Priority: 129 or 61.5?

[RedSavina]

When I last checked a couple of years ago, if you had an installation that included both 129 and 61.5 (1000.2 plus wing dish), the 129 channels seemed to have priority over the 61.5 channels. This was especially annoying because of the signal issues with the old 129.

Now that Ciel-2 is blasting away from 129, I am thinking about breaking out the 1000.2 dish again. With the higher signal strengths from Ciel-2, it won't matter as much which satellite is tuned in - except in the case where one satellite carries a channel in MPEG2 and the other carries it in MPEG4. This would be a concern not only for picture quality due to compression/codecs, but also for DVR storage space.

Does anyone have any idea how Dish is handling the satellite selection when there is a duplicate channel (compression type, signal strength, etc)?

(I realize this is mostly academic since the majority of channels are mirrored on both sats)

 

[MikeD-C05]

dish 1000.2 -129 sat comes first over 61.5 side sat dish plugged into the lnb.
dish 1000.4 -61.5 sat comes first over 129 side sat dish plugged into the lnb.

 

[RedSavina]

dish 1000.2 -129 sat comes first over 61.5 side sat dish plugged into the lnb.
dish 1000.4 -61.5 sat comes first over 129 side sat dish plugged into the lnb.

Ahhh, so it depends on the hardware. I suspect the priority could be changed via software if they wanted...

Thanks

 

[Gentleman]

I have a 100.2 and a 61.5 wing dish, with a 722 and a 612 receiver, the 722 almost always defaults to 129 while the 612 almost always defaults to 61.5. The 722 in the living room, the 612 in an adjoining room, tune in the same channel that is on both 129 & 61.5 and the picture/sound is always ahead on the 61.5, if the volume is high it can become annoying, but they never select the same sat

Bob

 

[Ejohn60]

I also have a 1000.2 and a 61.5 wing dish, with a 722 and a 612 receiver. My wing dish was pointed at 148 for my SD locals. Dish posted a notice on channel 10 for me to contact them about my locals moving. A few days ago the wing dish was repointed to 61.5 to pick up my HD locals just recently added to 61.5. My SD locals are also on 129. I too noticed several HD channels that were normally received on 129 were being received on 61.5. However, after reading this post I just checked both receivers and all but the local HD channels are back on 129.

 

[digiblur]

The content on both birds is MPEG4, not MPEG2. No priority really. It just depends on how the channel table loaded on the receiver and which one came first.

 

[KKlare]

Before Ceil-2, my 1000.0 + 500 mono LNBs/722s selected 129 over 61.5, except where only on 61.5.

My DPP44 order is 119 110 129 61.5--left from Voom. After the new 129, I checked the source on many channels (channel and Menu-6-1-1 to see which) and found almost all were 61.5. So it was picking the weaker signal?

Remembering that you can also do info-info to see which one for live channels, I'll check again.

I guess they could be different on each 722. Why would the priority change? Using info-info, it looks like they are back to 129 except the few from 110 found on reman on 61.5: 440/442 HDALT slate (441 on 129). Oops, found on "new" 722 on 61.5: 301 302 303.... They have 617RJ2D/617RJQD software.

So it depends on the software or when started or something.

-Ken

 

[RedSavina]

It sounds like it is just as random as before. Sounds like Digi has the best explanation.

As he noted, it doesn't really matter much anymore. I was just thinking back to the Eastern Arc vs Western Arc discussions where the All-MPEG4 service was being touted (taking into account, of course, the other birds for EA).

Another curiosity, nothing more!