View Poll Results: How well did Dish meet your expectations for National HD the last 3 months?
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Dish exceeded my expectations for new national HD
9 3.33% -
Dish fell far short of my expectations for national HD
146 54.07% -
Dish added about as much national HD as I expected
51 18.89% -
Dish fell only a little short of my expectations for new national HD
64 23.70%
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- 01-03-2009 12:20 PM #1
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Well it's 2009 - How about a poll of "E"'s credibility?
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Not sure if I even remember how to create a poll but I'll try.
I'd be interested to know how many think Dish fell short of their expectations the last quarter of 2008 considering what they had been hinting and implying would happen regarding national HD.
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- 01-03-2009 12:26 PM #2
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IMHO, anyone who's been around D* and E* for any period of time are used to disappointment. Par for the course.
I wonder how many people would really prefer a lot of National HD over their locals in HD, if that's even relatable in terms of capacity.
Regardless of falling short of many HD channels, I think a lot of great advances have been made as well. EHD support, Eastern Arc (N/A to me though), DASH. Not sure how much came out in 2007, though. My concept of time is fuzzy sometimes.
- 01-03-2009 12:28 PM #3
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- 01-03-2009 12:29 PM #4
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Geesh, how'd you guys manage to reply before I even got the poll up?
- 01-03-2009 12:30 PM #5
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JUST THAT GOOD.
Originally Posted by waltinvt 
Geesh, how'd you guys manage to reply before I even got the poll up? Actually, it popped up before the poll showed up.
Dish added about as much HD as I expected. Now ask me about my expectations for Dish.
- 01-03-2009 12:33 PM #6
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Proud Staff MemberI misread the poll about the last 3 months, but I'll stick with that it exceeded my expectations for new HD, since I was not expecting any.
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- 01-03-2009 12:45 PM #7
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Expected nothing. Still dissappointed
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- 01-03-2009 12:55 PM #8
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I am one that would prefer more national HD over my HD locals. I get all the locals in my DMA OTA as well as several others in an adjoining DMA and use my media center PCs for recording and not the HD DVR. That's not to say the additional national HD that's out there to be added is any good. I'm looking forward to FX and that's about it. Originally Posted by Skibum IMHO, anyone who's been around D* and E* for any period of time are used to disappointment. Par for the course. I wonder how many people would really prefer a lot of National HD over their locals in HD, if that's even relatable in terms of capacity.
- 01-03-2009 01:04 PM #9
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I did not fall for the sucker bet of 150. There just are not that many possible channels for them to put up. I voted slightly short. I figured there would be 7-10 more channels in December. Dish is notoriously slow making deals with the channels.
- 01-03-2009 01:09 PM #10
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I voted "about as much national HD as I expected". I'm not too excited about what is left out there to add right now either. The only one that I really want is ESPNUHD, but in all honesty I wouldn't really care if we didn't get that until right before next football season (but will be really pissed if we don't get it by then).
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