Is there a reason they have so many duplicate channels. Audience is in 5 places as well as the shopping channels.
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Is there a reason they have so many duplicate channels. Audience is in 5 places as well as the shopping channels.
No, it's one channel that's remapped to several different channel numbers.
It's the same feed, just re-mapped to multiple places if I understand it correctly. The shopping channels pay to be in multiple places. They put Audience in 5 spots hoping you'll see. It's with the music, movie, and regular channels so they hope you'll see it when they are showing that kind of programming and are guide surfing. It's after your locals, too, I assume, because it's one of the first things you'd see after your locals guide surfing. They used to have it on 601, too. It replaced "The 101" which was on 101 so that is why it is there.
I block a majority of the shopping channels. I just don’t need the clutter when channel surfing. I block all of the infomercial channels.
So do I. I just have things I subscribe to and are real channels in my list. Makes channels surfing easier. But occasionally, I put it on "all channels" and see what is there. I have only done it during Sunday Ticket a couple times and have noticed that with the shopping channels but it's been a while.
Maybe AT&T wouldn't announce HBO 4K in advance but HBO damn sure would. And if D kept NFLST in 4K a secret until the start of the season, then they'd be missing a big marketing opportunity to sell Directv subscriptions.
AT&T may not have announced what channel ACCN was but they issued a press release months ago saying they'd be carrying it at launch. ESPN announced the channel would be coming THREE YEARS AGO. Keeping the channel number 'secret' until launch does not equate to keeping the existence of the channel/offering secret until launch.
Not yet. I'd bet we'll start seeing them with the new models introduced at next year's CES.
If they do anything 4K will it be on reverse band?
I honestly don’t think enough reverse band LNB’s are out there to put out a 4K version of Sunday Ticket.
Also what do they do for commercial customers, since genies are not allowed.
You would think a bar would want NFL ST in 4K.
They need a 4K set top box
I honestly don’t think enough reverse band LNB’s are out there to put out a 4K version of Sunday Ticket.
Also what do they do for commercial customers, since genies are not allowed.
You would think a bar would want NFL ST in 4K.
They need a 4K set top box
Like I said I think there's zero chance of NFLST in 4K, not only would it have been announced, but Fox and CBS would have to have a lot more 4K production trucks out there. Since Fox is just dipping their toe into 4K NFL this year and CBS has never done any 4K football game, they aren't going to start producing all their Sunday games in 4K out of the blue. In fact I doubt they would do it at all if NFLST is all that benefits. They would want to have it available at least on their O&O stations in big cities, which is a few years away.
If they are adding a bunch of 4K CINE channels they would be in reverse band. Pretty much all residential customers who have 4K have reverse band LNBs so they'd be fine.
Directv's official 4K solution for bars/restaurants is an HR54+C61K for each TV (and think of the number of DSWM30s that would mean) Talk about a kludge!
The hard cold truth is that there really is not enough of a difference between HD and 4K to support the massive amount of money an upgrade would cost....sure those with 85 inch screens would benefit but the average consumer with a 50 inch screen would see very little change
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And that's always been my belief as well. ...
For while I've always felt 4K has a much better chance of surviving than 3D did by relieving the viewer from the burden of needing to wear special equipment to view the service.
It will always be at a low level since it's just not the real revolutionary breakthrough that going from analog SD TV to HD plus the DTV format was for broadcasters to make such a major investment in.
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Thats irrelevant when you can make a 30 dollar STB that hooks up to HDMI for people to get ATSC 3.0 signals, like the ones that are coming out in 2020 and also proves my point to satellite delivery.
Also, people buy TV’s regardless and still pay for locals on satellite. If it wasn’t an issue we wouldn’t see 80 bazillion threads pop up for every dipute.
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I don't know the exact pricing of the COM3000 but the only thing that could justify its price for a bar/restaurant would be if you really had to have 4K today, since it would come out cheaper (and much less of a logistical headache) than buying an HR54+C61K per TV. It would be much more expensive than an HD solution involving an H25 per TV since you need a pro:idiom "client" per TV (unless you're a sucker and bought "commercial" TVs that happen to support it)
Have you seen a true 4k picture, there is a big difference from HD.
