************** Disclaimer : Directv only carries the 4 Major Local Networks Channels in HD ( ABC, CBS, NBC, & FOX ) To get the rest of the Locals Channels in HD you'll need to get OTA antenna **************

Breaking News: 12/2/2006 Directv is starting to offer some Tribune Owned Station Channels in HD.... The Station are.... WGN (Chicago) WTIC (Hartford / New Haven) KTXL (Sacramento) KTLA (Los Angeles) WXMI (Grand Rapids) KMYQ (MyNetwork, also owned by Tribune)

Status Update : Currently Directv carry Local HD Channels in Detriot / Chicago / Philadelphia, / Atlanta, / San Francisco, / Tampa, / Dallas / Houston / Boston, / Washington D.C / Los Angeles / New York / Columbus Ohio, / Nashville Tenn, / Sacramento Calif, / San Diego, / Minneapolis Minn, / Pittsburgh, / Kansas City Mo, / Birmingham, Ala, / Milwaukee, / Phoenix, / Salt Lake / St. Louis / Baltimore, / Cleveland, / Charlotte, N.C. / Denver, / Hartford, Conn. / Miami, / Orlando, Fla., / Raleigh, N.C / Austin, Texas, / Cincinnati / Las Vegas / West Palm Beach, Fla, / Madison, Wisconsin / Portland, Maine / and Reno, Nevada / Grand Rapids, Mich. / Green Bay, Wis. / Greensboro, N.C. / Providence, R.I. / Greenville, S.C. / Harrisburg, Pa. / Jacksonville, Fla. / Spokane, Wa. / Albuquerque, N.M. / Buffalo, N.Y. / New Orleans / Tulsa, Okla. / Oklahoma City, Okla. / Santa Barbara, Calif. / Omaha, Nebraska / Knoxville, Tennessee / Paducah, Kentucky / Wichita, Kansas / Louisville, Kentucky / Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, Iowa / Tucson, Arizona / Waco, Texas / Flint, Michigan / Anchorage Alaska / Juneau Alaska / Tyler, Longview, Texas / Albany, Schenectady, Troy, New York / Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Pennsylvania /

Upcoming HD Local Markets Launching are as follows

August 2008: Augusta, GA.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Lincoln-Hastings, Neb.; Rochester, N.Y.

September 2008: Baton Rouge, La.; Burlington Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Ill.; Mobile AL-Pensacola, Fla.; Myrtle Beach-Florence, S.C.; Richmond-Petersburg, Va. ; South Bend-Elkhart, Ind.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Youngstown, Ohio

October 2008: Boise, Idaho; Charleston, S.C.; Colorado Springs-Pueblo, Colo.; Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo.; Davenport, Iowa-Rock Island, Ill., Moline, Ill.; Dayton, Ohio; Evansville, Ind.; Fort Smith, Ark.; Greenville-New Bern-Washington, N.C.; Harlingen-Brownsville, Texas; Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Ark.; Macon, Ga.; Norfolk-Newport News, Va.; Savannah, Ga.; Springfield-Holyoke, Mass.

November 2008: Des Moines-Ames, Iowa; El Paso, Texas; Fort Wayne, Ind.; La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wis.; Peoria-Bloomington, Ill.; Rockford, Ill.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Traverse City-Cadillac

December 2008: Bangor, Maine; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas; Butte-Bozeman, Mont.; Harrisonburg, Va.; Tallahassee, Fla.

Directv will have the Top 36 DMA Markets in total by eariler year 2006, with additional markets to be carried to be announced shortly therefore after. Click Here for a list of DMA ratings Breaking News: 2/22/2006: Directv has announced the next 24 markets that will recieve Local HD in 4th Quartor
The markets are as follows
Fresno, Calif / Indianapolis / Kan. / Seattle / Memphis, Tenn. / Portland, Maine / Portland, Ore. / San Antonio / Mobile, Ala. / / Des Moines, Iowa / Norfolk, Va. / Ft. Meyers, Fla. / Springfield, Mo. / Toledo, Ohio / Little Rock, Ark. /

\Here is the requirements for the free Upgrade to Mpeg4

#1 Must be a current  directv Customer in good standing, Paying bills on time, never late, Etc...

#2 Must have an Mpeg2 HD receiver activated for a least 30+ days before your local market launches on Directv

#3 Must have the Triple HD LNB dish allready installed

#4 Must Subscribe to Directv's HD package

#5 must Subscribe to Directv's SD locals

#6 Must Subscribe to Directv's HD DNS channel

Those who are being charged $99.00 for the upgrade, should not be, as the CSR's are confused.

The 99.00 charge is only for install if you would be buying an additional receiver and Dish

The 99.00 is an separate entry in the computer system, which should not be added

Breaking News: DIRECTV Announces Plan to Launch Next Generation Satellites to Provide Dramatic Expansion of High-Definition and Advanced Programming Services. These satellites will provide DIRECTV with a massive expansion in local and national high-definition (HD) channels, , as well as capacity for new interactive and enhanced services and standard-definition programming. DIRECTV will have the capacity to bring these new services to every household in America. The first two of these satellites, Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2, will launch in 2005 with programming being offered to consumers by the middle of the year. These satellites will have the capacity for more than 500 local HD channels. The next two satellites, DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 11, will launch in early 2007. These satellites will have the capacity for more than 1,000 additional local HD channels, more than 150 national HD channels, and other new programming offerings. These satellites will provide DIRECTV the capability to bring local and national HD programming and other advanced services to every U.S. household. Consumers will be able to receive all of these services, as well as existing DIRECTV(R) programming, with a single small satellite dish. DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 11, to be built by Boeing, will be among the largest and most powerful Ka-band satellites ever launched. The satellites, which will take advantage of DIRECTV's advanced transmission techniques and state-of-the-art video compression technology, will deliver national HD programming and will be capable of supporting spot beams carrying local HD broadcast channels in all 50 states. Boeing will also build a third satellite for DIRECTV that will serve as a ground spare.
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Breaking News: DIRECTV Announces First 12 Markets to Receive Local Channels in High-Definition This Year Thursday January 6, 1:00 pm ET New HD Local Markets Mark First Stage in Dramatic Expansion of HD Programming Over the Next Two Years LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2005-- DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading and fastest-growing digital television service provider, announced today that 12 of the nation's largest designated market areas (DMAs) will be among the first to receive DIRECTV-delivered local channels in high-definition (HD) in the second half of this year. DIRECTV will begin a historic expansion of its capacity with the planned launch of four next-generation satellites that will deliver more than 1,500 local HD and more than 150 national HD channels and other advanced programming services to consumers nationwide by 2007. The first group of DMAs to receive local HD channels is: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Detroit, Houston and Tampa. These markets represent nearly 36 million homes or 32.8 percent of all U.S. TV households. Additional markets to receive local HD programming this year will be announced at a later date. Today, DIRECTV offers local channels in standard definition in 130 markets, including these 12 markets. "With the launch of the first of our local HD markets, we begin the most dramatic programming expansion in our history and take the first steps toward our goal of offering local HD channels to every household in America," said Mitchell Stern, president and CEO, DIRECTV, Inc. "We believe the addition of HD local channels to our programming lineup will provide new opportunities for growth as demand for HD programming increases, and will enable us to compete even more aggressively with cable." Local HD programming in the first group of markets will be available mid-year following the successful launch of the Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2 satellites in the second quarter. The launch of these satellites and two others -- DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 11, scheduled to go aloft in early 2007 -- will play a vital role in the dramatic expansion of programming capacity for DIRECTV, announced last September. The Boeing-built Spaceway 1 and 2 satellites will have the capacity for more than 500 local HD channels, bringing local HD programming to most of the U.S. population, and will enable DIRECTV to continue to expand standard-definition local offerings and other enhancements. DIRECTV 10 and 11 will have the capacity for more than 1,000 additional local HD channels and more than 150 national HD channels and other new programming offerings. All four satellites will use spot-beam technology to deliver local channels. DIRECTV will transmit all local HD channels and other new services from three Ka-band orbital slots co-located over the center of the country using MPEG-4 AVC, the new standard in digital video compression, and advanced modulation that will more than double the efficiency of DIRECTV's Ka-band capacity. Initially DIRECTV will carry each of the primary broadcast networks that offer an HD feed in the market and customers who subscribe to a local channel package will receive both the standard and HD signal. HD local programming will be received via a single dish -- slightly larger than the current standard dish -- and customers will require new HD set top boxes due to new compression technology. Directv will provide the neccesorry Equiptment upgrades for free for current subscribers, Also Note: Directv will provide the new Hd STB which also will include an 5th Generation ATSC Tuner, which is the world's first Best STB available, which will offer the best ATSC signal perfermance.
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Urgent Update Cancerning HD Network DNS Channels
Once your local market has HD LIL channels available & everyone is upgraded including customers with HDtivos to Mpeg4, customers will no longer get a national HD network feed even if your local station is O&O. as long as HD locals are available in your market even if you don't want them you will no longer get a national network feed in SD or HD for that matter. this isn't a Directv choice because once local channels are in your market the local station owners won't allow Directv to offer those customers anything but their SD and HD local channels. You must understand that this isn't a DirecTV choice and if you want this changed you must fight with your local station owners. Also even if one of your local stations is an O&O station you still won't get the national HD feed from that network because this O&O deal was only setup until they offer HD LIL channels. This was never planned to be a perminent offering.

Customers will get an 90 day DNS shutoff notice, when all the upgrade is done.
Note: HD Network DNS Channels are those channels like ABC CBS NBC & FOX from New York & or from Los Angeles, California
More info Here

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