Most of them are variants of HBO or Starz, but they will bring the Dish total to more than 100. Perhaps more importantly, Dish has announced that it will begin selling packages of ONLY high-definition channels. If you don't want to pay for a bunch of fuzzy channels you never watch anyway, you won't have to.

Blu-ray DiscBernstein ResearchBlu-ray Disc says Blu-ray players will be in approximately one percent of U.S. households at the end of this year, suggesting the high-def disc format will experience a boom over the next three years.

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Point Break Bu-rayNow this is a movie worth waiting for on Blu-ray. No crazy CGI, no fake wave footage like "Perfect Storm". Just a balls out action film that should look good in widescreen.

Yesterday, Dish Network announced that 21 new markets will be transmitting content in MPEG-4, bringing the total US Markets using the standard to 52. In six of these added markets, local HD channels were added to content rosters.

DISH Network announced earlier this week it would add two HD (High-Definition) channels dedicated to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In an agreement with NBCU, The NBC Olympic Soccer Channel (Ch. 99) and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel (Ch. 98) will carry the Olympics coverage 24-hrs a day during the games.

Dvr > Free Satellite TV — Is It Really Free? Dish Network is the number-one digital satellite TV service provider in the nation, bringing customers the best in digital satellite television, including the widest range of channels - more than 250 — the most advanced equipment for home theater, and great special offers for new and existing subscribers.

Satellite TV provider Dish Network's stock has dropped more than 25% since mid June, when it started having problems with AT&T, one of its resellers (and the biggest U.S. phone company). Specifically, AT&T yanked a convertible note, and then a few weeks later, decided to terminate its five-year-old deal to resell Dish satellite TV at the end of 2008. But now AT&T...

Dish Network will in some ways be the most interesting company to watch over the next several years in the crowd that includes AT&T, Verizon, DirecTV, Dish Network,Comcast ( News - Alert), Time Warner, Cox Communications, Qwest and possibly a few others.