Dish messing with Voom, All are now HD-Lite 1280x1080i: Discuss this issue HERE!

[stuart628]

What date is the HD Charlie Chat supposed to be?

isnt the next charlie chat the 9th? I know the big announcements are coming at ces! that is what I am waiting for!!!

[Gary Murrell]

Jan 9th, I think

I think it would be near absurd that we see Voom or ESPN 2 in mpeg4, I do not think that will happen, mpeg4 and the recent release of the 411 to me = one thing:

Mpeg4 LIL HD to compete with Directv

-Gary

[stuart628]

I am leaning towards what you are saying Gary, I think dish folks are loving reading some of the things people are saying! I think Voom and ESPN2hd will be in mpeg2, HD Lil will be mpeg4! I think.....Scott anytime you want to help us out here actually my thoughts are something will come out this week, we are getting close to go time! exciting times!

[gdarwin]

Just threw my .02 into that thread...

[rdinkel]

What date is the HD Charlie Chat supposed to be?

9 Jan

[Tom Bombadil]

Patience, E* subs, patience. Don't let D* trolls get you all up in a dander.

Remember it isn't just a matter of E* flipping a switch to go back to the way it was, which was only 4 1920x1080 channels with 6 1280x1080 channels. What we want them to do is to take us to 15 1920x1080 channels. And VOOM is going to have to reshuffle their content schedules to accomodate this change. All of this is not trivial and it would be best if E* does not rush things.

Hopefully we are only talking about alloting them another 2-3 weeks to get things in order. That's not very long to make a significant change, like converting 21 1280x1080 channels into 15 1920x1080 channels.

[GeorgeLV]

Patience, E* subs, patience. Don't let D* trolls get you all up in a dander.

Remember it isn't just a matter of E* flipping a switch to go back to the way it was, which was only 4 1920x1080 channels with 6 1280x1080 channels. What we want them to do is to take us to 15 1920x1080 channels. And VOOM is going to have to reshuffle their content schedules to accomodate this change. All of this is not trivial and it would be best if E* does not rush things.

Hopefully we are only talking about alloting them another 2-3 weeks to get things in order. That's not very long to make a significant change, like converting 21 1280x1080 channels into 15 1920x1080 channels.

I really doubt it takes that long to set-up an uplink, but if everything shows up by CES in 1920x1080i with good bitrates and is receivable with existing receivers everybody benefits.

BTW, does any anybody know if Dish uplinked the NBA TV HD game tonite? DirecTV is finally carrying them again, hopefully the same holds for Dish.

[JohnH]

BTW, does any anybody know if Dish uplinked the NBA TV HD game tonite? DirecTV is finally carrying them again, hopefully the same holds for Dish.

Are you sure it was not an HDNET Alternate feed of the Mavericks for Dallas? Or did D* have both games?

[GeorgeLV]

Are you sure it was not an HDNET Alternate feed of the Mavericks for Dallas? Or did D* have both games?

No. The NBA TV game was the Rockets @ Lakers. It was on channel 96. Also, the logos made it pretty obvious what feed I was watching

[JohnH]

No. The NBA TV game was the Rockets @ Lakers. It was on channel 96. Also, the logos made it pretty obvious what feed I was watching

Well, E* had the Mavs tonight. I guess we will have to wait until Jan. 2 to see if they have the situation settled there.