Your on demand would depend on your broadband carrier right?
yes that is true to a point...Dish retrieves their On Demand data from my broadband...(still cable) and then sends it to my requesting TV through a combination of wireless router and electrical grid
but the On Demand system they use is not comparable to Comcast
the delivery is very sluggish, you can only retrieve newer programs that are priced the highest
all the other archived stuff...from shows to movies etc downloads very slow and you wait...hours or days to get it playable
it’s crazy really
but all that 6.99 stuff you can usually pull right up...pron too obviously...I mean for 14.99 it better come right up eh?
whereas on cable everything is right there on On Demand...a different inventory more up to date and instant retrieval
movies and show series whatever
Dish does have a large recording application ..their DVR and it works fair enough..and given the poor On Demand you end up just geting in the habit of recording everything
but say you want to see Shane...Alan Ladd version..show it to my kids or Josey Wales or Blazing Saddles..whatever
you go to archives On Demand cable and if it’s there you just play it and go
on Dish..you have to wait for it to download...if you are lucky..30-45 minutes...usually 3-24 hours
but new high priced stuff is at the front of the line and comes right up
maybe twice in two years have I had an archive event come right up and then it buffered 10-20 times for the entirety
i work late ..every day I have some business to do..and don’t watch any network TV on schedule except some FOX news...so I pull everything off On Demand or otherwise it’s just pot luck on VH1classics or History ot Military or Hunting channel etc
that’s my take
but on a nice TV...Dish is superior in HD..no question..it’s the broadcast frequency..much deeper