Advice on "Moving" to NY for HD locals?

[Rlanham]

I have a 61.5 dish, and used to get CBS-HD east.

Can someone give me definitive answer that
If I "move" to New York City, that ALL New York City "HD locals" will come in on my 61.5 dish, just like CBS-HD east used to, without making any changes to to my current setup.

It was closer to "move" to St. Louis, MO (90 miles).. but HD locals there come in on 118,, and I didn't want to switch to a dish 1000

Thanks,

 

[Mr Tony]

I have a 61.5 dish, and used to get CBS-HD east.

Can someone give me definitive answer that
If I "move" to New York City, that ALL New York City "HD locals" will come in on my 61.5 dish, just like CBS-HD east used to, without making any changes to to my current setup.

All NY locals in HD? NO
The Big 4? Yes

It was closer to "move" to St. Louis, MO (90 miles).. but HD locals there come in on 187,, and I didn't want to switch to a dish 1000

Thanks,

I think you mean 118

 

[Rlanham]

Thanks Iceberg !

 

[psnarula]

with a 61.5 dish, you could "move" to NYC, Boston, Philly, or Washington DC and get the "big 4" in HD.

 

[ripnbigc]

How does one "move"?

 

[Sharper]

with a 61.5 dish, you could "move" to NYC, Boston, Philly, or Washington DC and get the "big 4" in HD.

So no spot beams in those markets... hmmm..... what other markets have all four HDs in no spot beams? Are the SD locals (for other TVs in the household) also not on spot beams?

 

[Kikkenit2]

So no spot beams in those markets... hmmm..... what other markets have all four HDs in no spot beams? Are the SD locals (for other TVs in the household) also not on spot beams?

I'm guessing LA and NY.

 

[garys]

All LA sd locals went to spot beam a couple of weeks ago. Some on NY locals have been on spot beam for some time now, the major ones are not (abc, nbc, cbs, fox, cw and MyNework) there may be a pbs as well, but nothing else.

 

[psnarula]

with distants going dead on december 1st there is no reason for echostar to continue to use national transponders for sd locals. so whatever might still be on a conus feed (i think the big four in denver is all that remains) won't be for much longer.

there is also no reason for them to use conus feeds for the hd locals but they have largely chosen to distribute these via satellites that do not support spotbeams (mostly because there isn't enough available bandwidth at 110 and 119).

markets in hd are here:

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/hdlocal.htm

the ones from 129 and 61.5 are conus. the ones from 110 are spotbeams.

 

[dishrich]

with distants going dead on december 1st there is no reason for echostar to continue to use national transponders for sd locals. so whatever might still be on a conus feed (i think the big four in denver is all that remains) won't be for much longer.

Chicago & NY big 4 SD are STILL conus...

 

[psnarula]

ok you are right. i knew that atlanta and los angeles got moved to spot beams but i hadn't bothered to check on chicago or new york.

 

[Stanleee]

I think we should drop the "move" talk and run a search for the 20 other posts on the subject .

 

[sunfire29841]

Any word on when or if the big 4 from NYC are going to spotbeam? I'm thinking of jumping ship from Atlanta and getting NPS to get Atl. back.