Yeah I like his list but you might add Spike TV HD and G4 HD I thought was going to get their HD channel up this month. So those two plus the list above would be big..
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Yeah I like his list but you might add Spike TV HD and G4 HD I thought was going to get their HD channel up this month. So those two plus the list above would be big..
My point wasn't that the frequency matters, but that there is a different amount of available bandwidth on a Ka TP vs a Ku TP, at least the way DirecTV has them set up. So it is hard to make a direct comparison. It would be interesting to compare simultaneously the bitrate of the same channel on Dish and DirecTV, but I don't think anyone has that capability.
I'll take any and all new HD Channels, I don't even care if my locals are not added, as I use a OTA Antenna.
PLEASE just get me MSG HD!!!!
John
PLEASE just get me MSG HD!!!!
John
thats been "uplinked" atleast 2 years now "some" of the programming is duplicated in the HD alt channels (ie college football on saturday afternoons)
I see WNDU (Ch 16 in South Bend) is showing active in HD now. On 61.5 Can anyone confirm that it is available? If so, I will be installing my old Dish 500 pointed to 61.5 and hoping they get the rest of the locals up soon. No chance of the South Bend locals coming to 110, 119 or 129?? Probably not, but thought I would ask. Never hurts to ask!
Update: I see they added it and removed it...I guess it isn't available yet. DARN
Update: I see they added it and removed it...I guess it isn't available yet. DARN
Well then CBS might be. Because it was showing N/A when it came Available too. So don't know how that is going to work.
Someone help me out here:
9468 - vs/golf on 61.5/129
When the separate Vs and Golf launch, won't that give us an extra HD channel (or room for 8 new HD channels)? -That dish will advertise as 10 new HD channels...
as of right now:
9468 - vs/golf on 61.5/129
When the separate Vs and Golf launch, won't that give us an extra HD channel (or room for 8 new HD channels)? -That dish will advertise as 10 new HD channels...
When E* first put 7 HD MPEG-4 channels on a transponder, Digiblur did not announce the change, but instead created a Poll about whether those changes looked better or worse.
The results of the poll were virtually unanimous that they looked better.
There are plenty of posts in various DirecTV Forums about how various Dish HD channels look better than the equivalent DirecTV HD channels (and vice versa).
My HD RSN looks excellent when the match is from the local arena connected to the RSN's HQ by fiber. All the road matches look worse.
We could be returning to the old format of:
- Press Release Monday morning
- Channels announed on Charlie Chat Monday evening
- Press Release Monday morning
- Channels announed on Charlie Chat Monday evening
They did it when they removed VOOM... They'll remove VS/Golf, then add "VS" and "Golf" and claim "2 new HD channels".
People have compared these before:
- The MPEG4 ones have been on 72.5 and people have compared those to the 110 ones.
- Some magazine/news shows have been shown on ESPN2 (MPEG4) and ESPN (MPEG2).
- I subscribed to HBO after they added a half dozen MPEG4 HD channels, and one was HBO-W, so you had an MPEG4 version of the same MPEG2 channel, and I would record both showings of "True Blood" and compare. The MPEG4 always looked subjectively better - more 3-dimensional and realistic. When we first watched the MPEG4 version, my wife commented that the show looked better than before (and she rarely comments on PQ).
