SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Discussion - Week Ending 08/04/2007

[digiblur]

The fact that HBO is specifying required bitrates, they must be using good equipment. It'd be nice for E* and the likes to be able to passthrough and not have to re-encode and make it look even softer and possibly mess with the framrates!

They still have to re-encode to put it in their system.

 

[VinceT3]

they removed the starz on demand channel..

 

[JohnH]

they removed the starz on demand channel..

There was some activity yesterday that looked like that was what they did. Thanks.

 

[mdonnelly]

Those RSN tp moves will have to be creative if the RSNs are showing college football in HD during baseball season. If I were Dish I'd look at upgrading those transponders to the new encoders so they can stack six channels to both 129tp8 and 129tp27.

 

[JohnH]

Those RSN tp moves will have to be creative if the RSNs are showing college football in HD during baseball season. If I were Dish I'd look at upgrading those transponders to the new encoders so they can stack six channels to both 129tp8 and 129tp27.

129 Tp 8 has at least 5 channels and 129 Tp 27 has 6 channels already.

 

[digiblur]

Those RSN tp moves will have to be creative if the RSNs are showing college football in HD during baseball season. If I were Dish I'd look at upgrading those transponders to the new encoders so they can stack six channels to both 129tp8 and 129tp27.

They already are Just like JohnH said.

 

[mdonnelly]

But they only show four games per tp at any one time.

 

[JohnH]

But they only show four games per tp at any one time.

I would be surprised if they show more than 2 on Tp 27 as there are 3 national HDs there.

Remember that 1 of the channels on Tp 8 has the slate at all times.

 

[GeorgeLV]

Dish and Directv are still middle men, you need a BUD to go direct.

Except it's getting rarer and rarer to be able to subscribe to an actual master feed.

 

[GeorgeLV]

They still have to re-encode to put it in their system.

I doubt that is true. Unless the mpeg4 elementary streams do something outside of the specifications of E*'s decoders, they just need to remux it into their transport streams.

 

[JohnH]

I doubt that is true. Unless the mpeg4 elementary streams do something outside of the specifications of E*'s decoders, they just need to remux it into their transport streams.

Assuming a fixed bitrate is provided and acceptible, what you say is correct.

Statistical Muxing would require re-encoding.

 

[Smith P.]

I doubt that is true. Unless the mpeg4 elementary streams do something outside of the specifications of E*'s decoders, they just need to remux it into their transport streams.

No doubts. Stat muxes will play with compression profile to achieve 90% utilization of total bandwidth of each tpn.

 

[nyvram]

You guys are such geeks.

I can't wait to see what happens on Aug 15; all this 'satellite activity' is making my head swim..but what I'm getting from this conversation is that DISH is going to do some HD-shuffling on the 15th (both pricing wise and product wise) that could result in a few more HD channels. I guess moving VOOM to MPEG4 will allow for another 10-15 channels to squeeze out of the satellite? Are there more VOOM networks waiting? Or will this actually be more "legitimate" HD channels like ESPN & stuf..

PS Note, I'm not complaining..I LOVE VOOM. My kids watched Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds, Flipper and the "ant and the aardvark" cartoons all weekend and I became an instant fan of VOOM.