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To further amplify whatchel1's point, PBS provides its affiliates with two 24/7 HD (east and west coast) and several 24/7 SD programmed feeds, along with other fairly active HD and SD feeds. While not all of the latter contains PBS-produced material, stations have a wealth of network programming...

I did try to compensate for this in my earlier post by doubling the H.264 numbers into pseudo "MPEG-2 equivalent rates", giving Dish some benefit of the doubt. Thus Dish's 3.2 Mbit/s becomes 6.4 Mbit/s for comparison against Shaw's 10.8 Mbit/s. My direct frame comparisons on identical material...

I am making no claims of proof, as that would require resources in which I am unwilling to invest. However I am offering semi-objective data, from which I can make reasonable conjectures. You are merely speculating. One of my conjectures is Dish appears to idle their channels at a base rate...

Look at the thumbnails at the bottom. For some reason there was a spurious link generated at the top of the original post which I have since deleted. I agree DN is sending out around 42 Mbit/s on the HD transponders. However there are a lot of nulls in the streams. The nominal aggregate rate...

I believe I addressed this as: However, if you want graphs, I've got graphs. I've attached an instantaneous bit rate graph for a Dish Network HD channel and a comparable HD channel on Shaw Direct, a Canadian DBS provider, both measured from the original transport streams. A few notes are...

A few minor corrections. An uncompressed 1080i HD video stream actually runs at about 1.5 Gbits/s. An uncompressed 5.1 HD audio stream could easily be 12 Mbit/s. There are a variety of compression formats used to take these exorbitant rates down to something reasonable for current distribution...

If you're really interested in improving spotbeam reception, the most direct way to do this is to employ single dishes per satellite. I have three Winegard DS-2077 dishes, each which has an effective aperture of 76 cm. This offers a considerable gain over a 1000.4, which I recall has an aperture...

I am disappointed by the naivete displayed here. There is little question that basic tier channels, like ESPN, are subsidized by subscribers who do not watch them. None of us know how many subscribers would opt-out of such channels if a full la carte system was put in place, so it's difficult to...

I've also watched both - Euronews when it was FTA, and BBC World News through Shaw Direct currently. In many ways they are apples and oranges. Euronews is distributed in multiple languages and therefore has no anchor. The stories are simply footage over which translators dub in their...

Lucavex - agreed, although I wish the providers ran their services more like your restaurant :)

Absolutely not! They are sports fanatics who get upset when someone suggests an a la carte channel system.

The point was a simple analogy. However I can modify it to handle your objections. The government in this town owns all the buildings. They only allow food establishments in three of them, two of which are fairly modern and one of which is an older, but still a nice building. These are...

Imagine this. I go to a buffet because I'm traveling and it's the only restaurant in town. Not even a grocery store. This buffet includes the finest seafood, filet mignon, champagne, expensive wines, etc. But I'm a vegetarian, I don't drink and I only want a salad. I look at the tables and there...

Having worked on and off in broadcast over the decades, I've seen the entire spectrum. Yes, it can cost a lot of money to run an operation, but the amount spent often weakly correlates to the quality of the result. There is a lot of waste, posturing and finagling to make things appear...

Nothing new, some ISPs have been doing this for 5+ years. Frankly I have no problem paying for what I use; what do I object to is paying for the 98% of the channels no one in my family ever watches. I interpret that as subsidizing other people's habits. I pay a little extra for very high...

For the past few years I've been on the same wavelength as Blindow's concern - if the satellite/cable suppliers don't adapt to change, the Internet will cannibalize them. A lot of video streaming is already available there for free, and one can be quite selective when it comes to paying only for...

Of course I won't watch them, along with the nearly 300 other channels we pay for but don't watch. I am of course delighted to contribute to the common cause and help keep the subscription costs lower for those who have the time and desire to watch most, if not all of them. Perhaps Dish...

Getting STARZ for "free" actually has motivated me to consider dropping Dish Network altogether. I'm tired of being dictated to about what channels I have to pay for regardless of whether I want them or not. Perhaps many people see the STARZ channels as a good deal for the price increase, but...

Tampa8 - you're welcome to extrapolate my comments far beyond anything I wrote or implied. I really don't care. The fact remains that Dish's strategy is to have a simplified set of packages, rather than anything resembling a la carte. Their economies of billing and authorizing receivers are...

All I said was it adds a buck a month in Canada, not that everything should cost the same everywhere. Draw your own conclusions or none at all. I will suggest that Dish Network has a habit of avoiding most forms of a la carte choice for channels. To some extent I understand their business...

We're long time Dish Network subscribers, but missing channels like BBC World News and marginal HD picture quality convinced us to add Shaw Direct (Canada) last year. For the moment we're sticking with both providers, but if we had to choose one, it wouldn't be Dish. The fees for BBC World News...

I took a quick look at my (incomplete) list, but I still have WELL over 50 recordings from VOOM. Most are movies from Film Fest, VOOM Movies, Monsters and Kung Fu, but there are a handful of art/opera shows from Gallery, food/dining from Ultra and some soccer from World Sport. All of these were...

Nothing you wrote was incorrect, but it conveniently avoids the fact that as part of Dish's mandated reduction in the number of VOOM channels, Dish also demanded it be allowed to re-tier the VOOM package and pay only for subscribers in that tier. While this might have provided a basis for...

I think this is a bit of spin. Dish wanted to reduce the number of VOOM channels. If VOOM agreed, they would experience a drastic drop in revenue from Dish. VOOM probably believed the contract required Dish to carry all the channels and continue the full revenue stream, so they said no. Dish...

Amplifiers run anywhere from good-quality to poor-quality with few in the middle. Poor quality amplifiers are always a waste. When properly applied on a long cable run (hundreds of feet), a good-quality amplifier is the proper engineering solution and will make a day vs. night difference...