Dish Network
DISH Network L.L.C. (an acronym for "Digital Sky Highway"[1]), a subsidiary of EchoStar, provides multichannel television and satellite television via Dish Network, mobile phone service via Dish Wireless, Boost Mobile, and Boost Infinite, as well as over-the-top IPTV services via Sling TV.
Formerly
EchoStar Communications Corporation (1980–2007)
DISH Network Corporation (2008–2023)
Dish Network India (2003–2007)
Nasdaq: DISH
- 1980 (as EchoStar Communications Corporation)
- January 1, 2008 (as Dish Network Corporation)
- Jim DeFranco
- Charlie Ergen
- Cantey Ergen
- Charlie Ergen (chairman)
- Hamid Akhavan (CEO)
US$17.437 billion (2022)
US$2.675 billion (2022)
US$2.065 billion (2022)
US$49.858 billion (2022)
US$16.549 billion (2022)
c. 14,200 (December 2022)
- Dish Wireless
- Sling TV
- Sling Media
- Blockbuster
- OnTech Smart Services
Technical information[edit]
Broadcast technology[edit]
For years DISH used standard MPEG-2 for broadcasting, but the addition of bandwidth-intensive HDTV called for a change to the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC system. DISH announced that, from February 1, 2006, all new HDTV channels would be available in H.264 format only, while maintaining the current lineup as MPEG-2. The company intended to convert the entire platform to H.264 to provide more channels to subscribers. In 2007, DISH Network reduced the resolution of 1080-line channels from 1920x1080 to 1440x1080. Reducing the horizontal resolution and/or data rate of HD video is known as HD Lite and is done by other TV providers as well.
Both a standard receiver and a receiver with built-in digital video recorder (DVR) were available to subscribers.[69] The DISH Network ViP722 HD DVR replacement for the ViP622 received generally positive reviews.[70] It could record up to 350 hours of standard-definition (SD) broadcasts, or 55 hours of high-definition (HD). These set-top boxes (STBs) allow for HD on the primary TV and SD on the secondary TV (TV2) without a secondary box on TV2.
Company type
July 1, 2020
United States
John Swieringa (President)
Dish Network