Retailer Chat Recap: September 23, 2009

[ryotgz]

They start by talking about upcoming HD local launches...

Davenport Iowa and Paducah, Kentucky are planed to launch on September 30th.

November 18 they plan on launching Evansville, Indiana.

Finally some word about Evansville local HD!!! I sure hope it launches November 18 instead of disappearing off the face of the Earth for months. It's not 9/30, but I am willing to wait for November.

I just wonder what channels they will offer that day. I emailed our local ABC channel last week and they said, "We would love to be on Dish Network in HD! Unfortunately, the decision to carry us in HD is up to them."

:clap:clap

 

[ryotgz]

Gopherscot, did you notice slates 4 and 5 are askew, Q.C. is noted in Indiana ons slate 4 and Evansville is located in Iowa on slate 5

Maybe Evansville was meant to be on Slide 4 and QC on Slide 5? In my wildest dreams...

I'm glad to hear Evansville,IN. I wonder what satellite it will be on. I was planning on "moving" or switching to D*, but I really want a 922.

I'm hoping they put them on 110 as it comes in stronger than 129.

 

[dishinitup09]

i wonder if qc hd locals will be on the 61.5 or 129 ?

 

[aklarvanto]

What? No longer VOD for my old 508? My heart is broken Seriously, THANK YOU for not using my small HD space anymore. I need it all for Spongebob episodes.

 

[harshness]

THANK YOU for not using my small HD space anymore. I need it all for Spongebob episodes.

VOD never consumed your space in the first place. It resided on a special area of the hard drive that was not accessible to the user.

 

[Fitzie]

If I heard correctly one of the several commenters stated during the launch process stated that Nimiq 5 would be (or was "slated" to be) operational in 21 days from the date of launch. But "operational" by itself doesn't mean much since the first month of operation could be used for transferring operations from an older satellite to the newer one. New HD content in 45 days would be fine.

Regards, Fitzie

 

[jansan]

i never thought i would see the day where paduach ky HD locals

Agree. This is great news

 

[lparsons21]

Paducah, KY DMA HD! Glad to hear it, I wonder which SAT it will feed from? Hopefully, 129, 110 or 110.

So I will be able to record 2 locals via OTA in HD on my 722k, and the other 2 via satellite. Then I can turn off the D* HDDVR! Color me happy!

 

[BobMurdoch]

So no useful HD announcements? Ug.

Give us AMC and ESPNU!

What happened to that imminent BBC America HD activation?

 

[AdamGott]

DishComm is nice, not only does it share the phonelines, but if your hooked up to broadband it shares that as well, so on my receivers not hooked up to broadband they can still browse DishOnline and download shows.

Are you sure about this? I could never get mine to work that way and eventually installed powerline ethernet to one of my receivers. Maybe this was a late software revision that enabled this feature?

All that I could get it to share was the phone line replacement stuff - phoning home and stuff like that (?). No VOD for me using Dishcomm.

 

[RVD420]

Amir Picks the Colts -vs- The Bears in the Superbowl.

Amir must have smoked some sticky green stuff from a medical dispensary before the Retailer chat to think the Bears have a snowballs chance in hell of going to the superbowl.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Are you sure about this? I could never get mine to work that way and eventually installed powerline ethernet to one of my receivers. Maybe this was a late software revision that enabled this feature?

All that I could get it to share was the phone line replacement stuff - phoning home and stuff like that (?). No VOD for me using Dishcomm.

Actually thinking about it, it might be because I have Slinglink adapter for my sons room so he could get internet in there without me rewiring.

I assumed that since it was also a homeplug unit that it all worked the same.

 

[RVD420]

VOD never consumed your space in the first place. It resided on a special area of the hard drive that was not accessible to the user.

There are people who have had 50x receivers before VOD on Dishnetwork was rolled out. When Dishnetwork rolled out VOD Dishnetwork took space to reserve for VOD. So for those that had a 50x before VOD YES VOD did consume space.

 

[Peter Parker]

There are people who have had 50x receivers before VOD on Dishnetwork was rolled out. When Dishnetwork rolled out VOD Dishnetwork took space to reserve for VOD. So for those that had a 50x before VOD YES VOD did consume space.

I think that what the earlier poster was trying to tell you was that there was a section of the 50X hardd drive that was ALWAYS reserved for use by Echostar. The VOD simply took advantage of that space. It did not reduce the amount of usable hard drive space fora nyone.

 

[RVD420]

I think that what the earlier poster was trying to tell you was that there was a section of the 50X hardd drive that was ALWAYS reserved for use by Echostar. The VOD simply took advantage of that space. It did not reduce the amount of usable hard drive space fora nyone.

Um... I had a 501 from its early release. In the beginning I can tell you that there wasn't ALWAYS a reserved space for use by Echostar.

 

[TheKrell]

I had a 501 from its early release. In the beginning I can tell you that there wasn't ALWAYS a reserved space for use by Echostar.

And in the case of the 501, there never was a VOD. So unless I'm seriously confused, there never was a reserved space for VOD on the 501. 508's and 510's, yes.

 

[m9house]

finally ... my Quad Cities locals in HD!!! September 30th can't come soon enough!!

yahoooo!!!!!!

 

[Tyralak]

DishComm is nice, not only does it share the phonelines, but if your hooked up to broadband it shares that as well, so on my receivers not hooked up to broadband they can still browse DishOnline and download shows.

When it works that is. I've only got it to work a handful of times at the customer's house. It doesn't even work in mine, and my receivers are right across the wall from each other.

 

[Ghpr13]

Hey, I've got a quick question. Is there any advantage to having a 722k hooked up to both a phone line and an ethernet connection?
Sorry if this is OT.
Ghpr13

 

[lakebum431]

Hey, I've got a quick question. Is there any advantage to having a 722k hooked up to both a phone line and an ethernet connection?
Sorry if this is OT.
Ghpr13

If you have Caller ID then the phone line provides that information for the on screen display. Then you can use the ethernet connection for VOD.