AMC 14 Satellite Launch Failure - What now for Dish?
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Just a thought here. Pardon me for speaking out of school here but if memory serves isn't Dish building a network of terrestrial repeaters for mobile reception?
If it came down to it and the FCC made a big deal about the 1 dish concept and it would take too long to re-build AMC-14 couldn't those repeaters somehow be used at fixed locations?
Yea, I know probably way too expensive of a work-around and probably doesn't address the HD issues either.
Or alternatively could dish scrap all SD programming in favor of all HD, all the time?
Oh well back to the drawing board.
If it came down to it and the FCC made a big deal about the 1 dish concept and it would take too long to re-build AMC-14 couldn't those repeaters somehow be used at fixed locations?
Yea, I know probably way too expensive of a work-around and probably doesn't address the HD issues either.
Or alternatively could dish scrap all SD programming in favor of all HD, all the time?
Oh well back to the drawing board.
Yeah it's extremely rare.. I kinda felt dirty saying it..
The US had their share of learning (like others said here), but we've seen some pretty great results because of it.The private guys will have to learn and evolve too. The problem, of course, is that when they change their config, they have to learn again, as you're seeing with the Briz-M.
I'm glad I don't have that job. I think I'd hope someone would just finish me off if I wrecked a billion dollar sat+launch campaign. I take stuff a little personal in those situations.
Thanks for the info.
Agreed. I do think this is probably their objective for this reason.. But not due to government force as I previously thought.
I need closed captioning, and rarely see it on some HD channels. I called and they said they were working on it.
Charlie needs to concentrate on adding quality and quantity national HD channels. Who cares about locals? OTA is higher quality anyway. Get a good antenna and it's the highest quality you can get.
maybe if enough people call they will do something about it, I have emailed rainbow media about the lack of cc, because I really do like Monster HD, but have a problem catching everything that is said, I also emailed Dish and was told that I should contact Vooms owners (rainbow media) which I have a number of times with no response.
That's fine and dandy. But you're assuming the majority of the customers residing in their respective markets are able to receive HD via OTA. I know for a fact here in Ohio, most are not. Truth be told, I get more complaints/questions about the absence of local HD than I do about national channels.
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Nice idea, but our FOX station is only available in SD Digital. If I had cable, I could get it in HD. DirecTV will have it in HD soon, Dish should step up to the plate as well. It's either that or Dish should try to sell the FCC (again) on allowing people to get HD Distants until they get here. I'll gladly take Boston's locals, I prefer them even.
If you don't live within 30 minutes of my city, you won't get anything over the air, especially not in digital.
Don't get me wrong, National HD does matter, but I'm sure people would like to see their My Name is Earl, American Idol, House MD, E.R., etc. too.
You'd think there would be captions available for a lot of the programming they have, just that they aren't inserting them. These movies should have readily available subtitle data in most cases I would think.
I know CC is off-topic for this discussion, I was just mentioning lack of it as a reason for Dish to get rid of VOOM if that was something they wanted to do, but, does anyone know of a discussion for CC issues?
I'm always bemused by the "I get my HD locals OTA. Why doesn't everyone?" posts. BTW I'm looking forward to one of you folks coming on over to help put up the 200'+ high mast for my OTA antenna
If I switch to D* it will be all about the lack of HD Locals, NOT HD Nationals
Talon Dancer
I'm always bemused by the "I get my HD locals OTA. Why doesn't everyone?" posts. BTW I'm looking forward to one of you folks coming on over to help put up the 200'+ high mast for my OTA antenna
If I switch to D* it will be all about the lack of HD Locals, NOT HD Nationals
Talon Dancer
If you need a 200' antenna just how "local" are they?
Or are there a lot of tall buildings or mountains in the way?
What about the soon to be freed up SkyAngel bird? Any chance that can help to relive some of the bandwidth issues caused by whoops over the weekend?
Yes, the name of the game is for Dish to put as much as they can on their 2 core sat positions, since almost everyone has a Dish 500, this is the most economical route. It seems to me, although certainly not in the next year or two or three, Dish's long-term strategy is to put EVERYTHING on 110 and 119, but that would require the elimination of all Legacy boxes and anticipated substantial improvements with future generations of MPEG4 encoders. We really don't know how efficient MPEG4 encoders will be in 5 years time, but it could reach a level that at present seems impossible. I think that is why Dish went to a lease solution with AMC. All these extra slots are temporary, in the long run of 5 or so years.
There isn't really a 'bird' for Skyangel, there's some transponders that will be freed up that could potentially help with National HD.
