Does the VIP 722k have on demand channels like nick on demand, a&e on demand etc and how would you access them?
ViP 722k has on demand?
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Just to clarify... that would be ... you need "internet access" ... dsl, cable, or other high speed option to stream content to your 722k
There's also dishonline.com which links to your main dish user account (yay security conscious morons that didn't plan for kids and non-priveledged users) ... it mirrors much of your allowed dish content/package and more ... its basically like Hulu (in fact at least some if not all of the content is coming from there) though the finer details of it are a mix moshpit of things..
ie. I've got EPIX .. but I'd have to "upgrade" to get access to Epix through DishOnline ... though that too could just be some packages flag glitch on the backend of these systems.
There's also dishonline.com which links to your main dish user account (yay security conscious morons that didn't plan for kids and non-priveledged users) ... it mirrors much of your allowed dish content/package and more ... its basically like Hulu (in fact at least some if not all of the content is coming from there) though the finer details of it are a mix moshpit of things..
ie. I've got EPIX .. but I'd have to "upgrade" to get access to Epix through DishOnline ... though that too could just be some packages flag glitch on the backend of these systems.
It's nothing like HULU or Netflix or any other REAL service.. I can click on HULU and watch immediately.. With Dish on Demand, I click on it then can watch it tomorrow.. Dish needs to get their servers a kick in the butt...
you are correct
I would not call it on demand It is amazingly slow ,at least two hours for 1/2 hour show
I use netflix and its great on same dsl service
Mark, like many others that have a blinding hatred of the words "Dish On Demand" and services dish has, you've missread what I wrote
dishonline.com **is** like hulu ... dishonline.com *is not* Dish On Demand ... its an additional service offering, and can agument a users' choices, that's the only reason I was offering it ...
ie.. "there's also this other service..."
and believe me.. I know exactly what you mean when you're trying to do DoD and could start watching if you wanted to see 1 minute for every 10.
I would also say .. that Dish's DoD is minor if you'd compare it to Cox ... at least according to a coworker who swears by his "on demand" stuff. And lastly... too much of Dish's stuff is really pay per view or rental DoD. And that the few short things I've selected to do .. a couple of 3 minute vids, a 30 minute episode of something free .. they all were fairly quick.. but I have seen the staggeringly horrible other stuff to which I'm sure DoD rings like the most obnoxious bell in your ears..
I would like to believe maybe some day Dish Network will solve their issues with their Dish On Demand as it is now it's more like Dish Select and Wait.....And Wait..........And still Waiting??!!!.:rant:
You forgot to mention for some receivers it's still arrow down, and arrow down, and arrow down, ad infinitum before you get to select anything and start waiting.
I would bet that the reason there's an issue with On Demand.. is the codec used. I just did a test a bit ago, posted to another thread where I actually saw the data moved in 1 minute of video across a Sling Adapter is approximately 64 megabytes ... at that rate, you'd need 2.5 to 3 times as much data as even the highest streams from Youtube (1080p roughly 25 MBytes / min) and that's wasteful given a 100 dollar Bluray player can decode youtube/netflix/etc at less than 60 meg /min and give fairly good output.
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