Uplink Activity Report - 12/4/2008 4:02am - 67 changes

Could be any of these.but some may have been added already
AMC HD
BET HD
Comedy Central HD
CMT HD
Fox Business Network
Fox News Channel HD
IFC HD
MoreMAX HD
MTV HD
Nickelodeon HD
Showtime 2 HD
Showtime West HD
Speed HD
TMC HD
VH1 HD

Yeah I like his list but you might add Spike TV HD and G4 HD I thought was going to get their HD channel up this month. So those two plus the list above would be big.. :)
 
I occasionally use C Band, but that does not make the picture better or worse. Only putting 5 HD channels instead of 7 on the same bandwidth channel would make a difference if the FEC was the same.

My point wasn't that the frequency matters, but that there is a different amount of available bandwidth on a Ka TP vs a Ku TP, at least the way DirecTV has them set up. So it is hard to make a direct comparison. It would be interesting to compare simultaneously the bitrate of the same channel on Dish and DirecTV, but I don't think anyone has that capability.
 
I'll take any and all new HD Channels, I don't even care if my locals are not added, as I use a OTA Antenna.

PLEASE just get me MSG HD!!!!

John
 
I'll take any and all new HD Channels, I don't even care if my locals are not added, as I use a OTA Antenna.

PLEASE just get me MSG HD!!!!

John
thats been "uplinked" atleast 2 years now "some" of the programming is duplicated in the HD alt channels (ie college football on saturday afternoons)
 
I would like Dish to show all of the HD games broadcast on my HD RSN rather than just randomly not showing one every once in a while. Pisses me off.
 
I see WNDU (Ch 16 in South Bend) is showing active in HD now. On 61.5 Can anyone confirm that it is available? If so, I will be installing my old Dish 500 pointed to 61.5 and hoping they get the rest of the locals up soon. No chance of the South Bend locals coming to 110, 119 or 129?? Probably not, but thought I would ask. Never hurts to ask!

Update: I see they added it and removed it...I guess it isn't available yet. DARN
 
Someone help me out here:
9466 - VS. [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar3 61.5W TP 16 ConUS beam (NA)
9466 - VS. [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar5 129W TP 13 ConUS beam (NA)
9473 - GOLF [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar3 61.5W TP 16 ConUS beam (NA)
9473 - GOLF [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar5 129W TP 13 ConUS beam (NA)
as of right now:
9468 - vs/golf on 61.5/129

When the separate Vs and Golf launch, won't that give us an extra HD channel (or room for 8 new HD channels)? -That dish will advertise as 10 new HD channels...
 
7 channels per transponder for the MPEG 4 channels on TP 7 conus on 110? Is this true am I counting ESPN, TNT, HDNET, HDNETMOVIES and 4 TEMP Channels??? UGHHHHHHHHH. Directv does 4 per TP can anyone confirm?

When E* first put 7 HD MPEG-4 channels on a transponder, Digiblur did not announce the change, but instead created a Poll about whether those changes looked better or worse.

The results of the poll were virtually unanimous that they looked better.

There are plenty of posts in various DirecTV Forums about how various Dish HD channels look better than the equivalent DirecTV HD channels (and vice versa).

That's why my RSN's look like poop.

Dish I plead to you, Directv HD looks amazing, can you take a hint?

My HD RSN looks excellent when the match is from the local arena connected to the RSN's HQ by fiber. All the road matches look worse.
 
When the separate Vs and Golf launch, won't that give us an extra HD channel (or room for 8 new HD channels)? -That dish will advertise as 10 new HD channels...
They did it when they removed VOOM... They'll remove VS/Golf, then add "VS" and "Golf" and claim "2 new HD channels".
 
Anybody had a chance to check picture quality on the new MPEG4 converted channels? Any better? No change? Worse?

People have compared these before:

- The MPEG4 ones have been on 72.5 and people have compared those to the 110 ones.

- Some magazine/news shows have been shown on ESPN2 (MPEG4) and ESPN (MPEG2).

- I subscribed to HBO after they added a half dozen MPEG4 HD channels, and one was HBO-W, so you had an MPEG4 version of the same MPEG2 channel, and I would record both showings of "True Blood" and compare. The MPEG4 always looked subjectively better - more 3-dimensional and realistic. When we first watched the MPEG4 version, my wife commented that the show looked better than before (and she rarely comments on PQ).
 
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