RSN Lack of HD (STO Ohio)
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Bob
We do have one RSN in HD in NY - SNY HD (NY Mets - game content only).
The others available in SD are:
MSG & MSG +
The MSG’s include all NY Ranger, NY Islander and NJ Devil games as well as the NY Knicks. The Rangers aren’t likely to go far in the playoffs and some of the games in the first 2 rounds are going to be picked up by NBC. The Kincks are…well…done, so these channels are about to become useless until next NHL/NBA seasons start. Not to mention the legal issues between Dish & the Dolan’s. I don’t know when these contracts are up but I would not expect any movement on Cablevision owned RSN’s in HD any time soon.
YES network (NY Yankees and NJ Nets) is not available at all and, well that’s another whole discussion.
Out of the 4, that leaves us with 1 HD - 2 SD and no Yes Network. It’s been this way for a few years now, and they don’t seem to really care at all!
The vast majority of locals ARE on spotbeam. There is no space to clear up by this.
That not only applies to the NY City market, but the entire state including the Buffalo Area, where the Buffalo Sabres appear on MSG-B. Dish does fortunately give us STO (Cleveland Indians) and if you sub to Multisport you will get FSN-Pit (Pittsburgh Pirates)games, because Baseball claims the Buffalo Area is the DMA of the Mets, Yankees, Indians and Pirates. However the team that is only 75 miles away over the border (Toronto Blue Jays), MLB claims that they don't get Buffalo for its DMA. None of this really makes sense, except the actual teams that I want in HD, Sabres, Yankees and Blue Jays, are only gonna be broadcast on Dish when they are on National Feed.
Yes it is. Both FSN and NESN are carrying the game in HD. It may be an an alternate channel on Dish.
TWINS Schedule
To clarify, the game will not be shown in HD on Dish Network. Every time I have seen a game on an alternate channel EPG it is blacked out. So bottom line, it will not be in HD for those in the FSN North area.
Now I'm curious, what is the point of the HDALT channels anyway?
Then that is a Dish issue that I know nothing about. Those with other providers will be able to see it.
Even I can see it in HD here in LA on FSN-North
DIRECTV - MLB EXTRA INNINGS Schedule
My guess is that it has to due with the limited bandwidth of your HD RSNs on Dish. They can only put up so many at one time and since Hockey is going on at the same time, it limits what they can put up.
So even though the game will be broadcast in HD by FS North due to bandwith issues Dish with show the game only in SD on FS North correct ??
Yep.
It probably has more to do with Dish only allowing so much bandwidth for RSNs no matter how much free space they currently have. By only turning on some HD feeds some of the time, instead of having them on all of the time like DirecTV does (the feed is always on even when the content is being blacked out), it frees up bandwidth for other stations. This does come at a cost of some games, especially in April when Basketball, Hockey, and Baseball are going on.
Exactly. Those with the proper equipment will tell you that Dish has plenty of bandwidth available. They are choosing to not dedicate enough of it to HD RSN feeds to cover all of the games. And like I said before, I have no idea why they are doing this.
