SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Discussion - Week Ending 12/29/2007

[lakebum431]

Is INHD Or MOJO or whatever it is called still uplinked? Or was it removed?

 

[TNGTony]

That was removed about a month after it was uplinked.

See ya
Tony

 

[nlk10010]

The word "plans" is a rather meaningless one.

Well, actually, it IS in the dictionary, so it DOES have a definition. Plans can be specific or they can be general. When it comes to E*, at least when it comes to their EXPRESSED plans, well, they indeed are so general as to be meaningless (to the extent they exist at all). So I agree with you there.

And that's the problem. Plans don't HAVE to be so general as to be meaningless, (as was demonstrated by D*). It's been E*'s decision to keep them that way.

 

[Juan]

Perhaps E* is really having technical problems in their uplink center? Supposidly "n" was going to replace nick gas yesterday ( when nick gas went to a black screen) the techs had to move n back to a noggin/n split

 

[kstuart]

And that's the problem. Plans don't HAVE to be so general as to be meaningless, (as was demonstrated by D*). It's been E*'s decision to keep them that way.

If D* had had two launch failures/postponements, instead of E*, then the past two months would have been:

" When is D* ever going to catch up with E* ? "

and

" Why does D* announce plans that they can't deliver ? "

It's amazing to me that people cannot understand that.

 

[nlk10010]

If D* had had two launch failures/postponements, instead of E*, then the past two months would have been:

" When is D* ever going to catch up with E* ? "

and

" Why does D* announce plans that they can't deliver ? "

It's amazing to me that people cannot understand that.

Well, that's your opinion, which you are entitled to but with which I disagree.

Had D* had the two launch failures instead of E* it could just easily have been "E* launched two satellites and we're STILL waiting for more national HD, at least I know that WHEN D* launches them they are planning to add additional HD channels, so I'll stick it out". Of course, that's all academic as E* DID have the failures and D* didn't. I don't think Dish's "announcement strategy" was set in stone two years ago and couldn't be changed in response to events that unfolded.

Let's put it this way: how are people supposed to distinguish between a company that is just waiting to launch satellites to compete with D* on the national HD front and a company which is waiting to launch a couple of satellites so it can add HD LILs and a single-dish solution and is only marginally interested in paying providers for additional national HD? Whose word are we supposed to take?

 

[kstuart]

Well, that's your opinion, which you are entitled to but with which I disagree.

Had D* had the two launch failures instead of E* it could just easily have been "E* launched two satellites and we're STILL waiting for more national HD

Okay, now we know you are one of those people paid 50 cents a post to make negative comments.

E* is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to launch two satellites to keep them empty ??