SatelliteGuys Live Recap - Dish Retailer Chat 2/4/09
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What happens after the 4 months are up???
And did you see that Congress is trying to push back the digital transition date to June/May?
i asked tech support about the phone line/broadband requirement. he said with dvr advantage the phone line was only required with every dual receiver after the first.
Or tell them to fire the employee that's spreading false rumors that's making thousands of subs upset.Well, maybe you could reply back and tell the exec's that their employee's missed the memo about the TurboHD packages being included
D* must love this forum with everyone we get to jump ship over here
Absolutely nothing.
They DID push it back, and that won't mean a thing either.
The transition date was the date that stations would be FORCED to turn off their analog signals. Not the date they had to leave them on until.
Years ago, when the date was set, it was a hardship on TV stations. They had to invest in new digital equipment. But they've already done that. A lot of stations still haven't converted their news studios to HD, and some digital channels don't broadcast in HD at all. But the transmitters are up and running.
More importantly, the budgets are already set for the year. And those budgets don't include powering and maintaining two separate transmitters past February 17th.
Most stations will go ahead and turn analog off as planned. Many already have, and the entire state of Hawaii went digital weeks ago.
This bill is typical Washington smoke and mirrors. When the analog stations go dark, Congress can say "Hey, it wasn't us! Those evil station owners did it. Complain to them!"
This has been years and years coming. How will 4 months make a difference , anyway?
If not for the lastest new additions, I would have been totally disappointed by this chat too, but then E* added FNCHD and FBNHD without ever mentioning them???
Can we ever trust anything anymore? Who cares where the sources? Even their own chats failed to tell us many things.
Can we ever trust anything anymore? Who cares where the sources? Even their own chats failed to tell us many things.
This is the sign of the times. We are living in 2009 and had big news similar to this been announced 10 years ago it would be different. People are spoiled and used to having everything made available to them and is expected nowadays.
Just got my locals in HD today. That's 4 HD channels more than I had. With CI, FoxN-HD, and FBN-HD, that's a total of seven in 2 days. (Or maybe 3 days.) And I'm glad to have all 7. Waaaay glad! I was a little surprised how much better my locals looked in HD. Even a ballgame upconverted to HD looked much better. And I noticed Fox-HD will be carrying some NASCAR racing in the very, very near future!
Well they have raised the rates right? So imagine the money they will make between now and spring by not having to light up those stations? Millions a month I'd venture to guess. Let's face it, with Dish it's charge as much as possible and offer as little as possible and in between is their profits.
DAVENPORT IOWA DMA HD LOCALS, WTF
Since late 2008 Dish said Davenport DMA HD Locals would be up, I see Peoria, Champaign, Rockford, but no Davenport, just an omission, a misspoke, or pure BS!!!!
Since late 2008 Dish said Davenport DMA HD Locals would be up, I see Peoria, Champaign, Rockford, but no Davenport, just an omission, a misspoke, or pure BS!!!!
30 miles from EVV and having trouble with reception...... that makes little sense unless that 30 miles is NE of evansville up towards the ridge areas... also on HD, most of the stations are STILL on low power with evansville, and with the house today delaying the DT conversion till june, that looks to remain the case since the ABC station's DT signal will take over the Fox affilate's SD channel number after the switch, and all that jazz, trust me it's confusing for sure. although really even at 30 miles unless you have a cheapy antenna there should not be any reception issues from the EVV stations.
I don't think it will make much difference - as I was bringing up the point to settle down tigerfan.
Again - thanks for the humorous comment earlier...
Big deal. In a matter of months, there will be no such thing as an analog local channel anyways. So they are doing us a favor by launching 50+ markets for HD, when basically they need to do it for themselves because cable is already giving it away for free.
The sad part of Dish's snail pace is that TWC is adding more and more channels and those double and triple plays are getting more and more appealing. E* better wake up soon, before they get auto industry like churn numbers. I am tired of having to keep broadcast cable so I can get my home town teams games in HD
.nice to see dayton ohio coming on the 18th. a few of the dayton stations are making the switch after feb 17th.
What I meant by how popular the turbo packs are they want to see how many people sign up to the HD turbo paks only before adding it to them or adding any new HD. There are more people who have the classic or what ever there called paks, then the stand alone HD only Turbo paks or AbsoluteHD paks.
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I got a letter today about the price changes*. It didn't mention anything about needing the phone line connected to get the $3 credit, and it did say that the phone line requirement was waived for a single dual receiver. But why, then, did the retailer chat imply otherwise? Shouldn't they be informing the retailers of what's really going on so that they can properly inform the customers?
*Of course, the whole thing was phrased backwards. Instead of telling you what packages went up, it talked about what packages didn't go up, and just listed the prices for all the other packages with no mention of what the old price had been.
OK, wait a minute, I think you're confusing TurboHD and Absolute HD. The Absolute HD package was created about a year ago and discontinued (for new subscribers) shortly thereafter. It was the one that was supposed to have no new HD added after the end of 2008. The TurboHD packages were created after Absolute HD was discontinued and were supposed to receive all the HD versions of channels that were in the corresponding non-HD packages. There were no restrictions on it announced -- other than that, unlike Absolute HD, they wouldn't let existing subscribers switch to it til this year, which I still haven't figured out.
This has NOTHING to do with the analog shutoff. Dish, DirecTV, and the cablecos will continue to provide SD feeds of local channels after June 17th.
You can keep saying the same thing over and over, but that doesn't make it make sense.
