The NBC Olympic Showcase is active now on my 522 (along with the new 2.03 software..). Sweeeet!
DIsh Network Olympic Info
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So what is the deal on Dish Olympic HD coverage. I am a bit confused. What channel will it be on and I am in SoCal. Will I get it? I assume it will be the same as the NBC-HD OTA feed.
I believe it'll be on channel 148, and will have DIFFERENT programming from NBC-HD OTA feeds (at least, according to NBCOlympics.com's channel guide.WeeJavaDude said:
NO, it's the same as the NBC-HD OTA feeds. There's only one HD feed available either on your local NBC HD channel or by satellite.
Now I'm a bit confused. (This can happen quite easily) I thought the only HD that NBC was going to broadcast was on this speacial NBCHD channel. I just checked my local listings and according to them I'm going to be getting HD on my digital OTA. Did I just hit the lottery?
To clarify things, NBC is doing one HD feed that will be broadcast by local stations on their HD channels and also on a national satellite feed available to Dish, Direct and Voom. It's 8 hours of taped-delayed coverage repeated twice to fill 24-hour per days of HD.
Why is E* gonna have the same NBCHD feed at 2 channel locations? people who subscribe to E* HD package will expect to find it with the rest of the HD channels
Never - it's actually only one channel with 6 audio feeds.gl9500 said:... I wonder when Dish will provide this as a user-configurable feature for any 6 channels.
Absolutely; that's why it takes a dual-tuner unit (522 single mode, 721, or 921) to get PIP. Even if Dish Home could get around that (it can't), the best you could possibly do (thanks to satellite switching) is access two full birds--and that's ONLY on a dual-tuner unit with two "regular" DishPro (NOT legacy or DishPro Plus) feeds; no other system can "see" more than one full bird at a time. Legacy single-tuner systems "see" only 1/2 a bird!Pepper said:
To see where SimpleSimon got his information, look for channel 9910 at www.dishchannelchart.com (you can't get it on your E* receiver, only on MPEG2 FTA systems--for now). Click on the SAP link to see the language each channel's audio is mapped to. The Dish Home app draws the yellow box around the current screen, picks and plays the proper SAP channel, handles remote commands, switches to the regular channel for full-screen video, and displays messages (such as the "triggers" and the error message if you press an invalid key in full-screen mode).
So basically no one will know for sure if they're going to get it until it's too late to do anything about it ? The opening ceremonies (to me anyway) is one of the events I'd most like to see in HD.Scott Greczkowski said:
Can one call Dish today before the scheduled start of the HD channel and find out if they will receive it ? I can imagine once it starts, they'll be a slew of calls to Dish and no one will get through.
If one already has the analog distant NBC (out of NY), wouldn't that automatically qualify them for the temporary NBC HD channel or is that a seperate qualification proceedure ?
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thats the problem that im runnin into... i get distance locals out of denver and chicago and dish is telling me no cauz you actually have to live in the dma... (thinking about changing the address on my accout for the next few days) no one knows till its up.. oh yea its 904 am mtn time and still no hd olympics
gl9500 said:
I'll wager there's a market for pre-defined showcase channels: news, sports, etc. For example, it would be cool to see CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, ESPN ;-) all on one showcase.
So far the only thing I don't like about this NBC Showcase is that after 5 or 10 minutes of not touching the remote, an automatic "Press SELECT to Continue" screensaver comes on. That bites.
So now the NBC Olympic channel is in the guide but it says coverage won't start until 1am!!! So, to watch the Opening Ceremonies in HD, you can watch your local NBC-HD station at 9 (Which I don't have access to) or you can wait for the first of inumerable replays starting at 1am. Yuckk.
OK. I got the 9425 Channel in my guide but when I choose the channel it says "This program have been blacked out in your area". I'm living in Puerto Rico. Should I be able to receive the HD feed down here?
Here we have a local channel "Telemundo" that is an NBC affiliate but they don't have HD at the moment.
I think I will not have the Olympics in HD
-mylo
Here we have a local channel "Telemundo" that is an NBC affiliate but they don't have HD at the moment.
I think I will not have the Olympics in HD
-mylo
