5 new HD channels coming soon!
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Iceberg said:
National feed of ION West is not in HD though. If it was, then I would agree with the remap.
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I agree. But unlike Dish which just remaps the E & W national feed Directv uses spotbeams to uplink the national feed in most cases. My local Ion is on spotbeam but is the national feed (local feed has the local ID at top of hour....). They are wasting spotbeam space honestly
If I was D* I wouldn't even waste time or money on OWN. I think this channel is near folding. Ratings are very low and it's costing Discovery lots of $.
Thats because (according to D*) over half of America are D* subscribers and who wants to watch SD. Not me
SD is a much higher sub rate, people seem to forget that and think everyone is HD. I bike around my neighborhood 5-6 times a week, lotta SD dishes around.
As far as the list above, sure, some of those channels are nice, but many of them are utter crap IMO. Let's not just add it because it's HD, we all have a monthly bill to worry about.
As far as the list above, sure, some of those channels are nice, but many of them are utter crap IMO. Let's not just add it because it's HD, we all have a monthly bill to worry about.
Unless Satelliteracer says they will launch, we will have to wait until Wednesday to see. BTW, it may be on a different day.
Most of the launches have been on Wednesday, but most of the times it isn't a Wednesday have been more recent.
I tried watching IRON CHEF AMERICA in SD on the cooking channel last night. Couldn't do it. Food needs to be in HD 
Nice! I am seeing the following starting tomorrow at 6am, as expected:
264 BBCAHD
283 NGWHD
289 DSJRHD
426 beIN (grayed out - is it going to be 119 only?)
456 GOLHD
620 beINHD
627 GOLHD
No sign of 305 IONHD or 16 WGPXHD (my local ION) but I have it in HD via the AM21.
Do you think the 426 beIN would be the Spanish and the 627 beIN would be English? 426 doesn't say HD. Locally, Time Warner Cable does that with GolTV - 819 is SD and Spanish and 1819 is HD and English. I know there are more English viewers than Spanish, but I feel Spanish-speaking sports fans deserve HD! Fox Deportes and ESPN-D should be HD.
It would be nice if every single channel on Directv's lineup were offered in HD. And yes I'm sure that Spanish speakers would appreciate having their channels in HD. But if both the English and Spanish versions cannot be in HD, then I would give HD to the version of the channel that will get more viewers. If that is the English version then so be it, and vice versa. And after all, there is nothing stopping Spanish speakers from watching the English version to get HD assuming that it's included in the package they subscribe to. I know that if I can get both versions and the HD version were in Spanish that's what I would watch. Besides, it might give me a chance to bone up on my Spanish.
If you have two receivers tune one to the SD English Audio and the other to the HD Spanish video or vice versa.
SD should be outlawed! But that's for a different discussion.
Back to the ION discussion, Iceberg, what is the criteria for which actual ION affiliates get uploaded and which get the national remap? I was curious after you posted about that, so I watched the Directv-provided SD ION on my ch. 16 at the top of the hour to see if there was a station ID at all (like the New York station or something) or if it was blank and was surprised to see this:
Back to the ION discussion, Iceberg, what is the criteria for which actual ION affiliates get uploaded and which get the national remap? I was curious after you posted about that, so I watched the Directv-provided SD ION on my ch. 16 at the top of the hour to see if there was a station ID at all (like the New York station or something) or if it was blank and was surprised to see this:
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