Dish HD Channel Moves Coming...

[Scott Greczkowski]

If you get the HD channels today, you will still get them after the switch next week.



The big key point of this is that they are making these changes so that they can add more national HD.

[espaeth]

Don't get me wrong, 24/7 RSNs in HD would be great, but put them on spotbeams. Then you can get YOUR team in HD without clogging bandwidth for national HD.

RSNs on spotbeams breaks things like ESPN Full Court, NBA League Pass, NHL Center Ice, the MultiSport pack, etc.

The RSNs are all in the process of going full-time HD for all of their content; if Dish wants to stop the bleeding they need to devote some effort here. I've been a Dish sub for 7 years now, and I primarily signed up because they had the better Center Ice offering over DirecTV showing both the home and away team feeds of many games. Now D* is offering the same thing, and had an edge in total HD games over Dish this last season. I love my 722, especially the PIP functionality for jumping between multiple games, but if Dish isn't going to step up in HD RSN delivery I'm afraid I might be another customer reluctantly marching over to D*.

[TheWGP]

Something tells me they're cramming all that other stuff together to make room for some really glorious-looking QVC HD!

As a Turbo sub, since that's all we're likely to get, let 'em make it darn good, I say!

[tigerfan33]

If you get the HD channels today, you will still get them after the switch next week.

The big key point of this is that they are making these changes so that they can add more national HD.

So I guess this is "wave" of hd you are talking about in your article today. Any guess of what they may be??
Other than the three you have already mentioned.

[Rangers484]

So I guess this is "wave" of hd you are talking about in your article today. Any guess of what they may be??
Other than the three you have already mentioned.

Smithsonian, VOOM and MLB Network.

Seriously, when I read the title to the Multichannel article I instantly thought of VOOM.

The article starts with a rumor of a big addition of National HD and then surmises the possibility of many unhappy customers to shortly follow.

Same scenario as when Voom went boom...

But alas, it was about the Platinum HD package, the redheaded, bastard, step child of HD programming.

[tigerfan33]

Smithsonian, VOOM and MLB Network.

Seriously, when I read the title to the Multichannel article I instantly thought of VOOM.

The article starts with a rumor of a big addition of National HD and then surmises the possibility of many unhappy customers to shortly follow.

Same scenario as when Voom went boom...

But alas, it was about the Platinum HD package, the redheaded, bastard, step child of HD programming.

That's funny. I had the same thought of Voom also and how Dish added many new hd channels one day and then within 48 hours yanked the Voom rug right out underneath us.

[emtpud]

I don't want my RSNs to go 24/7 since most of the other programming is JUNK! I just want my ALL my games in HD. Also, if they were put on spotbeams then lots of subs would not be able to see thier favorites. I,for one would be very upset if they went to spots to the point of going over to 'D'(ugh no)! Just my 2 cents since I want everybody to get what they want and deserve. Paul

[tigerfan33]

I don't want my RSNs to go 24/7 since most of the other programming is JUNK! I just want my ALL my games in HD.l

You do know that if you get YOUR rsn hd fulltime, you will get ALL of your games in hd.

[HDRoberts]

RSNs on spotbeams breaks things like ESPN Full Court, NBA League Pass, NHL Center Ice, the MultiSport pack, etc.

The RSNs are all in the process of going full-time HD for all of their content; if Dish wants to stop the bleeding they need to devote some effort here. I've been a Dish sub for 7 years now, and I primarily signed up because they had the better Center Ice offering over DirecTV showing both the home and away team feeds of many games. Now D* is offering the same thing, and had an edge in total HD games over Dish this last season. I love my 722, especially the PIP functionality for jumping between multiple games, but if Dish isn't going to step up in HD RSN delivery I'm afraid I might be another customer reluctantly marching over to D*.

They have already killed MLB EI. I wish I could find numbers on the percent of Dish subs that actually sub to these multi-sport packs. I personally believe 95% of subs would be perfectly satisfied with just THEIR local RSNs in full time HD.

I fully believe, with DirecTV already being the exclusive satellite provider of MLB EI and NFL ST, most mega sports fans who buy these out of market packs are already at DirecTV.

[neljtorres]

Just got this in my INBOX.



Thank you to everyone who sent this one along. Sounds like things are going to get interesting over the next few weeks.

Thanks Scott!