Lots of News from Team Summit

[John Kotches]

I am getting good at taking notes.

Apparently you're better at typing them without me looking over your shoulder too

Cheers,

[Poke]

So if I understand this anyone on the HDSliver and above will get National Geographic HD?? Due to a CSR just told me you had to be on Gold or more but he might not have the current info either..

[Wdam33]

Next he shows us a new DP PLUS 33 Switch. The DPP33 will look at 3 orbital locations, is non cascadable and has no power supply, this will allow for single cable installations to Dish Pro Plus receivers at much less cost over a Dish Pro Plus 44 switch.

Another new switch is shown the DP Plus 64 Switch. This switch allows for 6 orbital locations and allows you to hook up to 4 receivers.

Very nice...though I bet that DPP64 switch will cost a bunch...probably $250-300. I like the idea of the DPP33 as it cheaper since I only have two receivers.

Mark

[hzhao]

Scott, any details about so call "Dish Royalty" program?

[Sean Mota]

Charlie talks about how great the PocketDish is and he slips and says some new models are coming which have built in WiFi which we will hear about later this year.

This is quite interested. The potential for PocketDish is there. I had mine since December and it has worked like a charm! Very happy customer with PocketDish.

He then showed the USB Archiving and mentions it will be available later this year for the 942 and 622, When you archive a show it is NOT copied to the hard drive, it is MOVED to the hard drive, this was done to satisfy the programmers.

I do not understand, Scott. What do you mean by "MOVED to the hard drive". The way the cable archiving works is that programs are copied to the HardDisk with the most space -- either the internal or external. Do you mean that first it has to be copied to the internal disk and then transfer or MOVED to the external Disk?

Native Resolution is coming and will work best on TV's with HDMI where the receiver can detect what formats your TV supports.

This could create a bunch problems. I have yet to see a receiver that works flawlessly on Native Resolution. I know I won't touch it and stay away from it.

On the Screen it says that VOOM is a Dish Network Exclusive.

This is quite a strong statement --- "exclusive". Exclusive in the USA?

They talk a bit about NFL and NFL HD and they mention that this fall they will be offering NFL games 6 days a week and say it will be much cheaper then the Sunday Ticket. They say more details about this are coming soon.

How is that possible? I thought that DirecTv had exclusive contract for these games (except the ones on local tv and NFL-HD and ESPN-HD)?

[riffjim4069]

This is quite a strong statement --- "exclusive". Exclusive in the USA?

Yep, I predicted this one. That's why we have VOOM-Lite.

[who_the]

Now some BIG NEWS, this fall Dish Network will carry 11 RSN's in HD and will add the other 10 RSN's in HD by spring! These will be on 61.5 or 129. They did not announce which RSN's would be up first.

Awesome news! My RSN (FSN Bay Area) is the only reason I keep Comcast around at all.

[mlb]

Sean,

I'd guess D* holds the rights to live coverage, but that is it.

[Sean Mota]

So these are going to be taped delay games?

[John Kotches]

I do not understand, Scott. What do you mean by "MOVED to the hard drive". The way the cable archiving works is that programs are copied to the HardDisk with the most space -- either the internal or external. Do you mean that first it has to be copied to the internal disk and then transfer or MOVED to the external Disk?

I would imagine this means that everything is initially recorded to the internal disk then you select what gets moved from the internal disk to the external disk.

This could create a bunch problems. I have yet to see a receiver that works flawlessly on Native Resolution. I know I won't touch it and stay away from it.

I would prefer a solution that has a matrixed table:

Source Res   Output Res
SD                720p          (as an example)
720p            720p
1080i           720p

How is that possible? I thought that DirecTv had exclusive contract for these games (except the ones on local tv and NFL-HD and ESPN-HD)?

Start thinking like you want to make the most money from your product (the NFL).

I'm sure that DirecTV still has an exclusive contract for broadcasting the games in real time. But what it sounds like is that NFL-HD will be rebroadcasting HD games from the previous week on their channel via delay.

Cheers,