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Dish Network 4K setup
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Post 1 made on Wednesday January 30, 2019 at 09:39
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How many 4K clients can you have on a Hopper? If a customer has 10 brand new TVs, whats the way I can get the most 4K sources?
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Post 2 made on Wednesday January 30, 2019 at 11:16
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I believe all the 4K content from Dish actually streams through the ISP. The 4K Joey should get it's own network connection and stream away. Kind of disappointing when we first set ours up a year ago.

Someone with more recent knowledge, please prove me wrong.
Post 3 made on Wednesday January 30, 2019 at 11:46
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Dish network provides 4k Netflix and a limited selection of 4k On Demand Movies for purchase.

DirecTV has a 4k Channel that shows some neat demonstration material... but not a lot of programming anyone wants to watch.

Xfinity provides 4k Netflix through X1 now. but has none of their own 4k Content.
EDIT: Looks like there is some On Demand from NBC now as well.

If you want to maximize 4k Content, you want a Roku or AppleTV. Or even the apps in the TV depending on what TV's they are.
Post 4 made on Wednesday January 30, 2019 at 14:34
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If you just want great 4K content, look at Kaleidescape. I know, sounds like a crazy suggestion, but pricing is very good, selection is huge, the hardware is very robust, and the interface is one of the best in the world.

I think most of the 4K demos at CEDIA last year were drive my a K-scape player.
Post 5 made on Thursday January 31, 2019 at 10:22
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For true 4K it is disk or K-Scape. All the rest have some major compromises to them. You have the pixels but the signal is compressed as hell.
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OP | Post 6 made on Thursday January 31, 2019 at 21:35
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On January 31, 2019 at 10:22, jrainey said...
For true 4K it is disk or K-Scape. All the rest have some major compromises to them. You have the pixels but the signal is compressed as hell.

I had a conversation yesterday with someone about video and they were saying even 4K BD is only about 1% of the true image. The other thing They explained is that the part that people can see the best about 4K is the expanded colors, but because it’s the easiest, color is the part that gets compressed the most.

I have no idea if this is all correct, since I’ve never worried that much about video, but it sounded like it made sense
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