What is the latest on Nimiq 4?

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Prior to today, I was just getting Transponder 3 here with a 90-cm dish. It was coming from the old Nimiq 2 satellite. It too has disappeared (probably switched over to Nimiq 4). So long BellTV. Over to Star Choice.
 
N4 won't make much difference anyway. All it will do is replace N2 and the junkyard satellite at 82. That will make the service more reliable and allow EV to start using MPEG4 but little else. EV is a long way from deploying MPEG4 due to the large number of 9200s and 6100s still in use. N2 will be freed up but is probably needed at 91 to replace the junkyard sat there. The big difference will be when N5 is deployed, giving EV 16 extra transponders at 72.7. That is scheduled for 2009 but could be pushed back.
 
Actually the deal was that Dish would lease half the capacity of the N5, not all of it. It sounds like as part of that exchange, BEV will get cheaper pricing on MPEG4 receivers, so perhaps this helps fund the switch to MPEG4, eventually.

-Mike
 
Very true, it is quite popular for us westerners to go to Arizona,, considering it is straight south, and no need to change our bio clocks. If these people were really serious about getting TV, I hate to say it but they would look at *C.
 
not necessarily. dish network in the U.S uses bigger dishes that can have as many as 3 or 4 LNB's on one dish
 
Don't know, but his signature says he is testing out SV8000HD so that is probably what he used.
 
Just wondering if anyone knows their plans with the 16 transponders on that satellite.

Also, customers will need a new dish. Will it be the Dish 1000, 1000.2, other ?

Thanks.
 
Will Nimiq4 be "more centered" on Canada, and less so on the USA? I don't see a business reason to have a footprint that includes much more than Canada (other than re-use by another company later in the bird's life). I'm thinking Bell isn't particularly officially interested in US gray-market accounts, or are they?
 
Please keep on topic. You can by all means start a new thread about the loss of signal in the US and the impact it may have.
 
No one will confirm it because none of us work for BEV and they havent released a statement. Its all pure speculation and based on what we have read in newspapers and other industry based websites.
 
TP 3 is still coming in at a high strength here in Nashville, TN. TP2 has however gone now.
 
From my understanding of the latest development read in this forum, all 32 transponders will be leased to Dish & DirecTV. No more for Bell.
 
It is Dish Networks that has leased half the transporders on N5. I have not heard about the DirectTV deal.
 
I knew something was afoot last Sunday when channel disappeared suddenly, but then everything magically reappeared next day.
I took a quick transponder survey and the ones I usually "saw" came in around
48- 56%.

Now with this realignment I only have #2 hitting at a higher 68%.

I'd buy a HUGE dish ...if that is what it took...but I guess that is a pipe dream. I will wait a month and hopefully things might change:rolleyes:

And I have HD.....:mad:
No more Hockey Night In Canada

BTW. I am east of LAX, Riverside CA.
 
I would say stronger signal. Better resistance to rain fade (great for the west coast). But until then can do 8PSK for us, I cannot see to much improvement. But now they have a bird it would seem firing well on all 32 TP's. This might mean a lot as well. Bell is promising more channels due to N4. Have to wait and see.

I will let the experts comment from here...
 
Nimiq 4 will just be picking up the Nimiq 2 channels, unless they do a reshuffle which is not expected.

Nimiq 5 is what you want to keep an eye on, but its still over a years and a bit away.

So the answer is no, it will not help.
 
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