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    IKS66 Member
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    DN shutting down SD/MPEG 2 and going full MPEG4/HD only?

    i've read several places that DN is going full HD and shutting down their SD side as of may 31st 2015. is this true or not? as of 5-27 services have stopped functioning properly on this end if you know what i mean. please someone tell me its not true and this is just a strange ECM hit because buying all new equipment to go IPTV or HD sat is not in my budget right now.

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    Moderator whynot's Avatar
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    no not true if you have mpeg4 sd box your good like dreamlink t4 sd box will it go all once on 31 i dont know time will tell hope that it will drop slow and that date could be wrong

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    IKS66 Member
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    i have a viewsat platinum and that pretty much makes me screwed right?

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    IKS66 Junior Member
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    And I have SATZEN guess Its NO Good as well...

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    Yes it is true. Not a rumor. That said, to this day not everyone has a new enough receiver from chuck. Those will need swapped out. Don't know if that has started yet but last time they did a receiver swap to upgrade customers it took a couple years. Even then not all customers swapped. I personally know of a few people that are fighting a receiver swap because they own their receivers and now a days you have to lease them. They don't feel they should be forced to increase their bill having to pay receiver rent.

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    IKS66 Senior Member
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    so why do still install 322 dish receivers if this is true oh and 311's

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    IKS66 Junior Member
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    I have birds 110 and 119 with a dreamlink HD would I be ok? Would I need to rescan all birds? I ask because I've been down for about a week now. Thanks guys.

    Also would iks66 give full support for all the new HD channels?

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    The change is not from sd to hd just from mpeg2 to mpeg4. Yes you will be alright with that receiver.

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    IKS66 Member
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    I heard they will be doing the turbo thing too. Older receivers will be affected like the older Pansats and Viewsats and other mpeg2 only receivers. I have heard about this for a few years now. All the time it seems to be "Next Year". LOL

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    i dont mean to hi jack but a sonicview premier and elite, they would go dark should wouldmt they.


 
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