1 edit | We need TBS HD!--DONE DEAL! Come on! The entire first round of the baseball playoffs is on TBS! |
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| Re: We need TBS HD! My blood is really beginning to boil with this nonsense. this is 2007 and we might have to watch the MLB playoffs in SD. Cablevision is a piece of garbage if they don't have this channel added. Is there a contact address to send a message about this channel. SD TBS looks terrible on my system here in Brooklyn, if I have to watch the playoffs like that all dark and murky I will not be happy. |
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join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ | They will add it after the playoffs are over. |
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| said by Jmartz:They will add it after the playoffs are over. So true if history holds correct. Unreal but what else to expect from CV and the Dolans, look where they are today. |
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Direct TV added it yesterday so CV will not be far behind. We may have to wait until the end of the year though. And how about SciFi HD?
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DirecTV Launches 21 HD Channels:
Satellite-TV Provider Rolling Toward 100 HD Channels by Year-End
By Jon Hemingway -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/26/2007 11:52:00 AM
On its way to offering 100 high-definition channels by the end of the year,
DirecTV rolled out 21 new HD channels Wednesday.
The much-anticipated launch included HD channels for A&E
Network, Animal Planet, CNN, Discovery Channel, The History Channel,
NFL Network, Showtime West, Sho Too, Smithsonian Channel, Starz, Starz
Comedy, Starz Edge, Starz Kids & Family, TBS, The Movie Channel,
The Science Channel, The Weather Channel, TLC, Versus and The Golf
Channel.
DirecTV is pushing its HD offerings as a differentiator to its cable
competitors. Earlier this year, the company launched a new satellite,
DirecTV 10, which would help to deliver the planned 100-channel expansion by
year-end. Another satellite launch is planned for early 2008 that will
enable DirecTV to increase channel capacity to 150.
The planned October channel rollout will include Bravo, Cartoon
Network, Cinemax East and West, CNBC, Food Network, Fox Business News,
FX, HBO, Home & Garden Television, MGM, National Geographic
Channel, Sci Fi Channel, Speed Channel and USA Network.
By the end of this year, DirecTV will also add Biography Channel,
Country Music Television, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike TV, VH1, CSTV and The
Tennis Channel.
Pricing for HD Access remains $9.99 per month regardless of the
amount of additional programming. However, DirecTV plans to offer an
HD-Extra tier for an additional $4.99 that will feature HD-only
channels, or those that do not have standard-definition counterparts,
to save Access customers incremental costs of carrying these channels.>>
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join:2007-05-11
Port Jefferson, NY
1 edit | reply to CNiles3806
To think just about every other provider is so nice that they charge extra for hd programing or equipment. The Dolans are such garbage that they offer hd for free.
Maybe they should jump on the get extra money bandwagon too. |
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1 edit | said by Obpr2:To think just about every other provider is so nice that they charge extra for hd programing or equipment. The Dolans are such garbage that they offer hd for free. Maybe they should jump on the get extra money bandwagon too. Wow, unbelievable, you honestly believe that those channels are free, nothing in life is free, cliche but true. Do you rent your box, your remote, wondering when that next increase in your bill is coming from IO, are you on a Triple play plan, where leaving one option means increased cost for the other services. Keep thinking it's free HD you're getting. Tell you what if they offer me a package with HD only and increase the channels offered and ditch the SD channels that I don't need from my service I would gladly pay more for that. Free, yeah right. Nice to see their IO adverts do work after all, Free HD with IO.  |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ | HD is free, but if they don't add these new channels, it will not contain any value.
My biggest gripe with Cablevision is that they don't add channels frequently enough... be it SD or HD. DirecTV adds new SD channels nearly every single month... a lot of them are crap, but at least they carry them. DirecTV's packages are slightly more expensive, but they also have a lot of additional channels that we do not get.
Cablevision also does not like to announce the addition of new channels more than a couple of days before they get added. We've known that Time Warner and DirecTV plan to add FOX Business News to their lineups for months... the channel is a little less than 3 weeks away from launch, and we still don't know if Cablevision plans to carry it. It would be nice to know what they plan to do. That channel is launching in HD. |
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4 edits | said by Jmartz:HD is free, but if they don't add these new channels, it will not contain any value. You hit the nail on the head, its a game of semantics about free or not free, outside of NGC HD, HD Theater, all the rest is sports, sports and more sports, what about the other national channels. In adding Voom with its hibernating content they have placated any argument against them providing HD. They can do so for only so long though as time goes by, the question is how long.
Outside of the premium movie channels, UHD and HD Theater what else could they charge more for if you are already receiving the channel in SD, Voom I would happily give up Voom for more national channels. |
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RemyM
join:2005-02-14
Stamford, CT
1 edit | Breaking news: Cablevision to add TBS in HD
Newsday has learned that Cablevision plans to add TBS's high definition channel early next week, in time for the start of the baseball playoffs Wednesday night.
Viewers accustomed to watching all Yankees games on YES in HD and all Mets home games on SNY in HD have been concerned for weeks about not having the biggest games of the season in that format.
Now Cablevision has joined DirecTV and Time Warner in offering the month-old service, which will appear on Channel 739 and be rolled out between Monday and Wednesday of next week.
Cablevision now offers 41 channels in HD.
Verizon FiOS and Dish Network have not yet announced plans to carry TBS in HD in time for the playoffs.
Posted by Neil Best on September 27, 2007 12:23 PM | »weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watch···o_a.html |
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| said by RemyM:Breaking news: Cablevision to add TBS in HD Well color me surprised, Could it be the voice of the people were heard or it seemed the only reasonable thing. |
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 e2727Bklynguy
join:2001-10-30
Brooklyn, NY | Great news |
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jpr281
join:2006-01-12
Shirley, NY | reply to johnnyjump
johnnyjump or a mod should change the topic to reflect Cablevision adding TBS-HD
This is great news!
Thank you Cablevision. |
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e2727Bklynguy
join:2001-10-30
Brooklyn, NY | Is all of TBS programing will be in HD? |
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Whats with people stating that the voom channels are garbage. Have any of you actually tried watching some of the channels? Like equator HD? Some of equator hd programs rock.
They showed things like that electric motorcycle that broke the records, They have fly overs of countires that are just gorgeous.
Stop bashing the voom channels. Just because you dont like them does not mean other people dont either.
Plus doesnt cablevision have to free up the bandwidth before they add hd channels? |
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e2727Bklynguy
join:2001-10-30
Brooklyn, NY | I love the Voom channels |
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RemyM
join:2005-02-14
Stamford, CT | reply to e2727
said by e2727:Is all of TBS programing will be in HD? They'll have plenty of stretch-o-vision just like TNT. |
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| said by RemyM:said by e2727:Is all of TBS programing will be in HD? They'll have plenty of stretch-o-vision just like TNT. They claim TBS HD is going to be 1080i 24/7.
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RemyM
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Stamford, CT | Just because they will broadcast in 1080i 24/7 doesn't mean all programming will be true HD. |
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