They said late Sept. for about a week on channel 100. They didn't say of what year.
First Look: The New Weather Channel Interactive
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I think Dish Network themselve's does not even know whats going to happen a week or two from now (when it comes to feature upgrades) let alone a year or two from now.
Simple answer - never.
The cable version of "local on the 8's" requires a dedicated computer at the cable headend to decode the data stream:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliStar
I don't expect that consumer level Dish DVRs will ever have the horsepower to do this. If you want the cable version of the "local on the 8's", go back to cable.
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Tell that to the beta testers and the Dish people who've actually seen and used the feature. No one knows why they didn't roll this out when they planned but I suspect with the number of different receiver models they're dealing with, it may be a case where it doesn't work (yet) on all of them. Until it does, they're holding off. I'm sure they want to make an "announcement" of this feature when they get it working too. As minor as "local weather" and "on the 8s" sounds, it is a reason many cable customers won't switch to satellite. It also is a big plus that E* will have over D*.
Actually, it shouldn't require much horsepower at all. Dish may send out data streams for some percentage of the 30,000+ zip codes. Simple text data that each individual STB receives. Then, just like choosing which channels you are subscribed to, the boxes display the appropriate data stream in a preformatted overlay. Add on 12 national maps and a few other bits of info. Same data, changing only every 10 minutes or so. It shouldn't even require much bandwidth. Now each receiver model will have it's own memory limits and quirks, and that may take a bit of doing, especially if they want a consistent look across all models.
My guess is that we'll get the Interactive Weather Channel Dec. 1. Same day we loose distance networks.
Hall, I'm sure that we will some interactive form of "Weather on the 8's" in the near future. After all, Dish promised we would get it.
What I was responding to was Southwinds question as to when Dish would have "Weather on the 8's" "exactly, repeat, exactly" like on cable. Though Dish's version may be perfectly fine (and in some ways better) than the cable version, it will apparently not be the same thing.
No it will not be the same thing, but it will be close. The biggest difference being the viewer must take action if they want to see their weather on the 8's.
With cable its just fed to you.
I don't see it coming this week, although it is possible we may see a new Disney Interactive package soon.
With cable its just fed to you.
I don't see it coming this week, although it is possible we may see a new Disney Interactive package soon.
Request - can we just close this thread or remove it from sticky? It's pretty much turned into a joke.
Need to make a forum to move the lost Dish announcements where all well intentioned stickies go when dish says they are going to do something, make something, support something... but then never do.
