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Errr, Disney Chan has had commercials for many years, since before they even had an HD channel. ESPN will do the same they always have with their advertisers I'm sure, fill up all the spots for the most $ they can. Just like every other channel, and just like they'll jack up sub fees as high as...

First off, all HD boxes can already down convert their output to an SD TV. The reason Dish still has MPEG2 channels is the enormous amount of MPEG2 only receiver still out there. It will take years and years to replace all those boxes. Now why they're STILL leasing equipment not capable of...

Hehe, I actually have two boxes, second one in my bedroom. Different model TV but PQ is comparable. I've also seen E* in several friends, and families houses. Hell I generally recommend it to anyone complaining of high cable prices. Look, dish is sending out around a 5mbps signal in MPEG-4/AVC...

I have a bluray player connected the same exact way: HDMI from the box straight to the TV, and SPDIF audio to my 5.1 receiver (its too old for HDMI in). Bluray picture blows E* away, but that's to be expected. Also I had Comcast before E* and the pic quality was a good deal better. Before...

1080i, I've also tried 720p. Like I said, as long as its a pretty static video, ie the Daily Show on Comedy Central, the picture is adequate; something like a basketball game on TNT, and it sucks IMO. Everything is relative I guess, I've had people show off their new HD TV's and comment on how...

Hmm, I for one find E*'s HD PQ to be quite soft, and blocky during fast motion, in fact I was disappointed the moment the installer flipped it on. News/talking head programs and documentaries without much motion look pretty good, but sports can be awful (some of that is due to the channel...

Won't Echostar 14 increase capacity? Or does everyone here know something I don't (like it won't be used for HD)? Any idea on when they're going to start using it? Actually there's only maybe 3 or 4 channels out there I'd like Dish to add. More importantly I'd like to see less channels per TP...

Welcome to my world. I've been upset for quite a while now on the quality of HD video, which has actually gone down since I first got set up in 2004! I spent a lot of money upgrading my equipment so I expect to get better quality video than what we're getting. Quite a lot of times the quality is...

If you mean ESPN, yes Disney requires it to be in the lowest tier. FOX, the broadcast channel, is on the lowest tier of Dish already. You used to be able to choose whether to pay for locals, but not anymore, which is quite suspicious to me. Also, FX and FX News are (formerly for FX) on Dish's...

Its apprx $4.50 or $5 a month for ESPN and ESPN2 together. I've seen a couple of websites publishing the average monthly cost for cable channels. Add ESPN CL, ESPNU and ESPN News and its well over $5/month. ESPN is by far the most expensive basic cable channel. Why didn't providers balk over...

Thats not true. In the beginning Fox News was given away for free to cable and DBS systems. Its now the second most expensive channel that doesn't carry sports that there is (behind Disney). http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/03/cable-sub-fees.png

This sure sheds some new light on the FOX/DISH dispute. Cablevision is relatively small with just over 3 million subscribers (source: Top 25 Multichannel Video Programming Distributors as of Jun. 2010 - NCTA.com). So FOX is asking them for $11/year or nearly $1/month just for FOX. What's...

Its completely unreasonable to pay that for FOX which is available off air for free. Its even more unreasonable when that $1 or so is for them to be forced on every Dish subscriber. Thats not a la carte pricing. I promise you that if we ever do get a la carte TV service the per channel pricing...

I think I'd switch in your situation. Just be aware that in order to get NFL RZ on DirecTV you have to signup for NFL Sunday Ticket ($350/year) I think. Which is a major reason I'm staying with Dish, for now. My hometown school is in the MWC too... but I really have no desire to watch their...

Well for now I'm sticking with DISH, I'm under contract until June. I have the Dish America Silver package and the sports pack. So I didn't even get Nat GEO or FX to begin with. I'm stuck with RSN's that cover teams I don't care a lick about. Even though here in central NM there are about as...

Its a good idea to have a service that caters to those who could give a damn about sports... in theory. However, realize that most of the sports channels are owned by a conglomerate who also owns many other channels, and they like to negotiate their carriage in one big block. They really really...

No FOX can't pull the affiliates. And I don't think they can even pressure them to pull their signal from DISH. Almost all of them are now owned by a handful of larger media corps (LIN, Sinclair etc) who each make their own contract with DISH which has to be honored until it expires. However...

They made over 3 billion in net profit last year. I don't think bankruptcy is on the table. If people in FOX O&O markets miss the world series on FOX then DISH will see subscribers dumping their service in record numbers. Also I wonder when their contract with FOX News is up? The other...

Yeah, I noticed it as well. Decided not to add it though, its probably a trap!

I won't watch SD, especially on DISH. Therefore I agree, its unwatchable. The quality is really bad, worse than analog TV IMO.

If you can't get enough news, or the weather report on the internet... somethings wrong with you. Theres not much in the way of (legal) sports streaming out there. Pretty much just ESPN3, which I can't even access on QWEST anyway. Sports, and mostly just football and college bball, is...

Eh? QAM is a digital modulation scheme. Its a means of conveying a digital data stream, of any type. QAM-256 can conveniently carry 2 full ATSC streams. MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are compression standards, something completely separate. I'm not saying no cable systems re-compress the local...

... what niche channels? All I see are channels that started off with unique programming but have switched to mainly reality TV shows. IE what the hell do Ice Road Truckers or Swamp People have to do with history? Or Bravo which started off covering performing arts etc, now shows reality TV...

I actually recorded some HD feeds via firewire from an SA cable box on network stations (almost everything else had HDCP encryption copy once turned on) back when I had Comcast. They were MPEG-2, and exactly the same size as from over the air. MPEG-4 to me, on Dish anyways, look distinctly...

I'm a long time lurker here and have been a dish subscriber for over a year. Wanted to chime in about a few things. I'm terribly disappointed by the picture quality that E* puts out. Calling some channels HD is a mere technicality IMO. However, over the air television can suck too. Here's a...