Additions, suggestions, corrections, etc. are welcome. As they are incorporated into the topic, they will be purged.

Thanks in advance for your participation at AVS.

A tip of the AVS hat to all the members who have contributed to this topic.

And a huge thanks to CycloneGT for all his work in this topic over the last few years, along with nataraj who created the latest spreadsheet.

Here is Version 1.1 final. Any mistakes in this will be corrected in the 1.2 beta.

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Version 1.1 Change log:
Added D* channels
Updated Comcast, Mediacom, Cox, TWC


Edit 1: Just read in another thread that Fox News HD launches before 4/30, with TWC and D* having agreements to carry. I will update the document with that change in version 1.2

Do you have the list of 50 just announced by Time-Warner?

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b6D1AFECC-D838-4706-915A-06EA99BB2322%7d&siteid=nbk

Nope. That might warrant me updating my current one....

Cablevision hasn't annouced the addition of MavTV-HD. Cablevision only announces something just before or, or right after, it's added.

I have Brighthouse Networks in Orlando, FL and we do not get the following channels: MHD, Starz HD, Cinemax HD and Golf/VS HD (should be changed to limited IMO).

New first post, topic pruned.

dish has had nba tv for a while now

wow, this chart really ticks me off. why the heck do i have to have insight as my only cable tv provider? they have the fewest hd channels on the list!

What's up with FX (Newscorp) and USA/Sci-Fi (NBC Universal) ??? These are "must have" HD channels that nobody (save D*) seems to have. What gives ???

Announced for TWC
Planet Green-HD
MGM-HD

Limited for TWC
Fox News Channel-HD
Travel-HD
Hallmark-HD
Biography-HD
ABC Family-HD
Disney-HD
ESPNews-HD
Toon Disney-HD

insight has tbs HD, NFL HD, and the learning channel HD now. at least they have it in louisville, ky where i'm at.

Can I make a recommendation? We're not distinguishing "Limited Announced" anymore (and neither are the MSOs), and there aren't any Timeshares (and I seriously doubt any would be added anywhere in the future at this point). How about we dump both of those and give Limited Available it's own unique color rather than that gradient. Then it'd be a lot easier to read.

Or don't dump any of them--it doesn't matter to me--but I'd really be happy if you dropped the gradients for individual colors.

Can I make a recommendation? We're not distinguishing "Limited Announced" anymore (and neither are the MSOs), and there aren't any Timeshares (and I seriously doubt any would be added anywhere in the future at this point). How about we dump both of those and give Limited Available it's own unique color rather than that gradient. Then it'd be a lot easier to read.

Or don't dump any of them--it doesn't matter to me--but I'd really be happy if you dropped the gradients for individual colors.

individual colors would be much easier to read. i was just thinking the same thing when i first found this thread the other day. thanks for posting this info original poster! i've been looking for this kind of info for a long time!

Hey, thanks for the suggestions and updates. I'll be working hard tonight to figure out what to do with the colors. The original creator built them into a formula or something, so I have to set it up correctly. I'll try my best to get different colors.

I say get rid of the "Limited" color as almost every HD channel added from whichever cable company will have limited availability for the foreseeable future.

Plus If I had (example) CableCast in Vice City and I looked at this list and noticed that CableCast offered ESPN3-HD but I didn't have it. I would come to the conclusion that the channel has "limited availability" on CableCast and that my area has the rights to it but has not yet added it.

just my 2 centz

Cox has SciFi in limited availability. San Diego has it now.

just double-checked and insight has "animal planet HD" and "Discover HD" as well available everywhere. the channels that i mentioned earlier (NFL HD, TBS HD, and the learning channel HD) are available everywhere as well.

According to their site (http://www.insight-com.com/products-hdtv.asp#), these channels have limited availability (i don't have them here in louisville, though):

A&E HD
Big Ten Network HD
History Channel HD
Science Channel HD
Cinemax HD
Starz HD

You want lame?
Atlantic Broadband is a top 20 MSO with pockets of service in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Florida (I think they also have a presence in one of the Carolinas).

The HD lineup is not extensive:

TNT HD
NFL Network HD
ESPN HD
Regional Sports (varies by market) HD
Outdoor Channel 2 HD (which does not appear to carry any HD programming anymore :confused:)
(Discovery) HD Theater
Starz HD
HBO HD
Cinemax HD

and in Florida only:
HDNet
HDNet Movies

very sad indeed

Dish now has CNNHD

HDTV Notes
Lifetime HD Rolls Out; AT&T, Verizon To Offer It
Network's Second HD Channel Joins Lifetime Movie Network HD
By Linda Moss, Multichannel News, 4/16/2008

Lifetime Networks has launched its second HDTV service, Lifetime Television HD, joining sister channel Lifetime Movie Network HD, which bowed last year, officials said Wednesday.

Lifetime has also closed carriage deals with AT&T U-verse TV and Verizon FiOS TV to carry the new HDTV service. The two telcos have carried Lifetime Movie Network HD on their video services since 2007.

http://www.multichannel.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA6551941

AT&T and Verizon so far announced to carry.

USA and sci-fi HD now showing up on dish. :)

dish needs to hurry up and add mtv HD and louisville, ky locals dangit! i would totally switch to them for that hot HD only pack for $29.99/ month!

Who is watching Lifetime HD anyway? 4:3 on an HD channel is still low def. And High def theater shows "How it's made" in a stretch format. Horay for more HD channels, but where's the content? Sub standard HD channels/networks get no love on my system!

Who is watching Lifetime HD anyway? 4:3 on an HD channel is still low def. And High def theater shows "How it's made" in a stretch format. Horay for more HD channels, but where's the content? Sub standard HD channels/networks get no love on my system!

Wrong thread.

I'll get around to updating this chart this coming weekend. I'm hurt right now..

U-verse also has the Discovery HD suite of channels (discovery/science/animal planet/tlc/etc). It also has CNN HD.

Press Release for Discovery HD suite, CNN, and versus (http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=24928)

Press release for History channel HD (http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=24514)

CableONE in my market, has now added Discovery Channel HD & TLC HD.

The Verizon FiOS Programming thread says these are "supposed to be" available in July.... can that be considered "Announced"?

Animal Planet HD - TBS HD - ESPNews HD -
Big Ten Network HD - The History Channel HD - MOJO HD -
CNN HD - The Learning Channel HD - Showtime Too HD East -
Cinemax West HD - The Science Channel HD -Showtime HD West
HBO West HD - The Weather Channel HD - Starz Edge HD -
USA HD - Versus / Golf HD - Starz Comedy HD -
Bravo HD - CNBC HD - Starz Kids and Family HD -
Outdoor Channel HD - SCI FI HD - Lifetime HD East -
Smithsonian HD - Pay Per View HD (Events)

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13807312#post13807312

The Verizon FiOS Programming thread says these are "supposed to be" available in July.... can that be considered "Announced"?

Animal Planet HD - TBS HD - ESPNews HD -
Big Ten Network HD - The History Channel HD - MOJO HD -
CNN HD - The Learning Channel HD - Showtime Too HD East -
Cinemax West HD - The Science Channel HD -Showtime HD West
HBO West HD - The Weather Channel HD - Starz Edge HD -
USA HD - Versus / Golf HD - Starz Comedy HD -
Bravo HD - CNBC HD - Starz Kids and Family HD -
Outdoor Channel HD - SCI FI HD - Lifetime HD East -
Smithsonian HD - Pay Per View HD (Events)

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13807312#post13807312

I wouldn't, that is from DSL Reports, nothing officially from Verizon

Dish Network Expands HD - 22 channels.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 11, 2008 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH), today announced plans to bolster its rapidly expanding HD programming with the launch of an additional 22 national HD channels beginning Monday, May 12. These additions include:

ABC Family HD
Disney HD East
ESPNews HD
Biography HD
Hallmark Movie Channel HD
Bravo HD
Cartoon HD
MGM HD
Cinemax 5 Star
Sci Fi HD (1)
Cinemax HD West
Smithsonian HD
Comcast Sports Network Bay Area HD (Ch. 419)*
Tennis Channel HD
Toon Disney HD
Comcast Sports Network
Travel Channel HD
New England HD(Ch. 435)*
USA HD
CNBC HD
Weather Channel HD
CNN HD (1)
World Fishing Network HD

*Launch Wednesday, May 14
(1) Already launched

I came up with some other recommendations for the thread.

1) Rather than "NEW & IMPROVED EVEN BETTER" just put "Last Updated: 5/11/08" in the thread title.

2) I think it might be more helpful to list the cable providers by marketshare rather than alphabetically by provider type. That way it'll be easier to get a better idea how services with comparative audiences are doing in their acquisition of HD channels.

I came up with some other recommendations for the thread.

1) Rather than "NEW & IMPROVED EVEN BETTER" just put "Last Updated: 5/11/08" in the thread title.


Why would it say that when it was last updated on April 6th ??

Better would be to simply state:

Only Updated When DirecTV Adds Channels - Because in the 21st Century, TV is all about BIAS

Why would it say that when it was last updated on April 6th ??

I was just giving an example, the point being that the last date of update should appear in the thread title rather than the vague and uninformative "NEW AND BETTER AND IMPROVED AND STUFF OMG LOOK!"

Calm down people. I was experimenting with the excel sheet for the last few weeks. I'll be getting around to posting an updated version this week..

E* has dropped 70% of the VOOM HD Lineup.
Out of 15 available channels by VOOM. E* only carries 5.
1) Monstr
2) Kungfo
3) RUSH
4) Equter
5) Rave

Fail for E*.

E* has dropped 70% of the VOOM HD Lineup.
Out of 15 available channels by VOOM. E* only carries 5.


sansri88 might want to hold off on updating the ss - satguys just posted the rest are "coming down soon"...
(no big surprise there)

time to edit the matrix

Here is really good and updated chart showing HD channels by provider. However, all of the Voom channels are still listed for E*.

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5108854-5.html


Update: The chart was updated on 5/14/08 to reflect Dish's removal of the 15 Voom channels.

Wow people are getting quite antsy on the forums, eh? Calm down please...

Announced for TWC
Planet Green-HD
MGM-HD

Limited for TWC
Fox News Channel-HD
Travel-HD
Hallmark-HD
Biography-HD
ABC Family-HD
Disney-HD
ESPNews-HD
Toon Disney-HD

Here is really good and updated chart showing HD channels by provider. However, all of the Voom channels are still listed for E*.

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5108854-5.html


Update: The chart was updated on 5/14/08 to reflect Dish's removal of the 15 Voom channels.

Too bad that that chart is horribly inaccurate. DirecTV carries My Network TV and CW in HD in NYC and has since February. FiOS doesn't have the NHL network in SD nevermind HD.

It's also misleading because they leave out all of the RSNs that are available via FiOS but only in the local markets. You can get the HD RSNs via satellite but you'll need the sports packages to get the pro sports.

Not CNET's best effort for sure.

You should add RCN to your chart.

http://www.rcn.com/cabletv/lineups/details.php?lineup_id=MA-DIGITAL

E* has dropped 70% of the VOOM HD Lineup.
Out of 15 available channels by VOOM. E* only carries 5.
1) Monstr
2) Kungfo
3) RUSH
4) Equter
5) Rave

Fail for E*.

at least they kept the Kung Fu channel.....

I wish D* had that....and I don't care if they rotate 2 movies every 24 hours...once in awhile you'll see a gem..

Verizon announced they will add these 27 HD channels.
-The first will be in Ft. Wayne (June 30th)

Animal Planet HD
Big Ten Network HD
Bravo HD
CNBC HD
CNN HD
ESPNews HD
Lifetime HD (East)
Lifetime HD (West)
MOJO
MSNBC
Outdoor Channel HD
Sci-Fi HD
Smithsonian HD
TBS HD
The History Channel HD
The Learning Channel HD
The Science Channel HD
The Weather Channel HD
USA HD
Versus/Golf Channel HD
Cinemax HD West
HBO HD West
Showtime HD West
Showtime Too HD
Starz! Comedy HD
Starz! Edge HD
Starz! Kids & Family HD

I have not been getting the NY Mets channel(SNY,ch 625) in HD for the last couple days and I'm 99% sure I used to have it.
Anyone know if they took it off or do I need to call them?
I get the SD SNY. thanks

Verizon announced they will add these 27 HD channels.
-The first will be in Ft. Wayne (June 30th)

Animal Planet HD
Big Ten Network HD
Bravo HD
CNBC HD
CNN HD
ESPNews HD
Lifetime HD (East)
Lifetime HD (West)
MOJO
MSNBC
Outdoor Channel HD
Sci-Fi HD
Smithsonian HD
TBS HD
The History Channel HD
The Learning Channel HD
The Science Channel HD
The Weather Channel HD
USA HD
Versus/Golf Channel HD
Cinemax HD West
HBO HD West
Showtime HD West
Showtime Too HD
Starz! Comedy HD
Starz! Edge HD
Starz! Kids & Family HD

So this is legit news eh? I don't show it on the Verizon Fios page. This would be good news since I just switched from DTV to FIOS>

My Comcast has no 'Disc. (Discovery?) Theater', unless that's what HD Theater is.

So this is legit news eh? I don't show it on the Verizon Fios page. This would be good news since I just switched from DTV to FIOS>

If you go to the channel listings page, scroll down to Ft. Wayne effective 6/30... there is a pdf..

http://www22.verizon.com/NROneRetail/NR/rdonlyres/6C132B11-CF85-4153-B71A-ED79930810D7/0/FortWayneIN_63008.pdf

they did change it last week and reduced the number of HD channels from the original list shown for 6/30...

For what ever reason, these are no longer on the pdf.

Big Ten Network HD
Lifetime HD (West)
ESPNNews HD
Mojo
MSNBC HD
Versus/Golf

Verizon added these HD channels Ft. Wayne today (June 30th)

Animal Planet HD
Big Ten Network HD
Bravo HD
CNBC HD
CNN HD
Lifetime HD (East)
Outdoor Channel HD
Sci-Fi HD
Smithsonian HD
TBS HD
The History Channel HD
The Learning Channel HD
The Science Channel HD
The Weather Channel HD
USA HD
Versus/Golf Channel HD
Cinemax HD West
HBO HD West
Showtime HD West
Showtime Too HD
Starz! Comedy HD
Starz! Edge HD
Starz! Kids & Family HD

Please add to 1st page.

I was bored. If anyone knows how to use Excel formulas, I'd much appreciate the advice. Counting them by hand seems overly time consuming.

I've incorporated all the new info from this thread, though I'd recommend leaving nataraj's post for a bit just in case I've made mistakes. I've reorganized the cable providers so that they appear in descending order by subscriber base rather than alphabetically.

I'm sure there are mistakes and many things missing, so lay them on me and I'll fix them.

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Cox changes: A&E, Animal, Discovery, Food, History, TBS to widely available

CableONE changes .... They have both ESPN2HD & History Channel HD

History Channel is available on Dish.

If the Verizon column is intended to present the FIOS lineup, it is very wrong. Here in Massachusetts, FIOS includes many of the channels you show as unavailable - too many for me to list here. I suggest that you refer to their website.

I was bored. If anyone knows how to use Excel formulas, I'd much appreciate the advice. Counting them by hand seems overly time consuming.

I've incorporated all the new info from this thread, though I'd recommend leaving nataraj's post for a bit just in case I've made mistakes. I've reorganized the cable providers so that they appear in descending order by subscriber base rather than alphabetically.

I'm sure there are mistakes and many things missing, so lay them on me and I'll fix them.



Use the countif function... countif(range,criteria)
you would have to put something in the cell, maybe
"W" Widely Available
"L" Limited Avalability
"A" Announced

then you could use conditional formatting to color code the cell, and text, if you don't want that to show. It is limited to 3 conditions so maybe use gray for the N/A.

If you want, I could create it for you, just send me the XL file... I have office 2003.

This looks great!

Thanks for doing this.
JayMan.

Cablevision Ramps Up HD Lineup
Operator Will Push Roster To 60 By Adding 15 Channels By Aug. 1
By R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 7/2/2008 9:37:00 AM
Cablevision Systems Corp. will add high-definition services from Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel and FX as part of an overall 15-network HD rollout Aug. 1 that will increase its free enhanced lineup to 60 channels.

The new additions will launch over a five-day period starting July 28 and will be available to Cablevision’s more than 1.1 million high definition-enabled subscribers by Aug. 1.

While the network would not dislcose all 15 HD channel additions, the MSO said it will add HD offerings from Nickelodeon, WE tv, AMC, Animal Planet, The Weather Channel, Travel Channel, Fox News Channel, Discovery Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel and FX.

The 60-channel lineup still includes the Cablevision’s Rainbow Media-owned Voom HD suite of channels. Cablevision’s carriage deal with Voom was set to expire June 30, according to published reports.

Cablevision officials said it does not comment on contract negotiations with program providers.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6575099.html

As with the cable companies, the Verizon lineup varies widely from market to market.

If the Verizon column is intended to present the FIOS lineup, it is very wrong. Here in Massachusetts, FIOS includes many of the channels you show as unavailable - too many for me to list here. I suggest that you refer to their website.

Suddenlink has added:
FX HD
Sci-Fi HD
Travel HD
USA HD

To at least 12 markets so far, 11 in Texas, 1 in New Mexico, and will add them to the Eureka market in California July 16.

Suddenlink adds more HDTV channels
Written by Staff Reports
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Suddenlink’s recently completed 957-mile West Texas fiber ring is helping bring more high-definition television (HDTV) programming to area communities. Suddenlink today announced it has added four more HD channels in its West Texas markets: FX HD, USA HD, Sci Fi HD, and Travel Channel HD.
Suddenlink also announced it has added Chiller to its digital Variety Tier.
Last month, upon announcing completion of the fiber ring, the company announced it had added three other HD channels: TBS HD, MHD, and History Channel HD. The latest HD channel additions have been launched in Suddenlink cable systems in the Texas markets of Abilene, Amarillo, Andrews, Big Spring, Floydada, Lubbock, Midland, Plainview, San Angelo, Snyder and Sweetwater - as well as Clovis, N.M.
The newly added HD channels, along with existing HD channels and HD programming that will be available via Suddenlink video on demand services coming later this year, will offer hundreds of hours of HD programming, a volume expected to match or surpass competitive offerings.
HDTV offers a widescreen format, similar to a movie theater, with distinctly sharper and clearer images than standard TV. It also provides better sound quality. Not all networks or stations offer HD programming.
All of the most recent channel adds - USA HD, FX HD, Travel Channel HD and Sci Fi HD - are featured on Suddenlink’s “HD Basic” tier of service, which is available free to customers who lease the equipment required to enable HD viewing. (Suddenlink customers must have an HD television set connected to a Suddenlink HD receiver, or another HD receiver with a Suddenlink cable card, in order to view “HD Basic” channels.)
For more information, area residents may call Suddenlink toll-free at 1-866-269-4386, visit local Suddenlink offices, or visit Suddenlink’s Web site www.Suddenlink.com and enter their zip code for updated channel lineups and other information.

Suddenlink Adds HDTV Channels
The Times-Standard
Article Launched: 07/03/2008 01:15:48 AM PDT

Suddenlink this week announced it will add seven high-definition channels to its existing HD lineup in the Eureka area, effective July 16.

FOX 29 KBVU in HD will be available via Suddenlink as an “HD Broadcast” channel, which can be viewed without a Suddenlink HD receiver or cable card if customers have HD televisions sets with a built-in QAM tuner.

TBS HD, USA HD, FX HD, Travel HD and Sci-Fi HD will be added to Suddenlink's “HD Basic” tier of service, which already includes ESPN HD, ESPN HD2 and TNT HD.

History HD will be added to the “HD Plus” Tier that includes HD Theater, HD Net, HD Net Movies, Universal HD, HGTV HD, Food HD, A&E HD, and National Geographic HD. Two non-HD channels -- We TV and Chiller -- will also be added to Suddenlink's Digital Variety Tier.

No news about them in my market, Charleston, WV, as of yet, but we were one of the first to get new HD channels last time.

As far as I can tell no single market on Suddenlink actually has every HD channel they offer (locals and RSN's don't count), the ones that have the most have usually been missing either Cinemax HD or Universal HD.

These 4 additions bring Suddenlink's HD count to 22, which is apparently 7th among cable operators and Suddenlink is 7th in subscribers as well.

As with the cable companies, the Verizon lineup varies widely from market to market.

Generally speaking, it does not. Verizon's objective is a nationally uniform product. While the VHOs are upgraded to increase QAM capacity, certain markets will come online with the new channels faster than others, but everyone apparently should have them by the fall.

I'm not sure what he was talking about, unless he was referring to the initial post rather than my updated post.

Update with the totals added to follow tomorrow.

My Comcast only has 23 of those channels, unless you count 'INH2+', which seems mostly SD anyway.

I was bored. If anyone knows how to use Excel formulas, I'd much appreciate the advice. Counting them by hand seems overly time consuming.

I've incorporated all the new info from this thread, though I'd recommend leaving nataraj's post for a bit just in case I've made mistakes. I've reorganized the cable providers so that they appear in descending order by subscriber base rather than alphabetically.

I'm sure there are mistakes and many things missing, so lay them on me and I'll fix them.

Limited for TWC
Planet Green-HD
Versus/Golf-HD
Showtime 2-HD
Science-HD
NBA TV-HD
Game-HD

Not Available for TWC
Sci-Fi-HD

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Any additions, suggestions, and corrections are welcome.

A tip of the hat to all the AVS members who have contributed to the spreadsheet over the years, and a special thanks to CycloneGT, nataraj, and sansri88 for their prior work updating and compiling the spreedsheet.

Though I have not seen an "official" announcement, Comcast is now carrying WGN America HD in the Baltimore County, MD market. It came online for us Yesterday, on channel 216 WGN.

Just a quick FYI update.

AT&T U-verse now have the following channels for customers, which aren't listed:

USA HD
SciFi HD
Bravo HD
WGN America HD
CNBC HD+
History Channel HD
Big Ten Network HD
Fox Sports Mid-West HD
Starz Kids HD

Here are the 15 new HD channels Cablevision will add on 8/1 per a CV employee in the CV thread.

1. Discovery HD
2. Animal Planet HD
3. TLC HD
4. Science Channel HD
5. Fox News HD
6. Nickelodeon HD
7. Spike HD
8. Travel Channel HD
9. FX HD
10. Speed HD
11. The Weather Channel HD
12. AMC HD
13. WE HD
14. IFC HD
15. Hallmark Movie Channel HD

Can somebody please tell me how Comcast gets away with their radio ads that claims they "have more HD programming than anybody...period." Even if they count OnDemand programming, they still fall way short of almost all the other cable and satellite providers.

No need to list Versus on its own at the bottom as "announced".

The current Versus/Golf HD combo will become VersusHD 24/7 - new deals will have to be announced for GolfHD.

Can somebody please tell me how Comcast gets away with their radio ads that claims they "have more HD programming than anybody...period." Even if they count OnDemand programming, they still fall way short of almost all the other cable and satellite providers.

The ads only apply to your area - so other cable companies don't matter - its only vs their competitors (satellite and possibly FiOS/Uverse - i don't know whats in your area). If Dish/DirecTV are your only other options - then they probably can make that claim, thanks to OnDemand.....

Can somebody please tell me how Comcast gets away with their radio ads that claims they "have more HD programming than anybody...period." Even if they count OnDemand programming, they still fall way short of almost all the other cable and satellite providers.

They include each OnDemand program as a "choice" so that is how they inflate the pathetic number of 30ish HD channels to over 500. However there have been a couple articles this week on MultiChannel that say that Comcat is finally realizing that this strategy doesn't work and that people are still jumping ship to other providers(DUH). Finally they are realizing that a bunch of programs on a clunky interface that doesn't always work, does not equal hitting one button on your remote to go up to the next HD channel.

Most say they will start to not focus on that as much and put their efforts on eliminating analog channels to make room for more HD. Time Warner seems to be doing more SDV, and not removing as many analog channels.

I always knew Insight sucked, this only reinforces their hold on it. One of the providers with the fewest available HD channels and looks like nothing in the works.

I always knew Insight sucked, this only reinforces their hold on it. One of the providers with the fewest available HD channels and looks like nothing in the works.

Insight sucks with 30 HD channels? How about Comcast here (S. Jersey) with only 25?!

URFloorMatt, thanks for providing a more up to date list. However, Dish has had HGTV for a looong time. It also currently has MHD HD, Starz HD, Versus/Golf HD, 5Max HD and MoreMax HD,

Insight has 15, Max.

According to the HBO and Cinemax websites, all of their networks are now available in HD, even if no one is carrying them yet. Given recent additions by AT&T and many errors in the Dish lineup, I thought an update was worthwhile. My prior post now reflects all suggestions and corrections up to this post, and all posts up through this one can be purged.

You may need to refresh to get the most recent version.

Nice UR, but one tiny thing - you have MoreMax listed twice (you still have it listed by itself in the M's)

on verizon fios they just added cnbc hd, usa hd, and two channels called nbc 2008 (program guide says they will be showing the olympics...nothing but a test pattern right now)


http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20812509-NBC-Olympic-channels-on-Fios-now~start=20

on verizon fios they just added cnbc hd, usa hd, and two channels called nbc 2008 (program guide says they will be showing the olympics...nothing but a test pattern right now)


http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20812509-NBC-Olympic-channels-on-Fios-now~start=20

Confirmed here in Flower Mound, TX, too. I just came back from a trip out-of-state to my parents and their DTV was loaded with HD channels and it's really bugging me now that Verizon is dragging their feet on rolling out the additional channels. When is Texas slated to get new channels?

Versus/Golf NOT available on Comcast?

Versus/Golf NOT available on Comcast?
It is available on our Comcast system here in Champaign-Urbana, IL so I assume it should be colored in as limited availability.

URFloorMatt, for Cablevision, Big Ten HD and MavTv HD are NOT announced HD channels. That would bring the correct number of announced HD channels to 15.

Versus/Golf NOT available on Comcast?

Versus/Golf is listed as widely available on Comcast on the prior spreadsheet. That was an error that will be corrected in the next update.

The next update will likely come after August 1, when Dish is confirmed to add many new channels and, if speculation is correct, DirecTV and Verizon will both be adding dozens of new channels as well.

limited for Verizon Fios

FX-HD
Speed-HD
ESPN News-HD
Disney Channel-HD
ABC Family-HD
Toon Disney-HD
Biography-HD
Planet Green-HD
Hallmark Movie Channel-HD
Travel Channel-HD
Fox News-HD
Fox Business Network-HD
WGN-HD
The Tennis Channel-HD
QVC-HD
World Fishing Network-HD
MavTV-HD
MGM-HD
HBO2-HD
HBO Family-HD
HBO Comedy-HD
HBO Signature-HD
HBO Zone-HD
HBO Latino-HD
MoreMax-HD
ActionMAX-HD
5StarMAX-HD
ThrillerMAX-HD
WMAX-HD
@MAX-HD
OuterMAX-HD
Sho Too-HD
ShowCase-HD
ShowExtreme-HD
The Movie Channel-HD
TMCxtra-HD

As of 7/28, NYC FiOS now has 100 HD channels. I have them all in Long Island.

Correction: We are still missing:

867: Showtime Showcase HD
868: Showtime showcase West HD
873: Showtime Extreme HD
874: Showtime Exteme West HD
887: TMC Xtra HD
888: TMC Xtra West HD

These are in the guide, just not available yet.

other errata to the 7/28 NYC guide from NYC

750: Disney Channel HD is channel 780
751: Toon Disney HD is channel 781

Not in paper channel guide from Verizon, but in IMG

581: Olympics
582: Olympics

This thread needs to be deleted again. Here's the fixed thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=14422029

Please post any updates/changes to that thread until this one is deleted.