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

[Tom Bombadil]

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.

But we aren't talking about a simple uplink change. E* may very well be working with VOOM on the entire format/content change. Remember VOOM is having to reorganize 21 channels into 15 channels on short notice, something they never planned on doing. At this moment in time there aren't 15 1920x1080 VOOM channels to broadcast.

It may be a case of both E* and VOOM not wasting time re-implementing a 2 week solution when they need to spend time readying a long-term solution for roll-out in late Dec or early Jan.



Now if nothing happens by the 2nd week in Jan, then we may need to make some noise. Until then, I'm willing to give E* the benefit of the doubt that they are working on good things.

[jmcgee_jr]

Tom your just too positive thinking I want things fixed before the 21st (day I get my 61.5 dish up. Since I cant get any Locals in HD I need network feeds of anything in HD to enjoy my sony GW RPLCD. Oh well.

[rdinkel]

Tom your just too positive thinking I want things fixed before the 21st (day I get my 61.5 dish up. Since I cant get any Locals in HD I need network feeds of anything in HD to enjoy my sony GW RPLCD. Oh well.

That is part of Dish's problem: Trying to keep millions of subscribers happy, yet each one has a personal reason why it needs to be a certain way or by a certain date.
It is the Christmas season, so I am inclined to cut Dish a little slack now, and hope for the best for the new year.

[jmcgee_jr]

That is part of Dish's problem: Trying to keep millions of subscribers happy, yet each one has a personal reason why it needs to be a certain way or by a certain date.
It is the Christmas season, so I am inclined to cut Dish a little slack now, and hope for the best for the new year.

I searched for the white text but iddnt see any so I am ASSuMEing that you are being serious. If I was truely being a I cant wait and it needs to be fixed now asshat I would of canceled my dish installation for the 21st and told dish to stick it where the sun doesnt shine till they can get thier crap straightened out. Did I do that no. I actually am willing to let dish try to get this all straightened out if it does turn out to be for the better. Its just to me I guess im spoiled from living in Phoenix and getting all my locals and then some in HD OTA no compression nothing just a nice raw digital feed that looked great. So if the HD lite was something that was going tobe more permanant then I too would drop dish like a bad habit. And to wrap this up if anyone on this board ever takes me serious then you should look again in 99.9% of my posts I am light hearted and carefree.

[BrettTRay]

Hope Dish network doesn't pull a caper on us Jan.9th at the Charlie Chat. Hell, you never know what that man will say next. He'll probably start talking about how MPEG4 doesn't give them the gains they were looking for and are going with 8psk turbo till a later date. Then the next charlie chat they will say that they are going with MPEG4!!!!!!!! Who knows whats going on? Answer: NOBODY. We are all going to have to be patient and give Dish network the benefit of the doubt that they are working on things and as I hope they will give us the 15 voom channels and ESPN2 HD all in FULL HD resolution at the first of Jan. I know its hard to just sit back and wait with the little info that Charlie has given us but we really don't have many other options and trust me nobody is ready for more HD than me. The biggest and best move that Dish network needs to do is start letting people know whats going on. In the mean time while dish sits around and don't let nobody know anything, people are flocking to Directv. If the 622/322VIP aren't going to be until April or May of 06' then thats what Charlie needs to say instead of not letting anybody know. I would much rather know that it will be a while before I can get the newest thing then sit around and not know period. I wish he would just tell us something so that i can make a decision about getting the 942 or waiting for the 622VIP or 942+ (if it exists?). Come on Charlie let your customers know what the hell is going on.

[Gary Murrell]

No changes to Voom as of this morning

-Gary

[jmcgee_jr]

Gary Do you just keep a notepad text up of that post would save you the keystrokes everyday

[Gary Murrell]

No, no notepad yet, as I am hoping I won't have to say it much longer

-Gary

[JohnH]

Ultra moved. Now 3 VOOMs per TP. 5 Tps total for that effort.
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[jsb_hburg]

Ultra moved. Now 3 VOOMs per TP. 5 Tps total for that effort.
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If these channels are spread across 5 TPs, then how does full HD result?