QVC in HD?

[Koilvr]

When is this channel comming to Dish? I thought it was on August 1st?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Still up in testing...

For some reason things were pushed back including a number of upgrades and moves they were going to do.

 

[jmccurrytech]

Scott when is the next Charlie Chat? I suspect that's when these new channels will be announced.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Next Charlie Chat is in October...

Hope its not that far away. (the new HD channels that is)

 

[Koilvr]

Where is my QVC HD? I been waiting months for it and where is it damn it?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Its up and in testings.

In todays uplink report 4137 is QVC HD.

Word I am getting is it will launch the week of May 5th.... (But consider that a rumor of course!)

 

[pro96]

QVC-HD .. LOL, we jealous that we cant get such great channel. I need to switch to DN one day.

 

[nlk10010]

QVC-HD .. LOL, we jealous that we cant get such great channel. I need to switch to DN one day.

I've got it on cable and it isn't half bad. The one thing you do notice is that the HD quality is very good (easy to notice on CV as most of the HD channels look like cr*p). It may be that QVC demands that the channel receive a certain bitrate (bandwidth?), since AFAIK they pay to have it carried. That could also be a wrinkle in the negotiations, but who knows?

 

[jmccurrytech]

No fast motion on QVC, hence the good PQ

 

[Mr Tony]

I've got it on cable and it isn't half bad. The one thing you do notice is that the HD quality is very good (easy to notice on CV as most of the HD channels look like cr*p). It may be that QVC demands that the channel receive a certain bitrate (bandwidth?), since AFAIK they pay to have it carried. That could also be a wrinkle in the negotiations, but who knows?

well on the master feed they only have half a transponder in MPEG2 for both the HD & SD feed. The HD feed doesnt look too bad considering its MPEG2

 

[jmccurrytech]

A shopping channel will look ok, but put a sports or movie channel in that same half a transponder

 

[Mr Tony]

oh I agree
There is a reason when sports are upllinked on a satellite (the raw feed...not the compressed Dish/Directv feed) they use the whole transponder

 

[jmccurrytech]

Oh how I wish I had the master feed of every channel I sub too with Dish It's so sad when one wishes for an unmolested version of a channel he/she already pays for!!!

 

[crimpshrine]

QVC-HD .. LOL, we jealous that we cant get such great channel. I need to switch to DN one day.

I would be jealous..What channels has Direct launched lately?

 

[goaliebob99]

Oh how I wish I had the master feed of every channel I sub too with Dish It's so sad when one wishes for an unmolested version of a channel he/she already pays for!!!

Especially in hd! There is a bunch up there on cband, but no one can sub to them other than cable company's. Charlie needs to start a new version of 4dtv and hell have me as a customer! especially if it got every high def channel uncompressed master HD feed that I sub to today!

 

[Koilvr]

I would pay for Virgin HD. Why can we not get it on Cband?

 

[neljtorres]

I hate it on SD! Why bother to watch it on HD! What a waste of bandwith!

 

[AKGolf]

I hate it on SD! Why bother to watch it on HD! What a waste of bandwith!

My wife would disagree with you.

The recently up linked BBCA and FSC are still red in my guide. I'm going to bet that QVC HD will not be even though it'll still be on a transponder that Dish doesn't think I can see.

 

[Koilvr]

I hate it on SD! Why bother to watch it on HD! What a waste of bandwith!

Your stupid sports are a waste of bandwidth

 

[pro96]

Your stupid sports are a waste of bandwidth

MLB EXTRA INNING in HD on the Horizon. Gotta love it