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Does anyone else out there have these HD channels? I just got em on Tuesday and i must say they are the cats meow!

not only have i caught fabulous movies on FilmFest and World Cinema, but classic CFL games and shows about Meerkats! plus, one channel is devoted solely to live performances, Soundstage, live shows and the best show on earth, Later..With Jools Holland.

my DirecTV friends are lining up to switch over!

Wow, life in ole Bawlmer sure sounds grand!

Originally posted by le sonick:
classic CFL games

Ha hahahaha ha haha hahah.

Yes, I'm giving up my NFL package for Beach Soccer and CFL games!

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by le sonick:
classic CFL games

Ha hahahaha ha haha hahah.

Yes, I'm giving up my NFL package for Beach Soccer and CFL games!

what's beach soccer?

the NFL package? amazing that people would rather have 12 football games a week for 17 weeks of the year, than have countless hours of programming all year around. (CFL games aside, since thats such the easy joke to make)

i'll take Later…With Jools Holland over the NFL anyday.

and does the Sunday Ticket even broadcast in HD?

The board rebirth won't allow me to post with a quote, so I'm replying to le sonick.

Yes, the Sunday ticket is in HD if the game is originally broadcast in HD. Fox does up to 7 games in HD and CBS does up to 4.

Beach soccer is what's advertised on Voom's sports channel - Worldsport. That and CFL games. Oh, and replays of La Liga (spanish soccer).

As for your "countless hours of programming" year round, I think you'll discover after the honeymoon is over that there are a lot of repeats for a period of about a month, then they change the programming, and show the same thing over and over for a month, then do the same for each month. What you're really getting is 12 weeks of "countless hours of programming" repeated over a 52 week cycle.

Rave would be cool, but everything else that comes with Voom is crap. HD Videogame watching, live auctions, art galleries, fashion shows, travel shows, crap sports, the news and anime?!!? Come on….it's no wonder Voom went out of business before being rescued by Dish.

what's beach soccer?

Oh I'm sure it's another made up game by the doodles because they suck at the game in it's purest form on the world stage…."BEACH SOCCER WORLD CHAMPIONS" it's coming, mark my words.

Meerkats? - The one about "Snowball"?

Nope Mank, the Brazilians invented beach soccer, and not surprisingly they're the best at it too.

Although Cantona coached the french team to the title in 2005.

Glad to see the Brasilians are the best at one sport at least…. :D

yeah, i suppose some of the stuff on Voom is uncool. personally though, i like the travel shows! and Filmfest and World Cinema are right up my alley.

i guess not being an NFL fan makes it a no brainer betweeen Dish and Directv.

on a related football note, i am 23-5 in bowl games this year, and with an OSU win monday, $175 is all mine! :)

Enjoy your Voom….

DIRECTV to Offer 100 National HD Channels in 2007

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 8, 2007–DIRECTV, the nation's leading satellite television service provider, is hailing 2007 as the "Year of HD" with the planned launch and carriage of 100 national high-definition (HD) channels. With this substantial HD muscle, DIRECTV will offer three-times more HD programming than any other multi-channel distributor, with the majority of these channels launching in Q3.

DIRECTV also announced today that it currently has signed agreements, or agreements in principle, with more than 70 major networks including:

– A&E
– National Geographic
– Bravo
– NFL Network
– Cartoon Network
– SciFi Channel
– CNN
– Speed
– Food Network
– TBS
– FX
– The History Channel
– HGTV
– The Weather Channel
– MTV
– USA Network

DIRECTV will also extend its leadership in HD sports programming by offering hundreds of games and other HD programming available from Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) around the country, including YES Network, Comcast Sports Net, New England Sports Network and FOX Sports.

To satisfy the insatiable appetite for a greater number of movies in HD, DIRECTV will offer an expanded line-up of HD programming available from all premium movie channels.

"This is DIRECTV's break-out year for HD," said Chase Carey, president and CEO, DIRECTV, Inc. "The launch of our two new satellites will complete the largest capacity expansion in DIRECTV history, and no other video service will be able to match the sheer volume and quality of our HD programming. With HD adoption now reaching critical mass in the U.S., and 40 million homes projected to have HD-capable TVs this year, DIRECTV will be uniquely positioned as the best choice for HD programming."

With the launch of DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 11 satellites in 2007, DIRECTV will have the ability to deliver more than 1,500 local HD and digital channels and 150 national HD channels, in addition to new advanced programming services for customers.

DIRECTV currently offers standard-definition local channels in 142 markets, covering nearly 94 percent of television households in the country, as well as local HD broadcast channels in 49 cities, representing more than 65 percent of U.S. TV households.

old news.
and probably not happening til September.


and if you think Echostar isnt going to match em, you'd just have to be Crazy!!!

In an attempt to not regret his purchase, the French American said:

and if you think Echostar isnt going to match em, you'd just have to be Crazy!!!Did Echostar launch new satellites that I'm unaware of? Last I checked they had a capacity issue that DirecTV fixed by launching MPEG 4 capable satellites. The MPEG 2 satellites currently used by Echostar have a known limited capacity, and it's no where near 100 HD channels.

i didnt purchase anything!!! fyi.

you dont have to buy any of the Dish equipment.

and sure, i'll switch to DirecTV if in the fall, Dish hasn't announced upping the HD ante.

but for now, Dish wins the HD game.


I also like the feature Dish has for NHL Center Ice that you can pick which feed you want to view the game on. DirecTV chooses whose broadcast you watch.

i've had Dish for 2 years now, and i will switch if DirecTV makes 100 HD Channels and Dish doesnt counter, but everyone knows if Dish doesnt match, or at least come damn close to matching, DirecTV's HD channel capacity, you might as well just close up shop and go home!

dont you think EchoStar is working on launching those same satellites?

I certainly hope so, they have been really slow to get all of the HD local channels out to their customers (not sure if its a bandwidth issue or a contract issue), so I'm sure they have plans to rectify this, the only solution being to put up more satellites.

I liked that Dish is going to offer free HD DVR's to their customers, and I hoping this triggers market matching so I can get a free HD DVR from D*TV.

I did hear one other interesting tidbit over the break - DirecTV is negotiating with MLB for the exclusive right to broadcast the MLB Package, similar to the Sunday ticket. That would send shockwaves into the market…

In case you missed your weekend edition of the Times…

Extra Innings Exclusively on DirecTV
By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Major League Baseball is close to announcing a deal that will place its Extra Innings package of out-of-market games exclusively on DirecTV, which will also become the only carrier of a long-planned 24-hour baseball channel.

Extra Innings has been available to 75 million cable households and the two satellite services, DirecTV and the Dish Network. But the new agreement will take it off cable and Dish because DirecTV has agreed to pay $700 million over seven years, according to three executives briefed on the details of the contract but not authorized to speak about them publicly.

InDemand, which has distributed Extra Innings to the cable television industry since 2002, made an estimated $70 million bid to renew its rights, more than triple what it has been paying. Part of its offer included the right to carry the new baseball channel, but not exclusively.

The baseball channel is scheduled to start in 2009.

M.L.B., DirecTV and InDemand officials declined to comment.

DirecTV is also the exclusive outlet for the N.F.L.â??s Sunday Ticket package, for which it pays $700 million annually. Sunday Ticket has about 2 million subscribers; Extra Innings about 750,000, according to The Sports Business Journal.

Extra Innings lets subscribers, for a fee, watch about 60 games a week from other local markets except their own.

The only other way that fans without DirecTV will be able to see Extra Innings will be on MLB.comâ??s mlb.tv service, but they must have high-speed broadband service. About 28 million homes have high-speed service, less than half the number of cable homes in the country. The picture quality of streamed games is not as good as what is available on cable or satellite.

DirecTV is available to about 15 million subscribers.

Last month, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, who was then the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cited DirecTVâ??s exclusivity with Sunday Ticket as a reason to strip the N.F.L. of an antitrust exemption to negotiate all TV contracts for its teams. Comcast, which has complained that it cannot carry Sunday Ticket, is a Philadelphia-based company.

bastards

whatever happened to letting customers DECIDE which companies to spend their money on??!!!

anyway, that makes my $200 decision on whether or not to get Extra Innings awfully easy!

but i guess being a Red Sox fan doesnt make it all that necessary with like 8 games a month on ESPN!

8 games a month and you call yourself a fan….

For the record, I don't think this is the best deal for baseball fans, but inDemand was doing a poor job of marketing the package, and I think D*TV took advantange of that.

I am beginning to fear that D*TV is lining up sole assets that can be worth something so that it can then be sold. It's just a hunch right now, but Malone does have a history of that, putting shareholders pockets first in his thought process.

i have LIFE you know!

I have played beach soccer, its pretty fun, everybody should do it…