You appear to have missed the part that this beta software is timebombed to only work for 60 days, so a download for other than Niveus machine won't do you much good come December.

My bet? Football game will run late so this will actually not be at 7:00pm.

Cablevision may have some issues, but they do at least have 15 Voom Channels that NO ONE else in America has. In fact, name another provider that has even 3 HD Channels no other providers in America has access to.

Voom might not be HDNET, but its sure a far cry better than Lifetime Movies or some of the other "HD" Channels. What, you wanted QVC-HD instead?

"By default, I always go for an HD broadcast, regardless of what is on."

Too bad that this isnt the norm. As has been noted over and over, HD has not been shown to be a winner in news ratings anywhere - and CBS needs all the help it can get in that area.

NBC was the #1 Nightly News Program when it went to HD and quickly became #2 to ABC. Not that HD caused the decline, but again, as has been proven, there is no influx of ratings due to HD.

Given the collection of failing space junk that Dish now owns in orbit, which piece of junk is this bird replacing? As it is being launched with the telemetry shown in the post, clearly they must have made some decision where it is planning to end up.

200% Color Gamut - Hype, unless you don't want to conform to REC 709.

The key thing that people better realize is that the colormeters that most people (including ISF techs) use are not going to work well with this technology.

A SpectroRadiometer (and not a SpectroPhotometer) is about the only way to calibrate this technology properly.

it might not be an SDV launch, but none of the 4 channels listed here - nor even 709, are showing up on cablecard equiped sets.

Despite claims of cash is king, no product ever submitted for THX certification has passed on the initial tests - additional mods and testing have been done on every product that bears the certification.

That's the difference in having a real plan - like Directv did - and trying to hobble together space junk thrown all over the sky between 61.5 West and 148 West.

Nice Strategy Charlie!

The lack of long term strategic planning falls squarely on your shoulders - as most classy execs were shown the door (or couldn't stand you) long ago.

Now its time to pay the piper.

So you are admitting you were wrong on 5-5-2008 when you stated "If we had to guess, we'd say satellite / fiber are beginning to eat away at the coax-laden mothership."

Seem a satellite was not the only thing that Dish lost in Q1.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/05/comcast-thrives-on-broadband-digital-phone-subscriptions-in-q1/