Another Dish Website Snafu
Many times we get hints at what’s coming from the satellite company’s websites, on Friday it happened again. This time it was Dish Network who was advertising BBC America HD on its commercial website.
Only problem is Dish Network does not currently carry BBC America HD.
The website which shows the offerings from Dish Network service for Business, Hospitality and Multi-family housing displayed that BBC America HD was available on channel 9450 airing from the 61.5 and 129 orbital locations. The channel was also listed throughout the site on the channel guide listings. (CLICK HERE to see what the Dish Network Website showed)
Word of the website addition got around quickly on the internet, and it appears the new addition was made early as a few hours later Dish Network removed all traces of BBC America HD from its site.
BBC America has been one of the most requested HD stations over the past 6 months. (The other one is ESPNU HD) The launch of BBC America HD was the biggest nonevent in the industry this year as its debut was much advertised, but at launch time BBC America HD had no carriage agreements in place.
Hopefully this detailed mistake is a sign of things to come. With BBC America HD and the rumor that Dish Network is close to turning on EPIX HD December could be a good month for Dish Network HD fans.
Roku Does It Again
The folks at Roku have done it again, last night they added 10 new channels to their Roku IPTV digital players. Overnight Roku owners woke up to find the new Roku Channel Store which includes the popular Pandora music service, Facebook Photos, Revision3 (who produces one of my favorite tech shows Tekzilla!), Mediafly, TWiT (which produces my other favorite Tech Show, The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte), blib.tv, FrameChannel, Motionbox, and MobileTribe.
To make things even more exciting the folks from Roku have announced the Roku Player is the world’s first open platform IPTV service.
Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku, Inc said. “Now content producers and distributors – from single person shops to billion dollar corporations – can deliver their content directly to consumers without having to go exclusively through cable operators, satellite networks or TV affiliates.”
The world of IPTV just got a lot more interesting, and I now know what I am asking Santa for this year for Christmas… I want a Roku HD XR!
digiblur commented:
Make sure you go the device settings, player info screen, and select update. You'll get the new firmware. Follow the instructions on the channel store screen to add the new free channels to your Roku. No new Roku needed.
Commerical commented:
No, the commercial customers use the exact same satellites as residential and usually the same receivers. The only exclusive things are some special promo/announcer free digital music channels (at least on DirecTV, not sure about Dish since they already offer Muzak which is promo/announcer free). The actual Business channels that you see listed on places like Lyngsat and other satellite list sites are not available to every commercial customer, those are private feeds only authorized to specific businesses for things like corporate presentations or the promo feeds you see looped in some stores.
J commented:
"there ARE channels on dish network's commercial and hospitality packages which are not available on their general packages. This is not a mistake, just business as usual."
Then why would they remove it if it wasn't a mistake?
Tom jones commented:
there ARE channels on dish network's commercial and hospitality packages which are not available on their general packages. This is not a mistake, just business as usual. Hospitality industry gets a different set of satellites and smartcard authorizations.
dmain commented:
I don't see the new show on my Roku, which is the first run Roku. Do we all have to purchase the Roku HD XR? The original model recieves HD fine.
Shield95 commented:
December should be a good HD month.
