What if EchoStar X failed?

[aegrotatio]

What kind of scenario would we be seeing if EchoStar X would fail? Would it just cause a loss of local-into-local into smaller markets or would something worse happen?

What do you think a contingency plan would look like if EchoStar X failed completely?

 

[mdonnelly]

What kind of scenario would we be seeing if EchoStar X would fail? Would it just cause a loss of local-into-local into smaller markets or would something worse happen?

What do you think a contingency plan would look like if EchoStar X failed completely?

What if the sun didn't come up tomorrow? Do you know something about E-10 that we don't? It's one of the newest satellites, with no history of failures up to now.

 

[nelson61]

What kind of scenario would we be seeing if EchoStar X would fail? Would it just cause a loss of local-into-local into smaller markets or would something worse happen?

What do you think a contingency plan would look like if EchoStar X failed completely?

They have consistently reported in their SEC filings that a catastrophic failure of E10 would be catastrophic. This is the only satellite they refer to as mission critical.

 

[TNGTony]

No E*10 means no LIL for most of us, just that simple. Back to 1998

See ya
Tony

 

[DishSubLA]

They may, in fact, have a plan for such a failure, but it would probably involve badly compressing all channels. And they must report the worst on the filings to protect themselves from lawsuits.

 

[JohnH]

Time share. Get your locals for 10 minutes a day.

 

[whatchel1]

Is this a new game the 'WHAT IF GAME?

 

[Hemi 6.1]

What kind of scenario would we be seeing if EchoStar X would fail? ?

Why did you pick Echostar 10? Why not E*11 or E*5 ? Why E* 10

 

[JohnH]

It probably has the most channels of any satellite in existance.

 

[allargon]

Which one is Echostar X? Is that the one at 119?

n/m... I see it's at 110. (Thanks, Google!)

http://www.lyngsat.com/echo10.html

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Which one is Echostar X? Is that the one at 119?

n/m... I see it's at 110. (Thanks, Google!)

EchoStar 10 at 110.0°W - LyngSat

Nothing would happen then since E*11 is there.

 

[Acerbean]

No E*10 means no LIL for most of us, just that simple. Back to 1998

See ya
Tony

Newbie here, been on HighDefForum but haven't seen LIL, what's "LIL"?

Acer

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Locals

 

[JohnH]

Nothing would happen then since E*11 is there.

EchoStar 11 is not a spotbeam bird. EchoStar 10 is a spotbeam bird with substantially more local channels than EchoStar 11 could possibly handle.

You may be correct in saying nothing would happen, but I doubt the reason you have in mind is even close to the reality.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

You may be correct in saying nothing would happen, but I doubt the reason you have in mind is even close to the reality.

You would be right!

 

[ncted]

They have consistently reported in their SEC filings that a catastrophic failure of E10 would be catastrophic. This is the only satellite they refer to as mission critical.

I hate it when catastrophic failures are catastrophic! :yikes

Ted

 

[TNGTony]

Newbie here, been on HighDefForum but haven't seen LIL, what's "LIL"?

Acer

to Satelliteguys!

LIL stands for Local-Into-Local

It's a term that carried over from a decade ago when many satellite people had (or wanted) distant network channels instead of local channels and insisted on calling them "distant locals" LIL was a way to distinguish what kind of "locals" you meant.

See ya
Tony

 

[Acerbean]

to Satelliteguys!

LIL stands for Local-Into-Local

It's a term that carried over from a decade ago when many satellite people had (or wanted) distant network channels instead of local channels and insisted on calling them "distant locals" LIL was a way to distinguish what kind of "locals" you meant.

See ya
Tony

AH, thank you sir. I'll say this much, you guys are way more into the tech over here than HighDefForum, not a knock against HighDef or against here. I saw a dude here that had 2 Vip622 and 6 Vip 722 units. That's crazy, maybe he owns a bar??? Thanks again for the welcome.

 

[vegassatellite]

Here's some ways to deal with a loss of LIL capacity.

Shift some cities over to 148 or EA or to 118.7. They might also be able to do some SuperDish setups.

Put customers on ViP receivers and set up IPTV service for locals via broadband. This could be done pretty quickly if they set up servers and essentially had them all "uplinked" and the channels marked as hidden.

Install OTA antennas for customers in those markets unserved after the failure. ViP receivers would get the channels in just as clear or better if installed properly. Any customer not satisfied with OTA pass through on SD boxes could be upgraded to ViP receivers.

Also, some cities could be converted to MPEG4 SD locals to make more bandwidth available to add locals on ConUS transponders. Conversion of national programming to MPEG4 SD could open up bandwidth as well. They could do this in steps starting with PPV and Premiums subscribers.

I believe E12 has a bunch of West Coast spot beams that they aren't using. Repoints could take care of some markets.