[CDHart]

Thanks for posting this -- it makes sense. I've often wondered if our Dish satellite could provide 2-way communication, which in a sense, it aleady does. If you want to order a movie, you just key it in using the remote. It wouldn't be difficult, I'm sure, to enable it to broadcast whatever is said in the house. (Now donning tinfoil hat!)

Carolyn

[CindyDawg]

We need to starting practicing up on sign language, I guess :')

[Junior]

When you order a movie, you do it through a phone line. The dishes cannot broadcast back to the satellite. If you don't want your dish to pick up what you are saying, disconnect the phone line in the back.

[ovrtaxt]

Your dish does not have a transponder (an outgoing signal.) Your box has a phone line in the back for outgoing info.

[unixfox]

Transmission with a Dish netowrk satellite dish is impossible. One has to have an uplink transmitter in order to transmit to the satellite. Your receiver is hooked up to your phone line, when you order a movie it dials out for verification.

It used to be that you could dial out and let the order take place, unhook the phone line and it would not show up on your bill. However..I wouldn't know anything about that!

[Smogger]

No your current DBS system cannot transmist information back, unless you have the phoneline plugged in.