DISH Network Charges Forward With Another Round of National HD Channel Launches

[TalonDancer]

Amazingly enough Dish was able to ....
* find enough space at 129 and 61.5
* resolve all the legal/licensing issues
* hold down prices by hard ball price negotiations
* solve all the uplink feed issues
* solve the other "technical issues"
....for 19 new HD Channels just in time to announce them as a group on a Sunday evening before the week containing Tech Chat, and Team Summit. Obviously the reason we have had to wait for new National HD this long was not so that Dish could have a Big Bang announcement.

Talon Dancer

 

[tigerfan33]

******* awesome!

And Scott's right, the HD only pack is one helluva value now.

I wonder how much longer it will last.

You would think it will still be offered next year, however at a slightly higher price.

 

[nlk10010]

Yahoooo - the World Fishing Network in HD!!!!

Thanks Dish for all the additions! Very nice!

I agree, nice set of channels.

As an aside, I keep hoping they REALLY mean RFD-HD rather than WFN-HD.

I can't imagine why this hasn't launched on D* OR E* yet. I mean, can they really be asking for so much money? They also, apparently, DO have HD content with their concerts and some other shows.

Not complaining, of course, I just think that RFD-HD would be a cheap channel that would be preferable to (though in the same vein as) WFN-HD.

 

[tigerfan33]

Amazingly enough Dish was able to ....
* find enough space at 129 and 61.5
* resolve all the legal/licensing issues
* hold down prices by hard ball price negotiations
* solve all the uplink feed issues
* solve the other "technical issues"
....for 19 new HD Channels just in time to announce them as a group on a Sunday evening before the week containing Tech Chat, and Team Summit. Obviously the reason we have had to wait for new National HD this long was not so that Dish could have a Big Bang announcement.

Talon Dancer

Thank goodness for quarterly reports too.

 

[gadgtfreek]

I wonder how much longer it will last.

You would think it will still be offered next year, however at a slightly higher price.

Im sure itll go up and I wouldnt blame them. Im paying $30+ less per month than I was with D* and not missing the SD channels. I now have every channel I want except for FXHD, but itll come.

An increase of $5-10 would not make me mad at all.

 

[toadfannc]

Should be an exciting couple of days.

Anyone hear anything about AMC-HD? They have a couple of decent new shows ("Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad") that would be much better in HD.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

As a D* sub I hope this will spur D* to light up D11 sooner then they planned to. The satellite should be parked in about two weeks. Hopefully they will light it up in June instead of September so that D* will add the other HD channels that are out that they don't have yet.

They are scheduled to do a lot of things to DirecTV 11 before they turn it on for consumers. This testing and beam setup is scheduled to go through September.

Now unlike DirecTV 10, DirecTV's main purpose is not for national HD, instead the majority of the bird will be for LIL HD (HD locals) while there is some room on it for national HD channels I don't expect to see them turn on loads of HD like they did when DirecTV 10 went up.

 

[bmuthagoose]

Woo Hoo!

 

[DodgerKing]

They are scheduled to do a lot of things to DirecTV 11 before they turn it on for consumers. This testing and beam setup is scheduled to go through September.

Now unlike DirecTV 10, DirecTV's main purpose is not for national HD, instead the majority of the bird will be for LIL HD (HD locals) while there is some room on it for national HD channels I don't expect to see them turn on loads of HD like they did when DirecTV 10 went up.

September deadline is to cover their own butts in case something goes wrong, like it did with 10. If no issue occur it will be lit up in June or July.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Amazingly enough Dish was able to ....
* find enough space at 129 and 61.5
* resolve all the legal/licensing issues
* hold down prices by hard ball price negotiations
* solve all the uplink feed issues
* solve the other "technical issues"
....for 19 new HD Channels just in time to announce them as a group on a Sunday evening before the week containing Tech Chat, and Team Summit. Obviously the reason we have had to wait for new National HD this long was not so that Dish could have a Big Bang announcement.

Talon Dancer

They have only had the space at 61.5 for a few weeks now, this is why they were doing all the shuffling of channels around.

I think it was smart of them to wait a few more days as now they got a bigger bang for their buck instead of having 2 HD channels launching here and there.

 

[clapple]

This should stop the complainers, for awhile. At least until they start bitching about lack of HD content, on all these supposedly HD channels.

Patience Grasshopper!

 

[cmcnabb]

Crap. The Tennis Channel in HD?? Now I'll never be able to get that remote away from my wife!

 

[bayoufats]

Yep my Big Bang therory was right. Ifelt that Chuckie was sitting back waiting to drop a big ne National HD boom instead of one this week, and one next week etc.

Way to go Chuckie

 

[Jeff0575]

so what channels will be added today?

 

[hendrix04]

everything but the RSNs should light up today...

 

[BFG]

wow e wow wow

 

[Jeff0575]

that right there is just awesome

 

[BFG]

sweet 2 cinemax hd channels, that yearly penny subscription is proving valuable

and I can't believe the world fishing network is for real hah

 

[bowens]

I wonder if any of the HD channels without SD counterparts will be in the HD essentials pack like Discovery HD Theater and HDNet. I would really like WFN but I doubt it would be in the Essentials pack.

 

[gadgtfreek]

7000 views in 23 hours, how long till 10k