How much room will be left for other HD after the new 17 HD channels are launched on 8/1. How many more HD channels can they fit?
With Voom's removal and these new channels, it is an even swap; no need to worry!
How much room will be left for other HD after the new 17 HD channels are launched on 8/1. How many more HD channels can they fit?
As much as they can COMPRESS things.
I do believe that they have more room after that as well.![]()
The question at hand is how much more? Given that there are 23 temps up, and 17 are coming, this seems to indicate there is at least room for 6 more. But how much beyond 6? 10 total? 15 total remaining spaces (including space made from the HD MPEG2 Transition)? More?
Also, what is Dish's plan to add bandwidth (for all customers, 129 and 61.5), besides the HD transition and the FEC change on E11? The SD MPEG 4 transition will take years.
Sorry if this has been asked before. What are the new channels that will become available on 8/1. Thanks.
I think that it will be really interesting to see how Dish reclaims space that is currently used to carry both SD and HD locals when the Digital Cutover happens next year and thousand of Analog SD channels go off the air.
Is dish just going to send out a MPEG2 simulcast of the HD channel to customers? (I think so) That means carrying the same channel twice. Are they going to try to get everyone moved over to MPEG4 hardware? (Eastern Arc)
Looks to be an interesting next year or two.
All in all I would estimate capacity for HD additions beyond the current crop of 20 or so at about 40 more. Maybe then Dish will really be at 100 full time HD channels.
The shortage of capacity will now fall on the western satellites if E6 and E8 make it over to EA and successfully start service (given Dish's luck lately it might be tempting fate). With 16 TPs at 72.7 they could replicate the SD from 110/119 in MPEG-4/8PSK. This would leave them with whatever capacity they can use (how much is Mexico how much is US allocated?) for more LiL HD cities or national HD.
129 is booking up. I count 13 TPs in use now for national HD. After Ciel-2 goes up it is estimated that Dish could possibly have access to up to 16 national TPs assuming all the markets currently served go to spot beam and then the spot beam TPs are reused for Canada.
So, assume 3 more TPs on 129, 1-3 possibly on 110 with E11 and the conversion to MPEG-4 of the existing HD they have 4-6 more HD TPs capacity left out west.
EA - up to 16 possibly (assuming split with Mexico like Canada) free or 112 HD channels max
WA - up to 6 possibly free or 42 HD channels max
Given the descrepencies between EA and WA one assumes they will use some of the 77 capacity for locals...
All in all I would estimate capacity for HD additions beyond the current crop of 20 or so at about 40 more. Maybe then Dish will really be at 100 full time HD channels.
There are a few problems with that calculation. Not with the calc itself, but in assumptions. First, who knows if the Eastern Arc will be built? Also, no one is pointed at 72.7 or 77 now. As such, 61.5 is the limiting factor. It will take a lot of time to repoint us at 119, 110 and 61.5 to the full EA. Also, 129 might have more room, but I don't think they would add stuff there unless all HD customers could get it.
Therefore, there are 2 calculations for remaing HD capacity for probably the next year: space on 61.5+110+119 and space on 129+110+119. The former has more constraints, it seems. Perhaps the remaining internation customers at 61.5 could be repointed to 118.7.
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