tobin, quit bitching about something that will never happen and enjoy what the market will support. "Real" HD over a satellite will never happen in a million years, it isn't cost effective now and it won't EVER be. There's too much compression and the dollars spent/dollars earned ratio for any satellite company to make enough revenue to support so few channels a "real" HD lineup would require. I'm sooooooo tired of all the bitching about something that isn't practically attainable. It is a simple matter of diminishing returns - enough said already!
Now, to the subject matter posted here. I don't care who you are or what size your HD set may be, this is exciting news. I've been receiving DTV-HD for several years now and yet we basically have the same five or six HD stations we had when I first subscribed. I've slowly gained access to my locals in HD (except for my lame ass local NBC station which for some unexplained reason isn't carried by DTV nor will they grant me an exception to receive the East Coast feed like Fox, & CBS did) but beyond that, bupkiss. Frankly, the prospect of getting between thirty and fifty additional HD channels over the course of the next two to three months makes me salivate like a BIG DOG. All at NO ADDITIONAL COST to what I'm currently paying. Heck, I ordered my BBC converters literally the second I received my email notification and I'm armed and ready at this point.
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Michael @ Aug 9th 2007 11:03PM
tobin, quit bitching about something that will never happen and enjoy what the market will support. "Real" HD over a satellite will never happen in a million years, it isn't cost effective now and it won't EVER be. There's too much compression and the dollars spent/dollars earned ratio for any satellite company to make enough revenue to support so few channels a "real" HD lineup would require. I'm sooooooo tired of all the bitching about something that isn't practically attainable. It is a simple matter of diminishing returns - enough said already!
Now, to the subject matter posted here. I don't care who you are or what size your HD set may be, this is exciting news. I've been receiving DTV-HD for several years now and yet we basically have the same five or six HD stations we had when I first subscribed. I've slowly gained access to my locals in HD (except for my lame ass local NBC station which for some unexplained reason isn't carried by DTV nor will they grant me an exception to receive the East Coast feed like Fox, & CBS did) but beyond that, bupkiss. Frankly, the prospect of getting between thirty and fifty additional HD channels over the course of the next two to three months makes me salivate like a BIG DOG. All at NO ADDITIONAL COST to what I'm currently paying. Heck, I ordered my BBC converters literally the second I received my email notification and I'm armed and ready at this point.
BRING IT ON!!!!!
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