DISH NETWORK® UNVEILS BIGGEST HIGH DEFINITION UPGRADE IN TV HISTORY

**james_k_p** · 07-31-2008 10:45 AM

Wait Wait Wait.
We knew that Dish planned on doing PPV or Dish on Demand with 1080P movies. Is this announcement saying that they will have 1080p output for all HD channels? If so, that's pretty awesome.

Of course, if it's 1280x1080P as someone stated, that will be less than thrilling.

Oh yeah, and since I feel like sharing good news for me personally, my charter internet service has been upgraded in my area and I'll be dropping my 6meg adsl service for 16meg cable!
Woot! Come on Monday!!!! What a good week this has been for me in technology!

**mike123abc** · 07-31-2008 10:51 AM

Dish has the capacity to add the 36 missing channels. You notice they somehow inflated the channel count from 100 to 114? I guess they are going to count PPV that is stored on the hard drive as "channels". This is getting rediculous how they are counting channels. Next thing you know they will count the same channel uplinked to both 61.5 and 129 as 2 channels. How many event only sports channels are counted now as HD channels? They will probably be close to 100 real HD channels by the end of the year. What I mean by real channels is channels that are broadcast on Dish 24x7 in MPEG-4 HD (they may of course not have any real HD content, that is a different argument).

I wonder if the 722 will have more "channels" than the 622 since it can store more movies on the HD.

**Scott Greczkowski** · 07-31-2008 10:54 AM

Next thing you know they will count the same channel uplinked to both 61.5 and 129 as 2 channels.

Don't give them any ideas.

**Curtis0620** · 07-31-2008 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Don't give them any ideas.

I thought they already did.

**mike123abc** · 07-31-2008 11:01 AM

Well it is nice to know they will be adding more channels. They will probably be at 100 real channels by the end of the year which should cover the most popular channels in HD, and most premiums. Sports/PPV/events will have good coverage via temporary space filling in the last 50 of the 150 claim.

Dish finally learned from DIRECTV... Advertise the future capacity now to sell!

The "next 50" channels (going to 200) will be a challenge for Dish without more satellites. Depends on how much capacity on 129 is sold to Canada.

**danknapp76** · 07-31-2008 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by DodgerKing

All I can say is, competition is a wonderful thing. Image where D or E would be if only one of them existed? This is great news for subs of both providers.

Bingo!!!

**mikew** · 07-31-2008 11:03 AM

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6583116.html

Starting Aug. 1, Dish will offer Warner Bros.’ 2007 sci-fi thriller I Am Legend in 1080p resolution, for a limited-time discount of $2.99 (compared with $6.99 regularly).

For now, I Am Legend is the only 1080p title that will be available, but the DBS operator plans to add more over the next few months, corporate communications director Francie Bauer said.

I'll stick with my Blockbuster deal of $19.99/month for three at a time BD.

**AlexTheOne** · 07-31-2008 11:17 AM

"...Current DISH Network customers with MPEG-4 HD DVR receivers are being automatically upgraded and will have their systems “turbo-charged” by early August with all the features and benefits of TurboHD. DISH Network customers looking to add the industry’s best HD experience can get a “turbo-charged” HD package for as little as $10 more per month...."

How this would reflect to current subs that for example have dishHD Absolute package? I know it will be removed as the option as of tomorrow 08/01 and replaced by TurboHD metallic packages...which will be for now only offered to new subs and the old ones would be grandfathered...

By reading this text is seems E* is planning to "automatically upgrade" all of us by "turbo-charging" us to the package which would have "all the features and benefits of TurboHD"...which would include all new HD channels they add in the future and RSNs too? hmmm, yeah...right?

**GRExpert** · 07-31-2008 11:23 AM

Any info on current customers subscribing to the Turbo HD packages?

**navychop** · 07-31-2008 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by DWS44

I'll ask this question again. (Apologies if I missed the answer in this thread somewhere)

I thought it had been said many times before today that only the 722 was capable of receiveing HD VOD...does this now mean that the 622 will also be able to receive the 1080p HD VOD?!?

That was over the internet. There is another difference between the ViP622 and ViP722 beyond what someone posted earlier. The chipset in the ViP722 is better and can better support HD VOD over the internet. This new way will also send it over satellite and all MPEG-4 DVRs will be able to receive it. I suspect the DVR feature will be required, as it may download in spurts, and faster than is watched.

Originally Posted by butzchan

How is this "big" news if I have a VIP211 and VIP222? 150 HD channels...LMAO. 100 HD channels for me means I receive under 50, so 150 = under 75. Don't drink the Kool-Aid folks!

You still come out ahead, don't you? You get more channels, even if you can't get all the channels they advertise.