Lots of News from Team Summit

[Tom Bombadil]

As to supporting native resolution, if they can implement this well, then this is a very nice feature. Having the option of allowing one's TV to convert the video is a "good thing." Many TVs would likely do a much better job than the Dish receiver. And if they don't, then just switch your Dish receiver to a fixed standard output. Best of both worlds.

Some TVs have very advanced circuits to handle image conversion. After all, they have to handle it for OTA channels if you are using their built-in tuner. A high-end 1080p TV would likely do a better job of converting a 720p channel to 1080p than having a Dish 211 handle the conversion of 720p to 1080i and then sending 1080i to the TV to be line doubled.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Well, viewing from the external drive would be better yet!

As long as I could connect & use an external drive, I will be happy.

 

[Kirby Baker]

Anything been mentioned yet about the price of the new Plus dishes and lnb's?

 

[keenan]

I tell you one thing. You won't see MSG HD, YES HD or FSNY HD on E*. I will be shocked if that happens.

I'll be shocked if FSNBA-HD shows up on Dish as well.

 

[Airblair]

Now some BIG NEWS, this fall Dish Network will carry 11 RSN's in HD and will add the other 10 RSN's in HD by spring! These will be on 61.5 or 129. They did not announce which RSN's would be up first.

YES! YES! YES!

Like who_the, I live in the Bay Area and can't get local sports in HD unless I subscribe to Comcast.

And goaliebob99 asks a good question:

If one subs to the hd pack and the sports pack.... Would they get all the RSN's in hd??? Also, if there is a game on MLBEI for instance and the RSN that is being shown in mlbe EI, (Dish carrys the MLBEI HD RSN... would we get the HD verson of that. Sorta like an MLBEI HD PACK?

 

[mike123abc]

I would prefer the opposit of what they seem to be proposing with auto resolution... I would like to have the 622 pass through the channels native resolution and let the set handle the conversion as an option.

A matrix of some sort like you have 480p, 720p and 1080i and you get to choose what you want the 622 to do when the source is each of those options. You might want them all passed through unprocessed, or perhaps you want the 622 to scale the 1080i down to 720p because it has a better scaler or you want the 720p scaled to 1080i since your set could not handle 720p input.

p.s. I already want my DPP64 switch!

 

[BFG]

YES! YES! YES!

Like who_the, I live in the Bay Area and can't get local sports in HD unless I subscribe to Comcast.

And goaliebob99 asks a good question:

the MLB and NHL already carry HD feeds for RSNs so nothing new there. (the stupidity is that dish could be offering this RSN feed to the approriate region now, they are just clueless with the programming the channel to do so...)

and there would be no benefit of including HD RSNs in the sports pack because all the HD content (the games) would be blacked out

 

[pdxsam]

and there would be no benefit of including HD RSNs in the sports pack because all the HD content (the games) would be blacked out

It could increase the number of HD games shown from RSN tremendously. Instead of 1 per night we could have 3 or 4 to choose from in the sports packs like EI or Full Court or Center Ice.

For sports package subs this could be a great thing.

 

[pdxsam]

In addtion lets say you tune to HBO on Channel 300, your receiver will know you are hooked to a HDTV so when you tune to channel 300 you will actually be tuned to the HD version of HBO instead. (The same goes with Starz)

Hopefully this is a toggle thing where you can turn it off. There's a number of things on HBO or Showtime or Starz that aren't HD or are upconverts which if recorded are just fine with the SD version. Why waste the disk space?

 

[Lucky]

I tell you one thing. You won't see MSG HD, YES HD or FSNY HD on E*. I will be shocked if that happens.

Do you think we will see SNY in HD any time soon. They do lots of HD 24/7, but Cablevision only carries it for Met games. I would love to have this channel in HD on 24/7.

 

[BFG]

Pretty sure dish already has rights to air SNY and Sports Time Ohio with the contracts they signed, they are just simply not doing it...

They also have rights to air Fox Owned FSN HD feeds, which they have included in the NHL and MLB packages, but for whatever dumbfoundedness not the region, something which D* does without a problem

 

[pdxsam]

Do you think we will see SNY in HD any time soon. They do lots of HD 24/7, but Cablevision only carries it for Met games. I would love to have this channel in HD on 24/7.

I bet it's a cable only deal. Since it's a NY area RSN it's probably cheaper for them to shuttle it to the cable ends by fiber than pay all that cost for satellite uplinks.

 

[Juan]

I bet it's a cable only deal. Since it's a NY area RSN it's probably cheaper for them to shuttle it to the cable ends by fiber than pay all that cost for satellite uplinks.

nope its uplinked via satellite

 

[pdxsam]

nope its uplinked via satellite

I meant the HD portion gets shuttled by fiber.

Is the HD uplinked to satellite also?

 

[Lucky]

I bet it's a cable only deal. Since it's a NY area RSN it's probably cheaper for them to shuttle it to the cable ends by fiber than pay all that cost for satellite uplinks.

DirecTV, in their SNY announcement said they will carry selected Met home games in HD on SNY. I do not know if they have carried any yet.

 

[JamesJ]

I have a reallllllllyyyyyyy good feeling that sports time ohio will be one of the rsn's in hd/

 

[Juan]

I meant the HD portion gets shuttled by fiber.

Is the HD uplinked to satellite also?

cablevision has a Huge uplink facility on Long Island

 

[Lucky]

I have a reallllllllyyyyyyy good feeling that sports time ohio will be one of the rsn's in hd/

Just be a little careful, remember STO is partly owned by Time Warner.

 

[SmityWhity]

Move, copy, archive, all means different things to different software programmers and different content programmers.

Could possibly mean to archive it on another media (HDD) in a special format, then erase the original copy/version. This would make it a little harder to spread across the internet in a useful format.

I have HD-Silver -- 9429 NTGHD is available with display "Free Preview Thru 7/07"

On the DVR fee -- I own a 622 and have to pay a "DVR Service Fee" around $5.


Any prices on the upgrade dish kits, or the complete systems?
Dish 500+ Upgrade
Dish 1000+ Upgrade

 

[rdinkel]

Scott, Can you please confirm with Echostar contacts that CBS-HD is not at risk due to court ruling?