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Team Summit: General Assembly Notes

A few friends of mine in Comcast regions see dirty blocky lines in their HD picture a couple times every few hours. I told them that I'd not pay for a service that gave me HD like that.

It's always going to be worse or better elsewhere. As it goes, it seems that Charlie is always upgrading his MPEG-4 encoders. For the most part, I think it shows in a positive way.

I'm really interested as to how MPEG-4 SDs are going to look on EA. I figure it can only go up.
 

Well, the last week of March I dropped D* and added Dish. The PQ DECREASE is noticeable. Channels like History, A&E, Food and HGTV look better on D*. Id love to know what channel people that have had both think E* does better.
 

OK, I'm sorry I picked on you. Though I STILL wouldn't call you to complain about programming changes. If nothing else, I wouldn't want to bother you with something you can't control.

However, I produce local TV commercials. Sometimes, my clients will voice a complaint about their placement or other traffic related concerns. I have nothing to do with this...however, I will often ask their advertising rep to call the client. So I get the attitude.

But you didn't come off that way in the original post. It was more like "Voom sucks, and I make sure people call me so I can milk some more money out of them." Hence, my irritation.
 


I get ya! It's not milking them so much as its just that we don't leave any money on the table. That's the difference between retail work and fulfillment work. You call DISH directly and you get 1 out of a hundred installers in your area and they can care less if they ever hear from you again. We see our customers often.
 

Competition forces improvement. Satellite forced cable to improve its offerings. If not for satellite, cable would be charging a buck a channel for 50 channels and offering nothing else.
 

This is why I have been saying for years that they need to make receivers upgradable (like desktop pc's). They STILL have not learned their lesson and still come out with receivers that are not upgradable. Whatever happened to the whole house solution where you just add a tuner or memory or tuner or module when another one is needed? This would simplify things and reduce the cost as well I'd think.
 
Stargazer said:
This is why I have been saying for years that they need to make receivers upgradable (like desktop pc's). They STILL have not learned their lesson and still come out with receivers that are not upgradable.
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98% of their customers get a receiver and keep it 'til it dies .... they're not interested in "upgradeability". It's not cost-effective.
 
hall said:
98% of their customers get a receiver and keep it 'til it dies .... they're not interested in "upgradeability". It's not cost-effective.
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Exactly. Especially considering that the "upgrades" that happen would be so significant, that you might as well replace the whole receiver. Most new model receivers are so completely different, that there's no way to make them with modular upgradability.
 
The Voom channels were essentially niche channels and in asking customers on occasion about them I never really got the feedback indicating they were all that popular.
I miss them because after install I could show the customer the clarity of HD. Oh well there's always HD net...I think that channel is still there.....
 
We do this for our retail customers as well. Just wanted to clarify an earlier post. However, with our DNS fulfillment work, once off site the customer is on their own with regard to programming changes.
The operative being "off site"..
If I am still on site and the customer wants programming changes after activation I will call dish for them and get it done.
 
Quite frankly Voom took up valuable space for it's seldom watched niche channels. The picture and sound quality is terrific. But the channels were viewed by few. Something had to give. I hope the Voom services return. But for now the addition of more popular channels in HD seems to be the way to go.
 

I realize I'm a couple days late but just wanted to point something out. Slinging is not capable on current 722. It isn't just a software update to add this functionality. The reason is basically slinging requires an re-encode of the stream and there is no such hardware in the current 722.
 

Sure but they could give us a USB Sidecar or something to help the process here instead of using the IR thing. There are ways around this.

In looking back though -

My beef was more about the 'new UI' and things like that though. I'm figuring this is just the death bell for the 722 for the most part.

I also made assumptions since they're stupid enough to call it a '722'. It should be an entirely different model since it's a different architecture.
 
"....... a 722 with Sling technology built in. Besides having Slingbox technology built in it also has Clip and sling which will let you send clips to friends. The 722s has a totally new interface, it has a guide with channel logos plus a totally new UHF remote, which features a touchpad and a trigger below it. This is a amazing unit." Quote: Scott

Any word on when this might be released? 2008/2009/2010???

Scotty
 

You know it going to be said, so I may as well do it. *SOON*
 
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