To me a single dish has a nicer more professional look than two. Two looks a little trashy.
No you are Wrong, Charlie told us that its a status symbol to have dishes on your property
I have 2 dishes and OTA, I think it looks cool.
To me a single dish has a nicer more professional look than two. Two looks a little trashy.
No you are Wrong, Charlie told us that its a status symbol to have dishes on your property
I have 2 dishes and OTA, I think it looks cool.
The problem with MPEG-4 is that there are 20-30 million MPEG-2 receivers out there. If you go $100 each to replace you are looking at 2-3 billion dollars. They could put up 10 satellites for that much money. Yes they need customers to upgrade, but they want to do it slowly and spread the cost out. Having customers pay for the upgrade is even better.
Dude, we're replacing the 811 & 6000 rcvrs for FREE... you get a 211. We've been sending out mailers.
Which of E*'s SD receivers that are now being installed, are MPEG4 compatible?
I was advocating here a couple of years ago that E* should stop shipping any & all receivers that could not decode MPEG4, in order to give them a leg up on a future conversion of all SD & HD to that format.
None.
DirecTV has a mpeg4 "SD" DVR model, the R22, but that's really an HR21 that's firmware disabled the HD output.
Because of the computational requirements of decoding mpeg4 it doesn't really make sense to develop a true SD receiver, so the switch will happen when E* decides to send HD-capable receivers to all customers.
EchoStar Communications Corporation - Current Report
Echo2 total loss...
On July 14, 2008, our EchoStar 2 satellite experienced a substantial failure that appears to have rendered the satellite a total loss. EchoStar 2 had been operating from the 148 degree orbital location primarily as a back-up satellite, but had provided local network channel service to Alaska and six other small markets. All programming and other services previously broadcast from EchoStar 2 were restored to Echostar 1, the primary satellite at the 148 degree location, within several hours after the failure. EchoStar 2, which was launched in September 1996, had a book value of approximately $6.4 million as of June 30, 2008.
MODS: PLEASE RENAME THE TITLE from " II " to " 2 " !!
Problem is you have to use II when searching since this one was named back in 96 when they were using Roman numerals and that's how you find the reference details when searching.
MODS: PLEASE RENAME THE TITLE from " II " to " 2 " !!
Thanks, it was just too weird that there were the "EchoStar II Dead" threads just after EchoStar 11 launched, and then this thread was brought to the top just as EchoStar 11 is about to come online.
So what will happen to this loose sat, will it just drift east and hit something or will its orbit get lower and lower and burn up?