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To: Dr. Harvey who wrote (541)	1/4/1998 8:09:00 PM
From: Dom Sartorio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1394

Re: Futuretrak scanner.. Haven't seen this before.. Looks like a product that could save the day for DISH if it is indeed running out of channel space on I and II, but even so the solution could be messy.. If DISH has to start offering channels from Echo III, then they'd need to do the following: (1) partner with Futuretrak (or a competing company, or develop this technology in-house), and sell the new receivers as part of its standard offering, and once this is done, (2) offer "upgrades" to existing customers... this could be huge, requiring potential visits to over one-million-plus households to upgrade dishes. I'm sure the time and labor involved could seriously hurt the bottom line, unless they charged a lot of money for these upgrades. And if they did charge lots of money, I'm sure the DTV marketers would have a field day. Yuck! Does anybody see a better workaround for this? DOM

To: Dr. Harvey who wrote (541)	1/4/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: Jeffrey B	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1394

Dr. Harvey, the product you are referring to, is a self tracking dish with an intended purpose of maintaining a constant alignment from a moving object, such as buses, trucks,RV's and boats. Basically, you program the satellite you need to track, and it keep the dish in alignment at all times. It's possible, with some redesign, basically with software and integration with the DISH equipment, this may be a viable option.There is another company building the samed type of products as well datrondbs.com Currently,Directv has program with commercial aircraft companies to use this technology to have DTV for in-flight viewing - Jeff