DirecTV HD Channel Lineup

**drdroo** · 09-04-2007 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by satjay

Thanks for the heads up info...Looks like this should be a great time for TV...With the other preimum channels going HD.....Might be time to move up to the Preimer package!!

Oh great time for Satellite... Not such a great time for Cable.

**KimmiKat** · 09-04-2007 04:04 PM

Wasn't there an BravoHD before it became Universal?

**raoul5788** · 09-04-2007 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by KimmiKat

Wasn't there an BravoHD before it became Universal?

Yup.

**moonman** · 09-04-2007 09:48 PM

Hey Scott...your thread made engadget news.

Posts tagged Directv at Engadget HD

**dursman2000** · 09-05-2007 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by Brewer4

Directv just chose to restrict it to Boston zip despite being in NESN territory and under the spot. It will be changing as NESN HD will move to D10 so the rest of the country can partake of the HD games if they have MBL EI/Super Fan.

Not to mention that those of us in NESN territory, but not the Boston zip, can finally have in HD what cable subscribers here have had for well over a year now. It's been a LONG wait!

**Questioner** · 09-05-2007 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by dursman2000

Not to mention that those of us in NESN territory, but not the Boston zip, can finally have in HD what cable subscribers here have had for well over a year now. It's been a LONG wait!

Maybe, but if the rsns in hd are going national, who is to say they won't be blacked out in all red sox territory like sd extra inning games. They need to address the problem in the local channel packages, not national.

**drdroo** · 09-05-2007 12:35 AM

MLB.TV blocks Red Sox games in this market too.. Friend of mine signed up in Boston since he doesn't have cable and he was blacked out.. .Guess people who want to watch their favorite team at work are just SOL too.

**skysurfer** · 09-05-2007 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by atp1313

In all seriousness, why are Vs and Golf Network sharing a channel assignment? Are neither of them capable of filling their own channel slot? Or is it more likely that they are owned by the same company or something like that?

1) yes, they are both owned by the same company (Comcast Cable Networks owns both Versus (VS.) and Golf Channel).

2) and, yes, Scott is correct that it's CCN that distributes them to headends that way. I suppose it's better to have more HD content on one channel contributed from both sports networks than to have HD only a few hours a day and stretch-o-smell-o vision the rest of the day if CCN was to distribute separately Versus (VS.) HD and Golf Channel HD.

**rekoil** · 09-05-2007 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by FlyingJ

But we are happy that you guys are happy that you think that E* can keep up. I hope so too.

Yea, competition is a good thing - do you think we'd have even the HD channels we are getting now if the two companies merged? A combined D*/E* would only feel the need to keep up with the local cablecos.