Live from Team Summit

[JM42]

I'm not sure if anyone still had questions about the HD abilities but I'll say that it will do HD to three TVs.

Does the SWAP button still work? I keep my 722s in single mode and am addicted to my swap button. I do A LOT of pause, swap, watch, pause, swap back, unpause, watch, pause, swap....etc. Guess its the ADD.

 

[Scherrman]

I'm not sure if it will do that or not.

 

[fbara]

I'm not sure if anyone still had questions about the HD abilities but I'll say that it will do HD to three TVs. The 813 hooks up to your main tv like any receiver and then you would need a 110 for any other tv. Those TVs can be hooked up via hdmi.

I sure hope Dish is not expecting people to run more than 15 feet of HDMI cable to the other TVs they want to hook up. HDMI cables encounter significant resistance in lengths longer than 15 ft and that can really degrade the digital signal.

The discussions about a 'thin client' are interesting, though. I can see the Dish receiver either using your existing router or acting as a router itself to send the signal to the other units feeding the other TVs. That, or using cat5e/6 to send the signal.

 

[Scherrman]

The 110 would be next to your tv so you could use a 1 meter hdmi cable if you wanted too.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

I sure hope Dish is not expecting people to run more than 15 feet of HDMI cable to the other TVs they want to hook up. HDMI cables encounter significant resistance in lengths longer than 15 ft and that can really degrade the digital signal.

The discussions about a 'thin client' are interesting, though. I can see the Dish receiver either using your existing router or acting as a router itself to send the signal to the other units feeding the other TVs. That, or using cat5e/6 to send the signal.

I believe Scherrman was referring to HDMI from the 110 to the TV...

 

[fbara]

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but I wish I understood better why Dish needs to think of itself as primarily a movie channel and Direct as primarily a sports channel. I don't think of Comcast, TWC, FIOS, U-verse, etc, as primarily one or the other.

I know it has to do with bandwidth, but every carrier, cable, phone line, satellite, has to deal with limited bandwidth. I don't like that I'm forced to make a choice between the two satellite providers if I want to watch a Cubs game in HD one day, a PPV the next day, and a VOD the next day. -rant off

 

[pabeader]

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but I wish I understood better why Dish needs to think of itself as primarily a movie channel and Direct as primarily a sports channel. I don't think of Comcast, TWC, FIOS, U-verse, etc, as primarily one or the other.

I know it has to do with bandwidth, but every carrier, cable, phone line, satellite, has to deal with limited bandwidth. I don't like that I'm forced to make a choice between the two satellite providers if I want to watch a Cubs game in HD one day, a PPV the next day, and a VOD the next day. -rant off

their bandwidth is not limited by the number of devices they have to work with. satellite is. the seperation of movies, us. sports, them. has been around since the beginning. and I for one hope it stays that way.

 

[David Taylor]

their bandwidth is not limited by the number of devices they have to work with. satellite is. the seperation of movies, us. sports, them. has been around since the beginning. and I for one hope it stays that way.

Adding satellites and moving everyone to MPEG-4 compression should allow BOTH. As a consumer, I want BOTH. Although I want sports more. I can get movies from anywhere.

 

[dewzan]

so what was the press conference this mourning about??

 

[lakebum431]

I sure hope Dish is not expecting people to run more than 15 feet of HDMI cable to the other TVs they want to hook up. HDMI cables encounter significant resistance in lengths longer than 15 ft and that can really degrade the digital signal.

Not an issue in this case (I think you misunderstood. He just meant HDMI from the 110 to the TV), but I have found long HDMI runs to be no problem at all. I have personally run a 100' HDMI (parents house) and two 75' HDMI lines (my house) to TVs and have had zero issues at all. One has been operating that way for about 5 years (the 100') the other two have been in place for 3 years and 6 months respectively. No signal boosters either. All are running to Pioneer TVs that have been calibrated and look no different than when connected directly. I compared very closely to ensure that I wasn't losing picture quality before I finalized each of them.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

so what was the press conference this mourning about??

It just showed the rest of the press what I got to see the past two days. In fact a few times the DISH execs asked me for the answers because they didnt know the answers themselves.

 

[HIFI]

It just showed the rest of the press what I got to see the past two days. In fact a few times the DISH execs asked me for the answers because they didnt know the answers themselves.

You have every right to be proud!

 

[dewzan]

there has been comments about sling adapter and sling extender,which one hooks up to the 2nd tv and doesn't use the internet. and when will it be available? also does it connect to the ethernet port, to the router, and then the box and tv or do you need a slingbox also?

 

[hawker152]

there has been comments about sling adapter and sling extender,which one hooks up to the 2nd tv and doesn't use the internet. and when will it be available? also does it connect to the ethernet port, to the router, and then the box and tv or do you need a slingbox also?

The sling extended is the one that is for tv2 from a 922. But it requires you to hook it up to your home network via a hardline, dishcomm or wifi.

 

[dewzan]

The sling extended is the one that is for tv2 from a 922. But it requires you to hook it up to your home network via a hardline, dishcomm or wifi.

isn't it going to be available for the 722?

 

[harshness]

isn't it going to be available for the 722?

Most who have the Sling adapter adapter are probably using it with a ViP722.

 

[dewzan]

Most who have the Sling adapter adapter are probably using it with a ViP722.

what all do you need for that?

 

[Scherrman]

I'm not sure. It may work with a 722 if you get the sling adapter. It works with sling technology.

 

[CK SatGuy]

For the sling extender, you would need a 922 or a 722/722k with a sling adapter. Hopefully DISH will release it soon!

 

[goaliebob99]

their bandwidth is not limited by the number of devices they have to work with. satellite is. the seperation of movies, us. sports, them. has been around since the beginning. and I for one hope it stays that way.

That's actually not accurate. While yes satellite is limited to transponders, and how much space they can work within a transponder through modulation schemes and encoding. Cable and Uverse have the same limitations as they are restricted to the frequency's they can use within their own systems. They too are switching from analogue to digital, and switching from mpeg2 to mpeg4, as well as adapting new transmission methods to give them more space as well.