Dishnet satellite resolution?

[menace]

Does anyone know what the broadcast resolution is for dishnetwork? Bitrates even? Thanks!

[WeedVender]

DVD standard

[gmatov]

Menace,
Try this as a little math problem. A letter to 2600, Hacker's Quarterly, proposed capturing the entire signal from a dish to hard drive, giving an example of 8 hours of ALL the channels to either a 40 or 80 gig drive and playing it back through the dish box to watch the stuff you couldn't originally, because you can only do anything one channel at a time with a dish. If you could cap it all and play it back 50-100-150 times, you could watch everything in the Top 50, Top 100, Top150 lineups. You can't watch one, record another.
I believe the guy assumed 10 megabits per second for ALL the channels. So, if you divide that by 150 channels, figure the bitrate per channel.
It's one reason I'm going back to cable, as well as Comcast bought ATT broadband, and I just got a letter that informed me my rate is going up 15 bucks a month, unless I get at least Basic Cable TV.
Geez, I'm in a quandary. Should I do this or not. Very tough decision. Besides which, YOU can get a FREE 4 room system installed, but I have to pay 30 bucks to get a new remote for the system I've owned for 8 years, or, they'll sell me a new receiver for only a hundred.
Hey, that's a pretty good rant'n'rave, no?

[menace]

Interesting mental exercise but each channel would have to be decoded before it could be watched right? I guess if you could capture the signal raw and do your own conversion... but why bother--they repeat everything so much that everything comes on eventually

[gmatov]

No, you wouldn't be doing your own conversion. I don't know how,without the box, you would do that. The purpose of the exercise was to cap it all then run the disk output back through the dish box as a time shift, using the box and its remote to watch or record a program that you couldn't because it conflicted with a prog that you really, really had to see. These situations do pop up on occasion. Tivo's no help, either, because you are still limited to 1 channel at a time, unless you have more than 1 dish receiver, and the antics you have to go through to get a standalone Tivo to channel change, and record, are just ridiculous.
I'll have to look up the article and see what else it said. It was a proposal, and I don't know if anyone has tried it. Have to try to find out for my own curiousity.
BTW, the exercise was to figure the bitrate per channel. And the total thruput would, I guess, be ALL the output of the satellite, as even the PPVs are transmitted all the time. So, now, are we talking 500 channels to divide the total signal by to get bitrate. With the compression scheme they use, I haven't the foggiest what you would come up with.