Over 60 Channels?

[Lkr]

Dish website advertises TurboHD Silver as over 60 channels of HD, but only shows 35. Why are they using false advertisement that is so blatant?

 

[djjenkins]

I think they include all the VOD and PPV channels on that, which is pretty lame but all companies do that

 

[garys]

And ALL the RSN HD's.

 

[MikeD-C05]

All hd advertising is all hype right now and no real substance . Especially when they can't really add that many hd channels due to bandwith limitations.

 

[garys]

And if you want to see real padded counts, I like cable's claim of over 1,000 titles.

 

[Rob052067]

And if you want to see real padded counts, I like cable's claim of over 1,000 titles.

Only Comcast is making that claim (not all 'cable').

For the most part, cable undercounts their HD offerings when compared to satellite. Cable can show dozens - even hundreds - of HD movies/programs on one PPV channel. Yet Dish & Direct count dozens of separate PPV channels in their HD totals, even though there's only one HD movie showing on each channel. That's essentially the same as Comcast counting 'titles'.

 

[8bitbytes]

Dish website advertises TurboHD Silver as over 60 channels of HD, but only shows 35. Why are they using false advertisement that is so blatant?

Beyond lathering over the fact that VOD and PPV are included in this count, how about further discovery that those 35 channels have very little real HD on them, highly edited and repeat programming crammed full of commercials.

 

[HDRoberts]

So long as they didn't show a logo of a channel they don't carry, not much you can complain about. Personally, I look for channels I want, not just who has the most.

 

[jdmacor]

So long as they didn't show a logo of a channel they don't carry, not much you can complain about. Personally, I look for channels I want, not just who has the most.

Same here... But it's about damn time that we see some new logos!

 

[garys]

Only Comcast is making that claim (not all 'cable').

I didn't mean ALL cable, but I guess I really state only some cable either. But I thought I saw the large count with I/O cable in NY as well.