http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20203973 en Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:56:12 EDT Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:56:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20205876 macaholic : 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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"You don't subject minority rights to a referendum." Justice Minister Irwin Cotler of Canada]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20205876 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:47:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20204185 PDXPLT : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20204185 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:44:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20204127 EPS : 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...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20204127 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:31:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20204043 RadioDoc : 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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Toolmaster of La Grange.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20204043 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:12:57 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20203986 Karl Bode : yeah I'm glad I'm not alone in being amused by that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20203986 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20203984 EPS : Well, it was the FCC, not Echostar, that created a block useful only for one-way services...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20203984 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:03:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20203973 RadioDoc : 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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Toolmaster of La Grange.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20203973 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:00:49 EDT