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DIRECTV HD Channel Anticipation (Official Q1-13 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.

If you have any questions as to what belongs in this thread or an individual channel thread please read the latest DIRECTV Programming Forum Rules (Link).
 
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#53 ·
How many Directv subscribers actually have the equipment necessary to use VOD? I suppose that most participants in this forum do but I am not so sure about the Directv subscriber base at large. That's why I would rather see them use bandwidth for HD channels like LMN, H2 and Reelz before they add more VOD content in HD.
 
#54 ·
john262 said:
How many Directv subscribers actually have the equipment necessary to use VOD? I suppose that most participants in this forum do but I am not so sure about the Directv subscriber base at large. That's why I would rather see them use bandwidth for HD channels like LMN, H2 and Reelz before they add more VOD content in HD.
TV based VOD content comes from internet downloads, it has nothing to do with the bandwidth it would take to deliver them as a linear channel via satellite. The VOD content that uses bandwidth from the satellites is the overnight pushed movies you see as guide banners in the 100s and the showroom, in the evening those feeds are shared with the part time RSNs and sports packages.
 
#56 ·
Forget the lists. I simply want every HD that we don't already get. Then I want the SD only channels to go HD and for D* to get them,too.

Yeah, I don't want much. :hurah:
 
#58 ·
harsh said:
There's an eight times better chance of hitting one of a list of 24. ;)

H2 is probably the only one I would be majorly bent about.
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#59 ·
"ruthiesea" said:
Forget the lists. I simply want every HD that we don't already get. Then I want the SD only channels to go HD and for D* to get them,too.

Yeah, I don't want much. :hurah:
So you want them to use the bandwidth to have HD versions of all the various shopping networks? DirecTV had better get a lot of money for that. Maybe the can sell the naming rights to DirecTV-14 to QVC :)
 
#60 ·
I watched Portlandia via IFC on demand. That show was soooo funny! It's a shame IFC is not in HD. I understand if its a bandwidth, uplink equipment or encoder issue, but to not have VOD content at least offered in HD is crummy.

Anyway I think my biggest want is now IFC... At least HD VoD. This Portlandia show was hilarious. One problem I had with the VOD was that the volume was really quiet during the show and once in awhile there was a commercial that would literally BLAST the house out of the water. Normal volume on my TV is about 12 - 14. For Portlandia I had to have it at 24 - 26, so when a commercial came on it was like BAM!

IFC HD please.
 
#62 ·
cypherx said:
I watched Portlandia via IFC on demand. That show was soooo funny! It's a shame IFC is not in HD. I understand if its a bandwidth, uplink equipment or encoder issue, but to not have VOD content at least offered in HD is crummy.

Anyway I think my biggest want is now IFC... At least HD VoD. This Portlandia show was hilarious. One problem I had with the VOD was that the volume was really quiet during the show and once in awhile there was a commercial that would literally BLAST the house out of the water. Normal volume on my TV is about 12 - 14. For Portlandia I had to have it at 24 - 26, so when a commercial came on it was like BAM!

IFC HD please.
That's the big reason I want to see IFC HD. I love that show too. We can pickle that!
 
#63 ·
dpeters11 said:
So you want them to use the bandwidth to have HD versions of all the various shopping networks? DirecTV had better get a lot of money for that. Maybe the can sell the naming rights to DirecTV-14 to QVC :)
I don't know about all of them, but QVC almost certainly has more D* viewers than some of the smaller current HD offering networks. Like CSPAN, they don't subscribe to Nielsen, so we don't have the usual apple-to-apple metrics to go by. But if you look at QVC's own website, their best day (in 2007) for individual orders was 850,000 orders in one day. That's actual product orders --viewers would no doubt be much higher.
 
#68 ·
Alan Gordon said:
NON-PREMIUM HD CHANNELS OFFERED ONLY IN SD* BY DIRECTV (43):

  1. Bloomberg Television
  2. BYU TV
  3. Chiller
  4. C-SPAN
  5. C-SPAN2
  6. Centric
  7. Cooking Channel
  8. EWTN
  9. Fox Movie Channel
  10. Fuse
  11. Galavision
  12. Game Show Network
  13. Gospel Music Channel
  14. H2
  15. Headline News
  16. Home Shopping Network
  17. IFC
  18. Investigation Discovery
  19. ION West
  20. Jewelry TV
  21. Lifetime Movie Network
  22. Logo
  23. Military Channel
  24. MTV2
  25. NASA TV
  26. Oprah Winfrey Network
  27. Outdoor Channel
  28. Ovation TV
  29. QVC
  30. Reelz Channel
  31. RFD-TV
  32. Shop NBC
  33. Sportsman Channel
  34. Sprout
  35. Style Network
  36. Sundance Channel
  37. The Hub
  38. TBN
  39. TV Guide Channel
  40. TV Land
  41. TVOne
  42. Universal Sports
  43. WeTV

* Channels in blue have HD VOD content available.

NON-PREMIUM HD CHANNELS LAUNCHING SOON THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD,
WITH POTENTIAL HD CARRIAGE CHANCES UNKNOWN (2):


  1. Fox College Sports (???????)
  2. TVG Network (??????)

DNS CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD, BUT NOT HD (3):

  1. CW East (WDCW)
  2. CW West (XETV)
  3. PBS

SPANISH LANGUAGE CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD, BUT NOT HD (11):

  1. A Toda Musica
  2. Azteca America
  3. Azteca Mexico
  4. BeIN Sport Dos
  5. ESPN Deportes
  6. Fox Deportes
  7. GolTV
  8. Telemundo (East & West feeds in the 400s. Local Telemundo affiliates may be available in HD)
  9. TeleNoticias 24
  10. Television Espanola

SPANISH LANGUAGE HD CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY IN SD (1):

  1. Univision Deportes Network

SPANISH LANGUAGE PREMIUM CHANNELS COMING SOON THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY AT ALL (1):

  1. Encore Espanol (2012????)

NON-PREMIUM CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY AT ALL (29):

  1. Africa Channel
  2. Aspire
  3. BBC World News
  4. BlueHighways TV
  5. Catholic TV
  6. Comedy.TV
  7. C-SPAN3
  8. ES.TV
  9. Fashion TV
  10. FearNet
  11. FUNimation Channel
  12. G4 (SD channel removed from DirecTV lineup on November 1, 2010)
  13. Halogen
  14. Havoc TV
  15. Longhorn Network
  16. MavTV
  17. Military History Channel
  18. MyDestination.TV
  19. NHK World TV
  20. Nuvo TV
  21. Pac-12 Network
  22. Pentagon Channel
  23. Pets.TV
  24. PixL
  25. Recipe.TV
  26. SWRV
  27. Veria HD
  28. WealthTV
  29. World Fishing Network

NON-PREMIUM HD CHANNELS LAUNCHING SOON THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY IN SD (4):

  1. HBCU Network (????????)
  2. Legacy.TV (????????)
  3. RLTV (????????)
  4. WWE Network (???)

PREMIUM CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD, BUT NOT HD (2):

  1. Encore Action
  2. Encore Drama

PREMIUM CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY AT ALL (6):

  1. Epix 1
  2. Epix 2
  3. Epix 3
  4. Indieplex
  5. Retroplex
  6. OuterMax

RSN CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV CARRIES IN HD PART TIME (????):

  1. Fox Sports Cincinnati
  2. Fox Sports Kansas City
  3. Fox Sports Ohio
  4. Fox Sports San Diego

RSN CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY AT ALL (????):

  1. Comcast Sports Northwest
  2. CSN Houston (October 1, 2012)
  3. CSN Philadelphia
  4. CSN Philadelphia +
  5. CSS
  6. HRTV
  7. Longhorn Network
  8. Pac-12 Washington
  9. Pac-12 Oregon
  10. Pac-12 Northern California
  11. Pac-12 Southern California
  12. Pac-12 Arizona
  13. Pac-12 Mountain
  14. TCN Philadelphia

RSN CHANNELS COMING SOON THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY AT ALL (???????):

"ADULT" CHANNELS LAUNCHING SOON THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD, WITH POTENTIAL HD CARRIAGE CHANCES UNKNOWN (2):

  1. Hustler HD
  2. Playboy HD

Channels marked in red are channels currently not available.

Omitted (non-DNS) all West Coast feeds due to previous comments made by Satelliteracer,
except for ION HD West given it's status as a broadcast network.

Special thanks go out to URFloorMatt from AVSForum.com for his charts, as well as to BigRedFan for her help regarding the Spanish Language Channels.
Fashion TV is just a loop of skinny woman walking the plank. Dish took it off over a year ago.
 
#70 ·
"georule" said:
I don't know about all of them, but QVC almost certainly has more D* viewers than some of the smaller current HD offering networks. Like CSPAN, they don't subscribe to Nielsen, so we don't have the usual apple-to-apple metrics to go by. But if you look at QVC's own website, their best day (in 2007) for individual orders was 850,000 orders in one day. That's actual product orders --viewers would no doubt be much higher.
Could be higher. But maybe not as much as you may think. Many will place more than one order on a day and the orders probably also include website orders.

But since qvc is not ratings driven, it is moot anyway.
 
#71 ·
michaelruggeri said:
SR,

Is there any chance we could get international news stations like Al Jazeera, France 24, BBC World News? Since they are all streamed anyway, they would not take up extra bandwidth.

Thanks
Just heard on NPR that AL Jazeera has bought Current TV, so it may be here sooner than later.
 
#76 ·
ep1974 said:
Also, what about CBC Newsworld (Canada)? I believe Dish had it many years ago. They still might, but not sure.
CBC Newsworld was never available in the USA, what we had was Newsworld International, which was purchased by Al Gore to create Current in 2005. Outside of The National and some of CBC's other newscasts the majority of the channel was made up of original content and output from other international broadcasters like ITN, Deutsche Welle and NHK. CBC Newsworld has since rebranded to CBC News Network and I'm not sure if they can be offered in the USA unless they launch an alternate feed due to the rights to some of the documentaries they now air in the evenings.
 
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