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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
- Subject: Re: Why is EVERYTHING good in the Western sats!
- Date: 24 Dec 92 06:09:20
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Dec24060920@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- In-reply-to: phil@phunt.MV.COM's message of 23 Dec 92 14:45:26 GMT
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- My guess was that the reason all the cable services are moving
- over to the sats aroung G1 and G5, and the reason new hi-power
- sats are going there, is because of the relatively-recent (I think)
- proliferation of multi-feed dishes. What the cable companies want
- is a single fixed dish with 5 or 6 feedhorns that will pick up all
- their programming. Putting all the cable services on sats that
- are close together makes this easier.
-
- Why do it out west ? I don't know. Cable companies may not care :
- they can either find a good site or cut down trees to make one.
- It may have just been chance : the timetable for old satellite death
- or the existance of open slots in the arc for the new hi-power
- birds may just by chance have only left the G1-G5 locality open.
-
- On the other hand, maybe the long term plan is to introduce
- new sat services like direct-broadcast or HDTV to the East coast
- first, since theirs so many people living there. If that was
- the case, then moving the old cable feeds west may just be
- a clearing of the arc for these new services.
-
- Wild speculation, all of it !
-
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- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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