I don't think this is the case. My brother has DirecTV and when a game is on 414 on Cablevision my brother gets the feed in HD. I find this fu*king unbeleivable since Jimmy boy owns the team, cable network, and cable operator.
Now that DirecTv is adding a couple more HD channels everyday what is CV going to do. The only thing that is stopping me from leaving is MSGHD but DirecTv is supposed to add that shortly. I am sur a lotr of other people are thinking of switching as well. Supposedly CV is moving channels butr...