GaryPen said:
Did you notice how he attempted to keep that side of his head off camera. That red ugliness was downright scary. It looked like somthing out of "Alien."
dish hd announcement?
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Did you notice how he attempted to keep that side of his head off camera. That red ugliness was downright scary. It looked like somthing out of "Alien."
Actually, I think it'll be rooted in reality just a tad more than last week's tripe fest was.GaryPen said:
But how else will the parties get three hours of prime-time exposure on ABC, CBS and NBC, plus more on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc.? Hey, not everyone is glued to C-SPAN 24/7, even if their ratings went thru the roof during the convention thanks to lack of network coverage.NightRyder said:
However, the Dems do seem to be heading that way: This time they did the nominating speeches Thursday afternoon before prime time, then started the roll call during the local news; Kerry went "over the top" somewhere in the middle of Leno's and Letterman's monologues.
BTW, the Constitution says nothing about nominating conventions--or for that matter, political parties, or even a popular vote for President. At this point, the rules are mostly a combination of party rules and state law, with some Federal statutes (i.e., campaign financing) thrown in. The Constitution's first step in electing a President is the selection of electors on Election Day, by any method the state chooses; it doesn't even require a popular vote, though that's what every state has done for over 150 years.
DanB474 said:
The trouble is that in order for Dish to provide the RSNs in HDTV, then it would take new hardware up in orbit as well down here. Dish Currently has about 24 SD RSNs. That would take 8 Transponders to carry them in HD. That would be if Dish decided to make them available to all (ie Sports Packs, MLB:EI, NBA Season Pass, NHL:CI).
Dish could elect to put them on the Spot beam transponders. But again, that real estate is very valuable, because that where their "locals" go, and locals are "gravy" because they bring in the new customers by the boat loads. A single HD RSN could take up the entire space of a small DMA on a TP.
Finally the content. A RSN likely has 3 hrs of HD about 4 times a week and then its just SD. Dish might have a hard time justifying them when the TPs are hard to come by.
Now with all that said, If Dish puts up some new Satellites with much greater Spot beam or other technology, then RSNs HD could find their way onto Dish.
That will only work if there are five or less games being shown in HD at any one time; that may be true now, but someday it won't be. And if the same game is on two non-affiliated HD RSNs, they MUST agree to share the signal, or else you're in a heap of trouble.BFG said:
And that's assuming your capitalizing "games" is a typo. I don't think you meant "the Games", as in the Olympics; no RSN will ever do that. I know; I was one of the rare few who actually got the infamous Olympics TripleCast of 1992. (I won it from a radio station; otherwise there's no way I'd have ever paid for it.)
GaryPen said:
Ah yes, that Sunday morning Mexican hangover dish, Menudo!!! And you thought they were just a Puerto Rican boy band...
GaryPen said:
I prefer the term "classic"
With my car what you see is what you get. There aren't many politicians you can say that about. It certainly doesn't apply to their phony scripted love fests.
NightRyder
That's fortunate since they were given quite a mouthfulGaryPen said:
Tripe is also quite popular in Italy and Poland and I think, much of Europe.
AndyMon said:That's fortunate since they were given quite a mouthful
Tripe is also quite popular in Italy and Poland and I think, much of Europe.
The old countries truly believe in "waste not, want not!"
Maybe E* HD annoucement is that instead of giving us more HD channels, they have started over-compressing the ones that we have so that we stop complaining about wanting more HD. That is, they want us to become as disappointed in their HD PQ as we became with their SD PQ. Just a thought!
Actually, they are a lot alike. They polish them up, and try to sell them to a public who knows little about them. It's only after they take it home that they discover the fine print, and find out what a gas guzzler they have on their hands. Either that, or the engine doesn't work, it doesn't do what you THOUGHT it would do, or it has a lot of useless extras grafted on to the deal that can't be removed, and drive the price up.....
So Scott, in the spirit of why this thread started, any update on the big annoucnement? Are they waiting for Thursday's Retailer Chat or Monday's Tech Chat? Or just waiting to trump DirectTV's announcements that are coming tomorrow with their quarterly results?
