[Mike Bertelson]

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 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.

 

[Coca Cola Kid]

First poster!

I'll take HLN, H2, ID, and NGW.

 

[lparsons21]

For me, just BBCA-HD.

I have made a firm commitment to myself that I will not watch another season of Doctor Who in SD!

 

[Davenlr]

All the channels I have to pay Xfinity for: HLN, H2, DIY, G4, WILD, Comcast Sports South, BBCA would be a good start...

 

[TheRatPatrol]

Here we go again. :beatdeadhorse:

BBC
Cooking Channel
DIY
E!
Encores
FMC
G4
GSN (D* owns a portion of this, why are we still waiting?)
H2
HLN
HUB
IFC
NGW
Outer Max (why didn't we get this with the other Cinemax's?)
Outdoor Channel (available only in the sports pack, why are we still waiting?)
Sportsman Channel
Sundance
TCM
TV Land

We may see a few of these this year, but my prediction is that we will see many of these added mid to late 2013 or 2014, after the new satellites are launched.

 

[MysteryMan]

TCM HD, FMC HD, H2 HD, BBCA HD, The Military Channel HD.

 

[sigma1914]

Any HD.

 

[slimoli]

Anything is welcome if it doesn't hurt the bitrate of other channels. I already have all the channels I actually watch in HD but I don't mind Top Gear on BBCA joining the club.

 

[crawdad62]

TCM,BBCA,FMC,HLN in my top tier.

COOKING, H2, DIY in my second..

 

[Paul Secic]

First poster!

I'll take HLN, H2, ID, and NGW.

MTV-U would be good. Yesterday I went to a mall.. Radio Shack had a 55" SHARP AQUAS HDTV with MTV--U booming.

 

[sigma1914]

MTV-U would be good. Yesterday I went to a mall.. Radio Shack had a 55" SHARP AQUAS HDTV with MTV--U booming.

You want DirecTV to add MTV-U in HD? Will you switch from Dish, then? I don't even think MTV-U has a HD channel.

 

[fortnerw]

All channels that shoot programs in HD but D only has SD. When this happens we now have black bars on all four sides if you do not expand and cause more blurring. With a 46 in TV its like watching a 32 in TV. Come on D lets get with it!! I do have a few other options but I like D!!

 

[Alan Gordon]

NON PREMIUM CHANNELS THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD, BUT NOT HD (44):

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

NON PREMIUM HD CHANNELS LAUNCHING SOON THAT DIRECTV CURRENTLY OFFERS IN SD, WITH POTENTIAL HD CARRIAGE CHANCES UNKNOWN (3):

1. Fox College Sports (2012???)
2. TVG Network (2012)
3. Universal Sports (2012)

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 (8):

1. A Toda Musica
2. Azteca America
3. Azteca Mexico
4. ESPN Deportes
5. Fox Deportes
6. Telemundo
7. TeleNoticias 24
8. Television Espanola

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 (27):

1. Africa Channel
2. BBC World News
3. BlueHighways TV
4. Catholic TV
5. Comedy.TV
6. C-SPAN3
7. Disney Jr. [March 23, 2012]
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. MyDestination.TV
18. NHK World TV
19. NuvoTV
20. Pentagon Channel
21. Pets.TV
22. PixL
23. Recipe.TV
24. SWRV
25. Veria HD
26. WealthTV
27. World Fishing Network

NON-PREMIUM HD CHANNELS LAUNCHING SOON THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY IN SD (5):

1. HBCU Network (February, 2012)
2. Legacy.TV (1Q 2012)
3. Pac-12 Network (August, 2012)
4. RLTV (2012)
5. 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. OutMax

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

1. Fox Sports Ohio
2. Fox Sports Cincinnati

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

1. Longhorn Network
2. Comcast Sports Northwest

RSN CHANNELS THAT COMING SOON THAT DIRECTV DOES NOT CARRY AT ALL (8):

1. Pac-12 Washington
2. Pac-12 Oregon
3. Pac-12 Northern California
4. Pac-12 Southern California
5. Pac-12 Arizona
6. Pac-12 Mountain
7. Time Warner Cable SportsNet
8. Time Warner Cable Deportes

"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.

 

[Alan Gordon]

Things change...

The quarter before last's thread, I had a bunch of channels I was hoping for... and while I still hope for many of them (I no longer really care about the Encore channels since I no longer subscribe to Total Choice Ultimate), their importance is considerably less.

The only ones I TRULY still hope are coming this year are BBCA-HD, CW HD-DNS, and TV Land HD.

~Alan

 

[TheRatPatrol]

The quarter before last's thread

I still wonder why this is a quarterly thread? With so little HD additions the past few years, it seems it might be better to do a yearly thread instead.

 

[revm1m]

DIY HD

 

[Alan Gordon]

I still wonder why this is a quarterly thread? With so little HD additions the past few years, it seems it might be better to do a yearly thread instead.

Quarterly cleaning!

~Alan

 

[loudo]

Still looking for ID and DIY.

 

[Coca Cola Kid]

MTV-U would be good. Yesterday I went to a mall.. Radio Shack had a 55" SHARP AQUAS HDTV with MTV--U booming.

Does it even have videos? Or is it nothing but mindless reality shows?

 

[lacubs]

what about just about getting WGN HD back? lol