With DirecTV and Dish both adding lots of new channels, Cox has also been busy adding new HD content:
Cox will have the baseball playoffs in HD in both OKC and Tulsa. TBS HD will launch on channel 731 by October 3rd.
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Most of the listed channels, the Discovery Networks, Turner networks, Weather Channel, History, etc, just became available a week or so ago, or are being turned on in early October. So it’s not a game of catchup, they’re actually adding them when they become available. Cable has long had more actual separate HD channels, though I am glad to see satellite adding these. Competition is good.
Bravo, SciFi, and USA HD’s will be available in a few weeks hopefully, although NBC Universal has decided to go a whole different direction than Motorola or Scientific-Atlanta for their uplink transmission technology, going with Tandberg, whose receivers are astronomical in price. That could cause a holdup in their rollout, as the satellite receivers from Motorola and S-A were just now finally starting to drop in price to a reasonable level for cable operators.
I certainly hope DISH feels some heat! We have enjoyed more channels than the others for some time. There is not one reason for them to just allow Directv to pull ahead. It will be very interesting to see how it all plays out over the next several months. There are several on the new Directv line up I would like to watch; some that would be nice to have but are less important [speaking strickly for myself].
TBS HD is now live on Cox Channel 731 here in the OKC market as of this morning sometime…
Good to see. Does TBS broadcast any high definition content other than the upcoming baseball playoffs? I wonder whether this will be a permanent addition to the Cox lineup, or whether it’ll be pulled at the end of the baseball season similar to what happened with the NFL Network HD last year.
I think Cox must be battling with bandwidth. I’m afraid this winter there will be mass exodus from Cox over to DirecTV. There is still no beating Cox’s Internet speed. They win that battle with ease. I’m just wondering if they are struggling on how they can provide enough bandwidth for HD over their current infastructure. I have been a Cox customer since they took over multimedia here in Edmond. But even I am browsing the DTV site and looking at their impressive HD offering. The problem with HD, once you see it, everything else looks horrible.
I too have to wonder about bandwidth. Though not certain, I believe that Cox’s most recent network upgrade was moving from a 750mhz to a 1ghz plant. That should provide some headroom (and is probably why they’ve been able to launch a few more HD channels plus HD on demand), but how much bandwidth is left remains to be seen. Clearly, the number of HD stations is about to increase exponentially over the next year or two. Even Cox has to realize they’ll need to keep up to stay competitive long term. How successful they’ll be at that is a big question mark.
Looking at TBS’s program schedule, I would guess that 95% of it wasn’t produced in HD. It’s all old situation comedies that were made before HD even existed, shown in 2-3 episode blocks. They might show their weekend movies in HD but we’ll see.
I am growing really tired of the “stretched SD to make it look like HD” that these channels are doing. Especially History HD, which I was really looking forward to. Turns out there is very little on the channel that is actual HD, maybe one or two shows a week, the rest being letterboxed shows stretched beyond recognition to fill up the screen space.
I agree ggore streched SD is a bad idea.
Say how many hocky games are placed at time? Dish added a dozen NHL Center Ice channels in HD — no games were on the air at the time I discovered this.
I noticed a number of stations in DIRECTVs line up that I think has little HD to offer at the moment, tho that does mean I would not like to see them added to DISH because I would. At the same time too many HD offerings are being shifted through all the Discovery channels. Some of those programs History Channel does have in HD seem to be outside of what I expect to see on a history channel; and I could say the same of National Geographic channel.
I have yet to see the gain from the new line up from DISH for the Big Ten and National Hockey if all those channels remain unused.
Like the rest of you I am interested in seeing continued growth in HD channels but it would seem that a few of them may have started up a little unprepared to be kind about it. Upscaling a show up to mimic HD might be better left 4:3 and skip the stretching tho there may be some technical reasom that leaving the widescreen on full time.
TBS is Live on Dish Network!!!!!!! THANKS
I discovered that too so I went through the entire line up looking for other new ones, Do you think they may have turned it on at the same time all of those NHL channels and no one noticed because it is on 542, where in the past the new HD channels had primarily been placed in the 9000’s?
May be in the next several days we will find many of the recently started HD channels.
It will move to channel 9499 on Wednesday with the next scheduled weekly uplinks. Rumors are this was a private uplink for the DISH exec’s. and of course the hacker community saw it and posted pictures and suddenly DISH turns it on and announces it is a permanent addition. I am hoping we see SCIFI and USA hd in the next few weeks.