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I remember DIRECTV allowed any local HD channels they carried to be received in HD on R22s with SD accounts in MPEG-4 local markets. But that was all .... Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

They're flat out wrong ... The HR22 is both MPEG-2/4 capable, and has been from its inception many years ago now. Just out of curiosity though, what box are they offering you to upgrade to? Considering that even their last non-Genie STB, the HR24, is hard to find nowadays.... Sent from my...

Or for the more "technically exacting" to compliment gct's informative post [emoji5] ... At 101W, D9S supplies 44 local spotbeam tps. distributed over 26 spotbeams to CONUS. And D16 supplies 26 nationwide tps. on two fully overlapping CONUS + AK wide beams (13 odd numbered tps. on one beam and...

Both 101 and 119W have actually carried SD locals for many years. However, with the somewhat recent retirement of the old spotbeam capable satellite from 119W (D7S). Only a token few SD locals now remain on 119W today. All broadcast on 11 national beam tps. by the D8 satellite moved over to...

In short SD nationals are on tps. 1-3, 5-11, 13-17, 19, 21-27, and 29-32 and SD spotbeam locals on tps. 4, 12, 18, 20, 26 and 28. So showing 0 or very low signal levels on the spotbeam tps. is normal as they're carrying out of market local channels not intended to your location. 101W is also...

Or just continue to keep tabs with the Edgecutter forum. As they'll certainly post when the HD on Ku band transition begins to occur. .... Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

Me too back in the 80's .... But with a multiple TV household of a Mother (Father passed back in 1970) and 4 other siblings at the time. The big movable dish C-band buds obviously wouldn't work since they can only point and receive programming from one satellite at a time. So we had to live...

That's what I thought nowadays as well. ... The names "MTV" and "VH1" have long been misnomers from the '80s era when they actually were genuine music video channels. Whereas all they show today is reality TV junk. Or has even that gone out of style for those channels now? ... Sent from my...

Hey Scott ... Any updates or corrections to this info.? As those 8 SD channels on the Ku band are still alive and according to the "datadigesters" on Edgecutter. There never were any information slates given to advise subscribers to upgrade their equipment. Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

Try this one for instance ... Sent from my LG-H932 using Tapatalk

Got it, thanks ... I should have said earlier would using 8-PSK mod. roughly "half the required bandwidth?" and not the "data rate" which would be the same of course. Since going to a higher level modulation reduces the necessary symbol rate and therefore the bandwidth for a given data rate...

They do run 8-PSK modulation on some of the Ka band local spotbeams, since they have a higher PFD. Such as the ones covering the LA market here (A1BB and A4BB from 103W). But never for the Ka CONUS ones. As those are always QPSK at a 2/3 FEC as slice noted earlier. .... Sent from my LM-V600...

But would using 8-PSK modulation cut the required 6.5 mb/s HD data rate roughly in half or some similar? Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

Yeah ... The Ku DBS transponders are actually only 24 MHz wide. ... But what I assume they'll do is use the MPEG-4 based "A3" format of course, with 8-PSK modulation. Same as they formally did for years on the now retired T7S (D7S) satellite at 119W on tp. 24 to carry four Spanish HD channels...

Considering that all these SD channels have HD versions as well. I think what DIRECTV is going to do is simply discontinue the Ku band MPEG-2 SD versions of these feeds to create the necessary bandwidth on Ku for the 5 MPEG-4 based HD channels moving down from the Ka band. Sent from my...

For anyone with Google Earth installed ... They can consult with the interactive beam footprint library on the Edgecutter site here for instance ... http://iamanedgecutter.com/showthread.php/828-Interactive-Beam-Footprint-Library Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

Yes, first just take a receiver from your permanent residence to the vacation home and test to see if you can actually receive your locals there to begin with. Since if the location of the vacation home falls outside the footprint of the particular satellite spotbeam carrying your locals. It...

Has DIRECTV stopped distributing the LCC altogether? Or is it still just the same age-old policy of only allowing them to customers (with Genie 1s that is) in markets that have lost local channels due to contract disputes? Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

Yep ... Need to upgrade her dish to a Slimline in addition to an HD receiver(s). The original old legacy MPEG-2 based Ku band feeds from the G3C satellite at 95W for WD service will soon be discontinued. As they and their "quasi A3" Reverse Band mirrors at 99W are (or very soon will be) all...

Oh ... It was for an explanation of the actual connectivity of the 24 "Regional" transponders assigned to each pair of broadcast centers in So. America to the respective two regional downlink beams they transmit on. According to the FCC docs., the 24 Reg. tps. fed by the Colombia and Venezuela...

In fact, just for the heck of it ... I once tried to e-mail a technical question about a feature that is not clearly explained in the FCC filed documents to Intelsat's network operations about satellites IS-30 and 31 that carry the Ku-band payloads DLA-1 and 2 for DIRECTV LA service. Needless...

I always thought that while DIRECTV provides most if not all the transmission facilities for satellite TT&C to their fleet of birds through their own network of uplink stations. They would always subcontract out to others like Intelsat to handle the actual day to day operations and management...

Oh Ok then, ... Just that ever since I saw how Sonora Design would always specifically list the frequency response numbers for the 2.3 MHz SWiM control signal of their DIRECTV compatible di/triplexers. I assumed that was something the ordinary ones such as used by DISH weren't designed and...

But one other consideration slice ... How well if any, does the typical 950-2150 MHz "SAT" side of an ordinary satellite diplexer handle the special low frequency 2.3 MHz SWiM control signal? I would think it's safer for the OP to use the NAS 9501 satellite diplexers...

From the last report I got on it. The "-14" LNB mfr. code was for a company called "MTI." For "Microelectronics Technology Inc." in Taiwan I think ... Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk