RadioDoc
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Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | So let me get this straight...
The FCC reallocates the UHF TV band, moves television stations to below 700 MHz, and then Echostar bids on a part of it for...
...television.
What is wrong with this picture?
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Well, it was the FCC, not Echostar, that created a block useful only for one-way services... |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to RadioDoc
yeah I'm glad I'm not alone in being amused by that. |
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RadioDoc
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Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
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They are useful for more than just one-way depending on what you want to do. Don't blindly believe what pundits pund. I would imagine that someone could figure out something more useful to do with 6 MHz at 722 MHz than making it back into TV channel 56.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Hm, I don't know much about wireless broadcasting, I just made the assumption based on the fact that block E only held one block of spectrum, while all others included two... though I suppose Video on Demand would require at least some of that to be set aside for upstream, so they can tell what video it is you are demanding... |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
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Yea, "analysts" are mostly clueless; paid to say something about some company every once in awhile in order to churn the companies' stock, and generate commissions ofr their employers/clients.
Maybe Dish wants it for a return channel. They have plenty of downstream bandwidth. They could do one-way satellite broadband. Latency would be much improved compared with Wildblue and Direcway. |
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macaholic
Premium
join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY
1 edit | reply to RadioDoc
perhaps an effort to promote an infant technology that has promise with some chance for refinement..
edit: and hopefully not crappy small tube tv..... bleeeh.
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