cr0mag said:Does anyone know WHY D* isn't trying to offer the HD Tivo directly?
chrisb said:A recent conversation with the nice folks at customer retention revealed to me that D* will likely start offering HDtivos when the next unit comes out.
He said the new unit would have 500GB of storage and be placed at the $999 price point.
He could have been talking out of his hat, but time will tell.
LonghornXP said:He is talking out of his hat trust me on this. It will be the same unit maybe with a different model number but nothing will be different but the price within a few months. .
mulesqb said:Longhorn - What do you think the price will be? Will this be a 2004 thing or a 2005 thing?
LonghornXP said:I'm hearing it will be sometime around Christmas or after and the price will be somewhere between 600-750 bucks for existing customers. Now it could go lower but I don't know that nor do I know what the price will be for new customers. I'm also told that they might have an offer for 2+ year customers who have an account in good standing and have a bill over 70 bucks a month.
mulesqb said:WOW! I hope that comes to fruition. I've been waiting for it to come down a little because I want to add another HDTV and just feell like $900 is too much for this unit. Thanks for the info. I've read a number of your posts about the additional HD coming. What is the latest that you are hearing? Is anything going to happen before the end of the year? Thanks for all your insight!
LonghornXP said:TNT HD should be coming soon and don't expect much more HD to show up until after football season but it will be before summer that we should have a pretty nice new selection of HDTV that everyone can get access too. Also we might also have a few more SD premium move channels as well if my info pans out. Also I'm hearing that maybe just maybe Nick Games and Sports might be coming at some point but that has not been clearly sorted out yet.
mulesqb said:Thanks for the info. as long as my fragile Giants can overcome this week's staggering injuries, then I can be patient for more HD until after the season. Although I still think back to that D* press release in the beginnning of the year about doubling or tripling their HD in 2004. It seems like they screwed up in saying that.
cr0mag said:Quick question about the NBC e/w and CBS e/w feeds...
Does EVERYONE recieve NBC and CBS in HD or only those who can't get the locals?
LonghornXP said:Sadly to say if they add TNT HD and count the NBC HD feeds it would be doubled. We had four HD channels to start with than they added Bravo HD+, TNT HD, NBC HD E&W and CBS HD E&W. That is almost tripled right there but it all comes down to whether they are counting NBC and CBS HD feeds or they just made a change after all the peoples complaining about picture quality. Also I think they have every right to complain about bad picture quality but that could have changed their plans or should I say it did change their plans.
mulesqb said:I guess I was coming up with 6 by including HBO and Showtime. But anyway I'm not going to kill them on it. On the pq issue, I know I'm in the minority and don't want to get flamed, but I'd rather get the channels up and going knowing that some bandwith relief is coming at the end of football and then next summer with the new birds. At that point if the pq isn't up to par then I'd have a problem with it. After enjoying HD it real hard to go back to SD, especially on the big tv. Anyway, thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions.