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Last reply Feb 6, 2007 · posted in DIRECTV General Forum

National Geographic HD coming to D* early '07

According to an article here:

http://www.cable360.net/cableworld/departments/meetprogrammer/21241.html

The ink is drying on its first MSO deal, with Comcast, which began adding the channel in late November, and DirecTV, which will roll it out in early 2007.

Sorry if this was posted before, but I didn't see it posted anywhere.
Wonder if this means they might be making this MPEG2 on the legacy birds.

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charper1

Jan 27, 2007

I guess I should have been more specific with my question; I am looking for actual titles so I can look them up and see if I will be interested.. As opposed to "some good shows and stuff".

JamesJ

Feb 3, 2007

march 1st? I thought everything started Feb 6th, or am I wrong? am I getting it confused with something.

fluffybear

Feb 3, 2007

stuart628 said:
march 1st? I thought everything started Feb 6th, or am I wrong? am I getting it confused with something.

As it was explained to me, The new packages would begin being offered on February 6th but would not go in to effect until March 1st.

JamesJ

Feb 4, 2007

gotcha-so pay for a new product they dont even offer yet.

fluffybear

Feb 5, 2007

stuart628 said:
gotcha-so pay for a new product they dont even offer yet.

Not at all!

JamesJ

Feb 5, 2007

fluffybear said:
Not at all!

so tommorow when I sign up for the Total Choice plus HD, I will get ten channels of HD? right now directv has only 7, and that is not including HBO Showtime and PPV, so if they open those up to me I will be happy, but Directv is making people pay for stuff now that isnt there, I will eat my words if 3 new HD channels show up tommorow but until then, I believe Directv is in the wrong.

digiblur

Feb 5, 2007

stuart628 said:
so tommorow when I sign up for the Total Choice plus HD, I will get ten channels of HD? right now directv has only 7, and that is not including HBO Showtime and PPV, so if they open those up to me I will be happy, but Directv is making people pay for stuff now that isnt there, I will eat my words if 3 new HD channels show up tommorow but until then, I believe Directv is in the wrong.

They won't just show up. There is no room on the standard 101/110/119 slots for additional HD channels.

JamesJ

Feb 5, 2007

digiblur said:
They won't just show up. There is no room on the standard 101/110/119 slots for additional HD channels.

I know that, Fuzzybear dosent.

fluffybear

Feb 5, 2007

stuart628 said:
I know that, Fuzzybear dosent.[/QUOTE

Please do not assume something on my behalf.

Since the packages do not take effect until March 1st, I will give them the time to hang themselves first. Once that date passes, I will be more than happy to join the lynch party but not until then.

BTW, They do have the room for 8 new HD channels right now. How?? Kill off HD DNS. D* is under no legal obligation to provide it and provide HD LIL to enough of the country where they could do away with it if they really wanted. It would not be a popular decision but they could do it.

JamesJ

Feb 5, 2007

fluffybear said:
As it was explained to me, The new packages would begin being offered on February 6th but would not go in to effect until March 1st.

okay fuzzybear here is your quote, they are going to offer these packages on FEB 6th, so if the package includes 10 HD channels and it is being offered on FEB 6th, then I would expect 10 HD channels on ______? (according to you March 1st is an acceptable answer, me I would say FEB 6th) so I replied paying for a product thats not offered.... I didnt assume anything, just taken my information from your posts, have a great day.

JamesJ

Feb 5, 2007

fluffybear said:
stuart628 said:

I know that, Fuzzybear dosent.[/QUOTE

BTW, They do have the room for 8 new HD channels right now. How?? Kill off HD DNS. D* is under no legal obligation to provide it and provide HD LIL to enough of the country where they could do away with it if they really wanted. It would not be a popular decision but they could do it.

Click to expand...

this is true, but like you pointed out it wouldnt be popular, also I would assume they would have to inform the viewers of their decision so much ahead of time.

fluffybear

Feb 5, 2007

stuart628 said:
okay fuzzybear here is your quote, they are going to offer these packages on FEB 6th, so if the package includes 10 HD channels and it is being offered on FEB 6th, then I would expect 10 HD channels on ______? (according to you March 1st is an acceptable answer, me I would say oh I dont know FEB 6th) so I replied paying for a product thats not offered....how hard is this to follow, I didnt assume anything, just taken my information from your posts, have a great day.

You created misinformation from my posts

1) I never said the DirecTV Plus W/HD would include 10 HD channels but rather there was a 10 channel difference in the packages. We can only assume it is 10 HD channels. We also must assume the CSR not mistaken.

2) I also said the CSR indicated the packages would not go into effect until March 1st.

3) According to D*, you would not begin getting billed for these new packages until your March billing cycle.

fluffybear

Feb 5, 2007

stuart628 said:
fluffybear said:

this is true, but like you pointed out it wouldnt be popular, also I would assume they would have to inform the viewers of their decision so much ahead of time.

Click to expand...

Two week notice would be more than sufficient and since the new packages are not to go into effect until March 1st, they still have time.

JamesJ

Feb 5, 2007

fluffybear said:
You created misinformation from my posts

1) I never said the DirecTV Plus W/HD would include 10 HD channels but rather there was a 10 channel difference in the packages. We can only assume it is 10 HD channels. We also must assume the CSR not mistaken.

2) I also said the CSR indicated the packages would not go into effect until March 1st.

3) According to D*, you would not begin getting billed for these new packages until your March billing cycle.

were on the same page now, The packages would be offered starting tommorow, but pricing wise we will see nothing until march 1st meaning I can switch tommorow, but March 1st is when it will get the bill cycle!

Sean Mota

Feb 6, 2007

charper1 said:
I guess I should have been more specific with my question; I am looking for actual titles so I can look them up and see if I will be interested.. As opposed to "some good shows and stuff".

My favorites
Seconds from Disaster
The Final Report
Naked Science
Is it Real?
Explorer
In The Womb

There are a whole lot of documentaries taken from various topics like religion, social justice, politics, and many others.

Most of these documentaries are HD but lots of the footages are SD because they are only available in SD. To me this is a better channel than TNT HD or Universal HD. NGHD has lots of good programs with contemporary issues.

JamesJ

Feb 6, 2007

Sean Mota said:
My favorites
Seconds from Disaster
The Final Report
Naked Science
Is it Real?
Explorer
In The Womb

There are a whole lot of documentaries taken from various topics like religion, social justice, politics, and many others.

Most of these documentaries are HD but lots of the footages are SD because they are only available in SD. To me this is a better channel than TNT HD or Universal HD. NGHD has lots of good programs with contemporary issues.

Sean my wife and I just watched that in the womb and I have to say that was amazing, we dont watch too much tv but when we saw the advertisments we made sure we had the time it took to watch it!

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Foxbat said:
I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:

Colts relieve general manager Chris Ballard of his duties

Colts Owner & CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon released a statement Monday announcing the news.

www.colts.com

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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:

Colts relieve general manager Chris Ballard of his duties

Colts Owner & CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon released a statement Monday announcing the news.

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Sunday at 1:05 AM

I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.

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jsmit86

Yesterday at 9:57 AM

naptime said:
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.

It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.

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Yesterday at 3:57 PM

jsmit86 said:
They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.

Oh, you mean "soon"? :biggrin

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 4:07 PM

jsmit86 said:
It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.

I guess they will be busy when lots of people start asking for rollbacks to H708 now that you mention that downgrades of software does exist because it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner and the IR Remote problems in H710-H713.

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Almighty1 said:
it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner

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dishstaller

Yesterday at 10:34 PM

Almighty1 said:
it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner

Oh....you were serious

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reubenray

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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?

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long_time_Dish

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reubenray said:
I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?

Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.

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Yesterday at 3:54 PM

long_time_Dish said:
Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.

Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.

long_time_Dish

Yesterday at 8:36 PM

reubenray said:
Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.

If I understand your question, O'Neill had the Ancient's knowledge in the "Lost City" two-part episode. That was when Anubis attacked Earth and there was a big battle over Antarctica.

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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!

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