Two new FiOS HiDef channels
Nat Geo WILD HD and Investigation Discovery HD have been added to Verizon’s FiOS TV line-up, the company announced today.
The additions give FiOS TV 142 HiDef channels and more than 3,300 HiDef video-on-demand titles every month.
Nat Geo WILD HD, a new cable network dedicated to extraordinary nature and wildlife programming, launched on FiOS today (July [...]
NASA Television goes HiDef July 19
NASA Television will add a full-time HiDef channel Monday (July19), delivering live coverage of the final two space shuttle launches and other spacecraft as well as the daily “ISS Update” of activities of the on-orbit International Space Station crews, the agency said today in a brief announcement.
Also available on the new channel will be video [...]
Sensio, Cinedigm, ESPN World Cup scores
The 2010 World Cup Final set viewership records on ABC and ESPN, which broadcast all matches in HiDef, and proved a global success for companies involved with the first-ever 3D telecasts live in theaters, such as Sensio and Cinedigm.
Spain’s victory over the Netherlands in the Final on ABC was the most-watched Men’s World Cup game [...]
Hoffman has good “Luck” with HBO
HBO has picked up the Michael Mann-directed drama series pilot “Luck” for at least seven – nine original episodes to be shot at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Ca., near Pasadena as early as late September.
The unusually expensive pilot featuring high-profile players behind and in front of the camera (well in excess of $10 mil., [...]
DISH Net offers Eclipse
It may be a little early yet for the DISH Network to be offering the newest “Twilight” episode in theaters called “Eclipse,” but the satellite service is offering another eclipse to its viewers free of charge this weekend, the solar eclipse in HiDef, live from a camera mounted on a commercial communications satellite.
UPDATE: Sunday, 5:30 [...]
DISH launches another HiDef satellite
DISH Network launched its second satellite this year today, which will add even more HiDef channels to the service’s 200 national HiDef networks and local HiDef channels in 156 local markets in the U.S.
The EchoStar XV satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral, launched on an International Launch Services Proton/Breeze M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in [...]
.99-cents movies on DISH
Last week the DISH satellite service began offering video-on-demand movies such as “Alice in Wonderland” and “She’s Out of My League” in HiDef 1080p for 99-cents for 48-hour viewing, and some such as “Green Zone” and “Hot Tub Time Machine” available weeks before they can be rented at Redbox or Netflix.
The deal runs over the [...]
Dish swaps Fuse with MTV’s Palladia
Dish Network today replaced the Fuse network with MTV Networks’ music channel Palladia, which features best-of programming from sister networks MTV, VH1 and CMT, including concert series and events , events such as VH1 Storytellers, CMT Crossroads, MTV2’s $2 Bill, MTV Video Music Awards, VH1 Hip Hop Honors and CMT Music Awards.
Palladia, which also broadcasts [...]
Disney pulls four nets from Dish
In the latest battle over network fees resulting in the loss of Disney-owned channels to subscribers, Dish Network satellite customers have lost four Disney HiDef channels — Disney Channel HD, Disney XD HD, ABC Family HD and ESPNews HD.
Both sides claim the other pulled the channels, and each side has their own version of what [...]
Echostar launches HiDef sat in Taiwan
EchoStar’s international subsidiary launched digital premier pay-TV service DishHD in Taiwan, the company announced today (June 21).
The new DishHD, broadcast via the AsiaSat 4 satellite, offers Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and more than 30 1080i HiDef channels from Asia and around the world, more than twice the number of HiDef channels than any other [...]
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