International Services Moving to 118.7 Orbital Slot - DELAYED

[Scott Greczkowski]

International Services Moving to 118.7 Orbital Slot - DELAYED

The June 20th cut-over date for International programming to be broadcast off of the 118.7 satellite has been delayed. Customers activating any of the below International languages should be installed with a 121 SuperDISH until further notice.


* South Asian – Kannada
* South Asian – Bangla
* South Asian – Malayalam
* South Asian – Telugu
* French
* African
* Armenian
* Filipino
* German
* Chinese
* Korean

All languages not listed above, should continue to be installed at either the 148 or 61.5 orbital locations.

 

[Kirby Baker]

I wonder why...

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I dont see many Dish Plus Dishes around.

 

[amstrad]

Technical problem.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No technical problem. The channels are already up and running and have been for a few weeks.

Again there are no Plus Dishes available for dealers to install.

 

[amstrad]

scott please write - what polish channels are work in dish network ?
My father live in USA and need some polish channels.

 

[Kirby Baker]

If they are only a few weeks away from having new Plus dishes, then why not just tell customers that they have a 2-week wait on new installs for those internationals, rather than put up a Superdish for 121, and then require either a new Plus dish install a few weeks from now, or a conversion kit for the superdish (in either case, more cost to the installer or E*)?

 

[mwgiii]

scott please write - what polish channels are work in dish network ?
My father live in USA and need some polish channels.

I'm not Scott, but here is the Polish programming:

http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/...packages/indexpackage.asp?languageType=Polish

 

[John Kotches]

If I'm being pedantic, the lack of Dish+ dishes is in fact a technical problem; earth-based rather than space-based

Cheers,

No technical problem. The channels are already up and running and have been for a few weeks.

Again there are no Plus Dishes available for dealers to install.

 

[SummitAdvantageRetailer]

Well, not sure about all areas, but I know of at least one area where they have the D500+ in stock but not available for retailer distribution yet. I don't think they have any D1000+ in stock, though.

 

[Kirby Baker]

A bit OT, but wasnt there talk of adding more to the German package at some point? Or are the 2 channels the best we can hope for?

 

[bb1]

I hope

They actually took away a channel 'GermanTV'. Merkel cut the funding as soon as she took over. They substituted it with the pathetic DW-TV which is only news and only half in German. It used to be available online for free. The delay hurts, I want to upgrade to HD but I want to shed by defective superdish in the process.

 

[HookedOnTV]

Maybe they're changing plans and are going to move the HD off 129. I know... wishful thinking.

 

[Kirby Baker]

Maybe they're changing plans and are going to move the HD off 129. I know... wishful thinking.

Quit thinking sensibly please.. its not good for your health!

 

[SummitAdvantageRetailer]

They actually took away a channel 'GermanTV'. Merkel cut the funding as soon as she took over. They substituted it with the pathetic DW-TV which is only news and only half in German. It used to be available online for free. The delay hurts, I want to upgrade to HD but I want to shed by defective superdish in the process.

OT here as well. You mean German TV shut down on its own. DISH just substituted a defunct channel with another one, albeit a less popular one. Only channels I can think of DISH taking down because of contract negotiations are SBS and Tara Muzak. German TV, centroamerica TV, and etc. were all shut down on its own.

 

[JohnH]

And here I was just watching channel 9903 on my 6000u.

 

[Minsk1]

scott please write - what polish channels are work in dish network ?
My father live in USA and need some polish channels.

Don't forget to look here www.overseatv.com

 

[Stargazer]

I have noticed some Dish 1000's at some people's houses that used to have or still have the existing SuperDish and the locals are still at 105 and 129. I figure this is due to the issues with the SuperDishes and Dish Network replacing them with a Dish 1000 for free since the SuperDish has been discontinued.

 

[digiblur]

I doubt that would use this bird for National HD as I remember hearing some markets have problems with signal in their area. As far as we know, E* doesn't want to run 8PSK on this bird, so I highly doubt you'll see national HD either. Just like you see now, a few HD LIL's. I'm betting they will use 118.7 to free up space on 61.5 and 129 for my HD on these birds.

 

[hobojoe]

boy i am lost i thought they left them on the 105 sat.