Statement from Dish on A&E HD, History HD and NFL HD

[goaliebob99]

Wow thats crazy dont these people belive in off site redundancy. You would think they would have atleast two POPs to distribute programming, but with the high costs of creating high def pops I could see why they only have one

 

[charper1]

Just got this statment from Dish Network regarding the outtage that has taken A&E HD, History Channel HD and NFL HD offline.

No redundancy? In this day and age?

 

[charper1]

LOL, thinking right along with you Bob.

 

[HD#1]

i guess instead of getting more HD channels we are loosing them, too bad for us

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Charlie is going to talk about how they added History Channel HD, and people are going to run to tune to it, just seeing the Dish HD logo.

 

[Sparkman]

Our Comcast system has just put the SD feed of NFL & A&E on the HD channels.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok I have just did some research on this and have put an article up at MultiChannel News.

A&E HD, History HD, NFL HD and YES HD are off the air - The Satellite Dish - Blog on Multichannel News

 

[Spaz007]

History channel HD wasn't even showing HD anything so I really won't miss it much.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I will miss the Lip Sync issue.

The History Channel HD is err. HISTORY!

 

[dont24]

I will miss the Lip Sync issue.

The History Channel HD is err. HISTORY!

At least I'm not the only one with the Lip Sync issue on History HD.

 

[Hall]

1) Do I need to wait 'til it's back on before I call Dish and ask for a credit ??

2) Do we need to (2) threads on this topic ??

 

[skottey]

I am beginning to wonder if they arsoned their own facility so they could get some better HD equipment out of the insurance company. Maybe they got sick of everybody complaining about not being true HD or not having enough HD programming and decided the only way they could economically make it work would be to start a fire, get the insurance money, and start over. They can get their cash and buy state of the art, 2007 equipment, as opposed to the circa 2001 equipment that has been pushing A&E HD since it's birth.

I'm being funny, for those that need to be told that, but I am sure there are people out there that believe such a theory.

I hope they get back online soon.

 

[Pepper]

I wonder if the fire wiped out their inventory of programming. If so this could be very bad.

If they were smart, they had off-site backups of their programming,

Depends on if they operate under the same rules as we do with our external backup storage. If I take my backup offsite I can't watch it.

 

[kstuart]

Too funny - the NFL Network rep is on the Chat !

 

[MikeD-C05]

And yet they don't say a word about the fire and the missing programming .

 

[kstuart]

What missing programming ?

A&E-HD and History-HD haven't had anything in HD !

 

[Slamminc11]

And yet they don't say a word about the fire and the missing programming .

in order to put it into a bit of perspective, let's hope no one was hurt (either employees or firefighters) in the fire, I think that is a bit more important than the missing programming for a day, week, or whatever.

 

[tigershere]

yea i thought Britney was doing the voice overs for the History HD when I saw the sync or lack of it

 

[Marcus Carr]

Yep, no A&E HD is on Comcast either. Don't know why they don't flip the switch on certain shows. CSI Miami is always in HD, but On Demand is the only way to see Family Jewels in HD.

 

[MikeD-C05]

in order to put it into a bit of perspective, let's hope no one was hurt (either employees or firefighters) in the fire, I think that is a bit more important than the missing programming for a day, week, or whatever.

Never the less, they should at least inform their customers of the event so instead of promoting channels like NFL channel that no one can see due to that event. THat is their duty as the provider.