[P Smith]

would ditch the aging DTV hardware

You don't know how is complicated DTV System Info vault ... no way to combine it with DVB-S what is using by dish, I see the merge as wet nightmare's for two big IT groups

 

[P Smith]

You are missing big chunk of the merging process... encoding, System Tables, EPG and such things
I mean dish HW will not accept the part of DTV stream
Dishes [LNBF] , switches, splitters are NOT compatible too

 

[P Smith]

Bringing an additional 8 million customers onboard with the synergies that exist

It's pretty easy to type here ! But solve such nightmare with a merge of two big companies in reality ?
I wouldn't offer such job position to you

 

[P Smith]

I'll bet you any amount of money you want Dish won't be bigger than Directv in two years.

Would you fulfil your bet, it the company would merge as a part of dish or if DTV will going bankrupt ?

 

[P Smith]

Can you name one where DISH/Echostar does not already own or have rights to a similar patent and needs DIRECTV's technology?

One of those - AMC. Advanced Modulation and Coding, using for A3 transponders mostly for Ka sats, but they're using it on a few tpns of Ku sats.
Second (by TiVo, but DTV have an agreement of using it) - indexing of video PID files. They making I-frame marks instead of harsh time marks by dish indexing (remember dish litigation ? failed!); trick play is intensively using the marks

 

[P Smith]

developed their own

I knew that from its files not from press-release. It was very bad solution for smooth trick play, for sure.

 

[P Smith]

although doing so would be optimal versus the current situation.

I hope FCC and FTC would be on our side - customers - and will kill another monopoly what would be happy to milk more money from us !
You're posing here as a pure protagonist for big company; perhaps being a wealthy shareholder?

 

[P Smith]

Sometime later, when we've returned to the same location the previous locals were either gone or the signal was too low to be stable, yet another time they're receivable again.

All sat's stationary keeping system keep it "wobbling" in some boundaries. It cannot point antennas steady due orbital mechanics and sat's fuel limit.

 

[P Smith]

I'm told that DISH's current receivers can work with either DISH or DTV dishes/sats based on the software they're running

By whom ? When ? here

 

[P Smith]

DISH hardware is compatible

I wouldn't be so sure - there is at least one huge heavy roadblock - whole conditional access path, what included internal parts inside of SoC.
It's big BGA chip inside of IRD

 

[P Smith]

Dish's last couple generations of hardware uses SoCs that support SWM, new firmware (and obviously a new dish) would make them able to get programming from Directv's satellites.

I did specifically dig into relevant part of dish HW what does prevent accept blind technically clueless "source" of such misleading info. He is usually non proficient in HW aspects and just parroting rumors from his close source from top managers, not engineers, nor understanding technical aspects. It was before, it's happening now - he didn't change. He would tell anything what would attract an attention to his person or his site

 

[P Smith]

to come more from basic reverse engineering

At least it's real basis for do discuss possibilities of HW vs what that person, who are technically illiterate and totally relay to words of someone who are far away from HW Dept, perhaps rumoring itself or passing wishful thinking.

 

[P Smith]

To stir the side discussion down to functioning of [Broadcom] chip's... well known tuner chip BCM4500 have "cuts" eg revisions what are different, some of them support 8PSK with Trellis turbocoding, some - DSS. Wanna talk about SoC cuts now?

 

[P Smith]

Well, take in account current A3 [ACM] support for DVB-S2[D] signaling and you will have a headache (not for harsh though)

 

[P Smith]

4505 and 4506 support both according to the listing on Broadcom's site.

True, but in reality, you must order by specifying certain cut, according your specs.

 

[P Smith]

Not unless you can provide specific and authoritative details

Go to Broadcom, make a request, get it approved, sign NDA and KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT !

 

[P Smith]

Those features would still be in the chip

According field tests/attempts to employ same FW (for dish or dss or dvb) this is not correct - features was different and did tie to three letters (cut/die version), like P20 or P21 or P30 printed on that chips.

 

[P Smith]

I'm still very VERY skeptical about ability dish HW support DTV conditional access, especially counting the "latest" dish DVR [H3] designed 10 years ago and pretty sure - that time dish wouldn't pay for "universal" chips [SoC] eg for DTV/BCM IP rights to decode DTV channels

Highly Unlike !

 

[P Smith]

That's a 10+ year old chip, irrelevant to the discussion about modern 8-16 tuner DVRs.

You still missing a point of DTV/News Datacom IP related to DTV HW conditional access,
dish cannot employ now nor 10 years ago any part of DTV conditional access, nor BCM !

 

[P Smith]

duh ! 💩 👺