<P> Dish's main service is satellite television . Its offerings are similar to other satellite and cable companies . Viewers can choose from a series of service bundles, paying more money for more channels . A la carte programming is available, however limited other than Premium channels . The company is currently working on diversifying its offerings . With its purchase of Blockbuster LLC, it now owns the Blockbuster trademarks and has used its intellectual property agreement to offer streaming and mail - order video services . </P> <P> In May 2012, the American Customer Satisfaction Index ranked Dish second among American television providers . </P> <P> On September 27, 2012, Dish Network announced a satellite broadband service called DishNET, aimed at rural areas . </P> <P> While for years Dish Network has used standard MPEG - 2 for broadcasting, the addition of bandwidth - intensive HDTV in a limited - bandwidth world has called for a change to an H. 264 / MPEG - 4 AVC system . Dish Network announced as of February 1, 2006, that all new HDTV channels would be available in H. 264 format only, while maintaining the current lineup as MPEG - 2 . Dish Network intends to eventually convert the entire platform to H. 264 in order to provide more channels to subscribers . In 2007, Dish Network reduced the resolution of 1080 - line channels from 1920x1080 to 1440x1080 . Reducing horizontal resolution and / or data rate of HD video is known as HD Lite and is practiced by other TV providers as well . </P>

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