Epix & Dish in Talks

**Jim5506** · 08-11-2009 07:59 PM

bebacle??

**espaeth** · 08-11-2009 08:26 PM

He's so mad about the Voom situation that even spell check won't dare mess with him.

**am7crew** · 08-11-2009 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by allargon

If I could afford to take time off work and afford the air fare and hotels to fly to Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, New Orleans, etc. all the time to watch the Tigers, Jaguars, Gophers and Saints play every game, I would definitely do that rather than watching it on the boob tube -- high definition or not. That's a terrible analogy.

IMHO, the Netflix/Redbox vs. premiums is about letting HBO/Starz/Showtime control your schedule (even with DVR's, they still play what they chose to play and when) vs. you. That's what I meant. It wasn't even a snobby PQ/AQ thing.

That makes sense, I just hate it when people always say well D* has all these sports channels/packages etc. Like everyone watches sports. Dont get me wrong, when its play off time I watch NBA but those are on TNT, so for me personally I do choose what provider Im with based on the premium movie channels and I cannot understand why D* would not want to capture those customers (not that they need them). Point is theres allot of us that dont have to have NFL ST, MLB EI, MLB Channel, etc.

**bobj2004** · 08-12-2009 09:05 PM

1080P

If I were Epix and Dish I would be the first to offer a 24x7 1080P channel.
If Dish cant do it live via the dish, then at least offer free 1080P on demand moves.

I would pay for this. it would be something no one else had.

**MLBurks** · 08-13-2009 07:17 AM

Originally Posted by bobj2004

1080P

If I were Epix and Dish I would be the first to offer a 24x7 1080P channel.
If Dish cant do it live via the dish, then at least offer free 1080P on demand moves.

I would pay for this. it would be something no one else had.

I don't believe ANYBODY has the capability to air a 24/7 1080P live channel. VOD is the only way right now.

**bobj2004** · 08-13-2009 08:07 PM

Then lets have Free 1080P video on demand downloads with this new movie package.

We can all download them at night.

I just saying right now there is no good reason to pay extra for yet an other movie channel. If they gave us some 1080P options of some kind here and there it would be worth it.

They could call the the Epic Blue Ray channel or something. Or Epic Blue Ray on Demand

**Pen15head** · 08-13-2009 08:37 PM

bobj2004, here would never be such thing as free for full 1080p downloads like that. the bandwidth that would be required to support who knows how many downloads a day would have to be paid. dish will then have to pass that cost onto the consumer.

this is probably he reason why dishonline is so basic compared to cable on demand. and also why dish doesnt seem to push or market dishonline. they probably dont have an IT infrastructure capable of handling vod it were done in the manner and popularity cable users do.

**MLBurks** · 08-14-2009 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by bobj2004

I just saying right now there is no good reason to pay extra for yet an other movie channel. If they gave us some 1080P options of some kind here and there it would be worth it.

If they have exclusive content and have exclusive contracts with movies studios (which reports say they will have), then there is good reason.

**jclewter79** · 08-14-2009 09:35 AM

If this channel played new, unedited, movies without commercials during the movies in a basic package I don't see how it could not become a hit. Like Encore with movies you actually want to watch.