From DISH - SuperBowl 4K Info

[navychop]

Because Voom did not produce enough programming for the number of "channels."

 

[John2021]

I have to say it's a good upconvert no sign of compression at all

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

What time does the game start? Lol

 

[John2021]

What time does the game start? Lol

3:30 pm.. the score is 12 to zero new England is getting there asses handed to em lol.. what you mean to tell me your not camped out in front of your new tv lol

 

[John2021]

19-7 Seahawks in the win

 

[Derek K]

I had Voom for a short time back in 2005.

The fact they had the most HD programming in the industry, at a time where Dish couldn't even get their SD programming right with all of the artifacts and ghosting due to over compression was amazing.

Yes it was great being able to see what true HD actually looked like on some of the early HD television sets. But to be honest, I never saw any value to the Voom channels other than the fact it provided a way to give us a way to see what our HD television sets where capable of.

As far as Dish taking over the Voom channels, there was a good handful of customers at that time who cancelled their DISH and DIRECTV service because of the number of HD channels. This lead to Dish later offering the Turbo HD programming packages.

Dish taking over Voom, was to get their hands on the remaining 11 transponders at 61.5, and to gain back some of those customers they lost to Voom. Once DISH had those customers back, they went back and removed the channels.

Same thing that happens every time Dish enters into an agreement with another company. I do not believe it had to do with the fact they where showing the same shows on the Voom channels, I don't think DISH was paying them which they didn't have any money to produce new content.

I think that just left the 2 transponders Sky Angel was using, and they took those away citing end of life on Echostar 3.

Back to Super bowl, what is the point of carrying the 4K broadcast? Dish carries all 210 DMA's, there is very few DMA's if any that do not have an NBC affiliate. Your not getting NBC 4K on any of the Dish local channels, I do not believe you can get any 4K broadcasts over the air considering there is not sufficient bandwidth due to all the SD sub channels.

Is this just so Charlie could watch the Super bowl in 4K, like 20 years ago when Dish got caught carrying the HD TBS feeds when the SD feed was only available to DISH subscribers during the MLB Play offs?

The only way to get 4K super bowl is subscribing to Peacock.