I just got done chatting with customer service at dish network. I was looking at their turboHD service. The guy told me they don't offer local HD service for this area. I asked if I could receive a feed for the "Big 4" from other markets. He said I could, but I'd need another dish.
Does anyone use TurboHD? That seems strange.
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TvBoy: Damn,
For as long as it took to get that thing launched, I was pretty disappointed. Not that impressive. Better than the last set, but not worth the price paid.
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Whoever you talked to didn't
Whoever you talked to didn't know what he was talking about.
I've been doing a lot of research on Dish. You can now get most everything they offer with one Dish "antenna" if you have a line of sight to pick up their 3 main satellites to the South or East.
Unofficial channel list that shows which channels are on which satellites:
http://www.dishuser.org/dishlist.php
Green Bay channels WBAY (ABC), WFRV (CBS), WGBA (NBC), and WLUK (Fox) are all available in HD on satellite 61.5.
Main Southern satellites are 110, 119, and 129.
Main Eastern satellites are 61.5, 72.7, and 77.
You used to have to put up 2 antenna dishes to pick up HD programming- 1 dish for 110 & 119 and 1 dish for 61.5.
When 129 went live, you could then get 1 satellite dish that would allow you to pick up 110, 119, and 129 (129 does not have as many locals as 61.5).
Their new "Eastern Arc" dish allows you to pick up 61.5, 72.7, and 77 (and therefore the Green Bay locals in HD) all using 1 dish.
Model # on the single Southern dish is 1000.2.
Model # on the new single Eastern dish is 1000.4.
(Note: those model numbers are for the dish "antennas" themselves, not the receivers- same receivers that work on the Southern satellites also work on the Eastern satellites- current receivers that can pick up HD all start with "Vip" in their model numbers- like Vip622 and Vip722.)