How Dish's 1080p is going to work...

**tigerfan33** · 09-22-2008 11:27 AM

I tried out the 1080p yesterday. I had a qucik screen come up to tell me that my screen would go dark to check if my tv supported the movie. It never went black and went straight to the movie. I have a Samsung LNT-4065. The movie had really good pq. You get it for 24 hours. I tried it on tv2 it even played on it. I am not understanding why I can get it on tv2 also.

**lakebum431** · 09-22-2008 12:40 PM

If you are viewing it on TV2 then it is downrezed (just like all HD on TV2).

**JimP** · 10-06-2008 12:25 PM

Is there a 1080p movie scheduled for October?

**lakebum431** · 10-06-2008 03:22 PM

Very good question JimP. Even though they don't have the bugs worked out you would think they would want to keep the 1080p content out there so they could keep advertising it.

**tigerfan33** · 10-06-2008 03:28 PM

I had a tech out last week to re peek my dish due to signal drop outs. I just noticed yesterday that there is no more channel 501. Anyone else??

Edit: I just checked The List! and saw that it is not available.

**lakebum431** · 10-06-2008 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by tigerfan33

I had a tech out last week to re peek my dish due to signal drop outs. I just noticed yesterday that there is no more channel 501. Anyone else??

Edit: I just checked The List! and saw that it is not available.

I still have 9 channel 501s (all HD) on my 722. However, I do not have any 1080p events at this time.

**hammerdown** · 10-06-2008 03:43 PM

I've got nine ch501's, but nothing says 1080p.

**JimP** · 10-06-2008 03:59 PM

I've got several 501's but not a 1080p which would be true to form as mine seems to show up late in the month.

**fredp** · 10-06-2008 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by JimP

I've got several 501's but not a 1080p which would be true to form as mine seems to show up late in the month.

I don't think there is one this month, at least not yet. If you watched the CC, Charlie said this was expensive to just charge $2.99. I think they are evaluating just how well this beta went given the complaints here online and probably many others of the silent majority. Dish made their advertising point by being the first to offer it. Now they have to refine it...and charge accordingly.... For me that means no freaking way!