Dish Booth CES 2015

[dfergie]

From Discovery 4k

 

[foghorn2]

Stiff. Coming out of access hole.

Flocking Accholes, Monoprice has thin limp HDMI cables for cheap.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

scott ask around when will carbon UI will start rolling out to people who have hopper with sling thanks

It will be going out to all Hoppers / Joeys.

 

[bluegras]

thanks scott i appreciate you guys what you are doing at CES so much
could you please try and get a pic of the tv apps page on the new carbon UI so i can see what apps are listed on there i do not know which ones are on there can you please check for me.

It will be going out to all Hoppers / Joeys.

 

[foghorn2]

Cool, maybe the slow Joeys will be faster with the new Cabron UI!

 

[Hall]

the Hopper Netfix app does not support 3D nor the 4K content. The rep didn't know but checked with their on site Netflix rep for me. He did say that later on the app would support 4K for the dish version of the app.

What ?!?! No 3D support ?? Hmmmm....

 

[Hall]

Their onsite Netflix guy huh???

Netflix probably has a booth at CES manned by Netflix employees.

Netflix probably has a couple of employees working at Dish for a while (programmers). They may not be the type that you bring to CES though !

 

[dfergie]

 

[dfergie]

 

[MikeD-C05]

They had had Native Resolution working, but in tests with customers many people did not like it as it took their TV a few seconds to change to the correct resolution. So much so that most said they didn't like it so DISH never released it.

I would have to agree. When I had DIRECTV hd for about 6 months a few years back, the native resolution made the picture blink in and out and then synch before it came on for every channel change. It was very distracting and I turned it off shortly after trying it and never turned it back on.

 

[navychop]

will the 4K Joey upconvert the 1080i signal to 4K?

The TV should do that. Do you think the Dish box would do it better?

 

[DustoMan]

The TV should do that. Do you think the Dish box would do it better?

Oh so if your bought a cheap TV with a crappy scaler then who do you think people blame... oh ya Dish cause they don't know any better. At least if the receiver is doing it, they can control picture quality to a certain degree.

 

[Foxbat]

Can't make the Joey any thinner unless new interconnects come out. The F-Connector and RJ45 Ethernet jacks seem to be the limiting factors. I forgot to ask Vivek if they had a requirement for line-of-sight for IR or if the 4K Joey could be tucked behind the HDTV, and if so, how it would be mounted. Looking at dfergie's picture, there are two slots for screws on the bottom.

 

[darrengs]

Can't make the Joey any thinner unless new interconnects come out. The F-Connector and RJ45 Ethernet jacks seem to be the limiting factors. I forgot to ask Vivek if they had a requirement for line-of-sight for IR or if the 4K Joey could be tucked behind the HDTV, and if so, how it would be mounted. Looking at dfergie's picture, there are two slots for screws on the bottom.

per the feature sheet:

"Mounts on a wall or flat surface for spacesaving
convenience. Designed to fit behind
wall-mounted 4KTVs, even in some of the
most challenging scenarios"

 

[Hall]

or if the 4K Joey could be tucked behind the HDTV

One of the PDFs posted specifically mentioned this was part of the "thin" design.

 

[Hall]

They had had Native Resolution working, but in tests with customers many people did not like it as it took their TV a few seconds to change to the correct resolution. So much so that most said they didn't like it so DISH never released it.

I now recall when we had Time Warner that it allowed you to select multiple output resolutions, i.e. pass-through, and it was very annoying. It only took "a few seconds", like you say, but it felt like too long.

 

[Bobby]

I now recall when we had Time Warner that it allowed you to select multiple output resolutions, i.e. pass-through, and it was very annoying. It only took "a few seconds", like you say, but it felt like too long.

Yeah, that would drive me crazy if I would were switching back and forth between Fox and CBS football games....

 

[Hall]

Isn't pass-through a moot point with non-CRT TVs anyway? LCDs, LEDs, etc up-convert to their native resolution.

 

[emtjim]

A little late to ask but anyone that was at Dish CES, was there any update on smarthome intergration on the hopper from what they demo last year?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

A little late to ask but anyone that was at Dish CES, was there any update on smarthome intergration on the hopper from what they demo last year?

They spun it off and now its a Hughes Product. I expect we will hear more about it in May at Team Summit.