Dish Network Expands National Hd Line-up

Slamminc11

Pub Member / Supporter
Jan 28, 2005
4,174
237
At some point they will need to do away with all of the SD channels, in order to free up bandwidth eaten up by duplicates. To do that, they need to have all receivers be MPEG4 and HD. The questions is whether they'll make receivers that receive HD and downrez just so they can continue charging the HD customers extra - or will they force everyone to buy into HD, or will they eventually drop HD fees when HD has become mainstream? I wonder if the current line of SD receivers can actually receive and downrez HD? Also wonder when my 622 will have the option to stop showing me the SD channels where they are duplicates?

So there are aprox. 11 million SD customers to aprox. 2 million HD customers and you want Dish to tell the 11 million to kiss off because they are just going to do HD channels???? That sounds like a good business plan. :rolleyes:
 

jerryez

Supporting Founder
Supporting Founder
Sep 8, 2003
4,751
1,308
Pensacola,FL
OK, now that we got SciFi and USA, what do we want next? How about ABC Family, FX and weather channel. Is Fox News in HD yet?
 

paulzzz

Well-Known SatelliteGuys Member
Pub Member / Supporter
Lifetime Supporter
Feb 1, 2006
28
4
Maryland
Charlie has always delivered

Good Lord, an intelligence observation as opposed to the usual sophomoric bitching!
I so definitely agree. I have had Dish for I am thinking... approximately 8 years . Love to see the subs here bail at some point, crying I'm going to Direct. (Whaaa...whaaaa..whaaa and also blah..blah..blah....) Always makes for an interesting read with no intelligent reasoning. Dish and in his defense (Charlie) has always delivered over the years that I have subscribed to Dish. There has been no reason to defect. The hardware and service have been and are first rate!!
 

gqmagic

SatelliteGuys Pro
Nov 17, 2004
160
1
Pasadena, Ca
I switched to the HD only plan today, adding CNN was the one channel I watch in SD, that and the golf channel I had in Ala Carte. I also added the Music CD channels Ala Carte (not sirius).
So now I get all the HD channels for less than I was paying.

I've been very satisfied with Dish since 2002.:):)
 

fab9876

Member
Jan 5, 2006
11
0
when will i get USA HD and Sci-fi HD? i have dish latino max with dish HD ultimate and i dont get these channels.

I'm in the same boat as you, I talked to someone at Dish and they said I should be getting those channels, they will open a work order and let me know. I also have dish latino max ultimate hd. If I know something i'll let you know.
 

vegassatellite

SatelliteGuys Pro
Pub Member / Supporter
Nov 5, 2007
3,319
174
Phoenix, AZ
From looking at the uplink center, there isn't a feed for Sci-Fi HD and USA HD in the Latino package. If you look at CNN HD, there is a corresponding feed at channel 5314 for the Latino package. However, I don't see that to be the case with Sci-Fi HD or USA HD. They "create" different channel numbers for the DL packages and I'm not seeing it for them.

5314 - CNN [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar3 61.5W TP 25 ConUS beam (Available)
5314 - CNN [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar5 129W TP 11 ConUS beam (Available)

9436(200) - CNN [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar3 61.5W TP 25 ConUS beam (Available)
9436(200) - CNN [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar5 129W TP 11 ConUS beam (Available)

Notice CNN HD is added twice to both satellites. One is for DL and one is for regular programming.

CHNG 9431 USA MPEG4 HD Tp 17 EchoStar 8 110w UNAVAIL HIDE
TO 9431 USA MPEG4 HD Tp 17 EchoStar 8 110w AVAIL HD MAP 105

CHNG 9432 SCIFI MPEG4 HD Tp 17 EchoStar 8 110w UNAVAIL HIDE
TO 9432 SCIFI MPEG4 HD Tp 17 EchoStar 8 110w AVAIL HD MAP 122

Notice they didn't add those channels twice for each satellite.
 

thesapster

Active SatelliteGuys Member
Feb 22, 2006
21
0
Just curious is anyone getting usa or sci fi hd in Alaska. I subscribe to top 250 and alaska hd and I am not seeing these channels.
 

RandallA

Supporting Founder
Supporting Founder
Dec 13, 2004
10,556
68
San Francisco Bay Area
I'm in the same boat as you, I talked to someone at Dish and they said I should be getting those channels, they will open a work order and let me know. I also have dish latino max ultimate hd. If I know something i'll let you know.

Yeah, they are not in the Dish Latino Max HD packages. The SD versions of Sci-Fi and USA are included in the Dish Latino Max so I don't know why they were not added to the Latino Max HD packages.

I emailed them and they said that they will forward my request to the programming department. I'm not expecting them anytime soon. :)
 

AKGolf

Pub Member / Supporter
Lifetime Supporter
Mar 28, 2008
1,229
193
Edmond, OK
Just curious is anyone getting usa or sci fi hd in Alaska. I subscribe to top 250 and alaska hd and I am not seeing these channels.

I live in Anchorage and can see both channels, but they are not available to Alaska customers according to the Dish CSR I talked with. We have the Alaska HD package and these are only available at HD Essentials and higher. We are also not allowed to subscribe to the HD essentials package, I tried. I called Dish three times and got the same response each time. I have a six foot dish pointed at 110 so signal strength isn't a problem. I plan on complaining to Dish on a regular basis. It seems absurd that a few months ago I could have ordered a PPV movie on this transponder, but can't view these channels now!
 

ripnbigc

Freeze Sucker!
Jan 11, 2006
8,139
10
Wichita, Ks
The only SD channels I still watch are Speed and FX, but with the lawsuit going on it'll be awhile before the HD versions are available. Really glad we got SciFiHD.
 

memo90061

SatelliteGuys Pro
Aug 26, 2007
402
1
Los Angeles, CA
Yeah, they are not in the Dish Latino Max HD packages. The SD versions of Sci-Fi and USA are included in the Dish Latino Max so I don't know why they were not added to the Latino Max HD packages.

I emailed them and they said that they will forward my request to the programming department. I'm not expecting them anytime soon. :)

i wonder why they cant just turn on the USA HD and Scifi HD from the 9400 range.
 

AKGolf

Pub Member / Supporter
Lifetime Supporter
Mar 28, 2008
1,229
193
Edmond, OK
This is typical dish when it comes to alaska, I am probably going to go direct tv sometime this summer.

When it comes to Alaska Dish's HD lineup is lacking, I have a co-worker with Direct and she gets all of the HD channels. I would like to know if Dish has any plans to expand Alaska'a HD lineup, they're seriously behind Direct up here..

I'm hoping someone at Dish(Charlie?) comes to their senses and allows us to receive these two.
 

New Here, got some Dish questions!

HD Lite AP article

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Total: 0, Members: 0, Guests: 0)

Who Read This Thread (Total Members: 2)

Top