Dish Network ended 2019 with under 12 million total TV subscribers, leaking 194,000 connections in the fourth quarter and 336,000 for the full year period. The Dish TV satellite service itself shed 511,000 subscribers last year, falling to 9.4 million, which was offset partially by Sling TV gains of 175,000 in the year, climbing to 2.6 million subs. While damning, it marks a significant slowdown from the 1,125,000 who cut the Dish Network pay TV cord in 2018. Disney’s research division has flexed its muscles with an AI-enhanced video compression model developed together with the University of California. While not a totally unique technique, the Disney Research says it has achieved less distortion and smaller bits-per-pixel rates than other…