Yes I read but I haven't been staying here just reading the posts. Been mowing the yard, came back in and read a few posts & responded to them. I really have no way of knowing how the master feed uplink works so it didn't register to me. How about you explain a little futher how the process works so we can logically think about this ? I am really curious how they get channels to the uplink from all the different national channels around the country - not counting the uplink pop centers for locals. I already kind of know how that works.
Actually the MPEG4 encoders are doing their job and "sucking" up the bandwidth from the other two missing feeds and giving it to the other feeds on the TP.
Hey, what are the channels getting all of the bandwidth???
I might have to record something off of them to have an example of good HD from E*.
You'd think rather than just a generic slate, Dish would have put something more detailed up there letting their customers know exactly what the problem is, and that it's out of their control.
I figured you would have read what I posted, that's all.
Nothing real fancy about the master feed. The provider puts together all of the video to make the SD and/or HD feed. They then feed it to the various video, cable, and satellite companies via fiber, C-Band, etc. The uplink centers then receive the video, decrypt it, then they feed it into their system and send it back out to their customers via satellite or other transports medium they use.
I don't think dish has a HD character generator.
I would sugest that if its going to be offline tonight to change the guide data to inform viewers of whars up.
Wonder if they will mention this on the Charlie Chat tonight.
You'd think they'd be first to do that so people don't freak out and call the support line or blame DishNetwork for the problem.
Why aren't the sd versions of these channels effected? Why just the HD versions in particular?
They should put the SD feed in the HD channels at least, it's not like any HD will be missed.