This thread would be great to keep going as a reference, to monitor channel changes.
1.>115 Esquire Network moved to 191
2.>191 G4 no longer on Dish.
1.>115 Esquire Network moved to 191
2.>191 G4 no longer on Dish.
Dish Channel Line-up Updates
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I think Dish has those channels available for streaming.
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There is bound to be some level of overlap when everyone and their dog is streaming stuff.
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Something else that has absolutely nothing to do with DISH and their current channel lineup.
Yes, Dish offers a curated selection of those channels. It is nowhere near as many as are available directly through the Vix TV app.
harsh, did you even bother to read my posts earlier in this thread? I have been tracking Dish's carriage of the Vix TV streaming channels in the Hopper guide for quite sometime, since over a year ago. Did you even bother to check the channel numbers I listed, in your Hopper guide, before you posted here? If you don't see the collapsible channel 870, what package do you have?
I agree with the sentiment, but calling it something "else" that has nothing to do with Dish's channel lineup (implying "in addition to" my posts) is invalid. I noticed the removal of the six channels I listed today. They were still there in my Hopper's guide last week. This is Wednesday (the usual day for Dish uplinks) so I assume that something changed this morning, to remove those channels.
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The channels are in the guide of DISH Hopper receivers. Not every streaming channel in existence is available by tuning to a channel in the DISH EPG.
If only they were. That would make things a lot more convenient, especially for the Pluto TV channels.
I love seeing Dish add more streaming channels, and I encourage them to add as many as possible. It keeps users within the Dish ecosystem, and creates the illusion that Dish service is required, in order to receive those channels. This helps keep people from trying out other streaming services. That in turn may make people less likely to drop Dish. If people go elsewhere to find streaming content to watch, they may well wonder, "Why am I paying Dish for TV, when all of this other content is available elsewhere for free?"
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If there's a risk that it is going to compromise performance or create calls to DISH customer service, I'm not up for it. Most modern TVs do a much better job and if the TV doesn't do it, a Roku or FireTV will in a much better organized fashion.
Dish is rolling out a new video player for the Hoppers. If you have anything newer than Hopper 3 version H348 (my first download with the new video player was H350) then you have the new player. It still performs flawlessly for me with the newest version, H355. In about a month, everyone still on the old player (H344 or older) will be upgraded to H355 or H356, whatever the most stable version is at that time.
So far, people have reported the streaming channels loading much faster and more reliably with the new video player than they did with the old version.
The only way yesterday's moves would create calls to customer service is if people were calling to complain about the six channels that were dropped. There can't be that many people who would have noticed or complained. You apparently didn't even know that Dish carried those channels in the first place. The key for Dish to avoid such complaints (or at least mitigate them) is to keep adding more channels faster than the existing channels get removed.
Having to keep jumping from one app to another to find all of the channels (and having to use wildly differing interfaces from app to app) hardly seems "much better organized" to me. Putting more free channels in the already-familiar Dish guide interface seems to be the way to go. Dish could create collapsible channels in the Hopper guide to better organize a wide variety of streaming channels by category. Or at the very least, give each app its own collapsible channel in the guide, just as Dish does for the Vix TV channels on 870.
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If you are referring to Roku, switching from one app to the next is like switching channels [for me]
I've set up my Roku guide in sections. News, Movies, live TV, music , etc.. very easy. Most programs have anywhere from One [ yes, one] up to three commercials. That's it. I can deal with that. Better than an "info-mercial" that takes up a large portion of the program. I pick what I want and only sub to one app. I find myself watching more streaming now than before. Dish is "OK", but the selection and long commercials leave a lot to be desired.
Showtime free preview started today.
Newly-added:
Vix TV is back up to 69 channels.
Newly-added:
This change reverses all of the previous removals, except 870-84 WFVSP. That one is still missing.
A little bit of clean-up this week...
Women's World Cup app has been removed from the guide. It is still available through the Apps menu, though.
TDV logo has been updated in the Hopper's guide. Dish Anywhere's guide still shows the V-me logo.
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