Contrary to K9SAT, the fact that Dish has grown exponentially from its beginnings with its limited sports offerings compared to all its competition and problems with JIP, rising from nothing to what it is today is phenomenal and proves that Dish's strategy not to go bankrupt (Dish hasn't the deep pockets of its competition) ever making a serious bid for NFLST (Dish has referred to it as No Funds Left) or opting to NOT pay the ransom for MLBEI (specifically the MLB network that is required if the MVPD wants MLBEI), and go out of business shows that an MVPD doesn't necessary need the most expensive sports services to be extremely successful. Dish continues to add subscribers and steal them from cable and DirecTV even with Dish's "3rd rate" sports offerings.
I think that most of the sports fans/Dish subs, would be quite content to just have the RSN's in HD 24/7. The big premium sports packages are one thing but the local RSN's are whole other thing. We've all seen the why no 24/7 question and we all know the stock answer (Not enough bandwidth). We've seen the spot beam suggestion. So here is a more pointed question or two. Why does "D" and Comcast and Cox etc have enough band width and "E" does not? What is a spot beam and why does "E" not want to use this method?
I think that most of the sports fans/Dish subs, would be quite content to just have the RSN's in HD 24/7. The big premium sports packages are one thing but the local RSN's are whole other thing. We've all seen the why no 24/7 question and we all know the stock answer (Not enough bandwidth). We've seen the spot beam suggestion. So here is a more pointed question or two. Why does "D" and Comcast and Cox etc have enough band width and "E" does not? What is a spot beam and why does "E" not want to use this method?
It's a shame that we have to beg for a full-time version of an HD channel we already have. While it may have been true initially that the games were the only HD programming the RSNs may have had, that's not true any more!!!I agree... This thread was about Full time HDRSN's only! Not the sports packages.
Jeez, that's why I put the little winking guy there.
But, AK & HI subs had to suffer with less HD for a while, didn't they??
If and when dish loses CSN Chicago they just as better give up on Chicago all together.
But about Chicago only comcast AT&T and Directv have CSN HD and CSN + HD.
Why not put full time RSN HD on the Spot beams that's what Directv used to do.
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