http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/ Engadget HD Comments for EchoStar CEO trivializes DirecTV's 100 HD channels http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 11:28AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 12:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/

]]>Aug 14th 2007 11:39AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 11:50AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 11:52AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/When this all comes to fruition next month do eat crow or stay bitter?]]>Aug 14th 2007 2:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 11:45AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
Granted, DirecTV has been full of hot air in the past (trust me, I know), but if they do pull this off - they will be the HD masters, bar none!

This dude is trying to rest on his laurels. That doesn't work in the big-boy business world.]]>Aug 14th 2007 11:48AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
I think what he meant was why have 100 HD channels if a large percentage of them are boring and uninteresting, or have very limited HD programs aired on them. I believe DISH will stay competitive and offer all the same HD channels that matter to customers as DirecTV. So if they only have 75, but they are the 75 that customers really want to watch, that is all that matters. Are you going to watch the home shopping network now because it's in HD? It's a waste of bandwidth and I'd rather watch something interesting in SD! I do not have either DISH or DirecTV.

But for the record, I too want all HD all the time, all old SD upscaled and remastered into HD (like the old Star trek episodes) and *live* in all HD all the time. I'm *ok* with 4:3 if the PQ is near-HD. ]]>Aug 14th 2007 2:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 2:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 14th 2007 11:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
Last time I checked I was getting to excited about the beloved Voom network. How much bandwidth do those fluff channels waste?


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1) D* isn't even providing all the HD channels that are available now. Why?
2) They are going to count NFL, MLB, PPVs, and their DEMO channels to get to 100. And the D* fanboys will still cheer.]]>Aug 14th 2007 4:18PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
As for sports, are you seriously suggested that television providers shouldn't count sports packages broadcast in HD has additional HD channels? I guess that would make sense because the other cable/satellite providers look vastly inferior up against Directv when comes to sports. HD Football, HD Nascar and for the 2008 baseball season even more HD baseball. Throw out the most popular and profitable segment of Television broadcasting so you'll feel better I'm sure no one noticed your little scheme.

The fud that some anti-Directv zeolots throw out to discredit Directv is desperate, some of which used to come from the editors at engadget, but lately even they seem to have changed their tune. This is not a paper launch, satellites don't get purchased, designed and launched in orbit to sit and do nothing. Receivers aren't designed, sold, and setup for show nor are 5lnb dishes.

What is going to be the anti-Directv mantra in a month, more whining, denying, and crying? Or are some of you going to man up, grow up and admit you were wrong in hoping that the HD market would stagnate so your company of choice could stay on top. ]]>Aug 14th 2007 5:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
I suggest you try the alternative and maybe you'll see what the real deal in HD delivery leadership looks and feels like. Trust me, as a former D* customer of 7 years, it is NO comparison. Dish blows them away on all fronts save the sports packages...and as a lover of movies and the vast array of non-sports HD content thats out there NOW (and yes, that includes Voom), its a real no-brainer.

BTW, the reason why D*'s counting of HD RSNs in their 100 HD is that many are either not full-time and they're also susceptible to black-outs--the viewer won't SEE 100 channels, they just EXIST.]]>Aug 14th 2007 8:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
Right know I wish had cinemax, stars, national geographic, a&e, even voom would be alright even though it's pretty lame, etc like some of you, but I don't. But your companies haven't announced anywhere near the channels needed to compete with Directv in the near future.

I've seen Comcast's and Dish Network's offerings with my own eyes and I'm not impressed. I've seen Mpeg 2 vs. Mpeg 2 HD comparisons showing Dish Network to be supposedly victorious according to some. But at what, late 90s technology, congrats. Keep fighting yesterdays battles fellas I'll enjoy the future and hopefully you won't get left behind.

One more thing, RSNs aren't sports packages, I don't get a single RSN in Albuquerqe, New Mexico but I get to watch all the football, baseball, basketball, hockey, nascar games that are shown. Sports packages count, stop demeaning them by calling a Regional Sports Network(spotbeam). ]]>Aug 14th 2007 9:34PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
Again, I think the reactions you're getting here are because for some, its just talking about the cards on the table--not the poker face or the bluff. Once we really see D*s hand, we'll know how things stack up. If they truly blow away the competitions offerings, good for them (and the D* sub)...and, I suspect, good for all of us, in the end, as it will mean others will have to meet the challenge.

We'll see, right?]]>Aug 15th 2007 12:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/
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Directv has it's cards on the table: a satellite in space that can broadcast 100 hd channels, 5 lnbs dishes on subscribers roofs, mpeg 4 receivers in peoples homes, and most importantly commitments from major broadcast networks dwarfing any other cable or satellite network. Announcing these additions to its lineup before they go live makes very smart business sense. Investors love knowing the companies plans for the future and it also helps ease churn of subscribers.

Echostar's CEO came out on the attack out of a position of weakness not strength, note he didn't announce matching Directv commitments because the FTC would be all over his ass for lying to investors. These statements from Echostar's Chief Executive should put some of you ill at ease not all revved up and ready to fight a losing battle. ]]>Aug 15th 2007 8:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/08/14/echostar-ceo-trivializes-directvs-100-hd-channels/Aug 22nd 2007 10:21AM