Scott, what about commercial customers, have you heard from Dish what's the game plan? My condominium has 61.5/110/119(plus 118.7 for internationals).The following was sent to Dish Network retailers...
The way this is worded it appears that those with 61.5 dishes might lose some HD programming in the future.HD Channels Launched on the 72.7° Orbital Location for Easter Arc customers- The additional channels were launched on the 72.7° orbital location, instead of the 61.5° orbital location, because in the future we plan to migrate core HD content to the 72.7° orbital location for Eastern Arc customers. We are aware that some existing customers will be impacted because of this and we are working to provide these customers with solutions. If you are contacted by an existing customer who is interested in receiving these additional HD channels, we have created a specific phone number for them to call – please advise customers to contact DISH Network directly at 888-701-8965.
Judging from the polls at this site and other sites it seems as though that "small" amount is 40%.
That does not seem to small to me.
Yes, as long as the LNB has one single lonely LNB all the way to the Left Looking at the Dish Head on.Installer here putting up dish marked turbo hd- is this the 1000.4?
And about 15-20 others.. You can switch to DirecTV and not get them there either, since I don't believe DirecTV carries any of the HD channels just added.
YES!!!!!!!!:up
Is Nimq5 even in service yet?
If it is, its weak compaired to E*11
I'm just going by signal strength in my area, The 110 was mid 60's-70's with a High of 80,Yep, it's been up for a while. That's what allowed them to switch over to 8PSK on all of those transponders. I found the bird to be pretty strong, but E*11 is one hot sucker since it doesn't have a whole lot of TP's to cover.
TWC will make you an offer you can't refuse for the first 24 months, especially if you get a Dish Winback Promotion like I got (Equivalent of ATT250 plus HD-DVR and roadrunner) for $85 a month. Then they will rape you like they are doing to my 92 year Father (whom won't switch to a Dish) for the tune of $93 a month for Digital Cable and HBO.
I hope by time my 2 year promotion is up, Dish will have their act together with their HD issues and have MSG, MLB and YES in HD, so I can make the switch back.
I'm not even sure they do. When I called to schedule my upgrade appointment I was asked why I was calling because in their system I was listed as already having EA. I told them you have to take my word that it definitely is currently a two-dish, 61.5/110/119 setup....Yea, I agree; chances are the people who have the 110/119/61.5 setup are older, therefore less likely to visit the Internet or know this site even exists. As well, more people know what HD is than are likely to visit this site. So 40% might be a light estimate, but no one except, perhaps, Dish knows for sure.
Regardless, Dish finally seems to be implementing a plan to notify people; they probably planned to do it all along but got blindsided by the 61.5 TP failures (a guess, but an educated one). Now it's a matter of getting the fat new dish up there.
The Dish meters show signal quality, not signal strength.I'm just going by signal strength in my area, The 110 was mid 60's-70's with a High of 80,
I can't even get a 70 and this is a much bigger dish then the 500 I used for the 110.
Nobody has lost anything yet? The only impact right now is that those with 61.5 as a wing can't get the new HD channels.So let me get this straight.
DISH decides to move their HD. This CAUSES CUSTOMERS TO LOSE Channels.
I don't have a clue what your talking about.The Dish meters show signal quality, not signal strength.
Turbo-8PSK has tighter tolerances than the modulation on 110 (QPSK still?), so it will show a lower meter value even at the same signal strength.
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I don't have a clue what your talking about.
I'm talking about my 722 and 622 Signal meter. It showed much higher values for the 110, then the 72.5.
So signal Quaility or strength , how ever you want to put it , its average is still about 15-20 points lower on the 72.5 then the 110
Scott, what about commercial customers, have you heard from Dish what's the game plan? My condominium has 61.5/110/119(plus 118.7 for internationals).
Not one TP on the 72.5 had a higher value then one TP the 110.He's saying you are comparing apples to oranges since you were probably comparing 8PSK TP's on 72 to QPSK on 110. Unless of course you were using one of the 3 or 4 8PSK TP's on 110 to do the comparison.
Installer here putting up dish marked turbo hd- is this the 1000.4?