Thanksgiving DISH Network News

[Scherrman]

Well I can always watch Band of Brothers on my iPad or connect my laptop to my TV.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

That was the funniest post I have read in years. I would be surprised to see a working XIP before 2014. Dish can't even fix the ones already out... As a matter of fact, they screwed up the one DVR that ran like a tank (722K) recently.

Prepare to be surprised.

 

[bluegras]

hey Scott any word of any HD Channels coming real soon?

 

[Bobby]

 

[Mr Tony]

I knew sooner or later that post/question would rear its ugly head

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Surveys have shown that people don't want more hd, they want more highly compressed sd channels.

 

[KAB]

I knew sooner or later that post/question would rear its ugly head

Well, at least he held his breath for a couple of weeks!

 

[gpollock87]

Surveys have shown that people don't want more hd, they want more highly compressed sd channels.

4:3 letterbox

 

[Mr Tony]

Well, at least he held his breath for a couple of weeks!

yeah because before that he asked 6 times in less than 2 weeks

 

[Neutron]

I don't have adaptive streaming on our 722k. The one movie I tried had to download first.

 

[cditty]

Prepare to be surprised.

I doubt it seriously.

I said 'working', which means operates as advertised... Not slammed on the market with none of the advertised features available or 'coming soon'.

 

[KKlare]

Better than letterbox we have a channel KENW from Roswell that broadcasts PBS in squeeze mode. This lets you stretch it back to 16:9 with a little loss of quality and certainly better than LB being zoomed on both axes, this just requires stretching X.

I found this when our PBS KNME stopped broadcasting OTA the Nightly Business News. KENW broadcast ARTS overnight. With no guide for KNME 5's companion KNMD 9, it is hard to guess where they may have put it--I should just look at their subscriber's monthly paper guide, but that takes some thought.

-Ken

 

[rjruby]

4:3 letterbox

With a mono soundtrack

 

[GaryPen]

I don't have adaptive streaming on our 722k. The one movie I tried had to download first.

I had that problem when they first rolled out the BBMP. But, now, streaming is quite well on my 722k.

Unfortunately, the available episodes are pretty limited. I realize that the HBO OD library isn't as vast as HBO Go. But, Dish doesn't even have all the titles that HBO says should be available on their HBO OD website.