Quad Cities HD? When?

[nneptune]

I used to live in Chicago, but now live on the Illinois/Iowa border (the Quad Cities area.. Davenport, Ia and Rock Island, IL).

Directv has the locals in HD, and has for over a year... but DISH still doesn't. wtf?

Any specific links where I can keep track of when they may be added?
Has anyone from around here heard anything?

Frustrating!

[James Long]

Unless DISH has announced a specific date your guess is as good as any.
The Quad Cities channels have been uplinked for testing for a few weeks.

It looks like DirecTV will be losing WHFB Channel 4 this week ...
http://www.whbf.com/global/story.asp?s=12196249

Perhaps DISH will use the occasion to upgrade to HD? :)

[nneptune]

Unless DISH has announced a specific date your guess is as good as any.
The Quad Cities channels have been uplinked for testing for a few weeks.

It looks like DirecTV will be losing WHFB Channel 4 this week ...
http://www.whbf.com/global/story.asp?s=12196249

Perhaps DISH will use the occasion to upgrade to HD? :)

Thanks.
Do they post upcoming HD locals on the Dish site? I suppose I'll stop there next.
DirecTV does have the upper hand with the local HD channels, but I lived a year with their garbage equipment.
I would have been wondering wtf happened to Channel 4. Idiots!
I'm glad to be back with DiSh...now they need to get all of these locals up!

[droz1096]

I have had Comcast forever now and I'm getting sick of them. I want to switch to dish but I wont until they get the QC chanels in HD. HURRRY UP!!!!

[xzi]

Unless DISH has announced a specific date your guess is as good as any.
The Quad Cities channels have been uplinked for testing for a few weeks.

It looks like DirecTV will be losing WHFB Channel 4 this week ...
http://www.whbf.com/global/story.asp?s=12196249

Perhaps DISH will use the occasion to upgrade to HD? :)

Updated: April 1, 2010 04:50 PM CDT

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[nneptune]

I didn't like my experience with DirecTV, so I'll just be patient and wait for the HD locals on DiSh.
The lag on the D* receivers made me want to smash the stupid things!