Dish to expand HD

**Slamminc11** · 01-07-2008 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by skottey

If they want to reach 100 channels they need to be adding a whole lot more than 24 channels. Their math is fuzzy.

Didn't Direct promise 100 by the end of 2007? I guess they were lying too, cause they didn't achieve that promise (again) either!

**JohnL** · 01-07-2008 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by Slamminc11

A ton, really?!?!?!

Slamminc,

Maybe the OP is using Dish's Fuzzy Math. The Average American Citizen weighs about 200 pounds, this means Dish only has to lose 100 Subscribers to lose a TON of subscribers

John

**Hemi 6.1** · 01-07-2008 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by JohnL

Slamminc,

Maybe the OP is using Dish's Fuzzy Math. The Average American Citizen weighs about 200 pounds, this means Dish only has to lose 100 Subscribers to lose a TON of subscribers

John

Your math is fuzzy as well since 200x10 = 2000(a Ton) So the real answer would be 10 customers.

**jacmyoung** · 01-07-2008 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Dgenx321

What a joke.

Dish better be lightinhg up USA and SCFI in the next week or they're gonna lose a ton of customers.

DirecTV is raking them over the coals and last years Q3 numbers show that.

Just you know the last Q3 numbers had nothing to do with HD because D* did not have the new HD's at that time.

There is reason to believe the two HD's you mentioned will be added the same time the $10 HD pack is in place, in the same press release to make it more juicy then it really is.

**nlk10010** · 01-07-2008 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by jacmyoung

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There is reason to believe the two HD's you mentioned will be added the same time the $10 HD pack is in place, in the same press release to make it more juicy then it really is.

Well that would be encouraging, if true. What is the reason?

**LER** · 01-07-2008 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by patrickandsarah

Yay Austin ... now just left wondering when.

Me too!

I'm glad to see it on the list

Now, the other question is will it launch with or without KXAN-DT (LIN TV)?

LER

**Tom Bombadil** · 01-07-2008 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by riffjim4069

So much for quality in picture. I wish my eyes weren't 20/20 because there is nothing better on the market than Dish Network's 622/722. Sorry Charlie, but your visually enabled customers can't take yet another year of DishHD-Lite.

Off to FiOS I go...three days and counting.

That's my #1 criteria too. My 18 month Dish contract expires in 4 weeks. Been with E* since '97.

But unless there is hope for an improvement in HD PQ, I'm ready to go elsewhere.

How's D*'s HD PQ these days?

**mike123abc** · 01-07-2008 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by rwjga

The DPP44 would only have room for 4 LNB's or does the "118.7 NC "in his message mean not connected

Yes the NC means not connected. I like to be able to pick up all the satellites. I still have 2 superdishes, one at 121 and one at 105 not connected. 148 is also not connected. But, if anything exciting happens I can run and connect a satellite... It has been a few years since anything exciting has happened. The 118.7 is very useful for peaking the Dish 1000+, but other than that I do not connect the LNB to the switch.

It is possible to have 5 satellites at once, I have done it with a combination of DPP44 and DP21s. Dish at one time talked of a DPP64 switch, but they never came out with it.

I have a couple single point dishes on the roof ready to point at 77 or 86.5 if needed at a moments notice

**stuart628** · 01-07-2008 04:40 PM

I would have to assume these channels are coming soon! as they are talking about channel packages that start feb 1st. I am just excited as I have been wanting Cleveland to come on line for awhile now and it seem as though its going to happen and soon!