Fact
New Eastern Arc news. Starting August 20 dish will start rolling out the Eastern Arc starting with areas that get HD locals off of 61.5. The 1000.4 and the 1000.5 dish will point at 77 72.7 and 61.5 for an all mpeg 4 service. Only new connects will build with this at first.
Speculation
As we know Turbo HD is only avalible for new subscribers and you must have only Mpeg 4 receivers. This rule is probably being enforced so all the existing subs dont all upgrade to MPEG 4 until the Eastern Arc is complete.
We all know charlie likes to save money and it makes sense to do an MPEG 4 upgrade and a dish migration/install all at the same time instead of upgrading and then giving away a free migration. So from a business stand point what he is doing makes sense. It may not be cool for people wanting to save some money over the next 6 months, but it may be best to wait because later this year the the HD channel count will increase by 50%.
New Eastern Arc news. Starting August 20 dish will start rolling out the Eastern Arc starting with areas that get HD locals off of 61.5. The 1000.4 and the 1000.5 dish will point at 77 72.7 and 61.5 for an all mpeg 4 service. Only new connects will build with this at first.
Speculation
As we know Turbo HD is only avalible for new subscribers and you must have only Mpeg 4 receivers. This rule is probably being enforced so all the existing subs dont all upgrade to MPEG 4 until the Eastern Arc is complete.
We all know charlie likes to save money and it makes sense to do an MPEG 4 upgrade and a dish migration/install all at the same time instead of upgrading and then giving away a free migration. So from a business stand point what he is doing makes sense. It may not be cool for people wanting to save some money over the next 6 months, but it may be best to wait because later this year the the HD channel count will increase by 50%.