http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/ Engadget HD Comments for HDNet to stay on DirecTV's total choice for now http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/Nov 15th 2007 11:22AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/
On the other hand, DirecTV continues to "bit-starve" SD; something it has done since about 2000, when it began stealing bandwidth to provide everyone their local stations over satellite. Even though this has since moved to spot-beams, the bit-starving continues. What used to be the best SD signal available -- better than OTA -- has been SD Lite for quite some time.]]>Nov 15th 2007 11:27AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/Nov 15th 2007 12:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/Nov 15th 2007 5:50PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/
I think a good solution would be to keep HDNet in the 'regular HD tier' or whatever they decide to call it. HD Net Movies could move to an 'extra' tier, available for an 'extra' charge of course.]]>Nov 15th 2007 2:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/
You couldn't be more wrong on bit starving. The HDNet stations are still Mpeg2 with D*.]]>Nov 15th 2007 2:40PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/Nov 15th 2007 3:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/11/15/hdnet-to-stay-on-directvs-total-choice-for-now/Nov 15th 2007 3:23PM