Dish has turned on TBS-HD today. It's on Ch. 542 and 139.

Time to watch some MLB playoffs in HD.

PQ is very good.

Thanks for the update.

I love it!! way to go Dish!!

woot. hurry up with scifi-hd

PQ looks great! :eek: The PQ for Rockies' games on Fox Sports Rocky Mountain HD has been pretty bad for "HD" :mad:... I can't wait till tomorrow night's Rockies' Game on TBS-HD!

Sweeeeeeet! :D
-Tim

Updated channel info from via Scott Greczkowski/Satelliteguys.us


Effective today, October 5, 2007, DISH Network launched TBS HD into
America's Top 100 with DishHD & higher on channel 9499*. HD customers with
an MPEG4 box will see TBS HD map down next to TBS SD on channel 139.

DISH Network Channel:
9499

Satellite:Satellite:
61.5/129

Packages:
AT100 (and above) with DishHD


* - TBS HD initially launched at a temporary position of channel 542. The
launch at channel 9499 will take place on 10/10/07.

The PQ is extremely good, can even the bugs swirling around Rivera's face right now.

Oct 10, 2007!!! Gee that just happens to be a Wednesday.

Good things tend to happen on Wednesdays. :D I wonder if there will be more?

wow. awesome!

Thanks for the update Mike4HDTV :)

What does 10/10 mean? I saw TBSHD on the guide by accident tonight, it obviously is already launched on E*.

EchoStar's Dish Network today added TBS HD to its high-def lineup on channel 139.

But EchoStar said tonight it can't comment on whether the channel has been added.

"We aren't making any announcements at this time (regarding TBS HD)," said EchoStar spokeswoman Francie Bauer.

http://www.tvpredictions.com/etbs100507.htm

Okay...

Thank you E*!! I must say it's about time. I was having trouble watching the games on TBS-SD and knowing the guys with D* were getting it in HD. Charlie must have heard the moans, especially from the Rockies fans around him.

now the rockies will lose 3 in a row to the Phillies :)

Lets Hope:o

now the rockies will lose 3 in a row to the Phillies :)

Keep dreaming.

What does 10/10 mean? I saw TBSHD on the guide by accident tonight, it obviously is already launched on E*.

It means that on Oct 10th, TBS-HD will move to it's permanent place on channel 9499. The channel is temporarily being shown on channel 542. I thought it was pretty self explanatory. ;)

What does 10/10 mean? I saw TBSHD on the guide by accident tonight, it obviously is already launched on E*.

From above,

"* - TBS HD initially launched at a temporary position of channel 542. The
launch at channel 9499 will take place on 10/10/07."

I don't think I can explain it any more obviously than this. What is it that you don't understand?

Oct 10, 2007!!! Gee that just happens to be a Wednesday.

Good things tend to happen on Wednesdays. :D I wonder if there will be more?

I was reading this post and asked why it said launch on 10/10 when it was obviously already launched.

Miss Congeniality is on right now, it does not look good.

Miss Congeniality is on right now, it does not look good.

Just another HD special event channel.

I had high hopes for the D* HD leadership in bringing out all the new HD channels, so far from what I can see and read these new ones are just SD streched and rushed out to claim their HD slots.

At least those earlier HD lauhches such as Discovery HD Theater, HDNet, even HGTV and FOOD HDs are serious HD providers. In fact some of the new HDs begin to make VOOM HDs more appealing.

It's all about numbers and channel filler. The playoff quality has been very good but that's all I can say that is good. The non-playoff programming sucks. If this is the future of HD, they can keep it.

Watched Riddick for like one minute and started laughing. Stretch looks horrible, audio sounds like it's in an echo chamber, and lip sync was over a second off.

Hammer

Just another HD special event channel.

I also thought that, I was gonna say something similar.

I read the "AVS HDTV Programming Synopsis – Fall 2007!" thread and I noticed it has this.

"TBS HD - broadcasting 1080i
From Turner, their second national HD channel. The big news in initial HD is the MLB's Division Series Playoffs and the National League Championship Series. Also look for TBS original series My Boys and The Bill Engvall Show. Available now on DirecTV, Dish Network, select TWC, Comcast and Cablevision systems. Cox Communications and Bright House have also signed on for TBS HD, but it's not known when they go live with it.
www.tbs.com"

I am guessing their orignal series, mentioned above, will be nice HD PQ.


Watched Riddick for like one minute and started laughing. Stretch looks horrible, audio sounds like it's in an echo chamber, and lip sync was over a second off.
Hammer

I saw Riddick too. The PQ was better than Miss Congeniality.

Has TBS-HD shown anything in true HD (other than MLB)?

According to TBS - it is all HD. :rolleyes:

Updated channel info from via Scott Greczkowski/Satelliteguys.us
* - TBS HD initially launched at a temporary position of channel 542. The
launch at channel 9499 will take place on 10/10/07.


Channel 9499 is not on my guide. I have channels 9500, then 9491.
Anybody else not seeing the channel switch?

I hate the fact this HD channel is seperated from the rest of the HD channels.

Why would they do that?

E*'s channel number for this channel is a joke.

What does channel 500s have to deal with 9000s?


Why is it not listed with the other HD channels? Is the channel only available to certian people?

500's are HD sport channels, only available for certian people.

Has anyone seen Everybody Loves Raymond on TBS HD?

It looks like they just stretched the standard 4:3 broadcast of the show to 16:9. Why would they do that? The proportions just look.....off.

Has anyone seen Everybody Loves Raymond on TBS HD?

It looks like they just stretched the standard 4:3 broadcast of the show to 16:9. Why would they do that? The proportions just look.....off.

It has been the policy of the Turner networks (minus CNN) to stretch all (it's not just Everybody Loves Raymond) SD content to 16x9.

It has been the policy of the Turner networks (minus CNN) to stretch all (it's not just Everybody Loves Raymond) SD content to 16x9.

Urgh...that's doing more harm than good.

Urgh...that's doing more harm than good.

Search for TNT and stretch-o-vision around here and you will see many posts on the subject.

Dish has turned on TBS-HD today. It's on Ch. 542 and 139.

Time to watch some MLB playoffs in HD.


Yay, finally.

10/25/2007 @ 7:00 P.M. CST

Dish has now got the TBS-HD Channel on channel Number 9499

Most of the new HD channels such as TBS and HIST are stretch-o-vision. That makes them less than worthless. If they were worthless it would be ok but in fact thay are nauseating.

On the good news front the last local channel to stretch here in Los Angeles stopped stretching in the last few days (KABC 7). They had previously done the 14x9 stretch on their SD. Now it is 4x3. Hurray.

Rick R

Amen!
I'll take 4:3 in the highest res available over any distorted picture. Any film shot, even in that ratio, would look great in HD.

-Dave