It tells me that they are still on the SD brainwave and not nearly as concerned with the HD packages as we are. Maybe we have out hopes up too much that HD channels are actually going to play HD content. But I do get HD on pretty much every channel I want to watch.It wouldn't be like E* to be operating contrary marketing programs would it?
Seriously...this is the net effect of that they are doing and it isnt even in there best interest (bottom line)
i.e. I have TuboHD Silver...If I switch to Classic Bronze with HD I will get MORE HD channels for LESS MONEY than I do now.
What message does that tell you?
ALL VIACOMS HD ARE ON !!!
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Accept in this case....it cost less and you get more. (TurboHD Silver vs Classic Bronze+HD)
I wouldn't mind paying an extra $10 a month or so to have this final HD lineup but no having to change my Absolute to a different subscription where I get hundreds of terrible image quality SD channels that I would never watch. Why can't there simply be an ONLY HD subscription?
I would add: Why can't there simply be an ONLY HD subscription that includes all available HD channels?
Ding - Ding - Ding !! Or "all" HD channels in tiers like everything else. But in an "all HD" package you certainly should not be locked out of HD channels others are getting in their "classic" packages at the same level, and there certainly should be an "absolute all HD" that gives you..."absolutely"...all HD channels that Dish has, bar none. (Outside-of-region regional sports excepted of course...!)
+1 to OregonScott. All this complaining for SD upconverts and otherwise horrible programming.
Really - Manswers on Spike HD? Yeah, it was HD, but it was clearly a show written for and by morons. Who watches this crap?
Oops, I guess I did. But only for about 2 minutes.
Yeah, I caught part of that show last night when the channels got turned on, too. I saw a section of a multi-step process to sleep with strippers. For anyone who was taking notes on that show, I have a much simpler one step process to sleep with strippers:
1) Buy cocaine
The guy doing the voiceover was really annoying, too. Admittedly, though, I'm sure I would've enjoyed the hell out of that show when I was in jr. high.
That Dish appears to be run by idiots, and this whole rollout has been a CF.
HEY SCOTT. Can you please talk to someone over there, and find out exactly what new channels are supposed to be in what packages?
Press release from Dish for the Viacom HD's, short note regarding on demand programing and location of BET channel
DISH Network - Investor Relations - 1.888.825.2557
DISH Network - Investor Relations - 1.888.825.2557
- 'no additional cost to the customers'.Well that's partially true, but they did raise rates for some of their customers already.
Too bad they don't really even tell you how the packages are tiered when compared against each other (Turbo, Classic, Absolute, etc).
Yes I have Gold + Platinum and 2 Prermiums
What really galls me is that I was told and I repeat again I was told that by getting the gold + platinum I would get all new HD channels.
Dish is nickel and dimeing us to death and I have just about had it! Comcast may not have as many HD yet but they soon will and I can can Internet, phone and tv for one year for $89.
I have been a dish customer for 12 years and signed up many friends but I really think dish is abandoning its base for new customers or either the left and right hands just don't talk; either way the ship is going in circles.
Just My Two Cents
JC
What really galls me is that I was told and I repeat again I was told that by getting the gold + platinum I would get all new HD channels.
Dish is nickel and dimeing us to death and I have just about had it! Comcast may not have as many HD yet but they soon will and I can can Internet, phone and tv for one year for $89.
I have been a dish customer for 12 years and signed up many friends but I really think dish is abandoning its base for new customers or either the left and right hands just don't talk; either way the ship is going in circles.
Just My Two Cents
JC
I thought someone (like Charlie or Jim) acknowledged the issue and said that the new Fox HD channels would be coming to TurboHD packages. Does anyone else remember that or am I getting things mixed up. Either way, I was told several times that any new HD channels added would get to the TurboHD packges. And I specifically switched from D* to E* for the TurboHD packages -- so E* better wake up and get all their HD into those packages else they are going to start loosing their TurboHD customers at an alarming rate!!!
Noggin and the N are still time sharing 169, switched over to the N at 6pm as it always has. The N appears to be 24/7 on 9576.
Hmmm...Stretch-o-vision on BET-HD, even though none of the other Viacom's are.
What do you want to bet that BET-HD still hasn't launched, and DISH is just upconverting the SD feed? Is BET-J stretched, or pillarboxed?
(Or is Viacom just really racist, since everyone who stretches seems to be under the impression that their viewers are idiots.)
What do you want to bet that BET-HD still hasn't launched, and DISH is just upconverting the SD feed? Is BET-J stretched, or pillarboxed?
(Or is Viacom just really racist, since everyone who stretches seems to be under the impression that their viewers are idiots.)
It is kinda both, if you can imagine that. The picture looks like it should be wide screen in many cases (ie, nifty black bars on the top and bottom), but the whole thing is stuffed within pillar boxes. So it is kind of like wide screen being mushed, and then shown back on a wide screen, resulting in a horrible black frame all around the channel... I feel like I have a 17" tv while watching that channel (which I only do to look for any sign of hd content).
Just in case you weren't aware:
When the picture is in a "window box" (Black Bars all around)
--- press the format button ( bottom left - * - button) 3 times.
-------Press 1) strethces horizontally to get rid of side bars,
-------Press 2) stretches up about half way (for some formats),
-------Press 3) stretches up to remove the top and bottom bars on "window boxed" images. It still looks better than the SD counterpart.
Pressing this button again will give you gray pillarbox and pressing again will go back to "normal" HD.
Window box programs are a result of SD programs shot in 16x9 which would have been seen as letterboxed images on a "regular" TV.
See ya
Tony
Thanks for the tips, but I have no intention of actually watching this channel. I am just trying to see if it ever has/will have HD.
