Live Dish Retailer Chat Recap - August 16, 2006

[Scott Greczkowski]

Welcome once again to another Dish Network retailer chat LIVE Recap. As always we will only cover items which a consumer could find out from a retailer and do not cover sensitive dealer issues (suchs as costs, profits etc)

The Chat Begins at NOON and our chat room is open at http://www.satelliteguys.us/chat.php come and join us!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The show opens with new programming...

They talk about locals launches (the info is the same as was covered on Monday Night)

Then they announce a new National HD Channel being launched Aug 16th (Today) it's FOOD NETWORK HD on Channel 9462 in the HD Bronze package and up.

Now talking about Dishing it up, they now allow up to 4 leased receivers on an account.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Dish is now allowing customers to have receivers direct shipped to them if they upgrade on the lease plan. (This is a GOOD thing!)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Changes to the Dish Mover program now a customer with 6 receivers can use Dish Mover (before the limit was 4 receivers on the Dish Mover Program)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

They will be having a program for those who own a VIP HD receiver and need a new Dish (Dish 1000 or 61.5) they can get a free install of a Dish so you can see all the HD programming. (No word if it covers the switches)

Now talking about Commercial Installs.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Now talking about NFL on Dish and how great the NFL Network is (rehash from Monday Night)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

new Tiki Barber ads for the NFL start today.

Now going to talk about internationals.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Dish is launching a new spanish website at http://www.dishnetwork.com/espanol and it now had instructions for how to use your DVR and Receiver in spanish.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The greek language package is going up $3 a month as of September 1st. From $36 to $39. They will be changing some of the channels in the packae on September 1st as well.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Starting tommorow you will be able to get most programming packages via the Pre Pay (Dish Ya!) method, including Family Pack, AT 120, AT180, Dish Latino Dos, Dish Lation Max, HBO, Starz, Cinemax.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The $30 prepay card is going away and Dish will be bringing out a $40 card.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Leslie harper comes on and shows techs how to properly hold the Dish + LNB's seems like a lot of the LNBs are getting broken.

In addition remote prices will be dropping in price around October 1st.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Now talking about heat issues with some LNB's.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Question about Outdoor Channel 2 HD, they say they have started talking with them about it and hpe to have it in the future. (Jim then cuts in and says thats our answer for all HD channels, we want to have them in the future, however it needs to make sense t them to add a HD channel) (grr)

 

[mleland]

what kind of heat issues and what lnbs... i noticed right after the DPP twins came out that the ones "assembled in USA" had sporadic heat issues. I went to one install just 3 days after initial install vist. Her 322 rcvr was really hot(well ventilated spot) so I checked the dish and found the LNB(metal area) was so hot I almost got burned. Since then I have replaced at least 30 or 40 DPP lnbfs with varying symptoms but all were much hotter then normal. The ouside air temp didn't seem to make any difference either.

 

[jgags6]

no news about INHD ???

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No mention at all of INHD nor Distants.

 

[goaliebob99]

I was looking at the uplink tables and bitrates, it appears that inhd is uplinked with video but I have no way of confirming its inhd or not...

 

[intrac]

I don't see anywhere a mention anywhere about Cleveland HD locals.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Maybe because it wasnt mentioned.

There are only 3 more cities which will launch this year in HD, two of them are uplinked now and the third is not expected until the end of the year and what city it is, is currently unknown at this time.