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Fat chance of E* getting actual LIL HD anytime soon. The bird they bought from VOOM is in orbit about ten feet above Bermuda, so best of luck to them with dealing with the rain fade issues that lost VOOM about half of its subs.
Second of all, E* has been lobbying the FCC to allow it to consider the local channels DBS providers deliver, which are little more than up-converted OTA analog signals, as digital channels for purposes of meeting the 85% digital penetration required for the FCC to initiate the mandatory digital transition. The problem with this is that E* also told the FCC they would only support this if it meant they would not have to broadcast true HD locs, as long as they can still provide a down-converted digital signal. This is because, even with the purchase of the new bird from VOOM, E* simply does not have the bandwidth capacity to support even a modest LIL HD rollout...not by a long shot...and nowhere near the estimated 1500 HD LIL markets that D* estimates will be online by 2007.
Second of all, E* has been lobbying the FCC to allow it to consider the local channels DBS providers deliver, which are little more than up-converted OTA analog signals, as digital channels for purposes of meeting the 85% digital penetration required for the FCC to initiate the mandatory digital transition. The problem with this is that E* also told the FCC they would only support this if it meant they would not have to broadcast true HD locs, as long as they can still provide a down-converted digital signal. This is because, even with the purchase of the new bird from VOOM, E* simply does not have the bandwidth capacity to support even a modest LIL HD rollout...not by a long shot...and nowhere near the estimated 1500 HD LIL markets that D* estimates will be online by 2007.
DIRECTV_Mole said:
Your comments about the Voom satellite, Rainbow-1 are incredibly wrong, only someone totally ignorant about geostationary satellites and rain fade would make them. A satellite's orbital location has nothing to do with rain fade and in fact DirecTV's Spaceway Ka band satellites will have more problems with rain fade than Rainbow-1. The Spaceway satellites are only Ka band.
In regards to E*'s (Dish) comments to the FCC about HD locals, see posts #7 and #8 of this thread:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=46959
The Rainbow-1 satellite has spotbeams that could be used to provide locals to perhaps as many as 11 cities even with MPEG-2 and possibly as many as 30 with MPEG-4. Dish also has leases for AMC-15 and AMC-16 that have both been launched and are currently being tested. Both are Ku/Ka band satellites. Admittedly, it has been frustrating for Dish HD subscribers that these two satellites have not been brought "on-line" as of yet but with their Ku band capability, they both have the capacity for up to 96 HD channels using MPEG-2 and probably 3 times that many using MPEG-4. In addition, both satellites have 12 Ka band spotbeams with unknown capacity.
Dish is also scheduled to launch Echostar-10 (E-10), a DBS satellite in late summer of this year to 110 W. E-10 is a high capacity spotbeam satellite and although it will primarily be used for SD locals, it will free up significant space on Dish's other satellites for possible HD use. In addition, Dish also has a lease on another Ku band satellite to be launched to the 118.7 W location in 2006 and are having built another DBS satellite to be launched in 2007.
Essentially your claims are unfounded and you have demonstrated your total ignorance of geostationary satellites and rain fade. Perhaps you should change your name to Ignorant DirecTV_Troll.
