There are not-so-infrequent complaints about the speed of channel changing and how it seems to be quite variable.
So is Dish now officially the HD leader?
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One would think that HD Only would include HD channels (all of them), no???
To answer the question in the title of this thread. Yes, Dish is the national HD leader. They have more basic national HD than Direct. FiOS and U-Verse are not national enough.
The packages include all the channels they have. What you're suggesting sounds like all packages include every channel available.
If you buy the HD package with a lesser package, you get less channels. It is true of E* as well as D*.
With D* for example, you pay $9.99 for the HD package on top of the Family Package and you get only 7 HD channels (excluding locals). For the same $9.99 you get access to over 60 channels if you have Premiere.
I agree. I am only pointing out that subs are often confused with all of the packages. One would think that the highest HD only package would include every HD channel in the comparable basic package.
Stop compairing channel per transponder, Because KA and KU are completely Different setups.
Not at all the same.
If D* was using KU for its HD, Then you fairly compair its 5 channels per transponder vs E* 6-7.
We know D* has slightly better PQ, But compairing KA-KU and Channels per transponder is completely different.
D* could put 1 channel per transponder on a KA, It doesn't mean the PQ will be better then if E* had 4 channels on their KU.
D* has an FCC Frequency that it has to follow, so how D* chooses spread those channels out is up to them.
Also KU has a Much wider Signal beam then KA.
Thats Why E* 1000.4 and 1000.2 dish is only 19x24
While D* Slimeline ,Even with a 3 LNB (99,101,103 users) is still 24x32
D* could easily use a Phase III 18x20 for its 99,101,103, But I bet one cloudy rainy day your signal would be poor at best.
HD Premuims/Nationals=Dish
HD Sports=Directv
Cable=Still Sucks
Just thought I would add a bit of humor to our posts, we all win with the Dish adds, hopefully this is momentum that Dish contiunes to carry and grow with the rest of the year. I am sure Direct will have there adds soon!
HD Sports=Directv
Cable=Still Sucks
Just thought I would add a bit of humor to our posts, we all win with the Dish adds, hopefully this is momentum that Dish contiunes to carry and grow with the rest of the year. I am sure Direct will have there adds soon!
I'm cracking up over your post.
Do you get more money if D* gets more subs?
BTW - I'd pay 2x as much if I switched from Dish Network to Direct TV for the most similar channels. No thanks. I could spend that ~$500/year somewhere else.
Not the people I know. Stretched SD looks horrible and mis-proportioned. When businesses started displaying stretched SD on HDTV's at 16:9, I thought - no way do I want to buy into that. Little did I know that it wasn't a real HD signal being output.
If you show someone a stretched SD side-by-side to a true 16:9 HD image, the majority would choose the HD. It blows your socks off.
Methinks you have to be joking, or a typo.
I do think it's funny that so many people HAVE HDTV's and they don't play and HD on them. I've already helped 3 neighbors get OTA HD and they all have been amazed at the difference it is compared to SD (stretched or not).
Yet another feature to which I went blind. I did manage to switch my 722's TV1 output from a live program to a recorded one, which didn't make me too popular.
1) Can you give a step-by-step on how to change channels?
2) Is there any way to affect TV2 rather than TV1 output?
Ding Ding Ding. +1 :up
Now if only everyone could see it that simply. Thanks for the humorous post, but for me it's not only humorous, but reality.
It would cost me $1 more for D*and I wouldn't getI'm cracking up over your post.
Do you get more money if D* gets more subs?
BTW - I'd pay 2x as much if I switched from Dish Network to Direct TV for the most similar channels. No thanks. I could spend that ~$500/year somewhere else.
- Encore HD
- Encore West
- Encore Action
- Encore Drama
- Encore Love
- Encore Mystery
- Encore Wam
- Encore Westerns
- Hallmark Movie Channel HD
- Lifetime HD
- Lifetime Movie HD
- Travel HD
- WGN HD
- HBO comedy HD
- HBO 2 HD
- HBO Signature HD
- HBO Family HD
- HBO Zone HD
- ESPNU
- Fox Soccer
- Outdoor
- TMC West
- TMC Xtra West
- Travel HD
- KTLA.
25 less channels then E* is giving me ,and D* would be $1 dollar more per month.
Not when they JIP you! When it comes to the HD RSN channels, having them doesn't mean showing them. I'm still watching a Red's game where a Giant's game should be. The program guide says JIP. Ain't that the truth!
JIP Network. Ha ha.
Log into your account.
Click on the Remote access on your account page.
Your receivers will log in, your Guide will load.
Click on a program that Highlighted in White.
It will give you 2-3 options Record or Tune and something else but I don't remember. I'll check .
As fas as TV2 TV1 I'm not sure what your trying to do, But I'm not worried about that stuff, My DVR is always set to record on TV2.
What does it matter? TV1 and TV2 Share the same Hard drive anyway.
That is an easy question to answer. E* is the official HD leader and I switched four months ago to D*, Dang it!!! Hopefully this lights a fire under the heads @ D*.
Hemi, I saw you mention ESPNU. Is that one of the ones that E* added? If so, good add. That is realy all I am missing at this point.
Not in HD, But what I was saying is Top 250 has ESPNU, Where as D* I would have to pay another $11 dollars to get, Unless its in the HD/DVR base pack now?
It isnt. Yet.
Ok, I was wondering, because that would have been a big "screw you" to D* in a way.
