Technical questions for DISH
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TiVo has had that for YEARS. Yes, a very good feature Dish could do, if they don't get sued by TiVo
All the contracts with the channels for the SlingTV are for the STREAMING rights for the service. SlingTV is a different beast and service not having anything to do with the sat service, although Dish can use its leverage to get STREAMING rights when it is also negotiating is "retransmission rights" via its DBS Dish service. SlingTV is NOT designed for the current pay-TV subscribers to cable or sat. It is for the YOUNG ones who have NEVER and WILL NEVER pay for TV via cable or sat, but have been demanding a low cost on-line service that offers only a FEW of the most desired and recognizable channels such as ESPN, CNN, Cartoon Network, etc.
RIght, but the files would still be larger requiring MORE bandwidth on MOCA, and even Netflix and Amazon have even higher minimum bandwidth requirements for its 1080P (Netflix's Super HD?) and, at least for Netflix, for it's 4K streams. This could be why Dish had seem to reserve a fair amount of bandwidth on the MOCA with the current Hoppers and Joeys.
The reason Vivek had given as to why a SuperJoey would ONLY be installed and activated on ONE Hopper systems and NOT TWO Hopper installs was because of the lack of MOCA bandwidth. However, we all knew there seemed to be enough MOCA on the current 2 Hopper systems to support a SuperJoey. We had been speculating, and Scott seemed to agree, that the leftover MOCA bandwidth was for some "future" feature, and 4K would seem to be what the reserved MOCA bandwidth was waiting for.
In case you missed it, they settled and Dish has access (license) to a whole bunch of Tivo technologyTiVo has had that for YEARS. Yes, a very good feature Dish could do, if they don't get sued by TiVo
And the affordable alternative would be the Channel Master DVR+, which is made by Echostar for Channel Master brand.
I did not miss anything. In fact, it is a LIFETIME license, just like the TV Guide/Gemstar agreement. The smile face emoticon at the end of the "being sued" comment was intended as ironic humor. Yes, and TiVo got "Dish" Echostar tech from the deal, too.In case you missed it, they settled and Dish has access (license) to a whole bunch of Tivo technology
Also, the Tribune data is a far more rich allowing for advanced search features that are the core of TiVo and even more important than ever for both Dish and DirecTV and cable.
IMHO, and others, feel that HBO Go is gonna cost about the same as the current HBO subscription via cable and sat. It seems to me that it could make sense for HBO to offer its GO to any on-line MVPD who wants to "offer" it, but, of course, the monthly fee would be determined by HBO and the money could go to HBO directly or at least provide a portal to HBO Go service. That would be the most attractive and cost effective way to do it: a portal to HBO Go and let HBO handle the cost of servers, etc.
From what I read elsewhere HBO Go will run for $15.00 a month which is $4.00 less than DISH is selling it for today. Which makes me wonder if the extra $4.00 is something DISH is charging for them ,not for HBO. Otherwise how can HBO afford to undersell their service on the streaming version?
