RUMOR MILL ON---Hey maybe we will get Bravo and TCM HD before anyone else a dish first??RUMOR MILL OFF
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RUMOR MILL ON---Hey maybe we will get Bravo and TCM HD before anyone else a dish first??RUMOR MILL OFF
lol i was just curious when Bravo and TCM weren't there yesterday.turned on tv this morning and it was there
No it's not a joke. Why would i get them channels when i'm in the hd only package?
Viva la Revolucion! Down with SatelliteGuys!
Come 'on people. When Scott posts he does so for the advantage of his members. If it doesn't happen, I don't look for excuses or to point a finger. He said more locals and more national... batting .500. Better then any info that I personally got. He is pretty open that he just reports what he hears and it should be all taken with a grain of salt.
Go to your TV and turn on Voom. Most people write it off, but there is plenty of content to keep you entertained and it is ALL in HD.
Come 'on people. When Scott posts he does so for the advantage of his members. If it doesn't happen, I don't look for excuses or to point a finger. He said more locals and more national... batting .500. Better then any info that I personally got. He is pretty open that he just reports what he hears and it should be all taken with a grain of salt.
Go to your TV and turn on Voom. Most people write it off, but there is plenty of content to keep you entertained and it is ALL in HD.
Not worth an individual thread:
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That's the myth, but it is not actually true.
When CNN-HD was added, I switched back and forth during the afternoon SD portion of the programming schedule. There was no difference in PQ, and in fact, FoxNews-SD actually looked better in terms of PQ than CNN-HD during SD-upconverting.
There may be a few SD channels that happen to look better when their HD versions are upconverting SD programming, but it is not an automatic feature.
It's also a waste of bandwidth to duplicate the same SD programming twice.
Lastly, I personally find 16x9 to be about two-thirds of the appeal of "HD" (especially during sports), and you don't get any 16x9 programming in upconverted-SD programming...
But an unknown is what is E* doing to the CNN-HD feed, are they passing it along at full resolution or down rezzing and how much bandwidth are they giving it? Maybe they're screwing with the signal too much which is why you're seeing what you're saying on E*?
Thanks. I didnt think Jackson had fox in hd locals. Not sure where the op tngtony got that info from.
You forgot A LOT of channels....
Bravo, Bio, Disney, FX, Toon Disney, Spike, CNBC, Fox Business, Weather Channel, ESPN News, CSTV, Fuel, Speed, Tennis all show some to most HD content
MGM, Smithsonian, Cinemax West, HBO West, Movie Channel, Showtime West, Show Too West, Starz Comedy, Starz Edge, Starz Kids and Family, Starz West all show 100% or close to 100% HD
All of these are channels the Direct has the Dish does not…
What I stated in my post above. All of those channels listed show HD content, some 100%. I did not list MTV and VH1 or the Cartoon Network, because they have not shown any yet.
Not true. Look at the my post above. I listed about 11 channels that show HD pretty much all of the time.
Rumor has it ESPNNews HD has replaced WFN as one of the "temp" engineering channels. Also, USAHD and SciFiHD have been mirrored to a transponder on 61.5 (most likely for eastern arc use), just like the original mpeg2 HD on 110w had been mirrored to 61.5 recently. There is no video on the new USA and SciFi channels, just slates (video feed is a constant 2mbit).
