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[MikeD-C05]

I see that ATT charges $9.99 a month to access the internet over the receiver with Dish with Homezone. I guess we will see yet another DISH fee to enable this internet access with them too. I guess this will be another feature I will have to pass on if they start charging for this too.

 

[jbman73175]

I see that ATT charges $9.99 a month to access the internet over the receiver with Dish with Homezone. I guess we will see yet another DISH fee to enable this internet access with them too. I guess this will be another feature I will have to pass on if they start charging for this too.

I believe this is so AT&T will actually make money on homezone. If E* charges anything, I can't imagine it being that much. I guess we will have to wait and see. And per all other experiences we may be waiting a while...

 

[navychop]

Let's see- $9.99 per month for the opportunity to d/l VOD that evaporates in a day or 2?

 

[bradleys]

... Both of my Vip-622's are already connected to my home network. ...

Jeff,

What do your 622s look like from your home network? Do they have an IP address? Can you see a MAC address? Is there any link activity? At what speed do they connect?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

If you plug them in you will get a connection light on your hub, however the 622 does not even try grabbing an IP address via IP. So if you look at your network you wont even see the 622 hooked up or active on the network.

 

[lakebum431]

So Scott, you get any response from people at DISH about this find? I wonder what kind of reaction there is to this find on their website.

 

[navychop]

Oh, THAT's a 64,000 dollar question!

 

[Hall]

I wonder what kind of reaction there is to this find on their website.

They're probably sitting back laughing hilariously ! They let this out as a TEASE !

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The only person I spoke to at Dish today had no idea what I was talking about. (And seemed to really have no idea what I was talking about)

 

[Pepper]

the guy who accidentally published a copy of "for internal use only" content probably got canned.

 

[AdamGott]

Am I the only one that finds this to be nothing more than a big YAWN? I have all of the channels that dish offers (30 or so movie channels I think?) and a DVR that holds 300 hours (or so) of SD video. Why would I ever pay for some VOD when I can record 100 movies (and keep them forever if I want) and pick from those?

Crappy movies via VOD is not going to be enough for me to even string a network cable to my living room...

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Your missing the big picture.

Whats possible here is for you to watch ANY movie or Television show, when you want.

Thats ultimately what this technology can give you.

 

[Poke]

Hey Scott like the new layout man!

 

[navychop]

Yes, eventually it can be great. And I don't mean to be gloom & doom. It's just that at first I suspect it'll be used as a limited-list VOD.

 

[Hall]

I'll be happy if they tie all of the "Dish Home" stuff into the ethernet connection. I mean, even looking at my bill through my receiver ends up *dialing* out.

 

[general487]

Any word if any of this will be HD content?

Pointless to be in the Dish HD section if it doesn't pertain to HD. The On Demand service right now is just SD.

 

[lakebum431]

I agree, I hope it is HD, but I wonder how long it will take to download HD content.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I agree, I hope it is HD, but I wonder how long it will take to download HD content.

I doubt it will be HD initially; huge file downloads for one, and VOD has been entirely SD so far.

 

[lakebum431]

Yeah, I just don't see myself using this too much if it doesn't have HD content.

 

[HokieEngineer]

Average mpeg2 HD movie would be around 9gig. Assuming a 3Mbit connection, it would take over 6 hours to download. I would assume they would use mpeg4 and cut that size down a bit, but it'd still be a couple of hours.

Not to mention the bandwidth usage. They'd probably charge more $$ for HD content.