New channel showed up tonight(Channel 9426)

JimMcC

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Tonight I started receiving a new channel(9426) on my $9.99 HD package, UN1-HD. Is this a temporary or permanent thing? Does it have HD movies? Is it any good?
 
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tribalmunky said:
It's for the Winter Olympics, when it's done it will dissappear!

Not if you have one of their new receivers. :)

As to whether or not it's any good, that depends on what you like. They have Battle Star Gallactica (new) on Sunday nights in HD (current season but about 9 episodes behind), they have the Equalizer, they show movies and.. they have Knight Rider! :up

Seriously, overall I'd say the content is not too compelling (except that BSG is the best show on TV, imo). But it is nice to have it for the Olympics and I am glad to keep it on once my 622 is installed.

Full schedule here

http://www.universalhd.com/Schedule/daily.bravo?start_date=2006-02-13&end_date=2006-02-13
 
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tribalmunky said:
But he has the old $9.99 package, not the metallic.

Hmm, true, but don't you have to go metallic with a new receiver anyway? I already did (Silver), but not sure if that was a prerequisite.
 
EVERYONE gets 9426 for the duration of the winter olympics; that includes $9.99 HDPak (older mpeg-2 boxes) customers and the new metallic (mpeg-4 boxes) customers.
 
Mpeg4 subscribers get it twice if you go by the photos Scott posted. One is an Mpeg2 feed, the other is a mpeg4 feed.... Well, the headers anyway.....
 
sonnyboy11 said:
Hmm, true, but don't you have to go metallic with a new receiver anyway? I already did (Silver), but not sure if that was a prerequisite.


Only if you lease, if you buy you have more options.