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J. DeFranco
Charlie, we've had continual questions about where
progress is coming in HD and of course Discovery has
talked about HD. And there are some other new
services or at least there's more programming being
developed, in the development stages in HD and so
constantly we get questions about what's the update
there. As it relates to Discovery, I know that we
have had some discussions with them. Maybe you want
to elaborate on that.
C. Ergen Discovery is planning a summer launch of a high
definition network. Again we're talking with them
about that, obviously capacity is an issue as well
for that. Mark Kuben of course who does high
definition HD Net was at our Team Summit and those of
you who saw him on the panel know that he's got a lot
of things going on and he's got some things that at
the end of this year will be available going forward
and there are lot of other talks in the work. But we
plan on being the leader in HDTV from a national
perspective. We obviously have a great [inaudible]
receiver at 6,000 that's capable of that, that is
capable of terrestrial HDTV as well if you put up an
offer antenna. So we think we have some good products
and we plan on moving them forward.
Our new relation with RCA is going to be helpful
there in terms of making sure that the TV sets
continue to come down in price. But we announce that
again the merger is what allows us to become the
leader in HDTV because of the tremendous bandwidth
that HDTV takes up. Again today we have everything up
there that we can put up there of value and we just
keep working with the programming folks to get more
and we'll haveannouncements when we have annouments.
C. Ergen HDTV, PVR we are working on that. Obviously it's
become a kind of chicken/egg problem because we don't
have enough ... With the merger we think that with
the content that we have and the bandwidth we have,
then we think that becomes a compelling product.
Without the merger that's not a compelling product
because we don't have enough HDTV to warrant it.
http://ccbn.tenkwizard.com/filing.ph...0033&VL=cc0033
J. DeFranco
Charlie, we've had continual questions about where
progress is coming in HD and of course Discovery has
talked about HD. And there are some other new
services or at least there's more programming being
developed, in the development stages in HD and so
constantly we get questions about what's the update
there. As it relates to Discovery, I know that we
have had some discussions with them. Maybe you want
to elaborate on that.
C. Ergen Discovery is planning a summer launch of a high
definition network. Again we're talking with them
about that, obviously capacity is an issue as well
for that. Mark Kuben of course who does high
definition HD Net was at our Team Summit and those of
you who saw him on the panel know that he's got a lot
of things going on and he's got some things that at
the end of this year will be available going forward
and there are lot of other talks in the work. But we
plan on being the leader in HDTV from a national
perspective. We obviously have a great [inaudible]
receiver at 6,000 that's capable of that, that is
capable of terrestrial HDTV as well if you put up an
offer antenna. So we think we have some good products
and we plan on moving them forward.
Our new relation with RCA is going to be helpful
there in terms of making sure that the TV sets
continue to come down in price. But we announce that
again the merger is what allows us to become the
leader in HDTV because of the tremendous bandwidth
that HDTV takes up. Again today we have everything up
there that we can put up there of value and we just
keep working with the programming folks to get more
and we'll haveannouncements when we have annouments.
C. Ergen HDTV, PVR we are working on that. Obviously it's
become a kind of chicken/egg problem because we don't
have enough ... With the merger we think that with
the content that we have and the bandwidth we have,
then we think that becomes a compelling product.
Without the merger that's not a compelling product
because we don't have enough HDTV to warrant it.