Kevin, I'm confused. I thought you needed spectrum space and the ability to make use of it, and that for sattelite providers currently the latter is the limitation (not the former). As a consequence, more sats means the ability to make use of more of their alloted spectrum space, and hence more data transfer capability. Is this not correct? Also, if it is correct, and if some of the current satelites broadcast both HD and SD, then might not launching new SD sattelites free up more bandwidth for HD by reducing the need to broadcast SD on the current HD/SD satellites?
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Kevin, I'm confused. I thought you needed spectrum space and the ability to make use of it, and that for sattelite providers currently the latter is the limitation (not the former). As a consequence, more sats means the ability to make use of more of their alloted spectrum space, and hence more data transfer capability. Is this not correct? Also, if it is correct, and if some of the current satelites broadcast both HD and SD, then might not launching new SD sattelites free up more bandwidth for HD by reducing the need to broadcast SD on the current HD/SD satellites?