then noticed that it was at the 10:00 ET time...

At the Nov 24th retailer chat, E* dropped the bombshell that the SuD/105/HD plan was being abandoned completely. But they put their usual positive spin on this by simply saying that any new HD channels would go on 110. When pressed about what they would do with the existing HD channels at...

To anyone stuck in 28.8 land, I would recommend that you try www.propel.com first before sinking a ton of money into Sat Internet (either *band or Dway) or trying to implement multi-linking. I was a *band customer for almost 3 years until my 360 modem failed in September. *band wanted $100 to...

TNGTony here http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=20816 at dbstalk posted a more up to date list of the channel allocations. He reports that TP 20 now has 8 channels and TP 25 has 12 channels. The available space for HD channels on 110 continues to dwindle. Getting HBO, SHO and two new HD...

Mike, My mistake. You are correct. TP 31 is assigned to E* and has channels allocated to it in the spreadsheet. That's what I get for posting under the influence on a holiday. Now if 20 and 25 are not spares as you suggest, why all this foot dragging by E* on at least putting HBO and SHO...

For those of you who are claiming that there's plenty of room at 110, I've attached a spreadsheet sorted by transponder. This came from the Echostar Knowledge Base at http://ekb.dbstalk.com/dishlist.htm so credit goes to them. I pulled this down about a month ago so it doesn't include recent...

Answer: No you will not Answer: Way back Answer: It's a total derailment of their entire near term plan for deployment of HD programming as was laid out in previous chats over the last few months.

What I don't understand is E*'s decision to drop their plans for putting HD on the 105 bird. They had already assigned transponders 16 and 17 for HBO, Showtime, Specials and PPV. Maybe they found out that not only was the footprint for 105 smaller than they thought for SD, it was even smaller...