More HD programming form DIRECTV

[DTV TiVo Dealer]

Want to watch the Yankees play the Red Sox in HD?

Beginning April 3, 2005 YES Network will begin broadcasting all home games in High Definition, only on DIRECTV.

No official announcement yet, but this is very reliable information.

-Robert

 

[BFG]

wow, so now I know why Ken brought that up in a thread about D* adding HD in april, of course he had no comment about yes being on D*, just that they'll be in HD...

 

[BFG]

Plus D* will continue to show HD games for the Fox owned fox sports nets...

http://msn.foxsports.com/name/HD

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Wow very cool, although if DirecTV had ESPN2 they would also have the game in HD.

So I don't offend our great sponsor Robert, I won't end this message by saying go sox.

 

[Todd Wiedemann]

Plus D* will continue to show HD games for the Fox owned fox sports nets...

http://msn.foxsports.com/name/HD

Didn't know that, thanks.

What channel #'s are they using ? Is that the lone channel in the 90's ?

 

[BFG]

95 i think, they have a couple BBall games each week

 

[Juan]

What a waste of bandwidth!!!

 

[BFG]

it's not a full time channel, they've been keeping hd space and not espn2 for special things like this. NBA-tv and the fox sports nets have shown more HD than espn2hd has been, so it makes sense...

 

[DTV TiVo Dealer]

Wow very cool, although if DirecTV had ESPN2 they would also have the game in HD.

So I don't offend our great sponsor Robert, I won't end this message by saying go sox.

Scott, you did find the one thing we are in odds over.

-Robert

 

[Juan]

it's not a full time channel, they've been keeping hd space and not espn2 for special things like this. NBA-tv and the fox sports nets have shown more HD than espn2hd has been, so it makes sense...

I guess the 20 thousand hd customers in the NY area will be very pleased!! I would rather have something added that I could watch!!!

 

[HDVoomer]

Well here is my question. If you subscribe to the Out-of-Market MLB Extra Innings package, would you be able to pick up the YES games in HD? I'm also hoping that DirecTV or Voom will do the same for NESN.

 

[BFG]

It's a possibility, don't be certian on it though...

 

[Juan]

Well here is my question. If you subscribe to the Out-of-Market MLB Extra Innings package, would you be able to pick up the YES games in HD? I'm also hoping that DirecTV or Voom will do the same for NESN.

That explians why they would add it

 

[BFG]

looks like Robert got the answer to that question, correct? The YES HD games will be available to MLB EI customers...

 

[HDVoomer]

The YES games in HD will only be broadcast by DirecTV? Just wanted to varify this. If this is true, which I guess it is, does anyone know how long this exclusive will last? Also will YES have its own HD channel or is it simply going to be an extra channel on the MLB EI Package which will just broadcast the game in HD?

 

[BFG]

I don't know, but what I've been guessing is that YES HD games will just be feeds on the temp channels in the 90s. So far none of the rsns have 24/7 HD channels, so I don't think Yes will, there's really no point for them to do this...

 

[DTV TiVo Dealer]

YES will only have the home games broadcast in HD, beginning on 4/3/05 with the opening Yankee/Red Sox game.

This is an exclusive DIRECTV HD broadcast. Don't know for how long, but I expect it to be for a long time.

-Robert

 

[hancox]

Wow very cool, although if DirecTV had ESPN2 they would also have the game in HD.

So I don't offend our great sponsor Robert, I won't end this message by saying go sox.

Not for people in "yankee territory" like me.

Good news is - the Mrs. and I can watch "her" Sawx beat the Yankees (the anti-Mets to me) in HD. WOOT!

 

[hancox]

YES will only have the home games broadcast in HD, beginning on 4/3/05 with the opening Yankee/Red Sox game.

This is an exclusive DIRECTV HD broadcast. Don't know for how long, but I expect it to be for a long time.

-Robert

This is awesome. It's 1000% a case of George giving the bird to the Dolans. E* and V* are possible bedmates, so no Yes-HD for you! Combine that with the fact that George can be responsible for pulling money from the Dolans too, and he must be sweating in his turtleneck!

 

[korsjs]

it is good to see someone is making an effort for more hd. dish can't even add the sd yes feed.