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DIRECTV HD Channel Anticipation (Official Q1-13 Thread)

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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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I had pretty much stated my wishlist during the last week of the 4Q 2012 thread, but here it is again for the 1Q 2013 thread.

MY WISHLIST

  1. CW HD-DNS (channels #394 & #395)
    The channel(s) with the most hours of weekly programming that I watch, still SD-only on DirecTV.
  2. TV Land HD (channel #304)
    The channel with the second most hours of weekly programming that I watch, still SD-only on DirecTV. Thank goodness for HD VOD...

While I'd LIKE to have multiple other channels, including The Hub, Chiller, Cooking Channel, Fox Movie Channel, if I could get the channels listed above, I'd be pretty much satisfied with their national channel lineup for the time being.

On the locals front, my local affiliate of The CW is supposed to offer some sort of HD feed this year, so my hope is that DirecTV will pick it up as early as possible... Thankfully, my local wishlist was cut in half since the beginning of the last thread...
 
#130 ·
Alan Gordon said:
While I'd LIKE to have multiple other channels, including The Hub, Chiller, Cooking Channel, Fox Movie Channel, if I could get the channels listed above, I'd be pretty much satisfied with their national channel lineup for the time being.
It still amazes me that people are utterly unswayed by the fact that Chiller HD doesn't exist.
 
#134 ·
It appears that NBC distributes Chiller on AMC-11, transponder 24, where it is listed as an SD channel. Anyone carrying "Chiller HD" is likely simply upconverting the SD feed. Without an HD feed on a backhaul satellite, we have to assume that it does not exist.
 
#135 ·
Diana C said:
It appears that NBC distributes Chiller on AMC-11, transponder 24, where it is listed as an SD channel. Anyone carrying "Chiller HD" is likely simply upconverting the SD feed. Without an HD feed on a backhaul satellite, we have to assume that it does not exist.
I think you're right. There's nothing on Chiller TV's website, Facebook page, or Twitter feed about being in HD yet.

I'd like to see this one in HD too. Chiller TV better figure it out soon. :)

Mike
 
#136 ·
Diana C said:
It appears that NBC distributes Chiller on AMC-11, transponder 24, where it is listed as an SD channel. Anyone carrying "Chiller HD" is likely simply upconverting the SD feed. Without an HD feed on a backhaul satellite, we have to assume that it does not exist.
It's very possible... but it's an odd occurence that two (I'm assuming unrelated) cablecos list Chiller HD in their lineup...

Link to the links of two cablecos
 
#139 ·
jamieh1 said:
Ch 691, been on for a few months now. Also TWC Deportes HD on 458
He's referring to the local Time Warner Sports Channel in Ohio that mostly airs local high school sports, some college sports via ESPN Plus and sometimes used as the designated sports overflow channel for FS Ohio. I doubt that will ever happen unless they get the rights to a pro sport. Most of the regional Time Warner Sports networks are just cablecasts that are created at the headend.
 
#141 ·
Tubaman-Z said:
I have a bunch of auto-records setup including one for "Agatha Christie". It caught some stuff on Cinemoi that my wife enjoyed (even in SD).
I took a peek at Cinemoi the other day, and it said it was 720. It looked like very HQ SD or somewhat poor HD.... So, I dunno what it broadcasts.
 
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"Hoosier205" said:
I don't think it is 16:9 but it is HD. My guide comes up narrow on cinemoi. Maybe you are thinking of Baby First. That is 16:9 SD and my guide comes up full screen on it (I'm using original format.)
 
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tonyd79 said:
I don't think it is 16:9 but it is HD. My guide comes up narrow on cinemoi. Maybe you are thinking of Baby First. That is 16:9 SD and my guide comes up full screen on it (I'm using original format.)
I'm not aware any MPEG-2 SD channels (Ku band) that are 16:9 on DIRECTV. They are all 4:3 I think.

Cinemoi (MPEG-2 SD/Ku band) is always a 16:9 image, but letter-boxed into 4:3.

Baby First is 16:9 SD, but its MPEG-4 on Ka band.
 
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"tonyd79" said:
I don't think it is 16:9 but it is HD. My guide comes up narrow on cinemoi. Maybe you are thinking of Baby First. That is 16:9 SD and my guide comes up full screen on it (I'm using original format.)
Cinemoi broadcasts in 16:9 SD, it just isn't being presented that way by DirecTV. They aren't capable of HD yet.
 
#148 ·
Hoosier205 said:
Cinemoi broadcasts in 16:9 SD, it just isn't being presented that way by DirecTV. They aren't capable of HD yet.
Okay. The clarification helps.

But in the context of what we get on DirecTV, it is 4:3. Remember, this is a DirecTV forum. ;)
 
#149 ·
Alan Gordon said:
It's very possible... but it's an odd occurence that two (I'm assuming unrelated) cablecos list Chiller HD in their lineup...

Link to the links of two cablecos
They may list it that way, but unless NBC-Universal is sending it to them, and only them, via terrestial feed, they are just upconverting the SD feed from AMC-11 and calling it "Chiller HD."

After looking through all the North American satellites on Lyngsat I can find no "Chiller HD" anywhere.
 
#150 ·
Diana C said:
They may list it that way, but unless NBC-Universal is sending it to them, and only them, via terrestial feed, they are just upconverting the SD feed from AMC-11 and calling it "Chiller HD."

After looking through all the North American satellites on Lyngsat I can find no "Chiller HD" anywhere.
Wasn't there several instances of DirecTV getting channels prior to people knowing they were available?

I'm extremely open to the idea of this channel not existing and this being a mistake, but I'm not convinced either way.... :confused:
 
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