Greetings from Dish Team Summit Day Two!
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I'm envisioning the Hopper+ is the main rec'r in the future as Dish moves away from Sat TV.
The Hopper is still the core of the system. The Hopper+ is just a "+."
If Charlie hopes to merge with Directv, why would they want to get away from Sat TV?
Are you asking about the old outdated 4k joey or the new Joey 4?
What is the difference between the two? My 3 Toshiba Fire tvs all have dolby vision . My old Phillips tv had just HDR.
Dolby Vision requires that equipment manufacturers pay a licensing fee. HDR is free to use. I suspect that the new Joey 4 and Hopper+ could support Dolby Vision but Dish was unwilling to pay the licensing fee. I don’t know what the licensing fee cost is but I have heard that it is high.
First of all, HDR10 is free and open-standard, meaning that TV producers and content creators don’t need to pay for implementing it, while Dolby owns Dolby Vision.
So, what exactly do you get for paying the premium for Dolby Vision?
Well, DV is capable of displaying 12-bit color depth, which amounts to 68.7 billion colors, whereas HDR10 is limited to 10-bit and 1.07 billion colors.
First of all, HDR10 is free and open-standard, meaning that TV producers and content creators don’t need to pay for implementing it, while Dolby owns Dolby Vision.
So, what exactly do you get for paying the premium for Dolby Vision?
Well, DV is capable of displaying 12-bit color depth, which amounts to 68.7 billion colors, whereas HDR10 is limited to 10-bit and 1.07 billion colors.
I asked some people in the industry how much it cost to license Dolby Vision for streaming devices and they gave me a range of $1-$5 per unit depending on scale.
Numerous devices in the $25 - $30 range support Dolby Vision.
Also, I would add that Dolby Vision changes the metadata for color saturation, brightness, and other parameters on a frame-by-frame basis while HDR is a one-time parameter for the whole program.
Or simply said, Dolby Vision is night and day better than HDR10.
I was told that its around $2.50 per device... but there is also a larger licensees that has to be paid to Broadcom as well. No idea on the cost of that.
But my feeling is if you can purchase. $30 Android TV box and it can do dolby vision then this new DISH product that is advertising best picture quality... then it should support Dolby Vision too.
I mean what was the big difference between the original Apple TV 4K and the new Apple TV 4K? They added Dolby Digital to it.
Anyone who has a new iPhone and shoots video is shooting in Dolby Vision. Wouldn't it be nice to see it as shot without having to change inputs on your TV? Isn't that one of the main reason DISH is making these boxes
Can you tell I want Dolby Vision support?
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They added Dolby Atmos to it, they already had Dolby Digital...
I am assuming based on the rest of his post that he meant Vision and not digital.
However, both generations of ATV4k support DV and Atmos. What they changed on the video front is the latest gen added support for HDR at 60fps, whereas the first gen is limited to 30fps.
But both DV and Atmos are supported on either model.
Dish has never abandoned the smart home approach. If anything they’ve been pushing it further and further. Integration with Nest, now Google which is dropping the Nest brand name. The Ontech division that installs everything from Simpli Safe to wewboost and just about every Smart home product that you can think of. Now doing installs for ADT with that becoming a big push.
