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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."

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