Ahhhh didnt D* have weeds in hd on showtime in 1080P. So wouldnt that make D* with the first 1080P series?
So every other 1080p presentation has done a 1080p test, but because this one is free there is no test? Please explain.
I like the warped reference to the Sex Pistols in an earlier post. It is much more interesting than the content of this supposed download.
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Since maybe 2% of the HDTVs out there can do 1080p/24 while 100% of HDTVs are compatible with 1080i, I find it hard to believe that they would force something that would give an hour of blank screen to virtually all TVs.Besides, you would think they would FORCE 1080p mode, not let it fall back, since it's FREE. Not the other way around.
Since maybe 2% of the HDTVs out there can do 1080p/24 while 100% of HDTVs are compatible with 1080i, I find it hard to believe that they would force something that would give an hour of blank screen to virtually all TVs.
All hype, no content.
Actually HD is no longer the "in" thing. Its the sad and tired technology companies that have been getting rich off us and hiring oversears workers.
Look at the economy now, F&%$ HP, Samsung, LG. Phipips et.al.
May the tech companies go bankrupt. Take all the content providers with em.
God gave the King, the facist regime! Threre is no future, for USA ...man.
I haven't seen any solid numbers, but this sure seems right from what I see (or saw) at Circuit City, Best Buy, Micro Center, and from the prominence of ads for HDTVs and HDTV eqiipment in ads emailed from online retailers. It's also true for my family; I recently threw in the towel on SD and bought 3 new LCD HDTVs.Electronics are the only goods still selling with some strength during these down economic times.
I haven't seen any solid numbers, but this sure seems right from what I see (or saw) at Circuit City, Best Buy, Micro Center, and from the prominence of ads for HDTVs and HDTV eqiipment in ads emailed from online retailers. It's also true for my family; I recently threw in the towel on SD and bought 3 new LCD HDTVs.
Yet we have the jaw-dropping Charlie Chat last year when he declared HD not so important to Dish. It's a dramatic change from his ealier pronouncements. Do you think he's lying, or Dish really can't benefit from all these HD packages?
I haven't seen any solid numbers, but this sure seems right from what I see (or saw) at Circuit City, Best Buy, Micro Center, and from the prominence of ads for HDTVs and HDTV eqiipment in ads emailed from online retailers. It's also true for my family; I recently threw in the towel on SD and bought 3 new LCD HDTVs.
Yet we have the jaw-dropping Charlie Chat last year when he declared HD not so important to Dish. It's a dramatic change from his ealier pronouncements. Do you think he's lying, or Dish really can't benefit from all these HD packages?
As far as the sound question...the DishONLINE version was Dolby Pro-Logic. Surround Sound sure...just not as robust as the discrete channel presentation of Dolby Digital 5.1.
...I find it hard to believe that they would force something that would give an hour of blank screen to virtually all TVs.
gb might mean gigabit, not gigabyte. If you divide your result by 8 (assuming no ec bits), you get around 5GB, which is not unreasonable.
Like others reported, mine was finally downloaded this morning and was in 1080i despite my having a 1080p/24 compatible set.
If it's taking 24 hours to download 5GB then they need to re-evaluate the delivery method. If it's saying the download speed is .45mb/s then that means it's only downloading at 56KB/s if that mb/s is megabits and not megabytes. If it is megabytes (which makes sense) then that goes back to my original figure of it being almost 32GB in size. Your numbers make more sense but that also means the speed is insanely slow!
Like others reported, mine was finally downloaded this morning and was in 1080i despite my having a 1080p/24 compatible set.
If it's taking 24 hours to download 5GB then they need to re-evaluate the delivery method. If it's saying the download speed is .45mb/s then that means it's only downloading at 56KB/s if that mb/s is megabits and not megabytes. If it is megabytes (which makes sense) then that goes back to my original figure of it being almost 32GB in size. Your numbers make more sense but that also means the speed is insanely slow!
I suspect it is a limitation of the NIC in the receiver rather than on the delivery side.
Not sure what others seen but when I went to download it I got a screen that said my TV was not 1080p capable, download anyways? My set is a 720p set.
No way... at minimum, a quasi-modern NIC will be 10/100. No one even reported 3Mbps. Other stuff from Dish Online has traveled faster. This was a case of under capacity on the delivery side.
With Netflix and VOD on the rise, I see Cable and the Telcos implementing download quotas and limiting video downloading during peak hours.All I can say is that the download speed of the IP-VOD is way too slow..
It's been 18 hours so far and only 72% done.