Volume Two, Show Twelve

[goaliebob99]

Welcome to the Satelliteguys.us Podcast. In this week’s show we open with some smoking DirecTV news and launches. Scott, then clear’s the air about some common questions about Eastern Arch including news on the new smart cards. We wrap things up with some discussions about this weeks stinking tech chat, with a question, “What would you do if you were in charge?” We close the show with your calls from the podcast hotline. If you like what you are hearing, vote for us over at podcast alley and as always we will see you real soon!
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[Rey]

great show guys. thanks

 

[ripnbigc]

Great show!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

We had some fun with that one, and we also gave em hell too which always feels good.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Great show.

 

[DodgerKing]

Great show. This is the first time I have listened to one of your podcast. Man, Bob and Scott sound nothing like I expected.

Bob, you sound nothing like Ralph

 

[cjwct]

I am somewhat concerned about EA being "beta." Don't you think it is a gamble for Dish to get new customers set up with EA if there may/may not be headaches . . . can they afford losing new customers?

 

[jcrandall]

Bob, you sound nothing like Ralph

And Scott hardly barks at all

 

[jcrandall]

I don't even have Dish, and I was pissed off with the joke of a tech chat they had.

 

[goaliebob99]

Great show. This is the first time I have listened to one of your podcast. Man, Bob and Scott sound nothing like I expected.

Bob, you sound nothing like Ralph

Yea yea yea.. Just got back from RAW, It was a great show.. CM punk won against his title match with JBL. The only thing that sucked was that you couldnt hear them addressing the crowd, but thats what I have my DVR for. Now back on to more serious stuff.. It appears comcast has now joined the enron style counting.. I have a homework project I will be working on and hope to have it up for the next podcast. Thats all that im saying for now.

 

[hdtvtechno]

Is there a way to listen to this on the Apple Iphone ?

 

[JimK2]

iPhone 101: Browser-based playlists - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

To listen through your iPod, iPhone etc you can subscribe to the SatelliteGuys Podcast at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=265597400

 

[Max Wright]

Great show! I especially liked the question that the caller posed and the answer. I've always wondered what the receiver was really doing right then.

 

[lovswr]

Ok I have been listening to you guys for several months now. I have always found you guys to be well reserved & never ones to go for hyperbole of any type. I must say I was a little chagrined when I heard the emphasis that you used in describing D's 1080p as being as good as Blu ray. I will give you the benefit of the doubt, however, as I have not viewed the 180p from D* myself.


Having said that, I am very skeptical of the claims that it will look as good as Blu ray (with no mention of sound codecs, advanced or otherwise I expect that no claims of sounding as good as Blu ray will be forthcoming). I base my skepticism on math. I would expect D* 1080p to provide a stream of 6Mbs MAX in order to preserve some kind of reasonable downloaded file size. Compare this to typical BD-50's that have the Audio only at 6 MBs (with some Video peaking at 30+MBs) & you can see why one would not expect tantamount results.


As an aside, I am incredulous that anybody in the BDA would agree that 1080P rentals would come first & then buying (second) of the Blu ray disc. I see them as total competitors in that respect.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No one said they would sounds as good as Bluray can sound, boith providers equipment can only handle standard Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and not the newer protocols.

Bluray has the advantage there, although the majority of folks dont' have systems which can handle the higher quality audio at this point anyways so for now its not that big of a deal, however in the future the new master audio systems will have much more of a base and the audio quality then will be more important because of that.

 

[JoeSp]

First time I have listened to a podcast - very enjoyable and very informative. Scott's accessment of real HD availablity from the two sat providers was very welcomed. About time someone speaks a little truth. Thanks Scott and Bob!

 

[db2]

Nice show guys.

I'm sorry to sound like a broken record but if Dish has been working closely with the studios and they don't take the statement, "like Blu-Ray quality" lightly, etc. then why the HELL don't they show the movies in OAR??!?!?!!?? I don't care if the movie looks 10x BETTER than blu-ray, if I can't see the picture that the director and/or studio intended me to see it's worthless.

 

[jacmyoung]

I listened to most of the podcast, I am a little confused, it talked about 1080p as if only D* has it, and E* is lagging behind, when in fact only E* subs have so far received 1080p, not a regular D* sub (CE does not count), so what is the deal here?

 

[goaliebob99]

I listened to most of the podcast, I am a little confused, it talked about 1080p as if only D* has it, and E* is lagging behind, when in fact only E* subs have so far received 1080p, not a regular D* sub (CE does not count), so what is the deal here?

In one of the podcast's a few weeks ago we talked about E*'s 1080P. While I have not seen E*'s 1080P selections, I can not comment on how good it looks. Right now 1080P is still in testing mode for D*, and sence it was released to CE subs last week we talked about how good it looked so you can be informed to check it out if your a CE sub and report your results. We will be talking more about E*'s 1080P VOD in the future so stay tuned.