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DIRECTV HD Channel Anticipation (Official Q4-12 Thread)

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#1 ·
Please use this thread to discuss your feelings about upcoming national HD channels.

This thread will not be as tightly moderated as the rest of the site, but here's the tradeoff...in exchange for being able to rant a bit more, you can be assured that absolutely no one at DIRECTV will be using this thread for reference.

You can ask for all the new HD you want, but DIRECTV's marketing department knows that the 100-150 contributors to this thread are only a small part of the nearly 20,000,000 total subscribers.

*Please remember that all forum rules are still in effect.
*Please do not "bump" this thread.
*Other threads that do nothing but anticipate HD channels for which there is no information will be closed.
*This is not a DIRECTV vs. Dish thread, there are other threads for that.

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#28 ·
kevintheoman said:
the hub is the only channel I watch that isn't in HD. Of course a decent amount of their programming is older stuff like Wonder Years and Alf, but the new programming like My Little Pony and Transformers would be great to have in HD.

Also, I'd watch G4 if that was available.
But are you wanting the 2012 G4 or the 2013 rebranding?
 
#34 ·
H2
Cooking Channel
OWN
TV-Land
And CW-DNS for Alan.
 
#37 ·
I'm going to guess anything we don't get in October, won't be showing up until at least 2013.

So, with that timeframe in mind, I'll hope for H2, FMC, and TVLand in October (and would be pretty happy to get even one of them --as far as I'm concerned, it's been a very good year already). The fact that DirecTV Facebook has been "pimping" H2 with multiple posts lately, including full graphics and H2 logo, has me hoping that H2HD might actually be on the way in that timeframe.
 
#38 ·
I've got to agree with VH1 Classic although I don't think it is offered in HD.

How VH1 HD can have such sub-standard programming compared to VH1 Classic is beyond me. I could understand if I wanted to see the original MTV Unplugged episodes which were filmed in SD, but it's the later stuff that is only on VH1 Classic that I don't get. I don't understand why that stuff doesn't appear on VH1 HD.

For example, VH1 Classic has been showing a documentary on the making of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here . It was obviously put together for the album's recent re-release. That's got to be in HD, even though the aspect ratio is 1.33:1 as much of the film is archival footage. But does this documentary appear on VH1 HD? Nope.

Money has got to be the reason, some how, some way. "Let me tell you the name of the game, boys. It's called riding the gravy train."
 
#43 ·
Have to's

  • Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia, plus overflows.
  • Time Warner Cable Sportsnet/Deportes - Los Angeles
  • Comcast Sportsnet Houston
  • FS New Orleans subfeed.

*NBA season starts 10/30, I'd anticipate launches closer to then.

Want to's

  • H2
  • Investigation Discovery
  • Fox Movie Channel (when available in HD)
  • Telemundo DNS

Like to's

  • ESPN Deportes
  • Fox Deportes
  • Galavisión
  • beIN Sport en Español
  • Encore Action and Drama
  • MoviePlex
  • Pac 12 Network, with football and basketball subfeeds
  • MavTV
  • TVLand (don't know what is on HD in that channel)
  • CW HD-DNS for Alan

Is D* waiting for the full slate of Encores to launch in HD?
 
#45 ·
skizer said:
Chiller (I think there's an HD feed, but not sure)
Nope. NBC had planned to upgrade Chiller and Sleuth (now Cloo) to HD back several years ago, but cancelled plans when the economy took a nose-dive.
 
#48 ·
sabrewulf said:
Very true VH1 Classic is broadcast in HD. I wouldnt mind adding it if it did though. And I so wish they would come out with a channel like the old TechTV was I miss that.
Yeah, this would be a great channel to add, in HD! Nothing like some Diamond Dave and the rest of Van Halen, with their great video's. I can dig it!!!
 
#51 ·
The cycle races have some great scenery, and would be lot easier to see the cyclists in HD. Sure would be watched, as much as the Tour de France, on NBC Sports Network.
 
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