Dish Network Retailer Chat Recap - July 10, 2007

[ChetK]

Awesome! New channels. Now, how will this affect the picture quality of the HD channels we've loved for months/years?

 

[pdxsam]

How did you do this? I can't even find where to associate my DISH account with my DishOnline.com account.

You have to go to dishonline.com and sign up an account. If you have a receiver to activate it will show you a button to do the activation. Pretty cool.
The choice goes away when you activate.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

BTW folks, I would like to ask a favor if I may. I am seeing a lot of this report being posted on other websites, which I have no problem with (the internet is for sharing information) but please if you post it somewhere please post that the info came from SatelliteGuys.US.

Believe it or not a lot of folks don't know about us yet and by posting a link or the url helps us grow and brings more great members to our family.

Thanks!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Awesome! New channels. Now, how will this affect the picture quality of the HD channels we've loved for months/years?

It wont. (or so I am told)

 

[kstuart]

Awesome! New channels. Now, how will this affect the picture quality of the HD channels we've loved for months/years?

It shouldn't. They are using the extra bandwidth they will save by moving all Voom-HD channels to MPEG4 on August 15th.

 

[Pepper]

You have to go to dishonline.com and sign up an account. If you have a receiver to activate it will show you a button to do the activation. Pretty cool.
The choice goes away when you activate.

I have seen that in dishnetwork.com "my account" - I don't see anything at dishonline.com that is in any way associated with my dish account.

 

[Peter Parker]

i am seeing posts that we are losing Disc HD Teater. Does that go away when DISC HD comes online/

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No Discovery Theater HD is the best of Discovery Networks, and will feature longer features such as movies in the future.

Discovery Channel HD is just a HD clone of the real Discovery Channel.

 

[db2]

No Discovery Theater HD is the best of Discovery Networks, and will feature longer features such as movies in the future.

Discovery Channel HD is just a HD clone of the real Discovery Channel.

Scott, how will the mapdown feature work after Discovery Channel HD is added?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Discovery HD theater will be removed as a mapdown. Discovery HD will be mapped down instead.

 

[yaz96]

They then talk about Soccer programming and remind us that Copa America Soccer finals are coming up. Dish Network carries more soccer then any US provider. They then show an add for soccer and Dish Latino.

Next they talk about the SUB-20 Fifa World Cup tournament.

Any mention of Setanta Sports by name??

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

ZERO mention of Setenta Sports.

 

[bigdaddyflo]

I just upgraded to the 622 in June. My dish it up rebate has not been posted yet--Will the 100 dollar rebate kick in for me?

Thanks for the info

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No the new rebate is (I believe) effective tommorow.

 

[digiblur]

The 8-15 date explains the bandwidth captured from the VOOM conversion but I'm still wondering what 110W TP 17 is going to be used for. Hmmmmm..... the most confusing thing is the change from 8PSK to QPSK on that TP. That's prime real estate just to be sitting idle.

Excellent news though!

 

[kstuart]

ZERO mention of Setenta Sports.

I don't think that Dish feels that retailers need to be pushing Setanta Sports, as a niche channel, it will sell through word of mouth.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

They are screwing with us...

They said they had HD news on the retailer chat yet kept stalling and teasing us about it until after the press release went out and then once the PR was out they mentioned it.

I guess they didnt want us releasing the news before the PR went out. I had a partial channel list but not all 7 channels.

 

[chicagofilms]

It will be great seeing Myth Busters in HD.

Mmmm... HD Kari....:

 

[yaz96]

I don't think that Dish feels that retailers need to be pushing Setanta Sports, as a niche channel, it will sell through word of mouth.

By explicitly mentioning that DISH had the most soccer, you'd think they would have at least mentioned that Sentanta was coming "soon" adding even more soccer....

Maybe it's not coming.......again, same as last year.

 

[sansha]

Discovery HD theater will be removed as a mapdown. Discovery HD will be mapped down instead.

does this mean we are losing Discovery HD theater?