Dish to Offer Winter Olympics in 4K

[tripplej]

from multichannel,

"Dish Network is rolling out a batch of special features and enhancements for the Winter Olympic Games from PyeongChang, South Korea.

Dish will be among a select group of MVPDs that will offer NBCUniversal’s 4K/HDR coverage of the games. Dish will offer programming in the enhanced video format on channel 540, and make it available to customers with Hopper 3 DVRs and TVs that support 4K and HDR. NBCU’s coverage in the format will be available on delay, and include footage from the Opening Ceremony, as well as from several events, including hockey, figure skating, short track speed skating, ski jumping and snowboard competitions. NBCU plans to offer up to four events from the previous day’s competition in 4K."

 

[mechman]

DirecTV has 4K channels but I have yet to have them turn them on for me. I've never considered watching them as I'm certain that the compression is going to be horrendous. Maybe I'll do this a bit later today.

I cannot believe that 4K Sports is going to be a good fit for highly compressed satellite TV. And while I don't keep up with DBS like I used to, Dish was always known for high compression. But who knows? Maybe they launched a lot more satellites recently.

 

[mechman]

After posting that I went to see what was up in the world of DBS and found out that my old hangout DBSTalk is gone. Anyone know what happened? Satellite Guys is still up and I found out there that DirecTV is broadcasting 4K Olympics on channel 106 for anyone interested.

I'm going to get on the phone now and have them turn it on for me.

 

[tripplej]

Cool. Let us know how 4K is on the DirecTV..

 

[phillihp23]

I will have to look into what channel Dish has it on for 4K.

 

[mechman]

So I talked to DirecTV. While I have the proper Genie (HR54), it still requires additional hardware and a service call. The rep wanted me to pay for these items and that’s never acceptable in my mind so I declined. I plan on researching it and getting it done myself (not a fan of satellite techs!) by the end of next week I hope.

I’ll report back if I get it done.

 

[phillihp23]

I don’t see a dish 4K channel. If if I don’t have access it would usually show the channel on the line up. Have to look into this more.

 

[mechman]

DirecTV has three 4K channels that I've seen for quite some time in the guide - 104, 105 and 106.