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They have three PPV systems. The PPV channels, which work the same way all PPV channels run, Movies On Demand, and DishONLINE.

Movies On Demand "downloads whether you want it or not" but downloads via the Satellite, not via your broadband connection. Currently it's SD.

DishONLINE downloads via your broadband connection. It may or may not be HD, I haven't tried it, they're certainly not promoting it as such but it's available on the HD DVRs only. It doesn't download anything you don't request.

I seriously doubt that this service is made up of the worst of both worlds. For one, Dish's customers are going to get seriously pissed if their broadband connections are used to download gigabytes of stuff they never asked for.]]>Aug 4th 2008 3:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 5:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 4:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 5:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 6:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 8:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 5:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 5:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 5:46PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 5th 2008 3:43AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 5th 2008 10:06AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 7:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 4th 2008 7:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/]]>Aug 4th 2008 10:15PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 5th 2008 10:30AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/
My Kuro for example displays 24p at 72hz so there is no 3:2 pull down and hence not at all the same as 1080i60.

The other more likely scenario is that the TV doesn't properly de-interlace the 1080i60 and really just shows 540p30 (bob vs weave). So for people with these TVs, 1080p output on their STB is important.

Either way you can't just say that 1080i60 and 1080p24 are ALWAYS the same, because they aren't.]]>Aug 5th 2008 10:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/My 120Hz Sharp LCD actually does reverse pulldown and displays 1080i/60 at 24p in 120Hz framing (assuming it is 24 fps content) but cannot accept native 24p input.

So yeah, there are lots of ins and outs to this.

In the end, this is a marketing effort more than anything. With the bitrates of satellite, it's not going to look like BluRay (as they said it would) no matter what they do.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/If it isn't at this rate then it won't be "Blu-Ray Quality" as Dish claims.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:23AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/08/04/dish-1080p-vod-preview/Aug 5th 2008 7:20AM