Probably because HDNet has an exclusive deal with D*. Comcast couldn't "carry" it if they wanted to.
I don't know about all the country but here FIOS is absolutely NO competition for cable. VERY limited area, and the service absolutely sucks - slow channel changing and only 1 HD channel to the entire house at once! (Kiss your dual-tuner DVR byebye..)
Satellite is a little better but still suffers from "HD lite" not to mention heavy equipment expenses and long term contracts. Plus, no Tivo S3 in sight...
Also, "increasingly limited amount of bandwidth" - where do you get this crap? I don't know about your area but here the cable co(s) have done nothing but INcrease bandwidth. They are even shutting off analog which will free up much MUCH more b/w for more HD channels.
Cable is absolutely just fine where they are right now.
It has been said that it is better to be quiet and thought a fool, rather than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. It has also been said that there is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action. I would recommend heeding both of these pieces of advice. First of all HDNet is not exclusive with D*, it's on FiOS channel 833. Secondly, channel changing is faster with fios compared to cablevision. Also, FiOS doesn't stream 1 HDchannel one can watch a different HD program on each set top box and record 2 shows at once on their DVR. As for bandwidth, i think 20Mb/5Mb unshared is better than 250-500 people sharing 15Mb/2Mb. in addition as far as bandwidth goes cable companies are using up tv channel space in order to do internet and voice. i guess they just figure if they compress everything a little more no one will mind... i do!
The situation with cable is interesting. I really think they should take the bull by the horns and just start migrating all of their users to HD capable boxes. Customers who want HD would pay extra for enabling HD output, but all would receive and tune the HD channels, but with SD quality. This way the cable companies would not need to have 2 versions of every channel. They just have the HD if there is one, or the SD until the HD version arrives. And people with an SD set would use the cable box in the same way as you would an ATSC to analog converter.
I hate the way now that I have HD all the HD channels are numbered as 902, 905, 907, when they should be 2,5,7...
HD Net is also availible on Dish Network, who offers a free dual tuner HD-DVR upgrade + over 35 channels of HD programming (in NY). I signed an 18 month agreement, which seemed like a deal for the free HD equipment that I received.
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Probably because HDNet has an exclusive deal with D*. Comcast couldn't "carry" it if they wanted to.
I don't know about all the country but here FIOS is absolutely NO competition for cable. VERY limited area, and the service absolutely sucks - slow channel changing and only 1 HD channel to the entire house at once! (Kiss your dual-tuner DVR byebye..)
Satellite is a little better but still suffers from "HD lite" not to mention heavy equipment expenses and long term contracts. Plus, no Tivo S3 in sight...
Also, "increasingly limited amount of bandwidth" - where do you get this crap? I don't know about your area but here the cable co(s) have done nothing but INcrease bandwidth. They are even shutting off analog which will free up much MUCH more b/w for more HD channels.
Cable is absolutely just fine where they are right now.
It has been said that it is better to be quiet and thought a fool, rather than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. It has also been said that there is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action. I would recommend heeding both of these pieces of advice. First of all HDNet is not exclusive with D*, it's on FiOS channel 833. Secondly, channel changing is faster with fios compared to cablevision. Also, FiOS doesn't stream 1 HDchannel one can watch a different HD program on each set top box and record 2 shows at once on their DVR. As for bandwidth, i think 20Mb/5Mb unshared is better than 250-500 people sharing 15Mb/2Mb. in addition as far as bandwidth goes cable companies are using up tv channel space in order to do internet and voice. i guess they just figure if they compress everything a little more no one will mind... i do!
The situation with cable is interesting. I really think they should take the bull by the horns and just start migrating all of their users to HD capable boxes. Customers who want HD would pay extra for enabling HD output, but all would receive and tune the HD channels, but with SD quality. This way the cable companies would not need to have 2 versions of every channel. They just have the HD if there is one, or the SD until the HD version arrives. And people with an SD set would use the cable box in the same way as you would an ATSC to analog converter.
I hate the way now that I have HD all the HD channels are numbered as 902, 905, 907, when they should be 2,5,7...
HD Net is also availible on Dish Network, who offers a free dual tuner HD-DVR upgrade + over 35 channels of HD programming (in NY). I signed an 18 month agreement, which seemed like a deal for the free HD equipment that I received.
Not so exclusive -- Charter carries HDNet here in metro Atlanta, and at my brother's house in southern California.