Dish Network Retailer Chat Recap - July 10, 2007

**wainwright** · 07-12-2007 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by NightRyder

Wainwright: Thanks for the answer to my answer.

Guess I should have made my post a little more obvious....

NightRyder

Sorry about that - I read it as a question and didn't realize it was a link... My bad.

Wayne

**NightRyder** · 07-12-2007 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by wainwright

Sorry about that - I read it as a question and didn't realize it was a link... My bad.

Wayne

Not a problem.

BTW: If no one has said it yet:

Welcome to Satellite Guys Wainwright!

NightRyder

**dapole** · 07-14-2007 07:39 AM

the more coming in mid sept, is a sweet bonus to all of this. maybe we will see some scifi hd, usa hd, fx hd, and tbs hd?

**MikeD-C05** · 07-14-2007 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by dapole

the more coming in mid sept, is a sweet bonus to all of this. maybe we will see some scifi hd, usa hd, fx hd, and tbs hd?

IF they would add those channels I would really like that. I actualy watch those channels quite a lot. The other channels they will add in August are nice but they aren't as popular as the ones you mention they might add.

**pdxsam** · 07-14-2007 01:54 PM

Sci-fi and USA -HD were announced for early 2008 I believe.

I think the only other addition in September we'll probably see is TBS-HD.

Well and History but that's already been announced.

**Jeff_R** · 07-14-2007 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil

Unfortunately, I must disagree.

If one could compare the same program recorded off of the old HDNET from the summer of 2005 vs a current MPEG4 channel, you would see a significant fall-off in PQ. We're not talking about something being 99% as good, I'd say the current MPEG4 channels are about 75%-80% as good as the old HDNET.

Ummm...HDNet isn't currently an MPEG4 channel. It's been downrezzed to 1440x1080, and I'm not sure of the bandwidth, however there is no MPEG4 HDNet to compare to the 2005 HDNet on E*. I agree that the current MPEG2 channels don't look as sharp as they once did, however the channels that have converted over to MPEG4 look better than they did at MPEG2.

**Smith, P.** · 07-14-2007 10:41 PM

"than they did at MPEG2" - when ? That would BIG difference if you telling about last year or a few years back !

**Tom Bombadil** · 07-16-2007 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by Jeff_R

Ummm...HDNet isn't currently an MPEG4 channel. It's been downrezzed to 1440x1080, and I'm not sure of the bandwidth, however there is no MPEG4 HDNet to compare to the 2005 HDNet on E*. .

I didn't say that HDNET was now MPEG4. I was comparing present MPEG4 channels to the mid-2005 HDNET MPEG2 picture quality standard and stating that I feel they fall substantially short of that standard.

**Poke** · 07-17-2007 12:17 PM

Yeah well until the Networks gets all of their hardware on MPEG4 that is when things will be allot better. For now many of them have not made the switch yet.