MASN HD-Come on already Dish!

[plumerman]

It really is getting old watching the orioles and the nationals games in sd instead of hd. It looks horrible. The other night the orioles were in boston and the game was on espn, but of course it was blacked out because i have masn and had to watch in sd. Come on Dish, masn supplies the signal in hd, USE IT!!!!!!

 

[Chris Walker]

It really is getting old watching the orioles and the nationals games in sd instead of hd. It looks horrible. The other night the orioles were in boston and the game was on espn, but of course it was blacked out because i have masn and had to watch in sd. Come on Dish, masn supplies the signal in hd, USE IT!!!!!!

Agreed, this needs to be addressed for sure. Both the Orioles and Nats are having good seasons and MASN shows every game so this is a lot of SD-only baseball.

 

[Voyager6]

There could be a couple of reasons for this. Lack of transponder space on 61.5 or, most probably, lack of an agreement with Angelos on the price. MASN is a huge money-maker for Angelos but he is going to have to give a big chunk of it to the Nats.
Nationals in line for much bigger chunk of MASN's money - Baltimore Sun

 

[bf3000]

My guess is that Angelos wants full-time channels, not part time. This shouldn't be a transponder space issue - the Eastern Arc (where all of MASN's viewers should be) has plenty of space, from what I understand. This is really getting frustrating. Even when the O's have been terrible (for way too many years), I still can't help but watch them.

 

[Voyager6]

My guess is that Angelos wants full-time channels, not part time. This shouldn't be a transponder space issue - the Eastern Arc (where all of MASN's viewers should be) has plenty of space, from what I understand. This is really getting frustrating. Even when the O's have been terrible (for way too many years), I still can't help but watch them.

The 61.5 satellite does indeed have TP space but does the TP that serves the Balt/DC spotbeam have space for two more HD channels?

 

[bf3000]

The 61.5 satellite does indeed have TP space but does the TP that serves the Balt/DC spotbeam have space for two more HD channels?

Not sure, but if they have conus transponder space they can use that since the channels are offered in the multi-sports pack. I am guessing that Dish just doesn't want to have something available to Eastern Arc customers that isn't available to Western Arc customres. The way I see it, adding channels to the Eastern Arc only could motivate some customers to finally make the jump to mpeg4 receivers.

 

[jbernardi]

Definitely need to watch the Nationals, especially Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg in HD. Harper has hit a ton of doubles in his few games with the Nats. Hope to see some HRs soon.

 

[rnye1]

Getting to watch MASN HD on Dish Network tonight ! The Ranger-Angel game is in a rain delay and they are showing the Orioles-Rays game on MLB Network ! Looks good !

 

[bf3000]

Getting to watch MASN HD on Dish Network tonight ! The Ranger-Angel game is in a rain delay and they are showing the Orioles-Rays game on MLB Network ! Looks good !

Damn! I missed it...I was watching in crappy (and it is especially crappy now with the black frame on all sides - zoom makes it look even worse) SD on MASN. At least the O's won!

 

[mike11]

Let's hope both teams continue to play well, maybe that will force the powers that be to get the hd feed up and running.

 

[rnye1]

MLB Network picking up the MASN HD feed for the Oriole-Yankee game tonight on Dish.