The Dish April 1st New HD Saga (Merged Threads)
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You are closer to the facts then you may be aware of.
Because of contract language dish is not at liberty to speak on any problems it may have with Viacom in regard to delay in launching the viacom pack.'
That being said do not be surprise if these launch this friday or next mont or two years from now.
Like dish like to say it is coming soon real soon
They will on the next Charlie Chat. By then, we will have forgotten about this problem and several more problems will have came and went.
Probably a prudent course of action but you can always switch back to a Classic package if necessary. I will say that Com Cen, Spike, and CMT are all in SD currently in Turbo Bronze. Nick and MTV are missing but that doesn't necessarily mean anything as some HD channels in the Turbo packs have their SD counterparts included and some don't. I can't figure it out.
This CSR should be fire from Dish as I do know that nobody at dish will tell a CSR of any contract problems.
Scott, Thanks for the post it eases the mind a bit. I promised my kids that Nick would be in HD by Wednesday. My kids know what HD is but they don't know who Charlie is so I'm the bad guy in this house.
Hey rey now that I paid one thousand dollars for one of those 922 will you ship put all the others postage due of one thosand dollars??
All joking aside I hope that exiting dish customer can get a 922 when it becomes available.
All joking aside I hope that exiting dish customer can get a 922 when it becomes available.
Yeh I don't know exactly what the problem is with T5, whether it's the transponder or just an Indy spot beam specific problem with infrastructure. I do know that all locals scheduled for T5 have been sidelined for the time being since they have Indy up on ConUS 5 on Old Wobbler. The subs in Roanoke feel like they've been screwed over because of it. The fact remains, E* hasn't resolved whatever the issue is for weeks now and that's now affecting other markets that were scheduled.
I haven't heard anything from the one I sent to them this morning, or the one I left online for them. I imagine that the E* braintrust is hammering out some canned vanilla response and we'll hear the [strike]excuse[/strike] reason by the end of the week.
If those (7) channels were in fact the ones Dish planned to launch and they're all owned by the same parent company (I believe they're *all* Viacom, but don't know for sure) and they didn't launch, it's clear that Dish jumped the gun on announcing them, i.e. contracts weren't finalized - and still aren't - when Dish announced them, or there are in fact technical issues.I thought that maybe I was seeing things and maybe they forgot a number, but this might get a couple of laughs around these depressing times. Or maybe this is still being too optimistic.
While I am sure it could not discuss the nature of the problem I cant imagine such a contract would ever preclude a company from simply acknowledging there are some unforeseen difficulties that are being solved. Since Dish is the one held responsible by the customers I doubt it would agree to a contract that prevented it from saying anything at all. Even if it were to simply say the problems will be fixed... soon.
They usually add things like 'pending finalizing negotiations' etc. That way you can announce the specific channels are coming but allow some flexibility. It would be weird in this case if the date was set before the ink was dry.
You may have hit on one reason for the delay of these channels. E* is suddenly realizing the same thing, it seems.
