Looking at what Uverse, Comcast, Dish, and Verizon is doing, It seems like Directv has lost that HD leader feeling. While Directv does have one hell of a marking deparment, It seems like they are loosing the edge when it comes to High Definition Television. Dish this week is launching FX, Speed, as well as a couple of others in HD. That rounds out their Hd package to be somewhat competitive as they are missing out on local sports (RSN's) in HD. That is a huge thing in my book. Both FIOS and UVerse have just about every HD channel out there, including RSN's and penitrate just about every major metro area out there. I know Uverse is almost compete its rollout in the major parts and is moving on to the more rural parts and suburbs, Where as Verizon is doing the same in its terroritorys. Uvers's only issue is PQ and stream limits where as they are working to correct that issue. It seems like the only place that you cant choose from three providers is out west in Qwest territory's where there is no Att or Verizon.
This happens to be where both D* and E* are located and Im beginning to think that they are not feeling the pressure as they are not seeing it in their own back yards, where as someone out east would have seen this. Im begining to wonder if this is explaing why they are not adding HD like how other provders are because of this, where as everywhere else in the country, market conditions are diffrent due to competition. The bottom line, is that Directv needs to add more national HD channels, and beef up its movie lineups such as its HBO and Cinimax. I would like to see all 22 channels that HBO and Cinimax offers in HD. While I understand that they do have technical limitations and are awating for birds to launch, why not begin to transition away from SD completly and make an SD version of a DTV converter that converts alll the HD signals into SD. The duplicates that are on the 101 location could get phased out over time by packages, and be replaced with HD MPEG4 expansion. If they went with a 99/103/101 solution and did 110/119 for spanish and internationals then they would be better off. It would just mean swapping out millions of legacy boxes. If they charged the coustomer 10 bucks per box (one time fee) to swap out, they could recover some of the manufacturing costs there. Call it an upgrade fee or something.
This happens to be where both D* and E* are located and Im beginning to think that they are not feeling the pressure as they are not seeing it in their own back yards, where as someone out east would have seen this. Im begining to wonder if this is explaing why they are not adding HD like how other provders are because of this, where as everywhere else in the country, market conditions are diffrent due to competition. The bottom line, is that Directv needs to add more national HD channels, and beef up its movie lineups such as its HBO and Cinimax. I would like to see all 22 channels that HBO and Cinimax offers in HD. While I understand that they do have technical limitations and are awating for birds to launch, why not begin to transition away from SD completly and make an SD version of a DTV converter that converts alll the HD signals into SD. The duplicates that are on the 101 location could get phased out over time by packages, and be replaced with HD MPEG4 expansion. If they went with a 99/103/101 solution and did 110/119 for spanish and internationals then they would be better off. It would just mean swapping out millions of legacy boxes. If they charged the coustomer 10 bucks per box (one time fee) to swap out, they could recover some of the manufacturing costs there. Call it an upgrade fee or something.
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