Uplink Activity Report - 1/14/2009 1:02am - 418 changes
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Forgive me if this has been answered, but what are the chances of the Springfield MO locals going up on the new 129 sat once it's parked in it's proper slot after testing? I can receive all of the locals OTA, but on windy days it's marginal. and it would be nice to have them via sat as a backup. Especially for our annual Stupor Bowl party.........
I'd be willing to pay the $59 for the second dish, but then again I don't really want another device sprouting off my roof.
Forgive me if this has been answered, but what are the chances of the Springfield MO locals going up on the new 129 sat once it's parked in it's proper slot after testing? I can receive all of the locals OTA, but on windy days it's marginal. and it would be nice to have them via sat as a backup. Especially for our annual Stupor Bowl party.........
Springfield is not a large DMA so the chances of being on both arcs is probably not too high, although not impossible. There is virtually no chance by this Super Bowl of being on 129 in any case. They are on 77 on the EA. All you need is a wing dish for 77. Just add the winger for that location.
They have to finish the testing of the new satellite, move it to 129W, and then transfer the existing programming from the old to the new satellite. After that they will add new national HD and new HD LiLs. So February onward is the likely time frame.
Even after Ciel-2 and the new spot beam satellite for Eastern Arc that is scheduled to come online later this year, Dish (and DirecTV) will have much less bandwidth than it needs to provide all the HD locals for the markets that it currently provides in SD.
Not only is there a scale difference of several million between the cost of one new satellite versus one new dish installation, there is a long waiting list to get satellites bult and launched.
No one thinks that duplicating an entire array of satellites is a cost effective solution for line-of-sight issues (which generally work themselves out by customers opting for cable or FIOS).
It's certainly conceivable that Dish may use some space to temporarily duplicate some DMAs just to give time for customers to get new dishes installed and get MPEG4 receivers, but I expect that to last no more than about a year...
I expect another uplink overnight, if not for more locals/HD activity but for Sirius channel changes which are happening overnight.
I have not seen one word about any Sirius channel changes on any other web page anywhere...
Due to complaints that were received when they combined the Sirius and XM music channels, they were supposed to be bringing back two channels. The Strobe and Backspin were both supposed to be returned to the Sirius & XM lineup on January 15. I didn't notice my Sirius receiver doing an update this morning on my way to work, so I don't know if it happened or not.
Sirius XM Radio Inc. - Disco and Old School Hip-Hop Channels Back by Popular Demand on SIRIUS XM Radio
I am not liking the LA HD Locals all going spot!!!
You and me both!
Right After xmas, the guide for the holiday music channels in the 75 range were saying something about those 2 channels, but those music channels in the 75's are gone now.
I am unaware of a new spotbeam satellite for the Eastern Arc to be launched later this year. Is this E-14 and what slot will it be located at? I know of the Nimiq 5 satellite going to 72.7 W but that is not a spotbeam satellite.
Probably thinking of the mexican bird at 77w... I remember hearing rumors of it having spotbeams.
The changes to Sirius did happen last night at Midnight, however Dish has not done any updates yet.
So, when all these swapouts to MPEG-4 recievers happen, those that owned the MPEG-2 recievers will no longer own their recievers after the swap. Dish Network will want to lease the MPEG-4 recievers to them.
I don't really disagree with anything you say here, except that I believe we will have this duplication on EA and WA for way more than a year. By the time E* goes 100% MPEG-4 and has spotbeam capacity in place for all HD LIL's, they'll probably be installing ONLY EA or WA for a given DMA, maybe excluding some of the larger ones. Or.......they may be doing something entirely different! At any rate, I didn't mean to give anyone the impression that I thought this was a permanant situation - only that it makes some sense right now.
Brad
Everytime we think we finally figure out what their plan is, they change it and its something different all over again. Remember SuperDish with the HD writing on the plastic shroud in which didn't materialize?
