tubetwister said:
"I've read some folks are getting wired 4K Joey's free with an exchange of a DVR & receiver (s) for the upgrade but the $50.00 charge is definitely happening on each of the wireless Joey's
peggy97850 said:
Thought 4K Joeys were $50 & wireless Joeys also cost something (for the access point)?
thomasjk said :
4k Joeys' are 50 as are the WAP.
re: tubetwister:
All this is probably true . I don't know anything beyond what I've read here and at AVS and maybe DSL reports
about 4K J's and the 4K DVR that goes with them .
I've read *some customers* are getting comped at least on one or more of the Joey's but maybe not the WAP business.
From what I've read this all may vary with any customer also that doesn't pay full boat for the Joey's
Maybe I'll call them or chat them up at Dish on the web about the 4K Joey and 4K DVR business specifically for my acct. and see what I can get out of them ( or not ) but those CSR's,like ATT are usually only one step above a chimpanzee. I got one good one in ~5 yrs that I didn't have to repeat and go over everything a zillion times or call them back when they screwed up an order when I saw it in the order confirmation E-mail
Again even though I have a new 4K Sony at this time I'm just looking for a legitimate PQ improvement on 720p/1080i with all this 4K VCR/Joey business vs my 722K and 211K's .
Dish doesn't have any regular channel 4K anyway or maybe none at all down from the birds.
Maybe they are waiting for ATSC 3.0 and whatever new or different compression that might bring for 4K on the birds .
The compression they are talking about for ATSC 3.0 (OFDM). 8-VSB vs what they have now is maybe 4X + more efficient at the same channel bandwidth IOW 90 Mbps vs 19.39 Mbps in the same data bandwidth so that opens up 4K bt709 or 4K WCG + HDR with room to spare
