 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.