There was a "DirecTV confirms new HD channels" thread that was about 53 pages long that is gone. What happened? Was refreshing this thread a lot.

Look up. It's stickied and was combined with an FAQ thread to address some of the common questions that made up about 40 of those pages. :)

And now I've trimmed off the older comments. We'll go forward from this point, and the old topic will be linked in the first post of the new one.