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Re: 100 HD Channels??? I wounder if it will be quite a few of the usual HD channels and locals with all their secondary broadcasts that count as "HD".
Or could they be counting individual local channels... like 12 from chicago, 12 from NYC, 12 from LA etc?
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Laurel, MD | said by snipper_cr:Or could they be counting individual local channels... like 12 from chicago, 12 from NYC, 12 from LA etc? Without a doubt. |
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| YES - LOCAL Only channels (ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX from local areas only) via the MPEG4 sats, originally pegged for 2006 but DirecTV never made in 2006 (technical problems? Bad and late HR20 DVR?), so then they announce it for 2007. DirecTV is a bunch of Squirrels, I know I have had them since 1994. SD is okay from DirecTV, HD content and channel choices are slim, but what other choice do they have they can't announce anything else at CES. In fact most of what they announced at the 2005 and 2006 CES never saw the light of day.
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Laurel, MD | said by tbeckner:YES - LOCAL Only channels (ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX from local areas only) via the MPEG4 sats, originally pegged for 2006 but DirecTV never made in 2006 (technical problems? Bad and late HR20 DVR?), so then they announce it for 2007. They did deliver a lot of them in 2006 (including my market, though I don't have an MPEG-4 receiver myself). They do it market by market... I don't know if they met their goals for 2006, but there are MPEG-4 HD locals up now in some places. |
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| said by wmcbrine:said by tbeckner:YES - LOCAL Only channels (ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX from local areas only) via the MPEG4 sats, originally pegged for 2006 but DirecTV never made in 2006 (technical problems? Bad and late HR20 DVR?), so then they announce it for 2007. They did deliver a lot of them in 2006 (including my market, though I don't have an MPEG-4 receiver myself). They do it market by market... I don't know if they met their goals for 2006, but there are MPEG-4 HD locals up now in some places. What I was pointing out was that DirecTV announced most of these same channels at the 2006 CES but never delivered in 2006, plus they announced their PC tuner and transfer to PC capabilities at 2006 CES and never delivered in 2006. DirecTV appears to announce VAPORWARE, and since some of these channels listed in their announcement do not exist and are not planned by these cable channel networks, how are they going to broadcast them (IE SciFi HD). |
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