Weather Channel Going Hd Next Year?

[Jeff003]

I was watching and I could have sworn I heard them say they was going Hd next year.Has anyone else heard this.I hope this doesn't happen unless they have a seperate hd channel because I still don't have hd.I still have a SD television and receiver.I guess I will be have to upgrade in 2009.That's when it will become mandentory for all channels to be in Hd.

 

[Cyclone]

Yeah, TWC was mentioned in one of DirecTV's HD channel launch Press releases. So it has been discussed. I think that the plan is that they will have a HD channel with mostly SD content at first until they get their Studio in order. Sorta like ESPN-HD was at first.

So even if they debut the Channel this year, I don't think that is supposed to be mostly HD until next spring.

But check around I could be missing some stuff.

 

[mdonnelly]

I was watching and I could have sworn I heard them say they was going Hd next year.Has anyone else heard this.I hope this doesn't happen unless they have a seperate hd channel because I still don't have hd.I still have a SD television and receiver.I guess I will be have to upgrade in 2009.That's when it will become mandentory for all channels to be in Hd.

Once again, all OTA will be digital in 2009, not HD. Your analog set won't be affected unless you use it for OTA with an antenna.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yes I met with The Weather Channel at Team Summit in May.

They are indeed going HD in the spring. They showed me some footage they had already shot and it looked amazing.

DirecTV will be upconverting the SD version of The Weather Channel to HD until TWC HD officially launches in the spring.

 

[DWS44]

I hope this doesn't happen unless they have a seperate hd channel because I still don't have hd.

ALL SD channels moving to HD do so on seperate channels. The SD channel will not go away when they launch their HD channel.

 

[Jeff003]

ALL SD channels moving to HD do so on seperate channels. The SD channel will not go away when they launch their HD channel.

That's a relief.