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story category Checking Out Dish's 1080p Offering
Pretty close to Blue-ray, with a few nits to pick...
08:23AM Tuesday Oct 14 2008 by Karl Bode
tags: Video · competition · business · HDTV · Dish Network
Over the summer, in competitive response to Verizon's NYC FiOSTV launch, DirecTV announced they'd be offering content in 1080p high definition. Not to be outdone, Dish Network announced that they'd be the first to get 1080p content to market, and began delivering 1080p to customer MPEG-4 HD DVR receivers back in July. Sound and Vision Magazine puts the new, higher definition through its paces and finds that Dish's claim of "Blu-ray Disc quality" 1080p comes pretty close, though Dish's offering is slightly more grainy, and doesn't have quite the same audio punch as its disc counterpart (5.1 versus 7.1-channel DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD).

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gopnick

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The real problem

The real problem with Dish's 1080p content is the price. $6.99 rentals are way too pricey. I'll stick to my unlimited DVDs, even though the quality is reduced, through Netflix.

There's also plenty of 720p and 1080i content out there for free in OTA broadcasts or already-paid-for satellite/cable channels.
permalink · 2008-10-14 09:19:14 · Reply to this

jchambers28

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Re: The real problem

do you have an upscale dvd player looks pretty good for dvd's
permalink · 2008-10-14 11:13:15 · Reply to this
Pictor Guy

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Re: The real problem

said by jchambers28 See Profile :

do you have an upscale dvd player looks pretty good for dvd's
Yep.... and that mono audio sounds great when you play it on two speakers.
permalink · 2008-10-14 12:14:59 · Reply to this
gopnick

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permalink · 2008-10-14 13:53:56 · Reply to this

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October 14th, @10:00AM

Good first effort

But it has a way to go. The problem with Blu-Ray is the media is a total rip, rentals being the only viable way of getting Blu-Ray content. But when you're looking at the rip-off prices of DBS 1080P rentals you're better off with Blockbuster or Netflix, despite Netflix's recent addition of a $1.00 "how dare you want Blu-Ray discs" penalty. Blu-Ray still handily wins (unless you don't have a player of course, which are still pricy themselves).
permalink · 2008-10-14 09:53:46 · Reply to this

jsm1234

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be interesting to see VZ FIOS's comeback to this...

1080p, near blue ray quality..

It would be interesting to see what Verizon's comments on this would be, are they going to match or exceed the quality and offering?
permalink · 2008-10-14 10:29:34 · Reply to this

danclan

join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA

Re: be interesting to see VZ FIOS's comeback to this...

considering that 99.9999% of the population wouldnt be able to tell the difference in a double blind test....i wouldnt do anything except continue to build out the HD VOD and HD channel offerings...
permalink · 2008-10-14 11:19:40 · Reply to this

Dogfather
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Re: be interesting to see VZ FIOS's comeback to this...

Are the moto boxes 1080P capable?
permalink · 2008-10-14 11:57:34 · Reply to this

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Re: be interesting to see VZ FIOS's comeback to this...

No. They don't even have enough power to show a guide wide screen.
permalink · 2008-10-14 14:04:03 · Reply to this
rmdir

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players

Wow, I'm flabbergasted by the still high price of blu ray players. I hadn't checked for a while. I'm lucky because I picked up a PS3 last BF for a good price. The pricing structure for Blu ray dvs's needs to be revisited-why do I pay more to buy or rent a movie that's been mastered on blu ray when there's no extra content? for the difference I'll just let the PS3 upscale a regular dvd for me.
permalink · 2008-10-14 11:24:18 · Reply to this
ggmorton

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Houston, TX

Re: players

said by rmdir See Profile :

Wow, I'm flabbergasted by the still high price of blu ray players.
The prices are sub $200 now. i just picked up from Amazon.com the BD-P1500 for $228 with the Blu-Ray Matrix box set free. I was gonna buy the box set anyway, so the player comes out to $150. Not too bad.
permalink · 2008-10-14 12:08:58 · Reply to this
Pictor Guy

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Blu-Ray

It's Blu-Ray folks.
permalink · 2008-10-14 12:15:46 · Reply to this

koolman2
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Re: Blu-Ray

It doesn't help that the incorrect spelling is in the subtitle.
permalink · 2008-10-14 17:44:45 · Reply to this
TechWhiz

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Re: Blu-Ray

Incorrect in subtitle, correct in article... fun.
permalink · 2008-10-14 18:04:32 · Reply to this
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