So Much for No Capacity Issues

cmasia said:

MLB EI is missing several HD games today due to the Olympic and PGA channels.

Marlins - Mets on FSN Florida
Twins - Royals on FSN KC
Padres - Rockies on SD4
Rays - Mariners on FSN NW
Braves - Diamaondbacks on FSN Arizona

The FSN Florida web site even says this.

http://www.sunsportstv.com/hdtv_pro...stSeparate&hdtv_programs.team=Florida Marlins

I notice none of the PPV channels were taken off.

There is no excuse for this.

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I've got the Mets-Marlins game.

lucky13 said:

I've got the Mets-Marlins game.

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In HD?
What channel?

cmasia said:

In HD?
What channel?

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Sorry--didn't see this was about HD.
just the SD game here.

if you are blacked out go game search and it will find some of these games on Test Channels

GlennDio said:

if you are blacked out go game search and it will find some of these games on Test Channels

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None are blackout issues.

They are 5 games D* chose not to offer in HD today, even though the RSN's were televising in HD.

Hard to believe the Olympics and PGA took that much space.

I hope the 8/14 launch of new 24/7 HD RSN's eliminates any possiblility of this same problem occuring when ST begins next month.

Rest assured, I am sure they are as eager to get all the RSN's lit up in HD as you are. Overall, with all that is happening this week, I think they are doing pretty good, especially when you think of the magnitude of what they are working on.

cmasia said:

None are blackout issues.

They are 5 games D* chose not to offer in HD today, even though the RSN's were televising in HD.

Hard to believe the Olympics and PGA took that much space.

I hope the 8/14 launch of new 24/7 HD RSN's eliminates any possiblility of this same problem occuring when ST begins next month.

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I know its not a blackout issue but if you are blacked out you can get around most of them by using game search and it finding it on one of the test channels

The FSN Arizona feed eventually did join in progress. When you pay this amount of money for the package and shell out an extra premium to just get games in HD then these issues should not occur.

Remember this Wednesday D* adds a number of RSN's as full time channels.

RAD said:

Remember this Wednesday D* adds a number of RSN's as full time channels.

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Thursday, not Wednesday.

Michael D'Angelo;1728137 said:

Thursday, not Wednesday.

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Dang, forgot it's not a Wednesday turnup this time, another day to wait to see if we'll have any surprises.

I don't think it is satellite capacity as much as what they are able to make happen at this time. There may be other capacity issues (like decoders or encoders) that they don't have on line yet or even feeds into the system. Not everything is about satellite capacity.

As they are lighting up more channels this week DURING the Olympics, it is probably more an issue of setting up the infrastructure rather than satellite capacity.

And the majority of the Olympic channels are actually just remaps of the main channels (UHD, USA, etc.) and thus aren't actually taking up any bandwidth.

was missing yesterday. No HD feed. And as I noted elsewhere, 687-1 went missing a couple of days ago in the favorites option. Must be the precursor to Wednesdays-Thursdays additions of full-time HD rsn's.

levibluewa said:

was missing yesterday. No HD feed. And as I noted elsewhere, 687-1 went missing a couple of days ago in the favorites option. Must be the precursor to Wednesdays-Thursdays additions of full-time HD rsn's.

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You had better try a reboot. 687-1 still exists.