Dish Network to offer SuperBowl in HD

[waltinvt]

I just just punched in 250 on the Remote and it was in !

Are you in one of the 11 cities?

 

[dougruss]

Are you in one of the 11 cities?

I'm about 40 miles from Chicago( across Lake Michigan)............have Dish's Regular Locals out of Chicago also.

 

[shelly]

I've had ABC-HD from BEV for the past 6-7 years but recently dropped them.

I've kept Dish hd pak + Voom 10 channels but went to Comcast as they offered local networks except ABC (as well as 4 premium movie channels in hd, and 5 other cable channels like InHd 1&2 et al.

So just sd Superbowl this year. No hd locals for my area with Dish unless I got the new receiver/dvr. But wait.

ABC-hd from San Francisco (KGO-hd) just popped up this morning.

No need for new hd package. No new rate increases. No need for mpeg 4 receivers. It just appeared without notice, as did a few new hd channels a few months ago (Espn and Disc). No nickle and diming long time existing customers like we experience with Dish.

I'm impressed with the high quality of their picture and service. Voom quality hd picture, not hd lite.

I doubt that I will upgrade my hd package from Dish for quite some time if ever. Not worth the more than doubling of price and need for new receiver right now.

So no than ks to dish for the SB this year, but thank you Comcast.

Shelly

 

[Paradox-SJ]

Does anyone now the bit rate that was used for the ABCHD channel 240/250?

 

[Cokeswigga]

Was it only me or were other people having problems will pixelization and other issues with the Superbowl transmission (250 KABC)

At least 3 or 4 times, this happened for more than a few seconds were the entire screen was messed up.

I hope this is not indicative of the future HD locals to come.

 

[RandallA]

Yes, I saw that at least 4 times. This was also from 250 KABC, everyone was all freaking out that we were gonna lose the signal. I had the OTA backup ready just in case.

 

[goaliebob99]

same here.. I ended up switching to OTA..

 

[Cokeswigga]

What sucked for me is that I have trouble tuning KABC
so the only back up I had was SD

Everyone one at house was teasing me about how much HD sucked.

How was the quality difference from Dish vs OTA?

 

[BobMurdoch]

I think it was a national thing..... the same thing happened on the WABC special feed on Channel 240....

 

[rad]

I think it was a national thing..... the same thing happened on the WABC special feed on Channel 240....

I don't think it was national since I was watching via the D* MPEG4 feed of WLS-DT Chicago and no problems there.