bigec2002 said:
I live about 50 miles north of New Orleans and although I have Directv HD it is limited in content and I would like to switch to Dish to gain additional HD channels. What is the easiest way to do this? I see people on this forum going to a dishshop.net to buy equip? I thought all the dish gear was leased?? Also I have trouble getting some of the New Orleans locals on HD particularly NBC, UPN and WB. How easy is it to get these through E*? Thanks in advance for the info.
bigec2002
Re: New Orleans OTA
As noted above, NBC 6.1 (WDSU-DT 43) is not broadcasting at all. They say it will be summer 2007 before they rebuild their transmitter.
UPN-54.1 (WUPL DT 24 now MYNETWORK TV) is broadcasting on its transmitter (480i only) but since Katrina has not been broadcasting 1080i (no idea when they will be back to HD)
WB-38.1 (now The CW) (WNOL-DT 40) is currently broadcasting on leased transmitter from WPXL. (UHF 50) but is broadcasting 480i only and won't be back to 1080i for a while.
Additionally, WGNO DT15 (ABC 15.1) is owned by the same company as the WB above, and is also broadcasting on the same leased transmitter. But they (ABC) are broadcasting in HD (720p) also on UHF Channel 50.
WWL DT36 (4.1) CBS is operating fully on their transmitter at 1080i
WVUE DT29 (8.1) FOX is operating fully on their transmitter at 720p
WYES DT11 (12.1) PBS is operating fully on their transmitter at 1080i
Re: Dish Network
For Dish network you will need two dishes, a dish 500 for 110 and 119 and a single LNB dish for 61.5 and an HD reciever ( Vip622 or vip211/411)
New Orleans HD Locals are not available (yet) but were slated to be turned on in 2006. (we'll keep our fingers crossed on that one)
SD locals are available. (on 110 sat)