Retailer Chat Recap: September 23, 2009

[Roxor]

Amir Picks the Colts -vs- The Bears in the Superbowl.

They show highlights fromo the new NFL RedZone channel.

They they go over all the NFL that Dish Network offers.

They them move and talk about Versus and how it is in Free PReview mode from now until November 30th.

They then go over College Football and talk about all the College football Dish offers. They mention that ESPN-U is only in SD on Dish...

ESPN Gameplan will be $135 or individual Saturdays for $24.

Now we go to Marketing...

Colts maybe, but no way the Bears will be there, even though I am a fan of both teams.

More HD coming in 2010!? Hey, it's still 2009 and plenty of time for HD now. I guess what Charlie is saying is that we will get more HD when the prices go up in 2010.

[Jeff0575]

i never thought i would see the day where paduach ky HD locals

[Scott Greczkowski]

Jim goes over the importance of reading all disclosures to new customers when they sign up.

They then go over why a dealer should be a DHPP retailer and do DHPP service calls.

They then start talking about Pre Paid...

Customers using Pre Paid calling in and want to activate their programming cards will go to a special CSR who will move them over to Flex TV and will apply the pre paid cards t hey might have to their account.

Retailers may no longer sell DishNow Prepaid programming cards. All prepaid cards expire at the end of October.

For the customer there is no hardware to change over to FlexTV.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Now its time for Leslie Harper to Join the Show, She is introduced as Leslie the HUnter as shes wearing one of the new hats...

She quickly strips off the hat.

All ViP Receivers now have DishComm technology activated. This means you only need to hook up the phone line to one receiver and the other receivers will dial out via that receiver.

All VIP Receivers and 522/625 now have Fast Aquisition on Reboot. This means the receiver will reboot in under 20 seconds instead of the few minutes it use to take.

525/625's also have faster loading ITV applications. ViP receivers will get this update soon.

All VIP receivers will soon show both MPAA ratings and TV ratings in a future update.

Leslie talks about the 922. Nothing new here, just telling people how to test things. She shows off the new keypad feature (I like this feature!) and also tells people to try the new robust search feature.

Leslie then shows a picture of herself in her Hockey gear. (No I am not kidding...) She shoed the picture because a retailer requested to see her in her Hockey gear... great, hopefully next time someone requests to see Lelie in her French Maids costume.) Leslie has been playing Hockey for 7 years. Another picture of Leslie in her Hockey duds is shown. Leslie plays on a mens team called the Sweathogs.

That wraps up Leslies Tech Segment for this month.

[Scott Greczkowski]

And now off to question time, so basically that wraps up this Retailer Chat. I will keep watching if there is any good questions I will report them.

[scottbakertemp]

Now its time for Leslie Harper to Join the All ViP Receivers now have DishComm technology activated. This means you only need to hook up the phone line to one receiver and the other receivers will dial out via that receiver.

Does this mean the recievers are communicating through the coax?

[scottbakertemp]

I see:
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DishCOMM"]DishCOMM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

It goes through the electrical wiring. I'm sure this will only work with really small amounts of data.

[Scott Greczkowski]

DishComm is nice, not only does it share the phonelines, but if your hooked up to broadband it shares that as well, so on my receivers not hooked up to broadband they can still browse DishOnline and download shows.

[pabeader]

the only trouble is related to the different legs of a service panel.

[james_k_p]

So no useful HD announcements? Ug.

Give us AMC and ESPNU!