Why Directv is too lazy to carry NASA HD?

[N5XZS]

I was hoping to see Pluto pic's fly by on NASA channel and still showing crappy 480i pictures.

Why is Directv not adding a NASA HD channel? How hard can that be?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Hey DISH don't carry it in HD either. (Neither does any cable system in in Connecticut around me)

 

[Juan]

Roku is your answer

 

[iceturkee]

i have it on my cable (brighthouse). trust me, you aren't missing much. its okay.

 

[goaliebob99]

I wish they would carry CSPAN in HD.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

I was hoping to see Pluto pic's fly by on NASA channel and still showing crappy 480i pictures.

Why is Directv not adding a NASA HD channel? How hard can that be?

they need the bandwidth and there is lot of other channels that also need to go hd as well.

 

[Foxbat]

It would be a nice to have an HD Streaming NASA TV app supported on the receiver, don't you think?

 

[patmurphey]

Science Channel special tonight if you want to see HD pictures.

 

[edisonprime]

I wish they would carry CSPAN in HD.

Well, hook up to computer to your TV (or you could just watch it on your computer if you don't mind a small screen). And sign in to C-Span with your DirecTV account, and then you could watch it in HD, plus you can watch C-Span 3. A little hassle since DirecTV doesn't carry C-Span 1 or 2 in HD or C-Span 3.

 

[lfp302]

There are only 117 of us who know what NASA TV is.

 

[N5XZS]

And that's a shame.......

What happen to our U.S. schools system to learn about our space program?

 

[danristheman]

K9sat do you have trouble sleeping if you want c span in hd?

I wish they would carry CSPAN in HD.

 

[ChadT41]

And that's a shame.......

What happen to our U.S. schools system to learn about our space program?

It's not in common core... So apperantly it is worthless.

 

[lfp302]

I cringe when I hear the local news getting ready to report on a science/space exploration story. I'm like, please don't screw this up...

 

[Stephen Henson]

I wish DIRECTV would add the other two NASA channels to

 

[ejb1980]

Aren't they making more work for themselves by taking the HD picture and downgrading it to SD? Just pass it through in HD... I can't imagine that it would take as much bandwidth as, say, ESPN.

 

[goaliebob99]

Aren't they making more work for themselves by taking the HD picture and downgrading it to SD? Just pass it through in HD... I can't imagine that it would take as much bandwidth as, say, ESPN.

Not really. It's just a setting in the encoder.

 

[goaliebob99]

K9sat do you have trouble sleeping if you want c span in hd?

Huh? I don't get what this is about?

 

[danristheman]

C span is very boring it puts anyone to sleep. I like nasa channel in hd though.

 

[Jimbo]

C span is very boring it puts anyone to sleep. I like nasa channel in hd though.

NASA channel in HD would be nice, but lets be honest, the majority of the time the channel is viewed is for a launch or when something is happening in space ... which isn't all that often.
I'm thinking outside of the BIG stuff, the ratings are pretty low.