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Joris Springer
Film Handler

Posts: 83
From: Almere, Flevoland, The Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2007

posted 10-01-2011 06:17 PM

After today I am personally so fed up with the special satellite feeds for special events like concerts/opera's and musicals.

Today I had to set up the satellite reciever to recieve the special event feed of Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall in London. And yes, I am convinced it is going to be amazing and I am glad we are going to show it.

But please, companies that transmit it, just put it on a channel that is used by other companies as well (make an event channel or something), don't put it on an exotic frequency that is not standard (or just encrypt it so we need a CAM card or something for it) and please, provide the correct information of the codec/frequency etc etc etc and don't give us incorrect information all the time that will make us doubt our equipment because we don't get any signal.

I love the fact that digital cinema enables us to show that kind of performances but please distributors, come up with a standard that everybody can use, please use 1 or 2 satellites with a fequency/channel that stays the same all the time. Because right now, I am not a fan, not even a little bit of the way I need to set it up.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-01-2011 06:31 PM

Yeah! I'm on my third satellite and my second polarity/transponder change inside of a year.

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Aaron Mehocic
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 804
From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-01-2011 06:38 PM

Keep dreaming gentlemen. There is no "standard" and there never will be with anything related to digital for some time (if ever).

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Jeff Kane
Film Handler

Posts: 74
From: corpus christi, tx
Registered: Jun 2011

posted 10-04-2011 02:45 PM

Transponder time is expensive (especially so in Europe!) They'd have to lease the bulk of a transponder's time to be able to pre-empt other feeds/services and not 'move around'. If they only distribute programming sporadically, that's not cost effective. As an occasional user? They get capacity wherever it happens to be free and be thankful if it's on the same bird!

Either you get up there and realign, you go to a motorized dish, or you look like a CIA listening post with scores of fixed dishes aimed at various birds.

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Jake Spell
Master Film Handler

Posts: 294
From: Johns Island SC
Registered: May 2009

posted 10-06-2011 01:10 AM

I think Carmike is doing the latter. I was one one of their building doing A/C work and saw that there were to 6 dishes. Their latest two are Hughes Net dishes with a Deluxe sticker on them.

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