If you've followed any of the TurboHD threads, then you'd see this is SOP for Dish.So what we've got is Dish giving the channels to some people at no charge and withholding them from others who pay the same amount of money/month.
In all seriousness though, the channels aren't being withheld. People who are not getting them just need some equipment tweaks to get them.
I believe they're already there.Yes, I realize your graph was based on percentages, the question is when do you think Dish will reach 15-20% of their saturation, if it has not already.
E*6 will apparently have coverage issues operating at 61.5, so even if they fire it up it will still suck for some percentage of the subscriber base operating in the margins of the coverage footprint.Dish does have options besides requiring customers to upgrade, or waiting on E*15. If E*6 is indeed heading for the 61.5 slot, as it appears to be, they can provide the missing HD as originally intended.
Sure. On that point I agree -- Dish should not remove programming from customers without providing them with a solution... but we're not there yet. This is all still very new information that they plan on rolling things over to 72.7.If Dish decides that it's in their best interest to move all HD from 61.5 to 72.7 then that's their call and it has nothing to do with the technology.
This is strictly a business decision and not the fault of the customer and they should not be required to pay for the upgrade.
If the number of subscribers who need new equipment is indeed a small percentage then a company like Dish should be able to write it off as "the cost of doing business"
The great thing I like about SatelliteGuys is the advance inside info, but I think folks on this forum tend to have unrealistic expectations around the information being leaked here. You've got people taking an email that was just leaked in the last 72 hours and are calling up the poor help desk script readers asking "so when am I getting my upgrade?"
I can tell you from my experience of spending 15 years in enterprise IT for a few different Fortune 100 companies it just doesn't work that quickly. It usually starts with a lead architecture group setting some type of direction or initiative, and then the pieces slowly get implemented down the line to actually carry out the work to make it happen.
I just don't think it's going to be a case where one day you'll turn on your TV and a bunch of channels will be gone. (unless E*3 completely fails) I would expect in the coming months that Dish will put something together to get affected folks converted well in advance of the shutoff date. Think of something along the lines of the smartcard rollout.