DISH NETWORK® UNVEILS BIGGEST HIGH DEFINITION UPGRADE IN TV HISTORY

[DodgerKing]

I'll repeat what I said in another thread. RSN's are not national. So Dish has said 150 NATIONAL HD's by years end. DirecTV has only said 130 HD channels (conveniently leaving out national).......

I'll repeat what is in my sig. On Direct, RSNs are national. I can watch YES, NESN, my two RSNs, and all of the other full time HD RSNs. Yes, I can also watch pro sports on thiem as well. Since I and anyone else whom chooses to pay can do thes same, that makes them national.



I do agree that if an RSN is part time (game only) and their is no way to watch the games outside of that particular market because they do not offer the sports packages, then they should not be counted as national.

[KAB]

61 inch Sammy sitting about 8 feet away

You'll see it...but try to make it 10 ft.

[Scott Greczkowski]

While nothing is official here is what I have heard.

1080p will only be output from HDMI outputs, this is needed for HDCP protection as required by the studios. You will not be able to save the content or move it to an external hard drive.

I dont see why everyone is upset as I personally do not know of a 1080p set out there that does not have HDMI.

I dont expect Dish or DirecTV to release the actual resolution they transmit at, they are just going to say its comperable to Blu-ray. I guess your eyes will be the ultimate judge.

As far as why only one movie this month in 1080p... Rome was not built in a day. Consider this to be a space race between Dish Network and DirecTV, except instead of trying to be the first to get to the moon, this is a race to be the first to have 1080p content. More 1080p is coming, this one movie was put up there so that they could say they did it first.

As for the 114 channels, yeah I saw that and groaned as well. I guess one positive is when they do move RSN's to be 24/7 channels they wont inflate the number of channels available again since those "channels" were already counted.

I applaud this announcement, this means more HD no matter what company you do business with. and more HD is good.

[hammerdown]

From what I'm reading, the BCM7412 chipset in the 722 doesn't support 1080p.


Broadcom BCM7412 Product Brief

Wouldn't that just wad Charlie's panties
No way for 7.1/DTS/DTS-MA/DolbyTrueHD audio possible either (like bluray).

[kb7oeb]

The XBOX360 supports 1080p over component because for the first couple years you could not get a 360 with HDMI. The confusion comes in because supposedly a lot of 1080p sets won't accept 1080p over component even though it can support it.

[Scott Greczkowski]

The Turbo Charged Website is ready to go.


DISH Network -- Offers

[msmith198025]

The Turbo Charged Website is ready to go.


DISH Network -- Offers

That makes it seem to joe blow that EVERYTHING is broadcast in 1080p. Misleading IMHO

[Hemi 6.1]

Its says. Highest Quality HD including 1080p VOD. How is that misleading?

[jwgreen68]

Wouldn't that just wad Charlie's panties
No way for 7.1/DTS/DTS-MA/DolbyTrueHD audio possible either (like bluray).

Don't you think that their engineers researched and tested to see if it was possible, before announcing it? For God's sake, these aren't homeless people living under a bridge! I'm sure they have degrees in software engineering, amongst other things.

[Hemi 6.1]

Turbo-charged HD features state-of-the-art technology with the highest quality HD available including 1080p Video On Demand– .
That doesn't make me think one bit that Everything is 1080p. It says including 1080p VOD