Let me rant .... Future of FTA

[jayelem]

Ok ..... so I get to show off my new animated Avatar , I'm sure it will take a while for a few here to make the adjustment , I know that Pepe ( My old avatar ) will probably return since I've grown fond of him that is unless I can find an animated puppet of him.

....... ok future of FTA or FUN Predictions , YES I thought this up by myself and I encourage all forum members to make up any predictions as far fetched as they may sound . HAVE FUN ......

TOP 10 FUTURE FTA PREDICTIONS ......

10.
Reuters : Pepsi Co. launches Pepsi Channel
In an effort to gain ground in marketing and Advertising , Pepsico has
launched a 24/7 channel with music videos and game shows strictly on FTA.

9.
Satellites Boost Signal strength , After years of needing a 80cm dish or larger
FTA consumers can now pick up their favorite programs with a 12 inch
Dish , now that signals have been boosted to 100 dB rain fade has been
almost completely eliminated.

8.
2010 : Toshiba announces that all new HD TV sets will have built in FTA tuners
now that FTA is in 1 0f every 10 homes.

7.
NASA launches new Goverment owned Public use Satellite , PBS announces
that they will shift all channels to New sat and that other Goverment agencies
Like U.S. National Parks Service will start programming that highlights
eco-friendly Nature Parks around the U.S.

6.
Satellite Guys U.S. reaches FTA milestone 1,000,000.00 members strong.

5.
Motorola announces 4DTV will no longer be proprietary , Fortec , Pansat , and
Coolsat follow with new FTA receivers that will handle Digicipher II .

4.
FTA channels ITC are now estimated to be over 2,000 and growing.

3.
Dish Network in a bold move has announced that they will offer all premium
channels for the price of 29.95 , Direct TV to follow suit in price wars.

2.
Analog makes a comeback , FCC announces that quality of satellite
transmissions has suffered and more bandwidth use will be mandatory.
1.
David Lettermen has Guest Scott Greczkowski on his late night Show.

 

[iafirebuff]

I LOVE #4 and hope it comes true!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I've already done letterman.

Unfortunately Dave was not there. But I did sit on the plastic covered couch though.

 

[Steveo]

FTA situation not so good in this part of the world. Ok, if you can speak mandarin or cantonesse. Lost quite a few good english speaking channels over the years. CNNI, Star Sports Asia, MTV Asia, just to name a few.
Signal levels on the ground down here are not so strong, needing a good sized dish. None the less I still get to see the odd movie in english plenty of news and my favourite, Formula 1 live along with a few other good bits pieces. It's a great hobby.

 

[jayelem]

FTA situation not so good in this part of the world. Ok, if you can speak mandarin or cantonesse.

well if it wasn't for G10 @123.0 west . people would probably be saying the same thing here.

I wish we could distort the footprint a little so you could catch some of the North American offerings , I would definitely get a kick out of watching Australian or New Zealand TV channels.

Steveo - Whats the Fta situation for you , as in how many English channels are in the clear for Australia ?

Just so you know this thread was completely made up for amusement with ficticious facts made up by me , just a conversation starter thread , the reality is that there are way more foreign and religious channels than English channels, because I'm bilingual I do benefit from FTA Spanish Language channels , our PBS stations along with several affiliates for several regional networks are the best offerings on FTA for North American English speaking households , the wild feeds for Sports or News is also good.

 

[KE4EST]

I doubt #3 will ever happen, maybe their basic package in 2010, but not their top pack.

 

[jayelem]

I doubt #3 will ever happen, maybe their basic package in 2010, but not their top pack.

I doubt that too , was just having fun.

One thing is for sure , Comcast Digital Cable is pretty steep around here $50.99 , I pay under $10 for basic Cable and I could not see myself switching over or leasing one of their STB for digital service.

Don't know what Cable Co. big plan is , but I assume sooner or later the good analog Cable channels will disappear leaving only the OTA stuff.

 

[Anole]

... or, move near a big city

Where I live there are 44 digital over the air signals.
Yes, my new LCD TV, tunes 44 stations for free right now. (incl The Tube)
I have an outdoor antenna, but it's in bad repair - I just live reasonably close.

Then, there are 29 analog signals.
Those are mostly repeats of the digitals, but 5 are unique.

Of course, with so many to choose from, there's still never anything on.

 

[1inabillion]

Of course, with so many to choose from, there's still never anything on.

Yea its like that even on the sub channels

 

[Steveo]

No much jayelem. There is 3 of the 5 national networks on FTA and another indiginious channel which is basicaly a mix of the 2 other networks. 2 of the 3 national networks, the public broadcasting ones are in a few different time zones which is handy. Those are all on one Sat. Optus D1.
A Few others on on Ku. Arriang (Korean),IS2. Russia Today, Optus B3. and Al-jazerra, OptusC1. There is quite a few relligious channels on both Ku and Cband. On Cband there is about 6 channels in English spread across quite a few sats. Plus all the usual feeds on C and Ku.
Theoreticaly I can see down to AMC10 but nothing on the US sats beams this way, so nothing, and I have given them a good go.