A&E HD Coming to Dish Network

nazz · 01-31-07, 02:22 PM

Echostar has sent out notifications and added it to their site. Despite that article E* is getting it today which seems to be more than a rumor at this point.

Mikey · 01-31-07, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by gct

A TV service has just added A&E HD. Despite rumors to the contrary, it's not EchoStar.

from http://www.tvpredictions.com:

News
AT&T TV Adds A&E HD
The telco TV service is now available in a dozen markets.
By Phillip Swann
Washington, D.C. (January 30, 2007) -- AT&T announced today that it has added A&E HD to its lineup of High-Definition channels.

The telco TV service, called U-verse TV, is available in approximately 12 markets across the country. But it plans to reach 19 million households by the end of 2008.

AT&T's carriage agreement with A&E Television Networks also includes the company's standard definition channels such as The History Channel, The Biography Channel and the Military History Channel.

Swanni misses the boat again.

JohnL · 01-31-07, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by nazz

Echostar has sent out notifications and added it to their site. Despite that article E* is getting it today which seems to be more than a rumor at this point.

Nazz,

Echostar isn't adding (Future tense) A&EHD. Echostar already added (Past Tense) A&E HD, it came on around 1:30pm EST.

Now, Dish Network needs to add Cinemax HD and InHD.

John

Allen Noland · 01-31-07, 02:54 PM

I'm watching A&E 9419 now on Dish.

Yes616 · 01-31-07, 03:10 PM

Yep.. It's on now.

Not a widescreen show "American Justice" but it is on.

**Stewart Vernon** · 01-31-07, 03:36 PM

I'll have to keep a lookout for when CSI or Sopranos comes on and see if either of those are in HD. It does look to be a simulcast, so I took 118 out of my favorites and added 9419 to check out and see what's on later.

markrubi · 01-31-07, 03:46 PM

I am not a E* sub, but know someone who is and this is their response to my email I sent yesterday about this. So yes the A&E feed is LIVE on Dish right now.

Just Checked It !!! I have 1 more HD channel. Yes! Now I can watch all the CSI reruns in HD! And the edited versions of

jmel · 01-31-07, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by HDMe

I'll have to keep a lookout for when CSI or Sopranos comes on and see if either of those are in HD. It does look to be a simulcast, so I took 118 out of my favorites and added 9419 to check out and see what's on later.

If most of the stuff they are going to show is going to be sd, I'd rather keep the sd on my faves list in case I need to record something to the dvr.

I probably wont even add 9419 if they aren't going to show hd content most of the time if not all the time. Sounds like a letdown so far.

ssmith10pn · 01-31-07, 04:33 PM

Hopefully "Driving Force" will be HD when the new season starts soon.

Hall · 01-31-07, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikey

Swanni misses the boat again.

What he needs to do is get his information from here, AVS, Satelliteguy, and other places and then post the stories/predictions/rumours on his site and back-date the story !

JohnH · 01-31-07, 04:43 PM

If you reread Swanni's story, you will find it is correct.

ubankit · 01-31-07, 04:58 PM

I probably wont even add 9419 if they aren't going to show hd content most of the time if not all the time. Sounds like a letdown so far.[/quote]

I'm hoping and thinking that a lot of the series (on A&E and their "family", History, Discovery, etc) filmed in the last couple of years were shot in hd and this would allow them to be shown as such. I know a few of the shows that end up on Discovery HD (Lost Worlds, Where Did It Come From, etc) were hd, of course you saw the sd version on the sd channels. Guess we'll see for sure in the coming days

ebaltz · 01-31-07, 05:05 PM

CSI: Miami on now in all its HD glory!

gintzj · 01-31-07, 05:19 PM

I live here is New Mexico I get the 9419 and it looks great

we got it at 3:00 Mt Time

thank you for the notice

Albie1200 · 01-31-07, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by bobukcat

This is very true - down to the COMMERCIALS they show. Unfortunately they only appear to have maybe 5 commercials they show (Arbor Day Foundation, Boys and Girls Club and a couple others that are like public service) and they just repeat them over and over. HGTV HD seems to share the same commercials as well. I know this is nit-pciking and it's not a reason to reject the channel if you like the programming, but my wife is a Food HD and HGTV HD addict and I sit in my office and hear the same commericals over and over and over......

Amen! If I see that one with the 2 kids trying to cheat again...

The song remains in my head for hours after it's on. Oh great there it is again!

**Stewart Vernon** · 01-31-07, 05:45 PM

I checked out CSI Miami... it looks good but not quite as sharp as CBS OTA does, mostly because CBS is 1080 whereas A&EHD is apparently 720p so some loss of resolution there... but still not bad. I wish they were doing Dolby 5.1 though, instead of Dolby 2.0 like on the original CBS OTA broadcasts... but it's a start!

Oh, and with regards to FoodHD... I've seen some stretch-o-vision commercials on there during some breaks, even when the main program appears to be HD... so we are still a work in progress to some extent with 24hr HD content there.

ibglowin · 01-31-07, 05:57 PM

Wow,

I was really excited to see a new HD channel but after looking out 7 days in the guide all I see are crime/cop/mob shows ala CSI Miami, 24, Cold Case, Sopranos over and over and over. I only see one movie listed. Hunt for Red October. No real Art & Entertainment IMHO. PQ is good but not CBS OTA good.

Nothing much here folks, move along...........

INHUMANITY · 01-31-07, 06:21 PM

Watching CSI: Miami now and it looks good. The CBS HD feed looks better, but not by much.

One downside I just realized is that the audio is not in Dolby Digital.

richbogrow · 01-31-07, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by tammyandlee

I am watching it right now

I get it but it has black bars on the sides.

PhilAce · 01-31-07, 06:33 PM

Was CSI: Miami always this jittery? CBS HD blows this away. Too bad.

INHUMANITY · 01-31-07, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by PhilAce

Was CSI: Miami always this jittery? CBS HD blows this away. Too bad.

I've got no jitters, but as I continue to watch it I realize the CBS version is MUCH better.

The colors leap out of the screen from CBS, where the A&E counterpart is more muted.

Another thing I noticed is that I only have two hours of programming showing up in the EPG. I can't advance any further than 5:00PM PST. I don't even get a window telling me my EPG is out of date (blah blah).

richbogrow: No black bars here dude.

Mike D-CO5 · 01-31-07, 07:18 PM

I too am noticing the jittery screen when they pan the camera. It reminds me of the mepg 4 local channels on Cbs when they first got turned on. Except the picture looked like film that was losing frames even on video shows. The way they fixed it was to reduce the resolution to like 1280 or 1480x 1080i to get it to look right. I don't know what is causing the jittery screen on mpeg 2 with a mpeg 4 header. Maybe we should all drop a line to the dishquality folks.

dishquality@echostar.com