Satellite Capacity, Picture Quality

[brice52]

I dont remember gas or cigarette prices? All my very young friends raz me because I dont remember.
Think late 70s gas went to $1 a gal. Remember the taped on $1 in front of the old analog pumps.

Feel like Ive forgotten more than a new most of the time?

I'm at the stage where I remember things from 60+ years ago, but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

I remember in September of 73 the arab embargo that carried the price 38 cents to 66 cents and kept rising to above 1 dollar

 

[bobc469]

In the late 50's when I was in high school, there was a gas war and it was going for 19.2 cents/gallon.
Now it's sometimes $5.00 for a 1 gallon.
Of course a good average wage was $3.00/hour and now it's $30.00/hour or more.

 

[FLEABttn]

related to the OP but does Dish have supported boxes in customer hands that don't support HEVC?

 

[navychop]

I'm pretty sure there's not supposed to be. But let us hear from someone more knowledgeable than I.

 

[John2021]

The picture quality is not as bad as it was on DISH in the early 2000s when everyone was getting HD televisions and Dish was pushing only SD content. I remember the ghosting and all the digital artifacts when Dish was really crunched for capacity running 119/110 under MPEG2.

The problem today with everything being broadcast in HD, and the majority of the televisions being sold today being pure garbage, people don't really know what a good picture quality should look like.

First of all I am a firm believer of OLED technology. That is the only type of television I want to put in my house. I will admit that Dish and DIRECTV look great today. If you really want to see what some of these televisions can do, try streaming some 4K content, or get a 4K DVD.

The only thing I can say is that Dish has gotten rid of all their SD content and basically crammed everything on 119/110, There is really no room to expand any programming offerings as if they had the capacity they would have kept their international programming on satellite instead of making it streaming only. I think its safe to say that any channel additions to Dish will have a negative impact on picture quality

Directv isn't really doing much better in terms of HD capacity. However they have the reverse band frequencies available and when they finally get rid of their SD programming they will have 46 free Transponders available between 119/110/101

Funny 20 years ago we had DISH saying they had all this satellite capacity available to them with 50 transponders available to them between 119/110 compared to DIRECTV only having 32 at 101. Now look who has more, a significant amount more.

Again, technology has advanced to the point its like doing basic functions on a computer. You really can't tell if your using a $100 computer or a $3000 computer.

the average person could not tell the difference from a 1000 to a 3000 pc if there web surfing checking e-mails and so on some light gaming... then you have us power users that run virus scans while uploading to the cloud doing updates and downloading games with 100 chrome tabs open while gaming and streaming on two oleds then you also have programs that are resource hogs . i can tell the difference in pc builds. my computer serves me i am not gonna start turning things off just to run something