Dish Network - America's Top 150 Free Preview

Geeze, I hate when they do that, the EPG gets all cluttered

I wonder how they are going to do this when they have already removed 4 conus transponders to make them Spotbeams.

Can anyone say Heavy Compression?

God I hope not.

When they did this last summer the PQ did suffer.

I suspect only 4 or 5 channels at a time on 119, like a previous preview. Subs with DISH 500 would get them all.

Where was this announced? Is there a schedule of what channels will be on when anywhere?

Lurker it was announced HERE first.

Shortly after I posted it Dish Depot sent out an email telling the same thing.

No schedule is out yet but I would expect one soon. After all tommorow is the 15th.

I am thinking of changing my name to Scoop

As long as it is not Snow Scoop. :lol:

As long as it is not Snow Scoop. :lol:

Wow! Tivo has just done a lineup change adding all the channels for the preview from 265 and up.

Well, the free preview is underway and it looks like the channels are still mostly on 110. In fact, I have yet to find one that moved to 119, especially for the preview.

I had read somewhere that there was going to be a push to have everyone upgrade to a Dish 500.Does anyone know anything about this?Thanks,Mike

Originally posted by Mike Phillips
I had read somewhere that there was going to be a push to have everyone upgrade to a Dish 500.Does anyone know anything about this?Thanks,Mike

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I really hope so. If this becomes reality then Dish can unload most of the Locals to spot beams on 119 via Echo7 and 110 via Echo8 and have lots of Conus bandwidth at 110 to unload some of the overburdened transponders at 119. Some of the transponders at 119 are supporting 10-11 video channels as well as some data services like music channels, Open TV channels and EPG data streams.

The perfect solution would be to require Dish 500 for all subscribers at Top 100 or better. Just move any channels that are not in the Alaska and Hawaii Top 70 to 110.

Viola much better picture quality.

John

Hawaii has the AT100cd.

Completely Worthless!!! Every time they preview AT150, I am firmly convinced that it is NOT worth the additional $9/mo over the AT100. The movie channels are junk IMO ( cound not find one movie worth watching yet with this preview) and the few extra stations I can definelty live without.

I agree completely! If it were only $5/mo., I'd consider it. The themed Encores should be in the Super Pak anyway.

I enjoy the movie channel and the encore. The themed encore channels by definition cater to people with a particular taste.

Originally posted by rmassey
Completely Worthless!!! Every time they preview AT150, I am firmly convinced that it is NOT worth the additional $9/mo over the AT100. The movie channels are junk IMO ( cound not find one movie worth watching yet with this preview) and the few extra stations I can definelty live without.

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Oh well....those channels that will be on our televison most of the time.

Completely worthless? (in your humble opinion, of course).

We will really enjoy The Biography Channel, Discovery Civilization, The Science Channel, Fox Movie Channel and the Encore, TMC and themed channels.

I guess your tastes and our tastes just differ.

Now...anything that has to do with sports, wrestling or Star Trek...THAT is completely worthless.

NG

Hey no making fun of Wrestling or Star Trek.

Ok you can make fun of wrestling, it has started to SUCK alot lately.

BTW Welcome Nancy :hi:

I'd upgrade to the 150 pack if the picture quality was decent but there's no way I'm going to pay an extra $9.00 or even $.09 with this pixelation hell they have put upon us. I truly hope E8 gives E* the bandwidth to uncompress some of their signal. My fear is that they will keep the compression as is and just cram more junk (shopping nets..etc..) in the extra bandwidth.