NYC and LA HD Locals launched and available!
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rdinkel said:
Thanks for the fact sheet. It says:
"Subscribers who are 'unserved' with respect
to analog service are eligible for distant digital
signals. Satellite companies are not required
to offer distant digital signals."
So, you're correct in saying that D* is not breaking the rules if they are offering HD-DNS to "analog unserved" areas (is this confirmed, or are HD-DNS only offered to O&O cities?). I would also agree that E* would be smart to offer HD-DNS as a differentiator, or to compete with D*, as the case may be. Unfortunately, they are not required to do so, so they probably won't. Thanks for setting me straight.
Brad
Bradtothebone said:
I can confirm this. My neighbor has been getting HD-DNS since they moved into their house early 2005. He hasn't upgraded to the new MPEG 4 receiver yet, and still gets HD DNS even though local Atlanta HD are currently on MPEG 4.
Atlanta is not O&O for ABC and NBC, not exactly sure about FOX and CBS.
NYC HD Locals
The NYC HD locals are on 6300-6303 but they took them away from us who do not live in the NYC DMA. This is on a Mpeg4 receiver of course.
Arthope said:
The NYC HD locals are on 6300-6303 but they took them away from us who do not live in the NYC DMA. This is on a Mpeg4 receiver of course.
When "D" first launched HD DNS, they were pretty much restricting to O&O but a lot of people with waivers fought the process and protested to "D". Some even got lawyers involved. There were numurous threads about this in the AVS forum last Summer. I know there was a long on going thread from the Walnut Creek, Ca area about it. Eventually "D" started accepting more waivers.The Big Wood said:
I remember someone posting a letter from the FCC that basically "scolded" "D" for not providing HD DNS and "blaming" it on the FCC. They went on to say that although DBS doesn't have to provide HD DNS in any area, they should not be blaming their "business" decisions on the law or the FCC. They also said that "whether or not your DBS company offers analog LiLs in your area, has nothing to do with whether or not you can receive HD DNS".
waltinvt said:
How can we get that started with E* Boss Hog has really screwed us this year! Boss Hog aka Charlie
What is Charlie's reason for not letting Distant Net subscribers get the HD nets. We pay the same $5 as the locals. We are being cheated.
I have searched this site for 45 minutes and finally given up.
Can someone please post the channel numbers Dish is using for the 5 new Voom Channels, Universal HD, ESPN2 and the new NY/LA HD Locals?
I see NY locals are 6300-6303 in this thread, but can someone please post each channel and number in one place/post?
Thanks
Can someone please post the channel numbers Dish is using for the 5 new Voom Channels, Universal HD, ESPN2 and the new NY/LA HD Locals?
I see NY locals are 6300-6303 in this thread, but can someone please post each channel and number in one place/post?
Thanks
How come my HD locals don't go 16:9? I can see the image is of higher quality than the SD channel? Voom and UniHD and TNTHD show up just fine.
Edit: Nevermind, I forget the program has to be produced in HD....I'm tired....
Edit: Nevermind, I forget the program has to be produced in HD....I'm tired....
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To answer my own question - was hoping for something here and not another site:
ESPN2 9425
Universal HD 9427
World Sport 9473
World Cinema 9475
Treasure 9477
Game Play 9585
Family 9486
NY HD locals 6300-6303
LA HD locals 6306-6309
ESPN2 9425
Universal HD 9427
World Sport 9473
World Cinema 9475
Treasure 9477
Game Play 9585
Family 9486
NY HD locals 6300-6303
LA HD locals 6306-6309
Tom Bombadil said:
The FCC doesn't agree with you nor does the ATSC. Further, networks tend to choose one or the other. And then local affiliates choose one or the other, so you may have NBC sending their content out in 1080i but the local affiliate using 720p. This is legal because both are HD and switching between the two is part of the standard. I'd rather have the content converted from 1080i to 720p than from 720p to 1080i, especially since the 720p content over the same bandwidth should have less compression, since it carries 10% less information.
Very few TVs can display 1080i/p in full resolution, but most can display 720p.
Just recieved an email from Dish Dated Feb 3 7:36 PM ...I have a 6000 and 501 and a 500 dish and another one pointed to 61.5 I have AE+HD+voom+SD locals here is what the e-mail said
Experience the complete Olympics on Dish
dish home interactive Channal 100
NBC Showcase: View up to 6 channels simultaneously or select any one to watch full screen
NBC Enhanced Application: Check event schedules, athlete bios, medal counts and more
Over 400 hours of Olympic coverage including HD
200 hours of high definition simulcast on NBC HD
Over 100 hours of content on Universal HD
Do you think disk is stupid enough to send these emails to people who will not be able to get the coverage. If not, then they must going to be adding 2 channels of MPEG2 to cover the Olympics. If not they will pi--- off a lot of people e-mailing them that they will be able to get it and then not showing it. Any comments ??????
Experience the complete Olympics on Dish
dish home interactive Channal 100
NBC Showcase: View up to 6 channels simultaneously or select any one to watch full screen
NBC Enhanced Application: Check event schedules, athlete bios, medal counts and more
Over 400 hours of Olympic coverage including HD
200 hours of high definition simulcast on NBC HD
Over 100 hours of content on Universal HD
Do you think disk is stupid enough to send these emails to people who will not be able to get the coverage. If not, then they must going to be adding 2 channels of MPEG2 to cover the Olympics. If not they will pi--- off a lot of people e-mailing them that they will be able to get it and then not showing it. Any comments ??????
HD Tech answers HD DNS question
A HD Tech advised me that E* is presently working on offering HD DNS channels to those of us who have network waivers. Was told those with LA or NY could possible have the channels later this month... or March 2006. I won't hold my breath! :up
A HD Tech advised me that E* is presently working on offering HD DNS channels to those of us who have network waivers. Was told those with LA or NY could possible have the channels later this month... or March 2006. I won't hold my breath! :up
kcribb1 said:
I was also told this. According to the official I spoke with, Dish may have ABC-HD soon but are still working on NBC-HD & FOX-HD. This is for HD DNS. As far as those 50 cities for HD LiLs, he said a lot of that will come from the launch ofEchostar X which happens next week and then they need 45 days testing. They are activly negoiating with a lot of the local afilliates now.
I wouldn't hold my breath..
This would be great but don't hold your breath. According to the "uninformed" Natalie at the CEOs office it is ILLEGAL for dish to provide HD DNS
. What a crock that a company the size of dish cannot even read the FCC rules correctly as it pretains to the current analog model in place for DNS.... Gerry
kcribb1 said:
This would be great but don't hold your breath. According to the "uninformed" Natalie at the CEOs office it is ILLEGAL for dish to provide HD DNS
. What a crock that a company the size of dish cannot even read the FCC rules correctly as it pretains to the current analog model in place for DNS.... Gerry
ggw2000 said:This would be great but don't hold your breath. According to the "uninformed" Natalie at the CEOs office it is ILLEGAL for dish to provide HD DNS
No Joke!! Agreed
