* Dish Network and DirecTV in the U. S. satellite provider market.

MPEG-2 is considered important because it has been chosen as the compression scheme for over-the-air digital television ATSC, DVB and ISDB, digital satellite TV services like Dish Network, digital cable television signals, SVCD and DVD Video.

The American Dish Network DBS service has also recently utilized FSS technology as well for their programming packages requiring their SuperDish antenna, due to Dish Network needing more capacity to carry local television stations per the FCC's " must-carry " regulations, and for more bandwidth to carry HDTV channels.

Select providers such as Dish Network and Verizon FiOS have made agreements with Fox to allow their subscribers to watch programming the day after on Hulu and Fox. com if signed in via their ISP accounts, and day after viewing of Fox programming is available on Hulu for paid Hulu Plus subscribers.

DirecTV and Dish Network provide direct broadcast satellite television including both local and national channels to area residents.

The player would call an account server over the phone line to charge for viewing fees similar to the way DirecTV and Dish Network satellite systems handle pay-per-view.

A television deal signed with Comcast SportsNet in 2007 has also been criticized for not ensuring access to Blazer games via cable company Charter, as well as satellite television providers such as DirecTV and Dish Network, both of which compete with Comcast's cable television operations.

It is currently carried nationwide on Dish Network and in limited markets on Time Warner Cable, Service Electric, Comcast, Charter Communications and Bright House Networks.

In 1996, EchoStar's Dish Network went online in the United States and, as DirecTV's primary competitor, achieved similar success.

Sky Angel, although a separate and independent DBS service, used the same satellites, transmission facilities, & receiving equipment used for Dish Network through an agreement with Echostar.

Dish Network Corporation (), commonly known as DISH, is a United States satellite broadcaster, providing direct broadcast satellite service — including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services — to 14. 337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States.

Dish Network has approximately 24, 500 employees, most of whom are located within the U. S. The corporate office is based in Meridian, an unincorporated area of Douglas County, Colorado.

EchoStar was officially re-branded as Dish Network in March 1996.

, Dish Network split from EchoStar, with each entity becoming a separate company.

EchoStar is the key technology partner to Dish Network, which focuses only on marketing and providing satellite television service.

On September 27, 2012, Dish Network announced that they are releasing a satellite broadband service called DishNet, aimed at rural areas, on October 1st.

With this and the completion of the construction of the satellite uplink center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, The Dish Network brand name was born to represent the home satellite TV service.

In the same year, Echostar, partnering with Bell Canada, launched Dish Network Canada.

Dish Network Corporation, the larger of the two resulting companies, focuses on programming, service and marketing of satellite television, while EchoStar Corporation runs a majority of the satellite fleet and other signal infrastructure.

In 2011, Dish Network spent over $ 3 billion dollars in acquisitions of companies in bankruptcy, which Motley Fool's Anders Bylund described as " a veritable buying rampage in the bargain bin.

Dish Network also acquired the defunct companies DBSD and Terrestar.

It was added to Dish Network systems on May 13, 2008.

Dish Network added the HD channel on July 8.

Dish Network later added the West Coast feed on May 12, 2010.

Dish Network has added the channel as an option for their HDTV package.

In addition to repeaters in Greensboro ( WDVZ-CA Channel 3 ) and Demopolis ( WJMY-CA Channel 25 and WJMY-LD Channel 22 ), WVUA is available on most cable operators within the DMA In 2006, WVUA was added to the Birmingham local stations lineup for both Dish Network and DirecTV, adding a substantial number of potential viewers.

On June 3, 2010, Dish Network added WTOV, along with PBS member station WOUC and CBS affiliate WTRF ( and the latter station's digital subchannels ) as the local stations available to its subscribers in the Steubenville-Wheeling market.

In July 2005, KTWO was added to the Dish Network line up of channels for customers in the Casper / Riverton designated market area.

In February 2006, WPXJ was added to the Dish Network Buffalo channel lineup on channel 51.

Dish HD, newest version used with the Hopper and Joey system

The Dish Network ViP722 HD DVR ( Record up to 350 hours of standard-definition ( SD ), up to 55 hours of high-definition ( HD ) replacement to the ViP622 has received generally positive reviews from CNET and others.

Cinemax HD is available on Dish Network, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Comcast, AT & T U-verse, Verizon FiOS and other major cable providers, although few providers offer all eight multiplex channels in HD.

The HD channel is available nationally on Verizon FiOS, DirecTV, AT & T U-verse, Comcast, and Dish Network.

BBC America HD, a 1080i high definition simulcast version of BBC America, is carried nationally by Dish Network, DirecTV, and regionally on Xfinity ( Comcast ), Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Verizon FIOS and some smaller providers.

An HD feed first became available in India, Zee TV HD launched in the US on September 5, 2012 on Dish Network.

TruTV HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of TruTV, which is available nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network and regionally on AT & T U-verse, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Cable, Cablevision, Verizon FiOS and RCN.

* Channel 144 on the Dish Network is EPSN2 HD

On March 26, 2008, Dish Network joined the list of providers offering NESN in HD.

It is available in Airtel Digital TV, Dish TV, Hathway and Videocon d2h TEN HD

Dish Network no longer carries the HD feed due to a carriage dispute with Disney.

Dish Network will return ABC Family HD with other Walt Disney company Channels in the late 2012 or Early 2013.

DirecTV and Dish Network carry KSTW in standard definition, but not in HD.

* Dish TV for all its HD and SD channel transmissions via Asiasat 5.

Dish Network launched Speed HD on May 8, 2009.

It previously aired in America through the Independent Film Channel ( using Funimation's dub ) in April 2006 and in high definition on Dish Networks Animania HD channel ( also using FUNimation's dub ).

It will not be available in HD on Dish until the end of 2012.

The main Encore HD channel is currently carried nationally by DirecTV and Dish Network and regionally by Verizon FiOS, AT & T U-Verse, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Insight Communications.

AMC Networks responded to Dish Network's announcement of its pending removal of the channels as being related to a 2008 breach of contract lawsuit against Dish Network by former company parent Rainbow Media's Voom HD Networks ( which is pending trial in the New York State Supreme Court ), in which it is seeking more than $ 2. 5 billion in damages against Dish Network for improperly terminating its carriage contract ; Voom's high-definition channels were carried on the provider from May 1, 2005 until May 12, 2008 when Dish removed ten of Voom's fifteen channels from its lineup and the five remaining channels the following day.