How good is HD on Dish

[wipeout]

I have a 53 inch RPTV from Pioneer which is HDTV Ready. I have never experienced HD but am planning to once Dish gets its act together.

How good is the quality on the DishNetwork signal? I am a current subscriber but have not seen any HD on Dish as of yet.

[dfergie]

Go to your local sear's store, most of them get dishnet and run the demo channel on the hdtv's in the store. I have no problems with mine, good PQ on cbs, hbo, showtime and discoveryhd.

[Cyclone]

My Dish HD is just as good as OTA HD. No problems with that.

[nostar]

I have HBO HD and it looks great! Much better quality than DVD movies.

[DarrellP]

The Demo Channel, Discovery HD and the HDEvents are spectacular. HBO is so-so & Showtime is good when they actually do HD.

Dish is better than my OTA because I don't experience audio/video breakups with Dish and the picture is given full bitrate. Most of my local stations allocate sub channels and choke the HD channel down to about 12 Mb/s bitrate. The exception is PBS and it looks great.

Wipeout, you will not see any HD programming until you buy a HD reciever. Right now all that's available is the 6000 and it is out of production. Dish has several new models coming out soon so I would wait if I were you.

[wipeout]

Actually I'm now considering waiting for the D* models coming out later this year after hearing about the DVR fees E* plans to start charging. Thanks for the reply's.

[Cyclone]

Well, then thanks for wasting our &%$#@$ time.

[belsokar]

echostar is going to start charing pvr fees??? when did this happen?

[DarrellP]

See the PVR forum.

[wipeout]

That was uncalled for. When I opened this Thread I hadn't decided to switch but then I saw the PVR Thread and it really disappointed me. That is when I decided enough is enough.

[Cyclone]

Don't take it personally. Can't you see I'm an angry gumball. ;)

[Darkman]

hehe - some tempers flare i see..

they call it DVR fees after all

PVR receivers - 501, 508, 721 (etc - if there are any more) will be grandfathered ...
No DVR fees would be on those...

[wipeout]

Ok I forgive you.