Official 2008 Dish WishList

[Tyralak]

Here's what I hope/expect from dish in 2008 (whats yours?) :

- Choice of menu colours, blue is getting boring

- Better selection in DishOnline

- Universal Learning Dish Remote with UHF

- VIP 622 as a Server so VIP 211 can access recordings from it

- Dishcomm/LAN enable on the VIP211

- More international programming/news (BBC) in the DVR Advantage plan

Sci-FI HD!

 

[Tyralak]

ATSC HD TV2 on HD DVRs

 

[Tyralak]

Your wish is granted, just ask Santa for a FTA satellite system and Glorystar, the programing package is Free, ho ho ho Mary Christmas .

Is it me, or does the name "Glorystar" just sound dirty?

 

[Tyralak]

The ability of buying other DMAs other than the one you have to have because of your ZipCode.

Uh, yeah. That's not a Dish rule. That's a Federal government thing. You want that to happen, they have to change the law.

 

[KKlare]

ATSC HD TV2 on HD DVRs

Great idea. How about ATSC on TV1?
Will they stop this because you could make digital copies?

BTW, is there a NTSC to ATSC converter? Well, a reasonably priced one?
-Ken

 

[bradb007]

More HD (starting with SciFi)

HD and DVRs are really the "movers" for me and when I go to evaluate my vendors next year it is those two components that will drive my decision. Dish needs to maintain competitiveness on both fronts and I will stay.

 

[ddgtomahawk]

Due the the way Dish's promos work, a customer can get only one dual tuner DVR per the promo. Customers are then having ot connect tuner number two (not hi def) the that tv. Many homes have mor than one HDTV now and that number continues to grow.
Many customers want not only the DVR capability on two tv's they also want HD on those same tv's.
This is not my opinion. This is based upon feedback from customers I have served

Existing customers can upgrade to two hd-dvr dual tuners through DIU...your talking new customers?

 

[petrozio]

My wish list in the order of probability.
1. Hartford Locals in HD
2. Ability to schedule DVR over internet
3. Built in Sling box
4. Indicator on guide for programs actually recorded in HD
5. Yes Network (Ok, I can already see all the dirty looks)

 

[treacherous]

My ultimate wishlist:

* Central 4-tuner (plus OTA) HD DVR receiver that can distribute media to dumb-term receivers via ethernet with built-in Slingbox and media server capabilities and record 4 satellite HD + 1 OTA HD programs at one time

* Convert all SD channels to MPEG4

* Convert downres'd MPEG4 HD channels to full res MPEG4

* Convert MPEG2 HD channels to full res MPEG4

* More National HD channels!!

* The ability to have no home phone line at all and have my account tied to a cell phone instead!

* Austin local channels in HD!

* A-la-carte programming!