DISH March Madness

[Scott Greczkowski]

March Madness is upon us, and DISH is giving you the best ways to follow the tournament. In addition to being able to tune in anywhere you go with the DISH Anywhere app and watching four games at once with Multi-View, DISH customers can catch up to 13 tournament games in 4K!

Rated above regular HD, 4K content delivers crystal-clear resolution with four times the pixels. Not only are pictures sharper, you can see even more detail and texture than ever before. Meaning, you’ll have a front-row seat to the tournament from the comfort of your living room.

Thirteen March Madness games will be delivered in 4K from the First Four though the Elite Eight. To watch, Hopper 3 customers can tune into DISH channel 540*.

Date Time** Teams
FIRST FOUR
March 19 6:40 p.m. F. Dickinson vs. Prairie View
March 19 At the conclusion of Game 1 Belmont vs. Temple
March 20 6:40 p.m. N. Dakota St. vs. NC Central
March 20 At the conclusion of Game 3 Arizona St. vs. St. John’s

Follow @DISHNews to stay up to date on DISH’s latest 4K offerings.

*This story is updated to reflect the upcoming NCAA tournament games in 4K. **All times in Eastern Standard Time

 

[joewhite57]

March Madness is upon us, and DISH is giving you the best ways to follow the tournament. In addition to being able to tune in anywhere you go with the DISH Anywhere app and watching four games at once with Multi-View, DISH customers can catch up to 13 tournament games in 4K!

Rated above regular HD, 4K content delivers crystal-clear resolution with four times the pixels. Not only are pictures sharper, you can see even more detail and texture than ever before. Meaning, you’ll have a front-row seat to the tournament from the comfort of your living room.

Thirteen March Madness games will be delivered in 4K from the First Four though the Elite Eight. To watch, Hopper 3 customers can tune into DISH channel 540*.

Date Time** Teams
FIRST FOUR
March 19 6:40 p.m. F. Dickinson vs. Prairie View
March 19 At the conclusion of Game 1 Belmont vs. Temple
March 20 6:40 p.m. N. Dakota St. vs. NC Central
March 20 At the conclusion of Game 3 Arizona St. vs. St. John’s

Follow @DISHNews to stay up to date on DISH’s latest 4K offerings.

*This story is updated to reflect the upcoming NCAA tournament games in 4K. **All times in Eastern Standard Time

Is there a minimum package cut-off Scott?

 

[joewhite57]

March Madness is upon us, and DISH is giving you the best ways to follow the tournament. In addition to being able to tune in anywhere you go with the DISH Anywhere app and watching four games at once with Multi-View, DISH customers can catch up to 13 tournament games in 4K!

Rated above regular HD, 4K content delivers crystal-clear resolution with four times the pixels. Not only are pictures sharper, you can see even more detail and texture than ever before. Meaning, you’ll have a front-row seat to the tournament from the comfort of your living room.

Thirteen March Madness games will be delivered in 4K from the First Four though the Elite Eight. To watch, Hopper 3 customers can tune into DISH channel 540*.

Date Time** Teams
FIRST FOUR
March 19 6:40 p.m. F. Dickinson vs. Prairie View
March 19 At the conclusion of Game 1 Belmont vs. Temple
March 20 6:40 p.m. N. Dakota St. vs. NC Central
March 20 At the conclusion of Game 3 Arizona St. vs. St. John’s

Follow @DISHNews to stay up to date on DISH’s latest 4K offerings.

*This story is updated to reflect the upcoming NCAA tournament games in 4K. **All times in Eastern Standard Time

Is there a minimum package cut-off Scott?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

That I don't know.. that is what they sent me.

 

[Foxbat]

And let me guess, not available for the 4K Joey?

Edit: Ooooo, promising; on my 4K Joey I see 540-03 (4K2) has NCAA Tip-Off at 6:00 pm EDT, followed by NCAA: NCCU vs N Dakota St at 6:30 pm EDT!

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[lakebum431]

Yep, they had both an HDR version and a non-HDR version last night. Interesting though, the audio for the in-studio portion (between the games, not sure about before the games as I didn't catch that) had audio that was only coming out of my rear left speaker in my 5.1 setup. AV receiver showed all speakers were receiving signal but nothing was coming out of them. When the game started the audio was correct again.

 

[LQQK]

My sound was crazy...mostly Left rear...Also not true 4K, Upconverted!

 

[Cheddar_Head]

My sound was crazy...mostly Left rear...Also not true 4K, Upconverted!

Yeah the sound for the broadcast was coming from my left rear, commercials would vary from correct to only left rear.

How do you know it was upconverted and not 4K for the game? Not saying you are wrong just wondering why you think it was upconverted? I compared to the signal on TruTV and the PQ on 540 seemed to be much better.

 

[LQQK]

Yeah the sound for the broadcast was coming from my left rear, commercials would vary from correct to only left rear.

How do you know it was upconverted and not 4K for the game? Not saying you are wrong just wondering why you think it was upconverted? I compared to the signal on TruTV and the PQ on 540 seemed to be much better.

Turner Sports, CBS Sports Will Deliver Select NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Games In 4K HDR

 

[Cheddar_Head]

Turner Sports, CBS Sports Will Deliver Select NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Games In 4K HDR

Thanks, from the article it seems that they are upconverting from a 1080p HDR original so at least it is a progressive vice interlaced original and the original is HDR not upconverted from SDR. Both are better than upconverting a 1080i or 720p SDR original. No wonder it looked better than the TruTV feed.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Here are the trucks uplinking the action from Hartford.

Sent from my iPhone using the SatelliteGuys app!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

And a view from my office looking down onto the XL Center. Uplink trucks are in the lower left.

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[Howard Simmons]

And a view from my office looking down onto the XL Center. Uplink trucks are in the lower left.


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Sent from my iPhone using the SatelliteGuys app!

Man we have spies everywhere.

 

[LQQK]

Multi View 4K (upscaled)

 

[lakebum431]

Multi View 4K (upscaled)

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How did you make the border around the one you have selected for sound blue? Mine is red.

 

[JSheridan]

How did you make the border around the one you have selected for sound blue? Mine is red.

You can change the Menu\Settings\Appearance to Classic to make it blue.

 

[lakebum431]

Oh, that's disappointing. I like the modern look overall much better, but I like the blue in this case. Thanks for the info.

 

[cpa4u]

When I use multi-view, the picture is so dark that it is almost unwatchable. The photo makes the picture look much lighter than it actually is. The regular channels are normal looking when I go to each of the 4. Anyone else have this issue?

 

[lakebum431]

When I use multi-view, the picture is so dark that it is almost unwatchable. The photo makes the picture look much lighter than it actually is. The regular channels are normal looking when I go to each of the 4. Anyone else have this issue?

Don't have that issue at all. What display are you using?

 

[cpa4u]

Don't have that issue at all. What display are you using?

It’s a Samsung 60” 8000 series. When I watched one of the play-in games on the 4k channel the other night, the picture was much darker than the HD channel the game was on too.