Uplink Report - Sept 5th

[Lucky]

How come no SNY HD ? That channel does loads of HD 24/7. Not only do they do the Met games, but they do all their studio stuff in HD and lots of their magazine type programming in HD. Also, will be doing lots of Jets stuff in HD including pre and post games shows before every game. A little disappointing not getting SNY HD. MSG HD and FSNY are so lowly rated for NBA and NHL games you would think they would rather put on SNY HD instead.

[waltinvt]

Maybe I'm dense but how can you tell which are the HD RSNs on that list? Which one is NESN-HD ?

[guffy1]

Maybe I'm dense but how can you tell which are the HD RSNs on that list? Which one is NESN-HD ?

NESN HD is not listed....

[Cyclone]

I see they have 4 HD channels all jammed onto TP30..Looks like 3 1080's and a 720, thats not gonna be too pretty I wouldnt think..

Not much different than many HD LIL set ups.

[guffy1]

Not much different than many HD LIL set ups.

Well, its an extra 1080...Not alot of difference youre right, but they were stretching to begin with..

Are all those channels on TP30 true MPEG-4, or no?

[JohnH]

How come no SNY HD ? That channel does loads of HD 24/7. Not only do they do the Met games, but they do all their studio stuff in HD and lots of their magazine type programming in HD. Also, will be doing lots of Jets stuff in HD including pre and post games shows before every game. A little disappointing not getting SNY HD. MSG HD and FSNY are so lowly rated for NBA and NHL games you would think they would rather put on SNY HD instead.

Putting a 24/7 RSN in that group would sort of defeat the timesharing thing. Perhaps it will happen in the next wave of RSN HDs added. There was mention of at least a two phase implementation of the RSN HDs.

[Scott Greczkowski]

yes the next wave of RSN's are scheduled for the spring. I believe they picked the RSN's which had the most HD College Football first.

[general487]

Hey,

I don't fully understand all this, but am I going to be able to get a Fox Sports South feed on my Dish 1000 here in Alabama? I don't have a 61.5 satellite. I just have 129, 119 and 110. It looks like it will defeat the purpose if they add my local HD feed on a satellite that they didn't give me!!!!!

Help please...

[Jeff_R]

Comcast Sports Net West and Fox Sports Bay Area. If this all plays out correctly, with InHD as well, Dish Network will be a clear and easy winner in the HD camp for anyone in Sacramento. No channels available on Comcast will be exclusive any longer. Glad I switched when I did!

[HokieEngineer]

Well, its an extra 1080...Not alot of difference youre right, but they were stretching to begin with..

Are all those channels on TP30 true MPEG-4, or no?

They are currently marked as mpeg2 only available to ViP. Of course this may change, but right now its 4 mpeg2 video feeds.