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30fps stutters too much (especially on a CRT). Any respectable TV will bob 1080@30i to 1080@60p.

This post is so full of ignorance, I'm not sure where to start. Remember that digital conversion thing that took >10 years? Where Congress had to push the deadline multiple times and subsidize tuners so that NTSC could end? You expect to repeat that process barely three years later and make...

I'd assume the former. Stations were provided receivers.

It's no more bit-starved than any other broadcast network. ATSC requires MPEG-2, so that's what PBS/ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS/CW use. Using MPEG-2 has nothing to do with dumbing things down for noob viewers. It's required. "Halving" (720p actually has more pixels/second than 1080i) the resolution to...

Yes, that's when testing started.

1 to 2 years? Try August 31. Everyone has their equipment and transponder 24 went live Monday morning.

You might be interested in some relevant slides. I would have posted them a long time ago, but giving out accurate information would have meant missing all the ill-informed speculation. ;) Actually, I just haven't done anything with FTA in a while and I had time to tweak my dish today. I was...

It's there unless someone buys time. It doesn't happen too much, but it's easy enough to spot on a spectrum analyzer.

Not quite fulltime.

Multiple carriers can go on the same transponder. They can be uplinked on different dishes or combined prior. Multiple carriers raise the noise floor, but this is all considered when determining your link budget. Whether each carrier(s) is an SCPC or MCPC is a separate issue from how many...

LPB has never been C band. There are historical reasons why that is the case (going back 20 years). To abandon Ku would easily require several hundred thousand dollars. It's not worth it, even though I believe C band is generally cheaper.

The satellite operator doesn't "pass" savings, because there isn't savings. It's a similar business model to an ISP. You have the cable/DSL package that's $50/month for 50 Mbps. You spend money to get a new computer that can play AVC video files. You can now pirate movies that are half the...

Cost. No. DVB-S2 8PSK 3/5 has nearly equivalent C/N requirements to DVB-S QPSK 3/4, but with 42% more payload capacity. You pay for occupied bandwidth in MHz. How you use that bandwidth (modulation/constellation/FEC) is up to you and will of course affect throughput. DVB-S2 is good for anyone...

Correct. Everything is moved that needs to be moved. ;)

^^ Fixed that. It's semi-permanent. It will likely be reconfigured, but AMC-21 does go away in two weeks.