Dish is giving us LOUSY SD for NHL Center Ice

Sorry for got to say it was last year. I bought CI last year from dish. So dissapointed I brought in Direc just for CI .

For Hockey fans..Do yourself a favor and get direc just for the Hockey..Its worth every pennie.

Is anyone actually keeping a list of the number games in HD on NHLCI for both of the services?
 
Is anyone actually keeping a list of the number games in HD on NHLCI for both of the services?

I'm afraid to look over there at D*'s schedule...it might make me cry.

I was actually so dissapointed that E* still didn't have MSGHD this year, that after they autobilled me for CI, I tried to cancel it twice in september and then again the first week of Oct. Once by phone, then again by chat...I even have the transcripts. But somehow, I never got refunded and I still have the service...in all it's mostly SD glory.

I guess I could try to dispute the charges on my card but at this point I'm just gonna keep it. After hockey season, it's most likely OTA only for this household anyway.
 
I'm afraid to look over there at D*'s schedule...it might make me cry.

I was actually so dissapointed that E* still didn't have MSGHD this year, that after they autobilled me for CI, I tried to cancel it twice in september and then again the first week of Oct. Once by phone, then again by chat...I even have the transcripts. But somehow, I never got refunded and I still have the service...in all it's mostly SD glory.

I guess I could try to dispute the charges on my card but at this point I'm just gonna keep it. After hockey season, it's most likely OTA only for this household anyway.

At least your autobilled worked. I had to go online and sub for the third year in a row. They did manage to get the 3 installment plan right when I subbed though.
 
hey holmes no need to get pissy with me (oh wait thats right...you have 24/7 PMS according to your posts...god forbid you ever have something positive to say)...I'm just stating that the feeds look fine on Canadian TV satellite systems. So as you put here (and oh by the way....note the bolding part...shows you are lying)

you are blaming the Canadian Networks which is wrong

The feeds are available for all who take it...and its the same feed
Canadian cable, telco & satellite companies...
same companies for NHL CI
US companies for NHL CI

so saying that the networks (RSN, TSN, TSN2, Score) are giving out crap picture is....well.....crap. Looks perfectly fine on a Starchoice system (Canadian DTH provider). Now if they grabbed it off a different source (say Bell which I have seen people do in the past) well then thats a different issue

and I thought last year you were leaving Dish because of these issues and the reason you were waiting is because you had a NHL CI contract still....so I guess you decided to stay with Dish, huh ;)

WTF do you care? I will never go to Directv, the basic packages are more expensive and I will have my wife bitch slap you the next time PMS comes around.

Gotta love this site, complain more than once and your labeled a "24/7 PMS". Then I gotta take crap from moderators who come here 10 hours a day on average.
 
WTF do you care? I will never go to Directv, the basic packages are more expensive and I will have my wife bitch slap you the next time PMS comes around.
Then quit your whining about EVERYTHING Dish does. Last year you whined about THE SAME THING and folks said "Go to DirecTv then" and the only response you had was "I have NHL CI contract until end of year". That time had come and gone and you could have easily gone to DirecTv but I guess you'd rather sit and whine about EVERYTHING Dish does :rolleyes:

Gotta love this site, complain more than once and your labeled a "24/7 PMS". Then I gotta take crap from moderators who come here 10 hours a day on average.
Take a look at your posts...seriously take a look at them. All you do is complain, whine, swear (which by the way those posts get nuked) and grumble about everything. Oh wait I take that back....I guess when the Phillies won you were happy (for a day or so)

And 10 hours a day huh? How do you know how much I am here? ;)
 
Then quit your whining about EVERYTHING Dish does. Last year you whined about THE SAME THING and folks said "Go to DirecTv then" and the only response you had was "I have NHL CI contract until end of year". That time had come and gone and you could have easily gone to DirecTv but I guess you'd rather sit and whine about EVERYTHING Dish does :rolleyes:


Take a look at your posts...seriously take a look at them. All you do is complain, whine, swear (which by the way those posts get nuked) and grumble about everything. Oh wait I take that back....I guess when the Phillies won you were happy (for a day or so)

And 10 hours a day huh? How do you know how much I am here? ;)

yeah and when the Phillies win next year I may be happy for 3 days!

DISH SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
On Saturday, 11/22, I saw the worst CI SD broadcast ever. It was St. Louis at Minnesota -- St. Louis feed (the only feed available on Dish CI).

The picture was extremely dark -- like the lenses were coated with the tinting used for car windows. All dark colors were virually one color -- black or a shade of black. The white uniforms and the white ice were like a dirty vanilla.

I can honestly say that the color broadcasts we got in the 60's were far better than what I saw on Saturday.
 
On Saturday, 11/22, I saw the worst CI SD broadcast ever. It was St. Louis at Minnesota -- St. Louis feed (the only feed available on Dish CI).

The picture was extremely dark -- like the lenses were coated with the tinting used for car windows. All dark colors were virually one color -- black or a shade of black. The white uniforms and the white ice were like a dirty vanilla.

I can honestly say that the color broadcasts we got in the 60's were far better than what I saw on Saturday.

You should have posted this while the game was active so we could actually compare and see what you were saying in our own eyes as opposed to waiting 2 days later...
 
The picture on tonight's Canes vs Panthers is awful. You can barely see the puck.

I wouldn't say you can't see the puck, comparing both the Panthers and the Hurricanes feed, the Panthers feed looks less pixlilated and the Canes feed looks like the brightness levels need to be adjusted and if there was a bit more bandwith it would be fine.

Not great, but it is at least watchable, especially on the Flordia feed...
 
Yesterday I was watching the Wings Vancouver game and it was breaking up like it was HD but it was SD. I even checked to see if it was raining hard but it was not. According to another thread Dish is having trouble with 119 sat so Dish really does not know how long it will take to fix this problem.
 
There have really been some quality issues during the past week. The Avalanche game on Saturday night had some horrible smearing (and it was SD!) - the players left cool (for cartoons) smear trails behind them as they skated down the ice.

Last night's Kings game was pretty horrible too!

I hate to bitch but it is getting worse.

I am not going to switch to Direct TV any time soon and I am really enjoying my purchase (this is my first year with NHL CI - mostly because I can't get RSN's with my HD only pack) and will probably repurchase next year. I love being able to watch the last period of a couple of games a night.
 
the SD RSN's on Dish are shared with like 16 other channels per transponder. They don't care. It's been shite for years.

I wish I could get a screenshot of the Rogers Sportsnet feeds from all regions, they are blurry and washed out. Totally unwatchable.