New satellite in fall?

[trellaine]

Sorry not sure where to ask this BUT I am having the 3lnb slimline installed next week but looking into the future and I read somewhere that a new sat will be launched in the fall.

Will this change where the programming will be located? In terms of 99/101/103?

Everyone with 3lnb should be ok?

Thanks

 

[rad]

Last I saw there was a post to a FCC document that said it was going to 103.

 

[raoul5788]

Last I saw there was a post to a FCC document that said it was going to 103.

You are correct sir!

 

[Jimbo]

trellaine,
If thats the case and I think it is as well, you will have to do nothing to your dish to get programming off the dish when it's needed.

 

[trellaine]

thats what I was hoping. I didn't want to have to change the dish after such a short time,

 

[jdspencer]

I don't think DirecTV would like to swap out a whole bunch of dishes either.

 

[trellaine]

Yah, good news to a soon to be newbie then. I just wanted to make sure I was getting the latest and also looking into the future.

Maybe a dumb question but will there be more HD added? Is that the plan?

 

[rad]

Yah, good news to a soon to be newbie then. I just wanted to make sure I was getting the latest and also looking into the future.

Maybe a dumb question but will there be more HD added? Is that the plan?

The DirecTV exec's have been saying that D12 will allow for 50 more national HD channels. So hopefully they'll add a bunch but they've not said flat out that they WILL add 50 channels, but the expectation is that a bunch will be added.

 

[twizt3dsist3r]

my question is whats happening to the current 103? will the lnb read both sats in tht location.

 

[raoul5788]

my question is whats happening to the current 103? will the lnb read both sats in tht location.

Yes, just like the multiple satellites at 101.

 

[Bob Nielsen]

There are already two satellites at 103, but there's still room for one more. How they will allocate the bandwidth remains to be seen (there are at least a few possibilities).

 

[Soccernut]

Is this the satellite that will make it possible to have internationals and all other programing with only one dish?

 

[raoul5788]

Is this the satellite that will make it possible to have internationals and all other programing with only one dish?

Not exactly. Directv has been removing the mpeg2 hd channels from 110, which is where the international channels are supposedly going, eliminating the need for the dish for 72.5.