DISH CES Press Conference Announcements
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Silly question:
Why are these services referred to as "over the top" rather than just streaming or some such?
Granted, "Over the Top" is not nearly as annoying as "Internet of Things". But, it's still smacks pretty strongly of dopey marketing buzzword disease.
Why are these services referred to as "over the top" rather than just streaming or some such?
Granted, "Over the Top" is not nearly as annoying as "Internet of Things". But, it's still smacks pretty strongly of dopey marketing buzzword disease.
Granted I don't see Directv announcing anything, but this is nothing to get excited over.
Whats the point in having a 4K Joey, if they don't have any 4K content to make it work? The voice remote has been around with Directv for a while now and I could care less, and I aint paying $20/mo to watch TV online.
Whats the point in having a 4K Joey, if they don't have any 4K content to make it work? The voice remote has been around with Directv for a while now and I could care less, and I aint paying $20/mo to watch TV online.
I do not know how true it is, but there is an article at multichannelnews.com about Dish's press conference at CES, to paraphrase,basically it said that the remote would be available in Q2 to current Hopper and HWS owners for between $15-$20. It also stated that it would begin to be included with the Hopper for new installs (the way the article was written) presumably in place of the 40.0 remote. Hope they don't do away with the 40.0, might should get a couple of extra, I don't know about these touchpad remotes, they came with a couple of Panasonic Blu-Ray players I have, hated them, and got another remote to use instead.
Until there us linear 4K content I doubt they will have any sat delivered 4K. Other posts report it will only be streamed content at this point.
Channel 1/501 VOD content could be the exception, as it could spool down at something less than real-time speeds.
I don't see that bit rate being good enough for live sports on large tvs. But most cord cutters aren't concerned with quality either.
Not true! We get FAR better PQ from Netflix and Amazon than I ever got from Dish!
No kidding. Cord cutters would be more likely to buy or rent Blu-rays which can't be beat for PQ.
Remember that this UI was originally started with the 922 receiver. This UI has been around for around 5 years already.
Don't forget that Dish needs to save some big announcements for Team Summit in May as well. Maybe they'll talk about a 4K Hopper then.
I suspected all along that the hopper with sling could do 4k ,but after hearing that only the joey will be 4k, I really wonder what the hell they are doing.
