When will Starz! be in Dolby Digital - NOW!!
Barry Dowell
answer is NOW.
Actually, some folks may have seen the notes about this yesterday over on
http://www.dbsforums.com or here in the alt.dbs.echostar newsgroup, but
just in case, in a temporary stint as the town crier:
Echostar/Dish Network is broadcasting STARZ! in DOLBY DIGITAL.
The wait is over.
No more questions in the newsgroup about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
Digital?'
No more calls to the Charlie Chats about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
Digital?'
Again, the answer is NOW.
As of yesterday afternoon/evening (8/29/2000), Dish is passing Dolby Digital
for Starz! east.
I guess questions will come up later about 'when will it be on the West
Coast feeds?', but I hope for a while at least that folks are just plain
thankful that it's being passed along at all!!!
(Remember, there are plenty of folks out here -- myself included -- that
don't have expensive home theatre audio systems, so we wouldn't know or care
about Dolby Digital anyway if we didn't see others complaining about it!!)
There have also been reports that Showtime East (Ch 318) was broadcasting in
Dolby Digital yesterday, but that one I'm not sure of (not having equipment
I can check it with and all).
Tony @ Work
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Dowell <bdo...@tenwvi.com>
Newsgroups: alt.dbs.echostar
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 11:05 AM
Subject: When will Starz! be in Dolby Digital - NOW!!
> Echostar/Dish Network is broadcasting STARZ! in DOLBY DIGITAL.
>
> The wait is over.
>
> No more questions in the newsgroup about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
> Digital?'
>
> No more calls to the Charlie Chats about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
> Digital?'
Now the new questions is (do it in your best Gilda Radner's Lubner "whiner"
voice) "How come Starz west isn't in DD?"
> Again, the answer is NOW.
>
> As of yesterday afternoon/evening (8/29/2000), Dish is passing Dolby
Digital
> for Starz! east.
>
>
> I guess questions will come up later about 'when will it be on the West
> Coast feeds?', but I hope for a while at least that folks are just plain
> thankful that it's being passed along at all!!!
Well, I guess I should have read the *entire* post! :-)
See ya
Tony
Mike
their efforts. Showtime yesterday...I saw nothing in DD, even after someones
post here.
Barry Dowell wrote:
> For those that have been asking 'When will Starz!' be in Dolby Digital?' the
> answer is NOW.
>
> Actually, some folks may have seen the notes about this yesterday over on
> http://www.dbsforums.com or here in the alt.dbs.echostar newsgroup, but
> just in case, in a temporary stint as the town crier:
>
> Echostar/Dish Network is broadcasting STARZ! in DOLBY DIGITAL.
>
> The wait is over.
>
> No more questions in the newsgroup about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
> Digital?'
>
> No more calls to the Charlie Chats about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
> Digital?'
>
> Again, the answer is NOW.
>
> As of yesterday afternoon/evening (8/29/2000), Dish is passing Dolby Digital
> for Starz! east.
>
> I guess questions will come up later about 'when will it be on the West
> Coast feeds?', but I hope for a while at least that folks are just plain
> thankful that it's being passed along at all!!!
>
Involuntary
posted a message in news:alt.dbs.echostar, which said:
> For those that have been asking 'When will Starz!' be in Dolby Digital?' the
> answer is NOW.
>
> Actually, some folks may have seen the notes about this yesterday over on
> http://www.dbsforums.com or here in the alt.dbs.echostar newsgroup, but
> just in case, in a temporary stint as the town crier:
>
> Echostar/Dish Network is broadcasting STARZ! in DOLBY DIGITAL.
This is the new programming announcement for the month of September.
Involuntary
Mike
older movie.Looking forward to hearing some 5.1 !!
Angel Antonio Suárez
"Involuntary" <invol...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:p7qqqscoe1de2544v...@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:05:39 -0400, "Barry Dowell" <bdo...@tenwvi.com>
> posted a message in news:alt.dbs.echostar, which said:
>
> > For those that have been asking 'When will Starz!' be in Dolby Digital?'
the
> > answer is NOW.
> >
> > Actually, some folks may have seen the notes about this yesterday over
on
> > http://www.dbsforums.com or here in the alt.dbs.echostar newsgroup, but
> > just in case, in a temporary stint as the town crier:
> >
> > Echostar/Dish Network is broadcasting STARZ! in DOLBY DIGITAL.
>
> This is the new programming announcement for the month of September.
LOL!
Bob Haller on www.dbsforums.com has prognosticated (painful condition, I
think) that Odyssey will be added to AT150 and that "soon" (whatever that
really means) Cincinnati and Greenville, SC will be added to the LIL
line-up.
See ya
Tony
Daniel Goff
or Greenville locals tho.
Daniel
"Angel Antonio Suárez" <tng...@remove2reply.one.net> wrote in message
news:39ad7...@news2.one.net...
Chris Blount
Verified! Starz! is definitely in Dolby Digital. Just watched the
recording I made on my Dishplayer of Bowfinger and my display told me Dolby
Digital 5.1!
Also caught a little of Black Dog earlier and that also is in 5.1. Oh happy
day!
Barry Dowell <bdo...@tenwvi.com> wrote in message
news:8oj7om$c9l$1...@bob.news.rcn.net...
> For those that have been asking 'When will Starz!' be in Dolby Digital?'
the
> answer is NOW.
>
> Actually, some folks may have seen the notes about this yesterday over on
> http://www.dbsforums.com or here in the alt.dbs.echostar newsgroup, but
> just in case, in a temporary stint as the town crier:
>
> Echostar/Dish Network is broadcasting STARZ! in DOLBY DIGITAL.
>
> The wait is over.
>
> No more questions in the newsgroup about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
> Digital?'
>
> No more calls to the Charlie Chats about 'When will Starz! be in Dolby
> Digital?'
>
>
Involuntary
<tng...@remove2reply.one.net> posted a message in
news:alt.dbs.echostar, which said:
> Bob Haller on www.dbsforums.com has prognosticated (painful condition, I
> think) that Odyssey will be added to AT150 and that "soon" (whatever that
> really means) Cincinnati and Greenville, SC will be added to the LIL
> line-up.
My theory is that Dish is trying to make huge profits on AT150 before
adding more channels which will cost them more. So while we "early
adopters" are paying full price for a not-yet-fleshed-out package,
Echostar is raking in profits. They will probably make less per
subscriber as they add more channels since they will then have to pay
more fees to programmers. I'd take one more shopping channel for every
8 REAL channels added.
Involuntary
jbuff
Involuntary <invol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> My theory is that Dish is trying to make huge profits
> on AT150 before
> adding more channels which will cost them more. So
> while we "early
> adopters" are paying full price for a
> not-yet-fleshed-out package,
> Echostar is raking in profits. They will probably
> make less per
> subscriber as they add more channels since they will
> then have to pay
> more fees to programmers. I'd take one more shopping
> channel for every
> 8 REAL channels added.
>
Yeah, I'll go along with that. 1 to 8 isn't a bad
percentage, considering that I'll probably ignore 6 out of
the 8 as well. I have mixed feelings about the multiplicity
of channel selections. ClickTV will only allow me 100 on
any single web page, so I'm getting to the point where I
have to throw away channels that I "might" watch, just to
audit new channels to see what programming is on them. I
may be the only one, but I am grateful that Dish doesn't
add more than a few channels every month. With
"everything", I don't have a grid I can view offline that
has all I need.
--jbuff
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Involuntary
<jbuffN...@pacific.net.invalid> posted a message in
news:alt.dbs.echostar, which said:
> Yeah, I'll go along with that. 1 to 8 isn't a bad percentage,
> considering that I'll probably ignore 6 out of the 8 as well. I
> have mixed feelings about the multiplicity of channel selections.
> ClickTV will only allow me 100 on any single web page, so I'm
> getting to the point where I have to throw away channels that I
> "might" watch, just to audit new channels to see what programming
> is on them. I may be the only one, but I am grateful that Dish
> doesn't add more than a few channels every month. With
> "everything", I don't have a grid I can view offline that has all
> I need.
I'm still extremely surprised that nobody has come up with an offline TV
Guide with proprietary data files for specialized software for TV
listings. Yes, we have the Electronic TV Host, but it's pathetic. The
basic interface is fine, but the listings are incomplete and I don't
think the company is doing well. You can try out their program at
www.tvhost.com and the last two times I've been there, their 1-month
trial key generator has been defective so you end up with a key that
lasts for 99 months. Most of the AT150 channels are not included in the
listings.
Basically I wish either Dish or TV Guide or ClickTV would come out with
a monthly CD-ROM subscription or some software you could download and
you could get a subscription to a weekly or bi-weekly listing. I do not
like accessing the web for this. It's slow and clunky. I want to be
able to save all my searches and run those searches to get a printout of
everything I might be interested in viewing that week. Is it too much
to ask? I guess so. Nobody offers it but TV Host, and as I said,
they're pathetic.
Involuntary
Chris Duncan
channel 350 I was hearing no sound from my Denon AVR 3300 receiver, but
I thought nothing about it. A little while ago I turned to 350 and the
same thing happened. Due to it being in DD, I had to hit the INPUT
button on my 3300 remote before it would process the DD signal. All the
other channels, with their standard sound, were working fine. That
should have tipped me off to it yesterday, but since I have been waiting
close to a year for DD on Starz and I`ve gotten so used to false
promises on the part of Dish, I did not believe that it would actually
be here. Oh well, like you said, can`t wait for a DD 5.1 film. Here`s
hoping they actually broadcast in 5.1.
RKinsey
know its dolby, but not 5.1 because my reciever says dolby digital if it is,
at least the PPV channels I watch sometimes lights up the dolby digital. I
quess I will see what happens.
Ron
"Chris Duncan" <bobc...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Javier Henderson
> Verified! Starz! is definitely in Dolby Digital. Just watched the
> recording I made on my Dishplayer of Bowfinger and my display told me Dolby
> Digital 5.1!
>
> Also caught a little of Black Dog earlier and that also is in 5.1. Oh happy
> day!
It looks like only channel 350 has DD. The movie that was on
last night around 9:30pm PDT (I don't remember which one it was) only
had two channels though.
-jav
Roy Evenson
digital but only 2.0...Bowfinger is broadcast in 5.1. Hoping ALOT more
get to be broadcast in 5.1!!!!!
jbuff
141.iap.bryant.webtv.net>, reve...@webtv.net (Roy Evenson)
wrote:
http://www.echostaruser.org/217.htm
--jbuff
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jbuff
jbuff <jbuffN...@pacific.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <21594-39AFD2E7-236@storefull-
> 141.iap.bryant.webtv.net>, reve...@webtv.net (Roy
> Evenson)
> wrote:
> > The selection of DD movies on Starz is still limited
> > so most are in
> > digital but only 2.0...Bowfinger is broadcast in 5.1.
> > Hoping ALOT more
> > get to be broadcast in 5.1!!!!!
> >
> Here's the schedule for the next two months.
> http://www.echostaruser.org/217.htm
>
Sorry, brain fart.
That link should be
http://www.echostaruser.org/ekb/217.htm
That's what I get for using my brain when not fully engaged.