QVC in HD

[dishfan82]

I have it with directv. It makes the channel more watchable since it's in HD. I don't watch the channel 24 hours but there's been quite a few items I've ordered off there , family gifts , gifts for my wife etc.

 

[BearcatScott]

Of course I was joking when I said "urgent", but my mom does watch that channel way too much. They probably did have it on stretch and it got turned off somehow.

 

[Mochuf]

qvc has not been in HD on dish i wish it was along with the other shopping channels HSN etc.

WHY?

Thankfully, they haven't wasted the bandwidth for either of them in HD...yet

Exactly! There are a lot more channels that should be in HD long before any shopping channels.

Personally, I feel that shopping channels take away bandwith that could be used for better purposes. Now I know that these channels pay providers and help keep rates lower (yah, right), but really nobody has ever said how much we save because of them. I think the answer to that question would be "Not very much."

 

[ChadT41]

Even if it was just $0.06 just like what CSPN charges, it would be around $8.4 million per channel. That's not a bad number. I know the costs are more than that, but it helps.

 

[Hall]

it would be around $8.4 million per channel. That's not a bad number. I know the costs are more than that, but it helps.

Given that these shopping channels pay every TV provider to carry them suggests that what they pay to do this is chump change compared to the margin they make on the products they sell.

 

[ChadT41]

Given that these shopping channels pay every TV provider to carry them suggests that what they pay to do this is chump change compared to the margin they make on the products they sell.

I agree with that... I am not talking about their profit maximization, and what they pay is chump change to Dish's expenses, but I look at it like I would any business decision. If it is a 1-2% savings... Then awesome.

 

[Skytrooper]

I wish they would take all that shopping stuff off. It's all that my wife watches. UPS truck comes here a lot.

Block the channels. I've always blocked them for as long as we've had Dish (and not to stop "shopping").

If I blocked those shopping channels, I could be blocked in other ways.

 

[Tampa8]