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Fox News HD is up and viewable on 205/9477.

Despite Iceberg's heroic efforts, this thread represents everything that's wrong with SatelliteGuys these days. If your time is truly so valuable that something as small a duplicate thread creates problems for you, then you probably should be spending fewer hours on SatelliteGuys (and on the...

Yup just lost signal here too (S.F., CA).

I've had the "round, round, round in my Hoveround" chorus jolt me upright in my couch more than once. It sounds like Dish is compressing this audio causing it to sound much louder.

Most noticeably on my HD RSN, but really across the board, my HD PQ has improved in the past few weeks. Also, going back over recent threads, there don't seem to be many PQ complaints. Just got my eyes checked, 20-15, so I know it's not between the ears. And I have noticed bad PQ on my...

So the 6200-series channels are MPEG2? Why come? Provide legacy access to MPEG2 receivers while primary channels are converted to MPEG4?

To "echo" a previous poster, PQ on the HD RSN's is abhorrent. Motion and edge compression artifacts is really compromising the quality of these channels. Faces and details look muddy and pixelated, and any fast action causes the entire picture to macroblock. It's better than SD, but nowhere near...

Echostar's extensive corporate involvement with NASCAR makes the silence on adding this channel particularly puzzling.

There are no full-size HD trucks in Hawaii to handle sports broadcasts. ESPN contracted with a smaller company (and flew in a bunch of equipment) to broadcast the 2007 Hula Bowl in HD. Very much of a makeshift operation though. I think ESPN was trying to show up Fox this year by broadcasting...

For Mojo to acknowledge anything at all is a positive sign. If you dig Mojo, that is. Pretty weak IMHO.

Even the WorldSport HD Web site's note from Paul Giblin this week says we still don't know if we're going to get this game this weekend due to the broadcasting controversy ongoing in Spain. Does anyone know if we will actually get to see El Clasico Sunday morning?

Hi Sean, I can't remember, was Voom's acquisition a one-time showing or is it an exclusive for a period of time? Have we seen them again after the first initial showings?

Back on topic. The Discovery quadruplets look like they crop, but do not stretch, 4:3 SD content. I've also seen the crop jump around, particularly during commercials. Has anybody else seen this? Is it dynamically adjusting itself? Because I've also seen commercials at 16:9 that sure didn't...

Sorry, but no. The Discovery quadruplets appear to broadcast 4:3 SD content at a crop that leaves small black bars on either side. Maybe 15:9. Looks to me to be a straight crop and not stretched. The crop also appears to be dynamic; I've seen it jump around to different ratios during...

Congrats Chicago! Can anyone confirm any other new RSNs in HD? I heave Comcast and get a second 622 the instant Dish carries FSNBA-HD.