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I'm speculating that the move of DTV 1R has nothing to do with BEV specially since DTV 1 has been at 72.5 (under Telesat control) for quite some time. Also, there's proabbly an agreement in place that Telesat lets DTV use the 72.5 slot for the time being, but they have to fly the satellite in...

What am I missing here? These two lines don't add up. As mentioned, 4,000 net new subs doesn't equate to a subscriber increase of 4.9%. I think DHC isn't large enough to have a significant impact on BEVs subscriber base. I think word of mouth about FTA and the poor service has more of an...

Currently I believe that Industry Canada only approves minimum 9 degree spacing for BSS satellites such as some of those used for DTH. The FCC on the other hand is working towards allows 4.5 degree spacing, hence the plans for the spacing scrooloose mentioned. That being said, I imagine it is...

I completely agree with you on the locals. But multiple spot beam satellites and the ground infrastructure required to support them would be VERY expensive. Not sure I want to be paying for that on my bill.

oksat is coorect about the 9 degree spacinf for DBS satellites...for now at least. They're trying to get the FCC to approve 4.5 degree spacing...for obvious reasons. there are no laws against providing service to the US from a Canadian slot, or vice versa. As long as the proper approvals are...

Signal strength to the west coast from 72.5 shouldn't be an issue as long as the antennas on the satellite are designed to provide coverage properly. Look angle...well there's no much that can be done about that. Really, there's at least three options: 1) Dish 1000 type set-up looking at all...

The time frame to switch to HD is anyone's best guess. Even after the FCC shuts down all SD OTA broadcasts, it has no effect on satellite or cable operators. Contents producers and broadcasters are also resisting the switch HD becasue advertisers are unwilling to pay more for advertising on an...

Wilblue uses Ka capacity on Anik F2 at 111.1 degrees. It has no impact on BEVs available transponders.

I would expect (and it has been mentioned by several others, including yourself I think) that the most likely situation will be that 81 will become a national slot with 72.5 and 92 serving east and west respectively. Because you're right, the elevation from the west coast to 72.5 is only about...

Receiver may be failing. One or both of your LNBs may have died. Switch may have failed. Cabling/connector may have gotten nicked or corroded (this is my bet)

MPEG2/4 are standards for encoding video and associated data into a bit stream. They are fairly indpendent of the modulation and forward error correction used as well as the power required. Different encoding schemes offer more efficient compressions methods than others. Higher compressions...

To get back on topic a bit, yes 8PSK provides a 50% increase in bit rate for a given symbol rate (BPSK = 1 bit per symbol, QPSK = 2 bits, 8PSK = 4 bits, etc). However, higher order modulation typically requires a higher carrier to noise per bit (C/No) threshold. So all other things considered...

Correct Diogen, Telesat wouldn't build a Nimiq without committment from BEV. 17Ghz stuff is a fair ways out since there are no licenses that have been approved for that spectrum.

How I mean to come across is that for two identical streams with identical encoding, and error correction and symbol rate, A change from QPSK to 8 PSK will give an extra 50% (I made a typo in my orginal post, 8 PSK is 3 bits/symbol, not 4) in bit rate but typically requires more power margin...

Essentially yes. There's quite a bit involved in determining overall efficiency etc. But the basics are QPSK is 2 bits per symbol and 8PSK is 3 bits per symbol. Therefore, for the same symbol rate (a symbol is basically the actual electrical waveform representation) 8PSK is 50% more efficient...

Getting "real" is that the Nimiq satellites are not on the FCCs Permitted Space Station List: http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sd/se/permitted.html Earth stations located in the US are simply not allowed to access those satellites for any service whatsoever. Period. BEV is simply following the rules...

Just a couple points of clarification here: - The licenses don't belong to Bell, they belong to Telesat - Telesat leases the Nimiq satellites to Bell - Bell can then sub-lease that capacity to Dish, CTV etc. Obviously Telesat works closely with Bell to determine what orbital positions and...

It is likely that BEVs migration to using 8psk will follow a transition to DVB-S2 from the current DVB-S. The currently used DVB-S standard doesn't use Turbo codes but rather a concatenated Viterbi-Reed Solomon error correction. DVB-S2 supports adaptive coding and modulation using a...

I don't completely agree. I imagine that the money paid out from an insurance claim doesn't cover the incremental cost of the ground infrastructure and operations of an additional co-located satellite. Nor would it necessarily cover the total cost of buying a replacement/interim backup. My...

Bev can come up with the capacity if they need to. Maybe they can ditch one of the 31-32 PPV that they have wasting space (my personal opinion after being with BEV for 4 years and never once ordering a PPV movie). Or how about the Red Carpet Vu channels. It all comes down to a basic business...