Are you watching Half the HD?
Posted in Home Theater by Ben on April 28th, 2006 
Have you seen the new Dish Networks HD advertisements?
I noticed these on the subway earlier this week. The ad shows a picture of an HD television where half the picture is blank. Over the top of the advertisement it reads:
Are you watching half the HD?
I thought that was a pretty good ad for Dish Network. Dish is known for their HDTV because they bought the VOOM Satellite channels. Voom tried to start a new satellite tv company that ONLY showed HDTV channels. I think they underestimated the market. People didn’t want to pay for cable and satellite or pay for two seperate satellite companies… VOOM had a really slow start so Dish Network bought them out.
Most of the Voom Channels are unique to Dish Network. DirecTV and Cable don’t have access to all the channels.
On most of the companies you’ll find things like DiscoveryHD HBOHD etc. But Dish has the additional HDTV channels:
Animania, Treasure, Equator (around the world), FamilyRoom, Film Fest, Gallery, HD News, Monsters, Gameplay (gaming), FU (kung-fu movies), Rave (music), RushHD (extreme sports), UltraHD, World Cinema, World Sport
So the advertisement from Dish is right on target. You definitely get more HDTV channels with Dish than any other cable or satellite company.
- Ben Fitts
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