Scott Greczkowski said:If I were Dish Network I would offer the Olympics for FREE and also open up the HD pack for a week for free as well. They might get some new HD customers.
Excellent idea. It's like "the first joint is free" marketing method.
Are the Olympics coming to Dish Network?
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Excellent idea. It's like "the first joint is free" marketing method.
I do not believe there will be any copyright conflicts since NBC HD special feed will only be showing the Olympics which NBC has an exclusive right to broadcast in the USA. They will not be showing programming from other companies that would have copyright issues.
This would be fabulous since my local NBC is standard definition digital only, and they have no plans to ever upgrade to showing the HD feed from NBC (unless I guess NBC said show it or else).
Makes you wonder what DIRECTV is going to do?
This would be fabulous since my local NBC is standard definition digital only, and they have no plans to ever upgrade to showing the HD feed from NBC (unless I guess NBC said show it or else).
Makes you wonder what DIRECTV is going to do?
So from what I'm reading here and on AVSForum, E* is now using 3 channels per transonder for HD. That means that there are now two available with the Olympics taking one, leaving one free, and then when the Olympics are over, there will be two free. Is this correct? What can we expect them to add in HD? During/after the Olympics?
So far it is only on 2 Tps that they are doing 3 HDs. That leaves one free for the Olympics or whatever.
No the other HD transponder currently has two channels on it (HDnet and HDNet movies) it has room for 1 more (NBC Olympics)
JohnH does that sound about right to you?
JohnH does that sound about right to you?
It is quite possible that these moves are only temporary, and they will move the channels back after the olympics. I heard a rumor that HDNET/HDMovies have a minimum bandwidth agreement and they might not be able to put another channel on their transponder. Cuban does not want his signal compressed.
Yup...any new hd, if only part time is good.BFG said:I wonder if along with NBC agreeing for dish to air the olympics that BravoHD has to be added as well, that would be nice
rocatman said:
Scott, what he said.
Wouldn't want to crowd the Olympics though. Bunches of screen activity in that venue.
Also, didn't they just free up TP16 on 110 (where the Dallas Big4 were?). I don't see what else is on TP16 @ 110.
Question, is this Dish HD feed that you are talking about simply going to duplicate what the local OTA NBC HD broadcasts are doing? Or is it something different. I went to the NBC web site and wasn't clear.
Are all the local NBC HD OTA broadcasts going to be doing the same 24/hour 1-day delayed commercial-free HD feed?
Are all the local NBC HD OTA broadcasts going to be doing the same 24/hour 1-day delayed commercial-free HD feed?
I did go over to the AVS forum threads but it's still not 100% clear to me what NBC is doing in HD. Is the following correct?
NBC is producing a SINGLE HD feed that will consist of 8hrs/day of programming that will be broadcast 3-times/day on a one-day delay. This HD feed will be available on the NBC affiliate OTA broadcasts and possibly also on Dish but apparently not on DirectTV or Voom. So Dish customers won't get anything different via satellite than what they can pull off their local NBC HD OTA feed.
All the other Olympics coverage will be scattered across the various NBC-owned stations and most likely broadcast tape-delayed as well due to the time-zone differences between Greece and North America. However the tape-delay of the SD broadcasts will be same-day tape delay as opposed to next-day tape delay for the HD.
NBC is producing a SINGLE HD feed that will consist of 8hrs/day of programming that will be broadcast 3-times/day on a one-day delay. This HD feed will be available on the NBC affiliate OTA broadcasts and possibly also on Dish but apparently not on DirectTV or Voom. So Dish customers won't get anything different via satellite than what they can pull off their local NBC HD OTA feed.
All the other Olympics coverage will be scattered across the various NBC-owned stations and most likely broadcast tape-delayed as well due to the time-zone differences between Greece and North America. However the tape-delay of the SD broadcasts will be same-day tape delay as opposed to next-day tape delay for the HD.
