MTV's high definition channel
MHD continued its stealth launch on Comcast at least in the Detroit area, showing up on this blogger's channel listing late last night. INHD2 is but a memory,
Tour de Gorge and
Twilight Zone reruns, you shall be missed. 8~ hours in it's a welcome addition, many widescreen videos obviously mastered for HD including the Gorillaz
Feel Good Inc. video that played during
MTV-HD's original debut in January. Is this the HDTV killer app that will truly give high-def a boost along with game consoles and next gen DVDs? That remains to be seen but we can't help thinking it might be nice if the cable company actually
told people it was on. We'll be able to give some more in depth impressions once
this Rihanna video goes off we've had some time to let it sink in.
posted Aug 17th 2006 7:23AM
When I heard that Charter Communications was going to be adding MHD to the system back in July, I was excited. After having it for almost two months I am a little disappointed. I think they have a lack of content for the channel because the station repeats all of the concerts all the time at least twice a week. I am impressed with the video blocks they have been showing in the morning and late nights. They show a lot of videos you normally dont see on MTV (when they show videos). But I will say this, even though they show the same stuff alot, it sure looks good on my High Def tv.
I agree with Chris Dinges that MHD does seem to have a lack of content (suprisingly so considering it is a combination of MTV, VH1 and Country Music programming).
Though it is cool to turn on a video channel and actually hear music. No pop culture countdowns, no whiny rich 16 year old girls, no cars being pimped. Just music. I wonder how long that will last though.
Killer-app it is not. People remember the countless times MTV has burned them. Sure, it has videos now, but give it a year, or year and a half. By 2008 the channel will be nothing but crap and no longer have anything to do with music.
At least the woman that created "The Real World", --the show that spawned all this Reality TV nonsense-- died of cancer. I hope she is now forced to watch it in hell. Some industry watchdog group should be able to revoke the name MTV from them since the M is greatly underutilized. Allow a channel like "The Tube" to take over the name.
Love the HD, love the concerts. Hate the reruns. They play the same things over and over and over and over. I agree that it will be loaded with the normal MTV crapola eventually. I really miss INHD2. There was some good stuff on that channel. I find myself scrolling through the HD channels always finding nothing to watch now, makes me wonder why I pay extra for it. I really liked In Theatres. MHD was great the first week.
NNTPgrip.
Even if you don't like reality TV, don't hate the creator and feel happy that she passed away due to cancer! That's just wrong!!!
Leave it to MTV to fuck up HD.
As a huge music & HD fan, I can't say that I'm even remotely interested in this channel.
I loathe MTV. Ever since they scrapped MTV X, they're dead to me.
Empty-V. Video may have killed the radio star, but Viacom killed the music video.