Whatever happened to the "BBC America HD is announcing carriage deals very soon" report from a couple of weeks ago?

Verizon and DirecTV have had the bundle option for ages. I've had a bundled service for a couple of years, except I didn't get a free laptop or camcorder for signing up. Now if they would just finish installing the FiOS in my neighborhood, I could get that laptop after all!

Well, they lost a viewer for the Torchwood event this week because no HD on DirecTV (thank god the BD is out next week). Would love to see Being Human in HD.

Anyone know if DirecTV will be carrying BBC America HD when it launches on July 20th?

What really sucks is that for people who purchased UHF "HDTV" antennas (antennae?) and were able to pick up all of their local channels because they were all on UHF frequencies, they got a big surprise Friday when channels started dropping off after the rescan because several channels in their markets switched their UHF digital signal to a VHF frequency. I lost three channels in my area. Totally sucks and just doesn't seem to be the right thing for those stations to do after being on UHF for so long. I'm really pissed about that.

Mike H, I'm in Baltimore too, but I can still receive 11 and 13 for some reason (although 13 won't come in on the rabbit ears on the upstairs TV), but not 7, 9 or 50 in D.C. I have a Terk UHF antenna in my attic that picked up everything just fine until Friday. The switch from UHF to VHF should not have been allowed IMHO.

I did the re-scan and actually lost a couple of local digital channels I used to get. Hopefully they'll be back. Also, DirecTV had no local HD channels on the air. Only a message that said they were fine tuning the locals. Shouldn't they have been ready for this like the rest of us??

UP has more heart and soul than most live action films, and - I know this is sacrilege - for my money a much more engaging film than the over-hyped WALL-E. Looking forward to the BD!

It would be nice if DirecTV and Verizon carried E! in HD. Who else has it besides Comcast - which owns E! ?

Haven't seen a new expansion report yet (it's May 24th), but I am thrilled to report FiOS is finally moving into my neighborhood in Dundalk, MD (Baltimore County). Verizon has begun installation of the large box and cables and they say it should be about three weeks. Now all they have to do for me to switch from DTV is upgrade their DVR with a larger hard drive capacity or add an eSATA expansion port.

I've had my Xbox 360 since Christmas, and for the life of me I cannot get it to connect to my Vista laptop. The software installs but the minute I try to connect to Media Center, I get an error message saying something is in use that is preventing it from connecting. I've gone through every "solution" I can find online and nothing works. I was actually looking at the Linksys extender, but I guess I'll put that on hold now. For me, the whole Media Center Extender has been worthless.