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Dish Network's new "TurboHD" in a netshell
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Earlier this week Dish Network rolled out their new “TurboHD” service promising to become the first satellite broadcaster to transmit high definition programming in true 1080p resolution.
The current standard for normal and high action high definition channels is limited to 720p.
The upgrade will only be available to customers using the Dish Networks’ newest MPEG-4 HD receivers and will only require a user initialized software download to the receiver from the satellite to activate the feature.
The TurboHD service utilizes the new Echo XI satellite and Echostar proprietary technology (8PSK-Turbo) which allows them to increase the data transmission and frame rates in order to accommodate the 1080p signal.
The TurboHD service will require a programming package change if you wish to receive it as Dish Network has recently restructured their HD packages. Dish has announced that current HD customers can add the turbo feature to ...
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 Posted on Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:11 PM
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Ergen's Dish Network eyes XM-Sirius Merger as positive sign for merger
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Dish Network CEO Charles Ergen has been keeping his ears to the ground and eyes closely on the XM Radio/Sirius Merger as a sign that the political landscape may be changing enough to make another attempt to merge with rival satcaster Directv Inc.
The last attempt to get past the FCC and Justice department in 2002 ended badly with both regulators deciding it was not going to happen and would not be in the public’s best interests.
Since then however a number of things have changed, chiefly the successful merger of XM Radio and Sirius, which Echostar could use as a loose blueprint to clear the federal regulators in Washington and become the leading satellite broadcaster in America. The political landscape in America is also changing, with Democrats likely to make some significant strides this fall in both the house and senate and possibly even the white house.
Technology has also changed since 2002 as well, with increased video competition ...
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Posted on Wed 6 Aug 2008, 5:45 PM
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Directv to limit pay per view viewing time
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 In a move that can be interpreted as a cave in to major movie studios, DirecTV has recently announced that they will begin limiting pay per view movies recorded to the Directv DVR. Effective April 15, 2008 all pay per view movies recorded by the DirecTV DVR will automatically be deleted 24 hours after initial recording.
"Major movie studios have required that satellite and cable providers alike may no longer allow their customers to view these recordings for longer than 24 hours” reads the DirecTV announcement.
This move will eliminate the ability to view a PPV recording several times, or even the ability to view a recording made more than a day after recording, which will force consumers to pay for each viewing, or go out and purchase the movie from a retailer. For example, a customer may record a pay per view movie on a Sunday night, intending to watch it the next day, but does not have the opportunity until Tuesday. The recording that has been paid f ...
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Posted on Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:30 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Bell Expressvu dishes out new signal security upgrade
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Similar to its security upgrade in July 2005, Canada’s leading satellite broadcaster, Bell Expressvu is in the process of a new signal security upgrade in an effort to curtail its’ rampant piracy problem.
Bell Expressvu utilizes equipment and signal encryption technology manufactured by Echostar, the U.S.’s second largest digital satellite broadcaster. Echostar’s Dish Network has been plagued by piracy issues for many years, despite numerous expensive attempts to resolve the problem. This has lead to widespread piracy issues for Bell Expressvu due to the similarity in technology. Recent estimates peg more than 2 million pirates are currently receiving Dish Network and Bell Expressvu programming without payment.
The Bell Expressvu satellite signal is encrypted, allowing only authorized users, such as subscribers to decode the signal and allow them to view the channels that they are subscribing to. Signal pirates exploit vulnerabilities in the encrypti ...
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Posted on Thu 28 Feb 2008, 6:12 PM
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Liberty Media closes deal to assume control of DirecTV
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 The deal allowing Liberty Media LLC to acquire control of DirecTV Group Inc., the leading U.S. direct to home satellite company was closed this week.
Liberty and News Corp. entered an agreement in December 2006 to trade Liberty’s 16 percent ownership of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for News Corp.’s 39 percent controlling interest in the El Segundo, California-based Directv.
Earlier this week, the deal was approved by the FCC, which was the final hurdle needed to make it a reality. In its decision, the FCC required that business relationships between Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico and Directv be severed within a year.
For Liberty Media’s founder John Malone, the agreement creates a domestic television empire not seen since his TCI cable conglomerate was purchased by AT&T Inc. TCI is remembered by many for running very aggressive anti-satellite ads nationwide in the mid 1990's while fighting for subscribers which were flocking to th ...
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Posted on Thu 28 Feb 2008, 4:58 PM
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Directv leasing program triggers class action lawsuit
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 A Chicago-based law firm has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against Directv Inc., charging the satellite broadcaster with failing to adequately inform customers that they must return their Directv receivers upon cancellation of their Directv service, even if they paid hundreds of dollars for them at retail.
The suit, which also includes electronics retailer Best Buy, accuses the companies of not adequately disclosing that a customer cannot keep their Directv receiver after canceling their Directv service even though they paid for it, with prices now ranging from $69 to $199.
Directv considers the set top receiver purchase a “lease”, charging additional monthly lease fees which range from $4.99 to $10 per month. Previous to their lease program, which began on March 2006, customers were required to pay outright for their receivers. The leasing program allowed subscribers to get Directv with a lower upfront cost.
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Posted on Sun 24 Feb 2008, 10:18 PM
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Directv launches an additional 11 new high definition networks
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Directv has launched an additional 11 new high definition networks, adding to the 21 added last week. The latest additions include premium movies, sports and also specialty channels.
In the specialty category, we have the addition of;
Bravo-HD
Sci-Fi-HD
USA Network-HD
In the sports category we have the addition of;
Sportsnet Chicago-HD
Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic-HD
New England Sports Network-HD
Sportsnet New York-HD
YES-HD
And finally, we have the latest additions in the premium movie category;
HBO-West-HD
Cinemax-East-HD
Cinemax-West-HD
Directv has announced that they are committed to offering up to 70 high definition channels by the end of October and up to 100 by years end. ...
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Posted on Thu 4 Oct 2007, 9:41 PM
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Smallville 8:00 pm ET
An "It's a Wonderful Life" episode -- and it isn't even Christmastime. Clark (Tom Welling) gets wind of some messages from the past saying Brainiac (James Marsters) wanted to kill Kal-El as a baby. That has him wondering what life in Smallville would be like if he'd never existed. Jor-El plays "Clarence the angel" and shows him, and the answer will surprise you -- repeatedly -- in "Apocalypse."
The Color Purple 8:00 pm ET
It was remade as a Broadway musical, but the original movie -- whose big-time loss at the Academy Awards had a lot of folks seeing the color red -- remains a great "watch" 23 years later. That's due in large part to Whoopi Goldberg's portrayal of an abused wife who finds love from an unlikely source -- her husband's mistress -- and hope from her sister's incredible journey. Oprah Winfrey gives a gut-wrenching supporting performance.
Flubber 9:00 pm ET
Robin Williams brings his wacky energy to the Fred MacMurray role in this 1997 remake of Disney's "The Absent Minded Professor." His character, Philip Brainard, inadvertently invents a miraculous substance that bounces, flies, looks like a prop left over from "Ghostbusters" and may save his struggling school from financial ruin. Marcia Gay Harden plays the college president, who also happens to be Brainard's girlfriend.
I Witness 8:00 pm ET
Shouldn't there be a comma in that title, a la "I, Robot"? Nah, it wouldn't help. A lukewarm direct-to-video drama from 2003, it stars Jeff Daniels as a human rights investigator who stumbles upon 27 dead bodies near a U.S.-owned factory near the U.S.-Mexican border. Could this be the work of drug gangs? A cover-up by the evil American corporation? Does anyone care? Sadly, in a better-made movie, you might.
The Big Country 8:00 pm ET
Although better known for his singing, Burl Ives won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his performance in director William Wyler's sprawling 1958 Western epic about two ranching families feuding over water rights. Gregory Peck plays the sea captain who gets caught in the middle of the feud when he comes west to marry into one of the families. Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charles Bickford and Chuck Connors also star.
Ugly Betty 8:00 pm ET
Remember Gina, the Suarezes' former neighbor and nemesis? She's back, married to a doctor and eager to torment Hilda (Ana Ortiz) with her wonderful new life. Betty (America Ferrera) faces another difficult woman at work: Renee (Gabrielle Union), who's convinced Betty is trying to steal Daniel (Eric Mabius) from her. Ava Gaudet returns as Gina in "Burning Questions."
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 9:00 pm ET
Um, so what exactly was he training for? In this episode, a washed-up boxer turns up dead at the brothel where he'd been living and training. None of the working girls were exactly fans of his, and he had a number of close calls in a single night ... but which was the fatal one? James Whitmore, Wendy Makkena and Peter Stormare guest star in "Ending Happy."
Grey's Anatomy 9:00 pm ET
Who says you can't go home again? In "Piece of My Heart," Addison (Kate Walsh) is back at Seattle Grace as a guest surgeon, and she's amazed to see how her ex-colleagues' lives have changed. Also back in the picture is Rebecca, aka Ava (Elizabeth Reaser), the amnesia patient, who has a surprise for Alex (Justin Chambers). Meredith and Derek (Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey) get their first clinical trial patient.
Supernatural 9:00 pm ET
It's not nice to take things from people who are still using them, Doc. An alleged zombie case brings Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) to Pennsylvania, where they encounter not a zombie but a doctor (Billy Drago) who has stayed alive since the 19th century by stealing other people's vital organs. Sam deals with him while Dean heads off to confront Bela (Lauren Cohan) in "Time Is on My Side."
Tabatha's Salon Takeover 11:00 pm ET
Its name means "heavenly," but Tabatha Coffey finds it closer to the other place. Let's just say the owner of the De Cielo Spa and Salon in Burbank, Calif., could stand a few lessons in keeping his establishment clean. And he doesn't exactly take that news graciously. Tabatha enlists the help of his staff to clean up the place and attempt to adjust his attitude in this new episode.
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