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Found the full version of Chucks 2009 N3 Plan :
"In last weeks call to investors Charlie Ergen said that only the HD channels would be secured in the 1st qtr of 2009 with the remaining channels being secured in blocks during 2009 and all the channels being secured by the end of the 3rd qtr so they won't see any major change in piracy levels until the 4th qtr.

So we are talking next fall before they can get new cards to all the subs. In the mean time they will secure all of the hd channels and then go to work on securing the international channels next.

He also said there wasn't a piracy problem until spring of 2007... and he then blamed their 'security vendor' for the delay in updating their security however he failed to mention that he owns 50% of the 'security vendor' so that would make it 50% his fault.

Just for the record, this is the fifth year FTA receivers have been getting his channels for free so the 'security problem' happened in the spring five years ago and not last year... it was last year when they finally started doing something about the 'four-year old' problem. I guess we can blame this delay on the 'security vendor' too.

When asked if they had budgeted enough money for mpeg4 boxes Charlie went around and around and never actually answered the question. In last month's Charlie chat he admitted that the decision had been made that each house hold would only get one mpeg4 upgrade receiver for free however it is not exactly clear when this 'upgrade' is to take place.

It looks like most of SD channels will be on the unsecured end of the stream for another six to eight months.
It also means that there will be continues attacks of counter measures."

Exactly as I mentioned awhile back. And was told to go bleep myself. DN has to worry about each quarters profit margins and please investors. It is just not feasable for them to switch everything over because of cost involved and their inability to convince the board that spending so much money on piracy with encyption implementation will show gains above their losses. Who say's that if they were to implement a foolproof encyption technology that we would all turn to them for subscription service. The proof is not there that their subscriptions would increase that dramatically to recoup losses spent to combat piracy. We could all go to cable or direct TV. Of course they will focus on HD and International programming, but hopefully they will shake their heads and come to their senses about their other programming. The longer they delay the clearer the picture will be.

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This is good news if and only if the development of N3 keys continues apace without the imminent threat of ** move to N3. Their move to it is inevitable as *** has already implemented it. Hopefully the coders will continue with their N3 development - they do have the *** signal to work with - then when the full implementation occurs everybody will be prepared - and maybe if ** knows that N3 has been "keyed" they won't even implement it to avoid the impact on their bottom line.