[priester68]

I'm a loyal Directv customer for 10 years now. When checking out Dish Networks site, they offer my same locals in HD where I can't get them with Directv. What's the deal with that? It is so frustrating because I have now way of watching Fox or NBC in HD.

 

[schlar01]

I agree that it is very frustrating but hopefully a lot more will be added in the next few months. I can't get Fox or NBC OTA and I really hate watching the shows I like in SD.

 

[Darkscream]

I agree that it is very frustrating but hopefully a lot more will be added in the next few months. I can't get Fox or NBC OTA and I really hate watching the shows I like in SD.

If - and it's a big if - you cannot get your locals or some of your locals in HD OTA or via D* then you are entitled
to get HD DNS for the ones you cannot get.

No waivers needed.

But this depends on you being in an area that is unserved by a local station(s) OTA.

 

[priester68]

I tried that. The OTA thing doesn't work for me or any of my neighbors. Just in a dead spot. Tell Directv that and they say I need waivers. So I guess the wait is on.

 

[Zyeox]

I tried the waivers and no go here!! It's funny how they deny you something you should be able to get free but you can't cause your in a dead zone. Then if they did give you the waivers you have to pay 4.99 per network which is crazy stupid.

 

[BlueGuy]

I tried the waivers and no go here!! It's funny how they deny you something you should be able to get free but you can't cause your in a dead zone. Then if they did give you the waivers you have to pay 4.99 per network which is crazy stupid.

Weird, I'm in the same DMA as you Zyeox and my CW waiver was granted.

 

[Zyeox]

I got that wavier but I don't get that channel in HD. What channel number is that?

 

[joshjr]

I tried the waivers and no go here!! It's funny how they deny you something you should be able to get free but you can't cause your in a dead zone. Then if they did give you the waivers you have to pay 4.99 per network which is crazy stupid.

Its not $4.99 per network its $1.99 per network.

 

[Crypter]

Its not $4.99 per network its $1.99 per network.

Still, it sohuld be free! I get CBS and ABC in HD with DNS and I hate that I have to pay an extra $4 a month for station I should be able to get in HD for free. All the goddamn cable companies around me offer it for free.. But since I can't get them in HD with my Antenna and DTV refuses to add my DMA I am phucked.

 

[joshjr]

Still, it sohuld be free! I get CBS and ABC in HD with DNS and I hate that I have to pay an extra $4 a month for station I should be able to get in HD for free. All the goddamn cable companies around me offer it for free.. But since I can't get them in HD with my Antenna and DTV refuses to add my DMA I am phucked.

I feel your pain. I am in the same situation right now. I am waiting on waivers to be approved hopefully but probably not. I will be buying an antenna and putting it up soon more than likely.

 

[RobertE]

Weird, I'm in the same DMA as you Zyeox and my CW waiver was granted.

I got that wavier but I don't get that channel in HD. What channel number is that?

Check again on or after 9/17/08.

 

[mreposter]

These are the cities Directv has announced that will get locals in HD soon:

September: Baton Rouge, La.; Burlington Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Ill.; Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mobile AL-Pensacola, Fla.; Myrtle Beach-Florence, S.C.; Richmond-Petersburg, Va.; South Bend-Elkhart, Ind.; Springfield, MO; Syracuse, N.Y.; Toledo, OH; Youngstown, Ohio

October: Boise, Idaho; Charleston, S.C.; Colorado Springs-Pueblo, Colo.; Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo.; Davenport, Iowa-Rock Island, Ill., Moline, Ill.; Dayton, Ohio; Evansville, Ind.; Harlingen-Brownsville, Texas; Norfolk-Newport News, Va.; Savannah, Ga.; Springfield-Holyoke, Mass.

November: Des Moines-Ames, Iowa; El Paso, Texas; Fort Smith, Ark.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Greenville-New Bern-Washington, N.C.; La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wis.; Macon, Ga.; Peoria-Bloomington, Ill.; Rockford, Ill.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Traverse City-Cadillac, MI

December: Dothan, AL; Bangor, Maine; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas; Butte-Bozeman, Mont.; Harrisonburg, Va.; Palm Springs, CA; Tallahassee, Fla.

 

[paulman182]

I get my NY DNS for no additional charge, but I'm in a "no-OTA" area.

 

[Crypter]

These are the cities Directv has announced that will get locals in HD soon:

September: Baton Rouge, La.; Burlington Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Ill.; Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mobile AL-Pensacola, Fla.; Myrtle Beach-Florence, S.C.; Richmond-Petersburg, Va.; South Bend-Elkhart, Ind.; Springfield, MO; Syracuse, N.Y.; Toledo, OH; Youngstown, Ohio

October: Boise, Idaho; Charleston, S.C.; Colorado Springs-Pueblo, Colo.; Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo.; Davenport, Iowa-Rock Island, Ill., Moline, Ill.; Dayton, Ohio; Evansville, Ind.; Harlingen-Brownsville, Texas; Norfolk-Newport News, Va.; Savannah, Ga.; Springfield-Holyoke, Mass.

November: Des Moines-Ames, Iowa; El Paso, Texas; Fort Smith, Ark.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Greenville-New Bern-Washington, N.C.; La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wis.; Macon, Ga.; Peoria-Bloomington, Ill.; Rockford, Ill.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Traverse City-Cadillac, MI

December: Dothan, AL; Bangor, Maine; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas; Butte-Bozeman, Mont.; Harrisonburg, Va.; Palm Springs, CA; Tallahassee, Fla.

I guess no HD locals for me this year then.... I am in Rochester, MN-Austin, MN-Mason City, IA DMA and we were amoung the last DMA's to get locals's in SD...

 

[Iwanthd]

Crypter, Who is that in your avatar?

 

[harsh]

No waivers needed.

Waivers are always needed whether you are served or not.

 

[harsh]

Crypter, Who is that in your avatar?

I'm guessing Adriana Lima.

 

[scott72]

I tried that. The OTA thing doesn't work for me or any of my neighbors. Just in a dead spot. Tell Directv that and they say I need waivers. So I guess the wait is on.

That's BS. I'm in the same situation where I live in a valley and can't get ABC via OTA. All my other locals are provided in HD by D*. I called them up and they turned on my distant ABC immediately. Try another CSR.

 

[scott72]

Waivers are always needed whether you are served or not.

..

 

[harsh]

I should have been more specific. DIRECTV can't give you an HD version simply because the local yokel doesn't offer an HD feed.