You're likely right and it's probably not worth any workaround programming effort. It's certainly not something I'll lose any sleep over since it primarily only affects those of us using 1000.4's with EA triple LNB's. I think I'll semi-permanently shield the 77 LNB to make aiming a tad easier.
No way they will include 100% english content.....what they do is they have affiliates or latin operations different names, that send the same content a 2 o 3 months latter than the first broadcast most in both Spanish and english at least in the DirecTV (AT&T). The space should be because of the 720p or 1080 p formerly SD now HD that consumes more bandwidth than SD most providers are MPEG 4 and as I have posted it's complicated to migrate all systems to CODEC H.265 or some other newer CODEC so they can compress more content in less bandwidth....
Well, I'd say that it isn't really as "complicated" for the source media entity as it is COSTLY to change to a new codec, especially, in some cases, when the media company may have to pay the expenses for some of the affiliates/recipients. AFAIK, there is no shortage of transmission/relay/feed space among satellites for media company feeds and a fair amount of content (especially back feeds, not for Air content along with more and more for Air content) is sent/fed by Fiber. MPEG4 is doing just fine and MORE in regards to space (number of channels) per transponder and Fiber--for media company feeds.
What you mention is B2B. In this case I agree if a new CODEC is needed then they might change for free between B2B, or based upon the number of subscribers, also the broadcast or data transfer via fiber is vast.
"Orbital 77 went down on Tuesday November 9th. It is causing some Easter (eastern) Arc (EA) VIP receivers to continuously reboot, get stuck on the 'Acquiring Signal' message, or go to a black screen."
But it was scheduled to go away. (Unless it went down before it was scheduled to go away) But I knew a few months ago it would be going away.
I imagine it intentionally went down and dish is just using strange verbage here. It amazes me how unprepared they were to do this though, I've been to 6 service calls within the past 2 days involving Sat 77.
What do you mean by that? Will a Node for a Hopper 1/2 not work just because one sat is missing? New receivers should just show Conn. on the port and let you continue setup, unless I’m missing something. Also, 1000.4 with a DPH42 switch should work just fine, just don’t connect port 1 (port 2 is 72.1 and 3 is 61.5)
The satellite itself is still there, lyngsat is showing the transponders for Dish Mexico still active, the CONUS transponders are completely blank on the other hand.
To bad you didn't post anything in the threads regarding the moves on locals migrating to other satellite from that orbital slot (77°W), al we did was speculate......but eventually (November 9) we finally learned.
No kidding. I would have preferred for any disappearing orbitals simply to show loss of signal if you try to select a channel formerly present. I would not expect a receiver to get into a boot loop! If they are going to fail this spectacularly, Dish should have rolled out new firmware w/o any capability of switching to 77 whatsoever.
Dishnetwork not renewing the lease of those transponders only indicates me that they're not in their best financial moments....
Shut your mouth! The 722k firmware is perfectly fine the way it is. Dish tries to change that now, after not looking at the COBOL it likely runs on for a decade... who knows what could happen?!
So what's your take? there are 3 active orbital slots in West ARC and only 2 in the East ARC? less people living in the East Coast? Less content in the East ARC?
The 77 bird hasn't been needed for the US for several years now. None of the current Eastern Arc LNB's are even aimed at it. The 77 only channels were just a few locals that were easily moved to 72.7 seamlessly to the subscribers in those DMA's.
