The OFFICIAL DISH / HBO Thread

Hit the info button on the Vizio remote at least mine shows that info when I do it.
Bobby, I tried the Vizio TV Info button out again. For some reason the Info button does not work on any of the Amazon apps. All other apps the Info button displays the resolution. Also it works for the TV and Satellite HDMI inputs. Strange
 
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Bobby, I tried the Vizio TV Info button out again. For some reason the Info button does not work on any of the Amazon apps. All other apps the Info button displays the resolution. Also it works for the TV and Satellite HDMI inputs. Strange
Interesting, I just tried it over several Amazon programs and Info worked over all of them..
 
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What makes you think the Tivo isn't interpolating (upconverting) the 480 to a higher resolution that it is delivering to your TV? If the Firestick was switching resolutions every time the content resolution changed, that would result in a black screen for a few seconds each time. I've experienced HDMI errors before where the handshake was bad and the resolution the display expected did not match what it was receiving from the device (PS3). The result was either the screwed up picture and/or an error on the screen.
I agree with this. I used to have a Directv H25 receiver set to Native, and that is exactly what it did. That would not have been so bad, except that every time that happened (which was almost every time I changed channels) there would also be a loud audio "pop" on my Sony TV. That behavior drove me nuts. I could have set the receiver to always output the same resolution, but that made the SD channels display as stretch-o-vision (making a 4x3 picture wider to fill the 16x9 screen) which was also unacceptable to me. I finally just got in the habit of muting the TV when changing channels (muting was necessary as the "pop" sound was just as loud as always no matter how low I turned down the volume on the TV) at least when anyone else was in the house who would be annoyed by the repeated loud pops. Otherwise, I just got used to hearing it and accepted it, until I finally got fed up enough that I downgraded to a D12 SD-only receiver instead. :eek
 
In scenes we'd like to see...

Hugh's net commercial. "you think you can't get internet where you are? Well you can!"

Looks up. Rain. They are in Portland Oregon.

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Sailed. And sunk!

Soon, HBO will not be as we know it. It is morphing into a Netflix clone. Sorta.

So it’s gone. Even if it came back to Dish, which I do not expect, it will be a way different creature.


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Is there a chance of hbo/cinemax coming back to dish or that ship has sailed?
Well, I actually did see an HBO ad during a commercial break on Dish. It was on TBS (same ownership as HBO) so it was probably an ad that came as part of the program, that Dish did not bother to cover up with an inserted ad (or did not have the rights to insert another ad in that time slot) but it still seemed unusual to see that. It took me by surprise. Of course, I had not been watching TBS much lately, so they could have been running these kind of ads all along for all I know.
 
Today's uplink report is interesting. It looks like Amazon Prime Video may be coming to channel 303.
Uplink Activity Updates » Blog Archive » 9/11/19 at 3:16pm ET (v18) – 26 changes seen

New Uplinks / Mappings – Channels NOT Available

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25039 APV (303) ‘amzn’ added to 110° TP 21 (VOD XiP *TEST* Hidden) xED Network Name: amzn
25039 APV (303) ‘amzn’ added to 72.7° TP 21 (VOD XiP *TEST* Hidden) xED Network Name: amzn

Nice backdoor way to get HBO back on Dish receivers (assuming you have HBO through Prime Video and your Amazon Channels are available in the Dish version of the APV app).
 
How long will it take to test Amazon APP. I remember it took quite some time to get Netflix out of testing.
That is a good question. The more important question (from my perspective) is will the Amazon App be available on Wally and/or Hopper Duo, or will it be reserved for only the Hopper 3? Both YouTube and YouTube Kids had been in testing on the Hopper Duo for awhile, but ultimately neither of those apps actually materialized to the public on that model, and neither app ever appeared on the Wally for testing. So, it will be interesting to see if the Amazon app shows up on either model for testing, and whether it will ever actually be made available on those receivers.
 
After losing HBO on Dish my wife and I have also discovered Prime( via smart tv) to watch GOT and Netflix on (smart tv and Dish). Now losing RSN's Dish has incentivised us to find alternatives to get Big 12 football such as Hulu and You Tube. We have been impressed and are now watching more Netflix , You Tube, and Prime than Dish. Netflix is free via our niece, Amazon is free via our Nephew and You Tube is 1/3 the cost of our current Dish subscription. My wife actually asked me " Why do we still have Dish?" Another impact is that Dish Anywhere is very unreliable on her tablet. So she has discovered more uses of You Tube. It seems like a disastrous marketing strategy for Dish to force customers to seek alternatives to their services. We have been with Dish since they started business in our area. We never questioned their price increases. This is the 1st time we are actually considering dropping them.
 
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