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The last sentence in your original statement reads like VOOM and Starchoice are using the same current equipment, not the future DVR equipment.

The Starchoice DSR-500 receiver only looks similar. The internals are different.

A press release from the end of Nov 2004, said 38 to 50 months. Past build times can be found here. Though it might not take 38 months to phyiscally assemble a sat, they are not Lockheed's only customer.

Remeber, the first sat is at least 34 months away from completion.

Buy them? They barely exist. They are at least three years away from completion for the first one.

There is stuff there. With the right equipment you can pick it up. A FTA system won't work. They are transmitting in a DC2 format and most of the time ITC. They've been testing since at least January.

They've been testing for a couple of weeks now.

It was based on some things I've read a long time ago. I guess I'm remebering it wrong.

The NY Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch. The same guy who owns D*.

Voom only used the odd transponders on Rainbow 1. The sat has a full compliment of transponders.

If you are worth billions, 30 million is insignificant. I used to work at a bank with 20 billion in assets. I was once told that $250 million was insignificant. It's only about 1.25% of its worth.

Because if they didn't say this they open themselves up to stock holder lawsuits for withholding information.

But they also get Rainbow 1 and the rights to Voom's transponder frequencies. They can use all the transponders on echostar 3 and then move Rainbow 1 to another location for better use.

They are on two seperate satellites, but they are co-located at 61.5.

A cover will only help with snow and ice buildup on the dish. It's not the rain hitting the dish that is the problem. It's the rain and clouds in the atmosphere between the dish and the satellite. That's why you might have rain fade even when it's not raining where you are.

There are a few transponders frequencies that are not owned by anyone. Thee FCC was letting Echostar use them, but the FCC is now letting Voom use them. That might be where your confusion is coming from. When E* was using them they were transmitted from E* sat, but now that V* is using them...

Echostar/Dish DOES NOT OWN the sat that Voom uses. Nor does E* lease transponder space to V* from the sat that E* uses.

As Wilt has repeatedly said, all channels are being transmitted, whether they are in use or not.

From Long Island the satellite is a little bit east of due south, at an elevation of about 45 degrees over the horizon.

It is for a UHF remote control. It is not yet availaibe.

Maybe because they use less error correction in their signal than Dish.

Dish already requires a phone line if you have more than 5 receivers. No lawsuits yet. During setup of Windows XP, the serial # is verified, either manually over the phone or automatically on the internet, if you chose. If you did install with an illegal #, Windows Update will not work...

The receivers look similar but are different. The Starchoice receiver doesn't contain an 8psk decoder, the ATSC OTA decoder, a DVI port, nor will it accept the MPEG4 upgrade. The Starchoice receiver does contain an ethernet port, and an IR Blaster.

They're not 4:3 signals. They are 16:9 signals. They only appear to be 4:3 because the broadcaster is adding the bars to the sides of the image. Most TVs and STBs can't change these signals because they think they are already in 16:9 hd format.

The spotbeam map has NO correspondance to the CONUS beams that are in use. The spotbeams capabilities of the satellite are not being used.