Dish Network finally adds Scifi and USA HD

[navyman]

Woohoo I have been wanting to watch Monk and Battlestar Galactica in HD for months now. I just wish they had upgraded a few weeks ago for the premier of Battlestar instead of waiting for week 3.

[dakota81]

Comcast added those recently. SciFi HD is great, I think USA HD is good also, I think I watched some House reruns in HD one night.

Most other HD channels are crap, though, just the regular SD broadcast upscaled and stretched. There's nothing HD about it. But they keep adding new channels, TBS HD, AMC HD, History HD, ABC Family HD, A&E HD, Animal Planet HD, etc. It's a complete waste, just so Comcast and DirecTV / Dish Network can have their advertisement misinformation war over who has more "HD". Okay, that's just my mini-rant.

[navyman]

Yeah some of those HD channels are not up to snuff. TBS I think is by far the worst, they have family guy in hd, now I know I am no expert but I am almost sure that family guy has a native ratio of 4:3 so they stretch it out and upconvert whic is crap.
Other channels like TNT do a far better job, I love their weekend movie marathons they had lord of the rings the last 3 weeks and it is great to finally see lord of the rings in HD. I am not sure if it was really a hd transfer or if they just upconverted it but I am sure someone on this board can let me know.

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by navyman

Yeah some of those HD channels are not up to snuff. TBS I think is by far the worst, they have family guy in hd, now I know I am no expert but I am almost sure that family guy has a native ratio of 4:3 so they stretch it out and upconvert whic is crap.
Other channels like TNT do a far better job, I love their weekend movie marathons they had lord of the rings the last 3 weeks and it is great to finally see lord of the rings in HD. I am not sure if it was really a hd transfer or if they just upconverted it but I am sure someone on this board can let me know.

Yeah, I don't like watching Seinfeld in FAT mode! Outside of ESPN, ESPN2, Big Ten, History, Discovery HD Theater, Nat Geo and occasionallly the Science Channel, I don't find much worth watching on the other HD channels (in the NFL offseason). I would like DirecTV to get Travel Channel in HD. My folks say they have it on Charter Cable.

[Papi4baby]

ah man, i wish i check here earlier, so i could have dvr BSG in HD, oh well at least i can see the rest of the season on HD, yay dish. Took them long enought.

[saginawjuggalo]

Thanks for the heads up! It's about time they added more HD channels!!!

[savage1984]

thanks OP! that really is great news! I just added it to my list 1.

[NJ_RAMS_FAN]

yea, but you have to pay like 20 bucks for hd channels. i know it has alot more HD channels than cable, but come on, are you really going to watch every hd channel.

[saginawjuggalo]

The more the better

[BluBluWorld]

[red_5ive]

Lovely... and Verizon keeps telling me they won't add additional HD channels to their FIOS service yet as it'll sacrifice HD picture quality (additional compression) to gain the bandwidth to support more HD channels. That may be true, but I want sci-fi in HD, dammit. I'm thisclose to switching to either Direc or Dish.

[Blu Jacket]

Originally Posted by melsbluespecv

yea, but you have to pay like 20 bucks for hd channels. i know it has alot more HD channels than cable, but come on, are you really going to watch every hd channel.

Doesn't Dish Network offer an HD only package for about $30?

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Blu Jacket

Doesn't Dish Network offer an HD only package for about $30?

yes..but with so many less hd channels than directv...

i was gonna start this thread yesterday but was way too excited about FINALLY getting new hd. haha

cartoon network was slated to be added with cnn hd (which was already added a few days ago) but they took cn hd off the list and switch scifi and usa on.

for all the other dish network people..expect a lot more updates like this throughout may

[MATTYBLU2]

Originally Posted by navyman

Woohoo I have been wanting to watch Monk and Battlestar Galactica in HD for months now. I just wish they had upgraded a few weeks ago for the premier of Battlestar instead of waiting for week 3.

where are you located?

[navyman]

New Jersey but am transferring to Corpus Christi in about 2 months. That's why I go with Dish instead of cable. I get to keep some continuity since I move around every 24 months or so. I was tempted to switch to direct TV lately though since they have so many more hd channels and it seems to be slightly cheaper it is tough though cause the dish pvr is better then tivo in my opinion and I have heard nothing but bad things about direct TVs pvr.

I was actually really worried about dish upgrading hd since I heard that the satellite they sent up a few months ago failed to reach a high enough orbit to work. Last I heard they were going to try to make it fly up higher but said they weren't sure if they would be able to maneuver it well enough and were also worried that it would shorten the life span of the satellite by years. Hopefully it all works out for them.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by navyman

New Jersey but am transferring to Corpus Christi in about 2 months. That's why I go with Dish instead of cable. I get to keep some continuity since I move around every 24 months or so. I was tempted to switch to direct TV lately though since they have so many more hd channels and it seems to be slightly cheaper it is tough though cause the dish pvr is better then tivo in my opinion and I have heard nothing but bad things about direct TVs pvr.

I was actually really worried about dish upgrading hd since I heard that the satellite they sent up a few months ago failed to reach a high enough orbit to work. Last I heard they were going to try to make it fly up higher but said they weren't sure if they would be able to maneuver it well enough and were also worried that it would shorten the life span of the satellite by years. Hopefully it all works out for them.

the satellite proved to be a complete failure and they already have plans to de-orbit it. according to dish tho, their national hd rollout was not affected by the loss of that satellite.

if you can..i'd wait until june to decide if you want to switch to directv from dish

[savage1984]

Originally Posted by xtop

yes..but with so many less hd channels than directv...

i was gonna start this thread yesterday but was way too excited about FINALLY getting new hd. haha

cartoon network was slated to be added with cnn hd (which was already added a few days ago) but they took cn hd off the list and switch scifi and usa on.

for all the other dish network people..expect a lot more updates like this throughout may

that's great news. I hope you'll keep us posted xtop...

[savage1984]

Now all I need is Dish and YES! Network to sign and all will be complete...

[xtop]

Originally Posted by savage1984

that's great news. I hope you'll keep us posted xtop...

now that i know there are other dish network people out there, i certainly will

[MATTYBLU2]

and they finally added nesn, Yahooooooo!!!!!