norm360 said:From a business perspective paying to for space on 2 satellites as opposed to 1 doesn't make much sense.
What's the thinking behind this?
woborny said:Spain used to have two competing satellite TV systems - Via Digital and Canal Digital - the former on 30 west, the latter on 19 east.
When they merged they left them on both satellites.
But why they are no only on one but on both no idea - perhaps they just dont want to send engineers arounf to move dishes from one to the other - or they are locked into long term contracts.
Greg2k said:CANAL+ does not offer HD programming via the Hispasat 30W beam, and although there has been no confirmation from the company, the word on the street is that Hispasat is costing them a fortune to keep supporting. The only reason they still do is that there is a significant enough number of subscribers who can only access CANAL+ via this satellite. Ideally they would start to phase it out and figure out how to cost-effectively move everybody currently on Hispasat to Astra 19.2E. By having the HD channels on Astra they are making a very clear statement that Astra is their priority and that Hispasat is something they'd like to get rid of.
Correct, I meant to say that supporting BOTH Hispasat and Astra is costly. I agree with you that Hispasat would probably be a cheaper option in terms of carriage, but the majority of CANAL+ subscribers were already on Astra before the decision to take HD off of Hispasat, so my guess is they did some math and came to the conclusion that phasing-out Hispasat was the wiser choice, since this would require less dish repositioning.iandoh said:I just can't imagine that Hipsasat would be expensive to buy carriage on. It must be desperate for clients as there's so little there and so few dishes pointed there. Compared to Astra it would be pittence
iandoh said:I just can't imagine that Hipsasat would be expensive to buy carriage on. It must be desperate for clients as there's so little there and so few dishes pointed there. Compared to Astra it would be pittence
It was because some years ago it was 2 companies that merged into one.the one c+transmitting from astra the other via digital from hispasat,so maybe for them to get the ok from eu they had to stay at both positions.if it was for the Pyrenees ,think of Greece: much more mountainous county and then we would have to have coverage from say 5-6 different positions,something that is not happening