Some HD to go OFF THE AIR at 4am...

[Scott Greczkowski]

Dish will be shuffling things around in the morning so that they can "Turbo Charge" their HD customers. Here is the info I just recevied.

HD Channels Going Dark

In order to complete the massive system upgrade, DISH must turn off certain HD transponders for approximately 60 minutes in order to Turbo-Charge our HD customers. HD programming will go dark at 4am EST and turn back on at approximately 5am EST.

Ten HD channels will go dark. Local channels and pay-per-view channels will not be affected.

The ten channels going dark are:
A&E
Bravo
ESPN
ESPN 2
HBO
History
National Geographic
Showtime
TBS
TNT

During the blackout, standard definition programming will be available to all DISH Network subscribers, including SD simulcasts of HD channels.

 

[jlhugh]

i can assure you that this will not effect my tv watching

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Me neither. I will be watching my eyelids then.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Yea me too, Well Now I won't be! Im too excited, I'll be up all night.

 

[John Kotches]

Scott:

Did you get any "real" work done today?

 

[navychop]

I'm not sure about my timers. But hey, it's only TV!

 

[Dugout Doug]

And hey, PROPS to Dish for not messing with Skin-a-max during the overnight hours.

 

[hockeynut5150]

isn't the turbo charging thing moving to MPEG4? why are some MPEG4 channels part of this update (like ESPN2) while MPEG2 channels as HD Theater isn't?

 

[allargon]

Some lipsynch issues were present this morning on the standard def channels (I believe Style network) according to my girlfriend around 6:40 AM CDT.

I was in the shower.