west coast HD feeds

[tiraggi]

Is anyone else in the New York area having problems with the west coast HD feeds? I'm getting a message "for ordering information call ext...". I just got off the phone with D* customer service rep who said "technical difficulty" is the problem and they are working to restore it. We'll see

 

[Mr Tony]

you can't have west HD feeds if you live in NY

Mountain & Pacific get West coast HD feeds
Central & Eastern get East coast HD feeds

 

[tiraggi]

I've had the west coast HD feeds for about two months now - until today. Was customer service pulling my chain?

 

[charper1]

I never got the DNS letter informing me of any changes or choices (I have been a DirecTV sub since 1996, with DNS for many many years) yet today was d-day for the extras I was getting. Seems the NAB and the affiliates are really putting the screws to us DBS folks right now with this BS they lobbied to get added into the new SHVEA version. Funny how they can waste their time getting this ASAP yet they fight to stall FULL conversion to digital/HD. They should all be whipped.

 

[Sean Mota]

Is anyone else in the New York area having problems with the west coast HD feeds? I'm getting a message "for ordering information call ext...". I just got off the phone with D* customer service rep who said "technical difficulty" is the problem and they are working to restore it. We'll see

I lost mine a month after my install...

 

[riggscm]

...Funny how they can waste their time getting this ASAP yet they fight to stall FULL conversion to digital/HD. They should all be whipped.

I totally agree.

 

[rkr0923]

What blows my mind is they still offer the SD feeds............makes no friggin sense to me!
If they are so concerned with people watching things earlier than in their time zone or not watching their locals as opposed to DNS why have them at all?
You get them all or Nothing.......
Therefore, it's all about the HD football we could get without ST.
Can't convince me otherwise

 

[charper1]

Therefore, it's all about the HD football we could get without ST. Can't convince me otherwise

It has NOTHING to do with DirecTV and thusly the Sunday Ticket, it is 1000% about the local affiliates (via the NAB and their local cable company partners) bithcing and moaning to protect the illegal monopoly on what they claim as their ad revenue market, they want their customers to have no other choices but to watch what THEY (the affiliate) decide on, their local programming, their syndication and their ads, no matter how good or bad. They are greedy, lazy and small minded! They want to maintain the one-sided advantages they still have on DBS; if they lost everything and had to compete on a 100% level competition playing field they know where they would end up!

 

[dfergie]

Spoiler

Bastards

nuked all my dns hd... should have kept west... still getting Sd feeds... looks like D* might have just lost a long time customer...

 

[NVBlue]

Any local channels west of the pecos? I added the local channels and they still give me the LA networks in HD and both LA & NY in SD.

 

[dfergie]

getting preview of mine...I get them on E*...Albuquerqe dma...on phone with D* now...

 

[fkostyn]

I lost my Fox NY HD... dam bastards......

 

[Boondockbill]

With network viewership slipping 18% last year, you'd think they'd WANT viewers. Screw'em. I love my DSL and internet.

 

[fkostyn]

Either way, 99% of what I watch is on TIVO at this point anyways......

 

[dfergie]

After 3 phone calls last night (1st tech tried to transfer me and hung up, 2nd put me on forever hold and 3rd time automated sys gave me a number not in service) and being put on hold for 20 minutes I had to give up and go to bed... will try tech roulette tonite (futilly)

 

[rkr0923]

It has NOTHING to do with DirecTV and thusly the Sunday Ticket, it is 1000% about the local affiliates (via the NAB and their local cable company partners) bithcing and moaning to protect the illegal monopoly on what they claim as their ad revenue market, they want their customers to have no other choices but to watch what THEY (the affiliate) decide on, their local programming, their syndication and their ads, no matter how good or bad. They are greedy, lazy and small minded! They want to maintain the one-sided advantages they still have on DBS; if they lost everything and had to compete on a 100% level competition playing field they know where they would end up!

Wrong!
gonna have to do better than that......I can still watch DNS E&W, just not in HD. So, tell me how that helped the local guys?????

 

[charper1]

They will be gone soon too I bet.

 

[Craig Davis]

I lost all HD feeds of both NY and LA. After spending nearly 40 minutes on the phone waiting for the rep to "research" the problem, he turned the NY ones back on (I'm located in the centeral time zone) and kept repeating there have been recent "changes" in SHVIA that require them to stop the LA HD feeds. I requested a supervisor, but when I was connected with one she could not explain why it is OK for me to receive SD feeds of LA, but not HD feeds.
In addition, I just got the HD TIVO (the $299 rebate special) and agreed to a 2 year deal 9 days ago. And, when I stated a desire to be released from my deal since I was promised both HD distant feeds at the time of commitment, they stated that they will hold me to the $12.50 per month for each month remaining on the commitment.

 

[blueguy]

I lost all HD feeds of both NY and LA. After spending nearly 40 minutes on the phone waiting for the rep to "research" the problem, he turned the NY ones back on (I'm located in the centeral time zone) and kept repeating there have been recent "changes" in SHVIA that require them to stop the LA HD feeds. I requested a supervisor, but when I was connected with one she could not explain why it is OK for me to receive SD feeds of LA, but not HD feeds.
In addition, I just got the HD TIVO (the $299 rebate special) and agreed to a 2 year deal 9 days ago. And, when I stated a desire to be released from my deal since I was promised both HD distant feeds at the time of commitment, they stated that they will hold me to the $12.50 per month for each month remaining on the commitment.

Tad confused, are we supposed to be able to get East and West coast feeds? I've never been able to watch those channels and I have the HD package. I'd love to get CBS/ABC/Fox/NBC in HD but it seems to be antenna dependent (totally impossible where I live in san diego as I'm directly between the broadcast towers). do these channels also come over satellite?!

Edit:

Just checked with DTV and the answer is no. as for local hd channels, i'm screwed, no way around it. sd has hd channels but because of my location there's no way for an antenna to get all the channels. i get one half or the other half. can't get all of them.

 

[dfergie]

On Phone again only this time with retention department... holding...