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 your 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 new HD all you want, but DIRECTV's marketing department knows that the 100-150 contributors to this thread are only a small part of the 18,000,000 total subscribers.
Please remember that all forum rules are still in effect, and please do not "bump" this thread. Other threads that do nothing but anticipate HD channels for which there is no information will be closed.
It's a reasonable way to manage some of this stuff as to adding value while managing increased cost, but it really needs to stay either "classic" stuff (like MGM), movie stuff, or very specialized stuff like Smithsonian.
I shudder to think of the community response if they tossed, say, BBCAHD and AMCHD in that package. And frankly I suspect neither of those channels wants to be there either --it hurts their advertising ability.
I get the Extra Pack already, so I'd be good anyway, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth in general would be fearsome to behold.
I shudder to think of the community response if they tossed, say, BBCAHD and AMCHD in that package. And frankly I suspect neither of those channels wants to be there either --it hurts their advertising ability.
It's a reasonable way to manage some of this stuff as to adding value while managing increased cost, but it really needs to stay either "classic" stuff (like MGM), movie stuff, or very specialized stuff like Smithsonian.
I shudder to think of the community response if they tossed, say, BBCAHD and AMCHD in that package. And frankly I suspect neither of those channels wants to be there either --it hurts their advertising ability.
I get the Extra Pack already, so I'd be good anyway, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth in general would be fearsome to behold.
I think I read about THAT, didn't effect the AF at all since the units were being used for a specific task, didn't require an update to Sony's latest OS so that they could access the Playstation Network and stores....
...until they want to build another cluster or expand that one and cannot find the firmware. Yes, they could deal with working around it but the whole point of that particular system was using commodity hardware which has now become anything but a commodity.
Do you mean that you want to be able to buy specific games or weekends on a pay-per-view basis as opposed to the entire season? As in pay $25 per game or $40 per weekend?
In order:
1. History International HD.
Comcast's got it - Love it... but nowhere near enough to consider Comcast - their convoluted DVR or confusing network list)
I am not a troll, but someone asked for the HD list of Comcast. I have a mindmap that probably shows more thought into this process than 98% of customers (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360607/dtv.png) (that version is out of date) and I solved my wiring issue, so we were all set to go get a DVR demo when I ran into the missing AMCHD issue. My wife counted our channels (no math) and we get 90 HD. DirecTV says you get 45 free HD, but I've come to find that their list is incomplete to say the least. Let's just say the DirecTV site isn't the best
So I found a DirecTV listing guide for my area, and compared it to my Comcast listing. Here is what I found, with summary at the bottom:
Perhaps Directv looking at the prospects of ever increasing numbers of HD channels, knowing that they can't really charge that much more after the additions, doesn't feel like playing the game anymore.
If that is the case, then why not just offer the things they have that are unique to them ala carte. I'm sure there are lots of Dish and Cable and Fios customers that would love Sunday ticket ala carte from Directv.
I don't really see a big downside. They would gain a lot of customers and not lose a significant number of existing subs.
I am not a troll, but someone asked for the HD list of Comcast. I have a mindmap that probably shows more thought into this process than 98% of customers (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360607/dtv.png) (that version is out of date) and I solved my wiring issue, so we were all set to go get a DVR demo when I ran into the missing AMCHD issue. My wife counted our channels (no math) and we get 90 HD. DirecTV says you get 45 free HD, but I've come to find that their list is incomplete to say the least. Let's just say the DirecTV site isn't the best
So I found a DirecTV listing guide for my area, and compared it to my Comcast listing. Here is what I found, with summary at the bottom:
By that logic, Directv had better not offer more HD nationals because if their subscriber base goes up it will make the NFL unhappy.
By the way, one billion is a large number. Sagan was accurate attributing the number to stars. Your using the number to show dismissive disdain diminishes your credibility.
By that logic, Directv had better not offer more HD nationals because if their subscriber base goes up it will make the NFL unhappy.
By the way, one billion is a large number. Sagan was accurate attributing the number to stars. Your using the number to show dismissive disdain diminishes your credibility.
"In December 2002, the league gave the cable carriers a deadline for an offer for Sunday Ticket; the deadline passed, so the league re-upped with DirecTV; the cable carriers then presented a too-late offer and issued press releases denouncing the league for not waiting.
The 2002 turn of events pleased the broadcast networks, which still weren't happy about loss of local ratings and local advertising -- when a Sunday Ticket subscriber watches an out-of-market game, local ads are not inserted into the blank time a network computer leaves.
After Fox joined NFL broadcasting, Fox said it would object unless Sunday Ticket subscribers were capped at 1 million, a restriction on access that belies what the NFL now says about how the NFL Network should be widely available.
The 1 million Sunday Ticket subscriber ceiling has been expanded somewhat since, but not by much: The NFL continues to tell the broadcast networks not to worry about Sunday Ticket because its availability isn't growing."
I have been keeping a close eye on FearNet as I am a horror buff. Though the channel has plans for an October 1st launch date, they have yet to secure any broadcast agreements with any cable or sat firm... even those they have On Demand service thru now.
This concerns me. The economics may just not be right for another niche channel right now as shown clearly by the continual postponement of Chiller's upgrade to HD.
But how would that work out if say the cable cos go to court and get ST this year?
Let's are part of the big NBC / Comcast deal all Comcast sports nets / over flows and comcast networks / local comcast only sports go to sat / other cable systems and the cable cos get Sunday ticket.
they can also use the Supreme Court denies NFL's request for broad antitrust protection to try get ST as well.
The same rules that open up CSN Philly may also open up ST as well.
Comacst is working on the back end of thigks to get there systems ready for HD needs of ST and more HD on NHL CI, NBA LP, MLB EI as well.
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