ION

[Howard Simmons]

ION network is off from the program guide. Another dispute. Hope when they get it back if they get it back it's in HD.

 

[Juan]

Local channels are still up

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[reubenray]

I don't miss it being it is not HD.

 

[VictoriaFTA]

If it makes you guys feel any better, ION looks so terrible it barely qualifies as HD. Their master feed is 720p H.264 with a bitrate of only 4.5 Mbps. Then of course affiliates transcode that pitiful feed to 720p MPEG-2, further reducing quality... then Dish network would transcode that affiliate's transcode, removing even more quality. By the time it got to you, ION HD wouldn't look any better than the SD feed, lol

 

[JSheridan]

Our local ION HD feed looks great.

 

[reubenray]

My local ION station is worse that Dish's ION was. It was in stretchavision. My wife wanted some of the Christmas shows recorded and they were unwatchable.

 

[Tampa8]

ION here OTA is very good PQ.

 

[pattykay]

ION network is off from the program guide. Another dispute. Hope when they get it back if they get it back it's in HD.

Like others have said, ION is in HD, in the markets that have affiliates. The same day that the national feed was removed, Dish also added tags in the uplink reports to a bunch of ION affiliates across the country. So, maybe Dish is preparing to use these affiliates as fill-in distant stations for markets that lack an ION affiliate, and simply do without carrying a national feed at all.

 

[Jon J]

I think our local ION affiliate switched to must carry and the national feed disappeared. The local is HD and looks good.

 

[pattykay]

I think our local ION affiliate switched to must carry and the national feed disappeared. The local is HD and looks good.

The national feed disappeared from everyone, whether there is a local affiliate being carried or not.

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Hopefully, Dish is working on a replacement (out-of-market affiliates?) for those markets without an ION station.

 

[mwdxer1]

Local channels are still up

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I wonder why the local ION stations are still running as when Univision was lost, the locals were blocked too.

 

[Howard Simmons]

I don't understand this. If I read it right if none of your local networks broadcast ION then you will not have it on Dish right? Well my local CBS affiliate WKRG in Mobile has it, so why am I not receiving it on Dish?

 

[bluenerd]

You're likely not receiving any other subchannels either, why would this be different?

 

[Howard Simmons]

You're likely not receiving any other subchannels either, why would this be different?

Isn't Buzzr and Comet, Grit, folk Laff, MeTv subchannels?

 

[reubenray]

I don't understand this. If I read it right if none of your local networks broadcast ION then you will not have it on Dish right? Well my local CBS affiliate WKRG in Mobile has it, so why am I not receiving it on Dish?

Is your's letter boxed and stretched? This is the same station I referred to in an earlier post about the PQ being bad.

 

[Howard Simmons]

Is your's letter boxed and stretched? This is the same station I referred to in an earlier post about the PQ being bad.

It was letterboxed and I stretched it out on my Hopper.

 

[reubenray]

It was letterboxed and I stretched it out on my Hopper.

I just checked 5.2 on my TV and it is not letter boxed, but it is 480i. The Dish version is 1080i. How did you stretch it with your Hopper. I have the Hopper 3.

 

[HipKat]

I just checked 5.2 on my TV and it is not letter boxed, but it is 480i. The Dish version is 1080i. How did you stretch it with your Hopper. I have the Hopper 3.

If you have 52 or 54 remote, Options button, 6 - Display Size, then set for whichever is full screen.

 

[reubenray]

If you have 52 or 54 remote, Options button, 6 - Display Size, then set for whichever is full screen.

Will this affect only that channel?

 

[Bobby]

Will this affect only that channel?

It will affect every channel that is in the HD or SD category. So, If your channel is an HD channel every HD channel will change to whatever you changed it to. SD, the same way.