DBSTalk Forum banner
Status
Not open for further replies.

DIRECTV HD Channel Anticipation (Official Q4-12 Thread)

160K views 807 replies 150 participants last post by  Mike Bertelson 
#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).
 
See less See more
#777 ·
"JimAtTheRez" said:
This may have been addressed earlier, so sorry if it has. Has there been any talk about adding the WatchESPN feature that is available to Comcast and a few other cablecos? ESPN is putting more and more of their internet broadcasts here instead of the regular ESPN3 avenue. It would be nice to be able to have access to those events. Thanks in advance to SatRacer or anyone else for their input.
Probably not until that contract is up again.
 
#778 ·
Found this on Wikipedia. Says Directv will start carrying XM on Jan.20, 2013. Any truth to this?? Hope so.



DirecTV Channel Lineup

During its suspension on Sirius, it was also the only XM-exclusive channel owned by Sirius XM Radio featured on DirecTV. On March 27, 2009, Pop2K was added to the Sirius line-up, as an internet only channel.

On February 9, 2010, DirectTV dropped Sirius XM programming and replaced it with another music service called Sonic Tap. and DirecTV will start back carrying back XM programming on January 20, 2013.
 
#780 ·
"ep1974" said:
Found this on Wikipedia. Says Directv will start carrying XM on Jan.20, 2013. Any truth to this?? Hope so.

DirecTV Channel Lineup

During its suspension on Sirius, it was also the only XM-exclusive channel owned by Sirius XM Radio featured on DirecTV. On March 27, 2009, Pop2K was added to the Sirius line-up, as an internet only channel.

On February 9, 2010, DirectTV dropped Sirius XM programming and replaced it with another music service called Sonic Tap. and DirecTV will start back carrying back XM programming on January 20, 2013.
Would be nice but do not believe Wikipedia!
 
#784 ·
dpeters11 said:
With Pandora added, I wouldn't use it either, especially since they dropped Cinemagic.
Forgot about Pandora, when I am home I have either XM, via my receiver, or Pandora playing so have no need for XM from D*. The only thing Sirius,XM has for movie music lovers is a weekly one hour show on the Pops channel.
 
#785 ·
I know a little OT, but with Pandora and Sonic Tap, there's no need for SiriusXM on DirecTV. I'd rather see the budget go towards audio apps like last.fm, IheartRadio, Spotify, etc...

I reduced my Sirius subscription to Internet only (iPhone). The sound quality is MUCH better streamed from cellular and it doesn't cut out under bridges or parking garages. They should just change their delivery method to switched multicast over cellular data.

Anyway major thanks to SatRacer for all you do and I really appreciate that more basics are coming. I'm sure your fully aware of the various lists posted here frequently. Glad to know what's coming will address some of that. Anything you can do to help the HD lineup is awesome to make the best TV provider in the USA if not the world.
 
#786 ·
Anyone have any idea what's going on with H2 HD and why D* still doesn't carry it? The local cable and FiOS providers carry H2 HD. History Channel has been putting alot of their good shows on H2 in the past 6 months and I'm tired of watching these shows in SD. IS it a contract thing? An HD capacity thing?
 
#788 ·
n3ntj said:
Anyone have any idea what's going on with H2 HD and why D* still doesn't carry it? The local cable and FiOS providers carry H2 HD. History Channel has been putting alot of their good shows on H2 in the past 6 months and I'm tired of watching these shows in SD. IS it a contract thing? An HD capacity thing?
No idea.

I'm all for H2 in HD but only if the History Channel promises to not turn it into a second reality TV network.
 
#789 ·
n3ntj said:
Anyone have any idea what's going on with H2 HD and why D* still doesn't carry it? The local cable and FiOS providers carry H2 HD. History Channel has been putting alot of their good shows on H2 in the past 6 months and I'm tired of watching these shows in SD. IS it a contract thing? An HD capacity thing?
larry55 said:
maybe we know more this week what hd channels coming.
tonyd79 said:
No idea.

I'm all for H2 in HD but only if the History Channel promises to not turn it into a second reality TV network.
If you look at the (newest) DirecTV channel list under packages at this time...H2 is listed for the Choice Xtra or higher packages only.
 

Attachments

#790 ·
tonyd79 said:
I'm all for H2 in HD but only if the History Channel promises to not turn it into a second reality TV network.
Thus far, H2 is the home of all of the cool programming.

That most channels are going away from their namesake mission is a fact of life.
 
#792 ·
"dpeters11" said:
H2 is a reality network, but at least generally it is real reality. Ancient Aliens might be debatable.
History and analysis of such is not considered "reality programming."
 
#793 ·
APB101 said:
Thank you!

My guess, with basic cable in HD, up to a maximum five:
204 Headline News HD
232 Cooking Channel HD
253 LMN HD
271 H2 HD
304 TV Land HD​

<snip>
HLN and TV Land seem overdue. And I would probably watch more Cooking Channel if it was in HD -- I tend to skip over it now.
 
#794 ·
History might be reality but they at least select shows that have some historical connection (usually). Pawn stars, American pickers, counting cars, American restoration, How the states got their shapes, the men who built America; mankind the story of all of us,
The hatfield McCoy movie - you don't have to squint hard to see the history connection and they do attempt to give some historical context for the things they are showing. Swamp people... Meh. Less of a connection there.
 
#795 ·
hdtvfan0001 said:
If you look at the (newest) DirecTV channel list under packages at this time...H2 is listed for the Choice Xtra or higher packages only.
I consider every package but Premiere to be a "basic" package... so that would still make it a "basic" in my book.

Getting back to Festivus anticipation... While there are multiple HD channels I'd like to have (Chiller, Cooking, Fox Movie Channel, LMN, Reelz, The Hub, and to a much lesser extent, GMC and Logo), only the lack of TV Land HD and CW HD-DNS are enough to really disappoint me.

Thankfully, I'm thrilled that TV Land has HD VOD available (I had a marathon of the HiC episodes from this season that are available via VOD this weekend, and it was GREAT to not have to watch them in SD). I need to catch up with "Happily Divorced", and tuning in to a recent marathon of "Soul Man" on BET recently has me chomping at the bit for the new season of it... (I'm hopeful the linear channel will be available by then).

And... with the recent addition of ABC-HD to my local channel lineup, my hope is that DirecTV has made the technical improvements that will allow them to offer the local CW in HD once it upgrades to HD sometime in 2013, so I suspect that will be my best chance of getting that programming in HD.

Everything beyond giving me access (or better access) to those two channel's programming will be a cherry on top... :)
 
#796 ·
"tulanejosh" said:
History might be reality but they at least select shows that have some historical connection (usually). Pawn stars, American pickers, counting cars, American restoration, How the states got their shapes, the men who built America; mankind the story of all of us,
The hatfield McCoy movie - you don't have to squint hard to see the history connection and they do attempt to give some historical context for the things they are showing. Swamp people... Meh. Less of a connection there.
Pawn stars and American pickers are not history shows. Next you will try to call This Old House a history show. Having an appraiser telling you that Abe Lincoln was President is not history

Some of the other stuff yes. The states show is history. Hatfield/McCoy is history.
 
#799 ·
JimAtTheRez said:
This may have been addressed earlier, so sorry if it has. Has there been any talk about adding the WatchESPN feature that is available to Comcast and a few other cablecos? ESPN is putting more and more of their internet broadcasts here instead of the regular ESPN3 avenue. It would be nice to be able to have access to those events. Thanks in advance to SatRacer or anyone else for their input.
Good question, and the previous response is likely accurate - ESPN doesn't want to deal with it separately so it will have to wait until the next round of contract discussions. That said, DirecTV Latin America already has WatchESPN. See http://www.dbstalk.com/showpost.php?p=3152466&postcount=70
 
#801 ·
grecorj said:
HLN and TV Land seem overdue. And I would probably watch more Cooking Channel if it was in HD -- I tend to skip over it now.
I've watched some HD content from Cooking Channel from DirecTV's On Demand (ch. 1232). Everything looks great, and every bit as sharp as from regularly carried parent programmer Food Network HD.

I agree about the other two programmers. And right now I have on my TV a marathon of Bomb Girls episodes appearing on Reelz Channel. Everything from that programmer's HD content (ch. 1238) also looks great.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Top