  DrexBeer...The other white meat.Premium
join:2000-02-24
La Place, LA
kudos:1 | 100? 130? Try 25. Yeah, that's how many HD channels I get from COMCAST. Time to see about switching to DirecTV.
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They charge the same or more than other providers while you get less. Look at other providers and see the HD channels you don't get. Don't walk, run to Directv or Dish. | |
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| | | | Re: 100? 130? Try 25. Of course ATT announced last week that they were going to add a second HD stream this year! Man the compitition is really heating up! | |
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| | | |  Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2 | Re: 100? 130? Try 25. there is AT&T U-Verse they have 10/1.5
and FIOS on the west side
many companies trying to compete with them
there is also 8 or 9 ISP's out here | |
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| | | | | | I'm not to sure Comcast really considers ATT much compititon. Sat yes, FIOS yes, U-Verse I think they may compete on the budget market but that's about it. | |
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|  CjaicemanPremium,MVM
join:2004-10-12
Parker, CO
kudos:2
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| I would highly recommend it. I was on Comcast HD for 2 years, and I just switched to DirecTV HD the 1st of June, and its night and day. The quality and quantity are better, and I'm saving $20 for an equivalent package + 2 SD tv's. I did however get Comcast Business internet because Qwest is a joke at best, and Comcast Residential is not fast enough. | |
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| | | Number of HD channels I have available from Comcast in the Dunnellon FL market = 0!!!
Not having HD fun, Bob | |
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| said by BobWadd:Number of HD channels I have available from Comcast in the Dunnellon FL market = 0!!! Not having HD fun, Bob My mother-in-law lives in the so. daytona comcast market and they don't even have digital cable yet... 2-55 so nothing over here either...
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 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | Now they're getting into filler There aren't 130 channels worth a crap. You end up with Basket Weaving HD and Austrailian Dick Wrestling HD.
I'd rather have higher quality (full resolution/higher bitrate/lower compression) popular channels than a bunch of questionable ones. | |
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| | | Re: Now they're getting into filler Direct Tv has a lot of good HD channels like
TBS
TNT
scifi
history
discovery
discovery hd theater
Speed
USA
ESPN
ESPN2
BIG TEN + alts in HD
NFL
NHL
FX
spike
TLC
weather channel
and more | |
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| |  tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1
·T-Mobile US
| Re: Now they're getting into filler said by Joe12345678:Direct Tv has a lot of good HD channels like TBS TNT scifi history discovery discovery hd theater Speed USA ESPN ESPN2 BIG TEN + alts in HD NFL NHL FX spike TLC weather channel and more Half of those are stretch-o-vision: aka non-HD crap stretched full screen.
I don't consider that "good" at all.
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join:2001-10-30
Brooklyn, NY | Re: Now they're getting into filler I hate the stretch-o-vision,they add these HD channels alot just stretched,they should only put on Hd cahnnels that are in true HD | |
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| | |  MadnessLike a flea circus at a dog show
join:2000-01-05
Quincy, MA
kudos:1 | Why exactly would one need to watch the weather channel in HD? Even @ SD, I'm sure I can figure out my local weather. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Now they're getting into filler said by Madness:Why exactly would one need to watch the weather channel in HD? Even @ SD, I'm sure I can figure out my local weather. The national local on the 8's HD looks real cool. | |
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join:2002-10-20
Jonesboro, AR | Re: Now they're getting into filler Is coolness worth the wasted bandwidth? In my opinion,no. | |
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join:2002-01-22
00000 | Re: Now they're getting into filler said by mtech:Is coolness worth the wasted bandwidth? In my opinion,no. you probably don't belong on this site then. | |
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| | | |  aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FiOS
| said by Madness:Why exactly would one need to watch the weather channel in HD? Even @ SD, I'm sure I can figure out my local weather. I'd rather have the weather channel in HD than any of the ESPN channels. I would certainly watch the HD weather channel more. | |
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | Re: Now they're getting into filler I watch ESPN but they should put it on its own sports tier to bring the price package down for those who don't watch it. | |
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| | | | | | The Weather Channel just got a new HD studio....
It looks pretty sexy in SD, so I'm sure it must look pretty awesome in HD D:...
I'm sure they do it 'just because'. :P | |
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| | | | | Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
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| Re: Now they're getting into filler said by YayOtters:The Weather Channel just got a new HD studio.... It looks pretty sexy in SD, so I'm sure it must look pretty awesome in HD D:... I'm sure they do it 'just because'. :P Must be great with MoNo surround sound | |
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| | |  Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | Most satellite receivers allow you to choose an actual size or to streatch the non-HD signal coming in. | |
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| | | | tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 Reviews:
·T-Mobile US
| Re: Now they're getting into filler said by Smith6612:Most satellite receivers allow you to choose an actual size or to streatch the non-HD signal coming in. TNT and TBS HD are notorious for broadcasting 16x9 images that are stretched on their end. So unless you have a rare box which compresses the image width from 16x9 to 4x3, the image will always be stretched fake HD. All boxes (and tvs) that I know of will only stretch the image out and zoom in.
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| | | | | | | Re: Now they're getting into filler said by tiger72:said by Smith6612:Most satellite receivers allow you to choose an actual size or to streatch the non-HD signal coming in. TNT and TBS HD are notorious for broadcasting 16x9 images that are stretched on their end. So unless you have a rare box which compresses the image width from 16x9 to 4x3, the image will always be stretched fake HD. All boxes (and tvs) that I know of will only stretch the image out and zoom in. I don't understand this, and you're not the only one who says this.
I watch Law and Order daily. I see no such stretching. Yet people claim TNT stretches their picture. I'm trying to figure out where you guys are getting this. | |
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| | | | | | tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 Reviews:
·T-Mobile US
| Re: Now they're getting into filler said by ReVeLaTeD:said by tiger72:said by Smith6612:Most satellite receivers allow you to choose an actual size or to streatch the non-HD signal coming in. TNT and TBS HD are notorious for broadcasting 16x9 images that are stretched on their end. So unless you have a rare box which compresses the image width from 16x9 to 4x3, the image will always be stretched fake HD. All boxes (and tvs) that I know of will only stretch the image out and zoom in. I don't understand this, and you're not the only one who says this. I watch Law and Order daily. I see no such stretching. Yet people claim TNT stretches their picture. I'm trying to figure out where you guys are getting this. Law and Order was shot in 16:9, so it's broadcast in the original 16:9. Watch just about every other show on that channel that was shot 4:3, and you'll see stretch-o-vision do its work... 4:3 stretched to fill 16:9 screens.
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Choice Xtra+HD
* ABC HD
* CBS HD
* FOX HD
* NBC HD
National channels in HD
* A&E HD
* Animal Planet HD
* Big Ten Network HD
* Biography Channel HD
* Bravo HD
* Cartoon Network
* CMT HD
* CNBC HD+
* CNN HD
* Discovery Channel HD
* ESPN HD
* ESPN2 HD
* ESPNews HD
* Fox Business Network HD
* Fuel TV HD
* FX HD
* HD Theater
* HDNet
* History Channel HD
* MTV HD
* National Geographic Channel HD
* NFL Network HD
* NHL Network HD
* Science Channel HD
* Sci-Fi Channel HD
* Speed Channel HD
* Spike HD
* TBS in HD
* Tennis Channel HD
* TLC HD
* TNT HD
* Toon Disney HD
* USA Network HD
* VERSUS HD/GOLF CHANNEL HD
* VH1 HD
37 national channels
They claim they have 95 national HD channels but in reality they only have 37. The others are movie or sports related channels that you have to pay even more for.
want every channel?
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Startup Costs: $118.98
Total per month: $954.97
They need to worry less about content and make the prices better.
I bet I only get those extra HD channels if I switch to the premier package.
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|  maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·DIRECTV
| said by Dogfather:There aren't 130 channels worth a crap. You end up with Basket Weaving HD and Austrailian Dick Wrestling HD. And they count all the Premium networks.... It is nice to see all HBO channels in HD, but if you don't subscribe to Starz, Showtime, etc.... there's a good 30+ HD channels right there that they can claim, but not everyone has.
As far as offerings, there are still some channels (such as BBC America) who are still launching their HD channels later this year.
But hey.... I have Time Warner Cable, and just like other cable companies they are notoriously lagging behind on HDTV offerings. | |
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| comcast I'm still waiting for Comcast to get in gear and get all of these channels they claim to have up and running in my area. It's on our guide list but there is no picture and as the call rep says "its on the way."
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|  baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Re: comcast Which channels? | |
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| | | | Re: comcast HDNET, HGTV, SCIFIHD and a few others in my area don't work it's just on the guide. | |
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| | | sc30002
join:2002-08-15
Springfield, VT | Re: comcast Here I have Comcast and I find they always push tehy have teh most HD content and channels. I live in Veront and have 15-20 stations in hd, 6 or so are local stations like ABC, NBC. The rest are like Discovery and that is about it. For over a year they said they were adding Sci-Fi HD and Spike HD, and we have not recieved anything new in about 2 years. If anything the HD picture has cut down in quality and looks unclear also the color's are off to conserve bandwitdh.
They have also been running more Fiber-optic lines with the existing ones for some reason. | |
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| | | | DrexBeer...The other white meat.Premium
join:2000-02-24
La Place, LA
kudos:1 | Re: comcast I have Comcast, but no Discovery HD in my area. I'd take that over some of the other crappy HD channels. We do have Spike and Sci-Fi HD.
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 HarleyYacYacoPremium
join:2001-10-13
Allendale, NJ
kudos:1 |  Content vs Price
I agree with you, they should. However I cannot see the market competing on the Price threshold .I think they will use the feature,Internet speed and VOIP vs Phone spin.
Lee | |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | 1080p? "All HD programming will also be available in the Dolby Digital audio format, and later this year, DIRECTV will begin offering movies in 1080p, the highest resolution format available for HD video enthusiasts and the same format used by Blu-Ray HD DVDs."
One thing to remember, a Youtube video can be re-encoded to 1080p SIZE.
It doesn't mean that the vidoe will be worth looking at, just that it is in fact 1920x1080p in display size.
Blu-ray quality? From a Sat?
Doubtful!
Even OTA HD is only 19mbps(roughly).
Show me!
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| tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: 1080p? it'll be 1440x1080p @ 10mbps video. | |
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| | dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | Re: 1080p? said by tiger72:it'll be 1440x1080p @ 10mbps video. That I'd believe...
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| |  DHRacerFire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA | Re: 1080p? How do you get 1080p out of the DTV receivers? They don't offer any that are better than 1080i IIRC. | |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ | just try Just try watching these channels for more than 10 hours a month, you'll get dropped for abuse. | |
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ozarPremium
join:2008-04-13
USA Reviews:
 ·Embarq Now Centu..
| We'll know soon enough, but... Sure hope this doesn't mean that DirecTV is going to give us more HD channels, then take some of them away after a few months, then offer them back to us for an additional monthly fee like they did last time they added HD channels.
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|  DvST8
join:2000-03-08
Staten Island, NY
1 edit | Re: We'll know soon enough, but... . | |
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|  jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Wasn't that Dish that did that? | |
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| | ozarPremium
join:2008-04-13
USA | Re: We'll know soon enough, but... Yeah, maybe they did it, too.
I'm on DirecTV and know for sure they did it because I really let the telemarketer have it when they called me trying to get me to subscribe to the channels they had just taken away.
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| | 1080p is better I have to say im glad to hear that they will broadcast things in 1080p vs 1080i because progressive material is easier to compress at the bitrates they use than the 1080i parts. | |
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| | Just wait.... Once the avsforum people get a hold of some of these channels and decide to see just how compressed they are.
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JPLPremium
join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1
1 edit | DirecTV's announcement Anyone who thinks DirecTV's announcement is really worth anything - go over to a DirecTV forum today (I hit dbstalk) and see what they're saying. Their expansion is NOT sitting well with most of the subscribers. They got exactly 3 new HD national channels listed. The rest are all PPV and RSNs.
I've posted this before - there were lots of people here on dslreports getting all worked up over DirecTV's latest satellite (D11) and ALL the HD that they were going to add as a result. I pointed out that D11 wasn't going to provide much room for a couple reasons:
1) The spot-beam capability on D10 was damaged last summer when it was launched. Dish is going gang-busters adding local markets, and DirecTV needed to compete on that front, so they made up for that lack of spot-beam on D10 with D11.
2) They're moving their old MPEG-2 HD channels over to D11 - that sucks up ~20+ slots on their new satellite with their old HD channels.
3) In order to compete with more on-deman programming they needed up the number of PPV offerings that they have. Yeah they officially launched DirecTV On Demand, but it's way behind the curve on the VOD front (not to mention that downloading HD content via the web is slow as hell).
As for the 1080p announcement... again, that's probably in response to Dish, who announced the same thing just recently. Considering I don't yet have a 1080p TV... I really don't care. Besides, those are only going to be a select number of PPV movies.
DirecTV's math on the HD channel count really bugs me. They count national network feeds (both east and west coast), RSNs (all of them - even though no one customer can get all of them), and their PPV feeds. Take away the network, RSN, and PPV feeds, and this announcement puts DirecTV at 66 national HD channels. FiOS will have ~92 - 93 actual national HD channels by the end of this week in NY.
Almost makes me want to move to NYC Almost. Guess I'll just have to be patient... just a few more weeks... just a few more weeks... | |
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|  MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | Re: DirecTV's announcement Everyone's math is like that.
It would be nice if I had the time to setup a submission form to look at reported HD channels by market then throw a graph. Maybe also add a real informal "quality" chart. | |
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| | morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | Re: DirecTV's announcement that sounds like terrorist talk to me | |
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| | | MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | Re: DirecTV's announcement Ever notice how D9 and D11 usually have the best signals?
I think there is something to it. | |
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| DV0407
join:2007-02-10
Orlando, FL | DirecTV Only has 7 MPEG2 HD Channels left. That takes about 1 and a half transponders. (5 channels per transponder) If like D10 they'll probably have 14 National Transponders in use. (D10 temporarily has 16 due to space issues) That's 70 National channels they have room for.
And those 3 new nationals are the only ones announced because DirecTV had an agreement to public announce the carriage of them. There will be more, most likely the missing premiums and PPV
23 RSNs + 3 Nationals= 27 that leaves another 3 open for the addition of 30 and a total of 8 unknown channels to make it to 130 HD.
I dont think DirecTV will fill all of those initial launch channels up with PPV.
Also, the 1080p movies will probably be through DirecTV's new Movies Now Service, that utilizes DirecTV's reserve on the Hard Drive. | |
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johnsp
join:2001-02-07
Syosset, NY | then the following week there's a price increase announcement. Gotta charge more
for those HD STB's you're gonna need. HD is just turning into
hype to collect more money. | |
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| | uverse I wonder how uverse stacks up as far as how many channels are offered in hd? | |
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baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI Reviews:
·Comcast
·magicjack.com
| Comcast HD Comcast will be adding the Big Ten Network august 15th in the footballs state footprint. The channel will also be available in HD.
Does anyone know if they will be launching more channels that day? Usually, the in past, they have launched HD channels in bunches.
Also, how much room will there be after the 2009 switch? I live in Detroit, and we only have like 30 HD channels here. | |
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Re: 100? 130? Try 25.
