 Littlefalls
join:2004-11-16
Ringwood, NJ | Cool :) I don't have Fios yet, but i've heard a lot of people complaining about the lack of HD Channels. Now I think the only problem left is some of the bugs on the guide?
And also better speed- but people will always want more. | |
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N3OGH
Will it all be Obama's fault now?
Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | Re: Cool :) Mmmmmmmmm, HD.
I love HD programming. Especially on NFL and MLB games.
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| eco
Premium
join:2001-11-28
Wilmington, DE
| One word: BILLING.
I've have to call every month to get them to apply discounts I'm supposed to be getting, and they always tell me it will be fixed by the next bill. It never gets fixed. I decided to just give up because it's only 10 bucks more without the discounts I'm owed, but some people have it much worse than I do. | |
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join:2001-09-10
Falls Church, VA |  Re: Cool :)
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | SPORTS The best HD to me is sports broadcasts. | |
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tnroroc
Let's Rock
join:2001-04-25
Matawan, NJ
| I am Getting a Bit worried... ... that the contest has become whom can have the greatest number of HD channels, and not whom has the greatest number of QUALITY HD channels.
If someone gives you something you don't really want / have a use for, then having them give you 5x more is not really a great thing, is it?
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| jammmin
join:2000-12-14
Upper Marlboro, MD | Re: I am Getting a Bit worried... Its will always be a numbers game. Whoever has the most HD channel wins and currently, Directv is winning by a huge margin. Good planning on their part. Bad planning on Verizon's part. | |
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Dezbend
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-20
| Re: I am Getting a Bit worried... not to hi-jack the thread, but I have seen the big news articles every time Direct adds additional HD channels, but it looks like Dish is keeping up. according to their website: »www.dishnetwork.com/content/our_···ex.shtml they have 75 HD channels and claim they have the "most national HD channels".
Even if this is just posturing from Dish, saying DirectTV is winning by a huge margin must be inaccurate. Dish needs to learn to play the PR machine like Direct has done this year with HD.
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Tzale
Ron Paul - I Didn't Vote For Either
Premium
join:2004-01-06
NJ, USA
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Optimum Online
| said by tnroroc  :... that the contest has become whom can have the greatest number of HD channels, and not whom has the greatest number of QUALITY HD channels. If someone gives you something you don't really want / have a use for, then having them give you 5x more is not really a great thing, is it? Well the thing is that there are only so many HD channels right now, and the more you have, the greater the chance of having quality ones.
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stuckiniraq
@usmc.mil
| Sport HD=Higher prices for everyone Sure, I wouldn't mind having more HD channels...as long as they are channels I want. Personally I couldn't care less about sports programming. Now, if I have to pay more for my programming because some athlete believes he's worth 20 mil, then yeah, I start to give a hoot.
Add all the sports programming you want, but don't forget to change the rules so that I can get A la carte programming and not pay for someone else's entertainment. | |
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Aleck79
join:2003-07-23
College Station, TX
·Grande Communicati..
| You can promise the world, but can you deliver It seems everyday you see companies promising their customers the world, and then down the line they get revised and revised up to the deadline until its peanuts.
If they can deliver, good... but I doubt there will be 150 real HD channels(emphasis on channels, not Event/PPV/etc.) delivered to the FIOS customers. | |
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| smokarz
join:2006-07-24
West Hartford, CT | Re: You can promise the world, but can you deliver wish FIOS was in my area....crappy AT&T is in town, and U-verse is not even available yet for my neighborhood. | |
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| Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Pittsburgh, PA
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November 1st, @03:46PM
| Their statements that it will be on a market by market basis and they'll be providing HD VOD suggest they'll be making much greater use of the IP capability for HD. It also makes me wonder when they'll start introducing HD boxes with MPEG4 capability. As to whether anyone will be able to offer 150 real HD channels that's really up to the content providers. | |
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| moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | Looks like we will have to wait and see. | |
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drx792
@bellsouth.net | Not a threat I dont see how this is much of a threat to DirecTV as they will have the capacity for over 150 HD channels after D11 launches in December. They could easily offer any national HD channel the minute they launch. | |
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| robertfl
Premium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL | Re: Not a threat Direct TV is HD LIGHT. I'll take TRUE hd anytime.
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grydlok
join:2004-01-06
Richmond, VA | Re: Not a threat Prove the mpeg4 is not full rez. | |
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| | jjeffeory
join:2002-12-04
USA | I've had BOTH. You don't know what you're talking about. You're just copying some jibberish you heard. | |
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join:2006-12-28
Union City, NJ
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November 2nd, @01:35AM
| I've compared OTA, Comcrap and Directv and noticed hardly any differences whatsoever. The new MPEG4 channels looked great to me. Definately not HD-Lite IMO. | |
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| | robjulo
join:2004-08-22
Louisville, KY | Directv's new MPEG4 channels are NOT Hd-lite and very close if not as good as OTA HD. At least know what your talking about before posting. | |
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Cyber2lz
join:2001-11-15
Odessa, FL | Billing Fix the Billing and the customers will come.
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| Thespis
join:2004-08-03
Keller, TX
·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Billing said by Cyber2lz :Fix the Billing and the customers will come. Really? You would choose a video provider based on the reputation of the billing department?
I would rather base that decision on the availability of desired programming and picture quality, but to each his own... | |
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NotAgainAndAgain
@rr.com
| Verizon Can't Deliver! 150 HD Channels dosen't mean crap if you can't get FIOS! Fios is starting to look like a half-baked cherry picked spot deployment. The Verizon networking Guru's can't even deliver DSL in the suburbs of major cities.
The Verizon Bullshit is getting out of hand here! | |
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ScrewVerizon
@optonline.net
| Re: Verizon Can't Deliver! 150 HD channels to what? 0.01% of the population?? LMAO oh please. Wow the cable companies and DirecTV must be $hitting bricks!!! How terrifying OMG, What a threat!!! The cable industry will go bankrupt booo hoooo hoooo. Verizon's Fios deployment is a joke. It's laughable when people refer to them as "competition" LOL thats not competition. What competition??? LOL. They just don't get it. If they really want the get the cable companies where it hurts, they need to stop cherry picking. | |
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join:2001-03-10
Hampton, VA | Re: Verizon Can't Deliver! VZ is delivering, at least they are trying. Here in our area we now have fiber to the trailer park(ftttp).. that sure isnt cherry picking if you ask me. Oh by the way, please TROLL on over to the OOL forum. thanks.. See Yaa! | |
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join:2002-12-04
USA | Re: Verizon Can't Deliver! OMG. Thank you for the laugh! | |
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join:2006-12-28
Union City, NJ
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November 2nd, @01:25AM
| How is the guy being a "TROLL"? Doesn't fit the description. Are you sore cause he speaks the truth? Because he states what you fanboys dont wanna hear? What's even more laughable is you get "ftttp" in a trailer park. First of all, what the hell is "ftttp"? LOL
Secondly, I truly think you should get your priorities straight and start using the money you spend on your "ftttp" per month on moving out of that ghetto trailer park you supposedly get service at.
The point is that what good are Verizon's services if you can't get em. Who gives a rats ass? As the original poster of the thread stated, Verizon needs to stop their bullshit. | |
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join:2006-05-12
Springfield, IL
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November 2nd, @02:45PM
| Re: Verizon Can't Deliver! said by njcellfreak :The point is that what good are Verizon's services if you can't get em. Who gives a rats ass? As the original poster of the thread stated, Verizon needs to stop their bullshit. And that's DEFINITELY the truth here in ALL the Verizon service areas in IL! In the majority of their service areas in IL, they offer NO DSL service at all. And, in our paper this week, after IL enacted statewide video franchise legislation back in June, a Verizon spokeswoman says "the company has no immediate plans to apply for a cable franchise in IL". Verizon has ALWAYS treated their IL service areas as scum of the earth, so this doesn't surprise me in the least.
This in contrast to AT&T, who has already been awarded a statewide franchise & will start rolling out service in early 2008. (in Chicago, of course - but us downstater's south of I-80 are used to this... )
Maybe one of these decades we might just get some competition from Comcast - but certainly not anytime soon...  | |
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GeekNJ
Premium
join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ | How many HD channels?? I'm having a difficult time deciphering what the true outcome they are projecting.
Is it a total of 150 HD channels across all their various markets but no more then 60 within a given market? | |
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Yaco
Yaco
Premium
join:2001-10-13
Allendale, NJ | Re: How many HD channels?? True Directv is using the same BS. I maybe wrong but no one is getting 100 on one market. Maybe marketwide. Thats it
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | Market by market basis? So what's this, we only see more channels only in markets where the cable companies have expanded their HD lineups?
I smell a rat.
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pimpinparker
join:2005-06-14
North Baltimore, OH | TWC Behind I have Time Warner Cable and I have about 15HD channels (including local) and have heard nothing about adding anymore anytime soon | |
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toolazytologin
@verizon.net | multiroom dvr to be hd compatible I think the biggest announcement is that the multiroom dvr will finally stream to the hd boxes. | |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
| Re: multiroom dvr to be hd compatible I could care less what it can do. That new interface is a steaming pile of poo. It's more difficult to use than the previous interface. My wife hates it, my mother in law has trouble using it when it was put on her dvr, and hell if I have problems using it then there's something seriously wrong.
Sure they took the Xbox blade design, but you do not take a design that works and screw it up and expect people to like it.
Navigation is not seamless and required several different button presses depending on where you are. | |
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francishsu
join:2000-06-27
Wyoming, MI | can't wait for my favorites in HD Looking forward to HSN, QVC, ShopNBC and Jewelry in HD! | |
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odreian615
join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL | Re: can't wait for my favorites in HD I can't wait for nick and cartoon network wait would one tell the difference in HD cartoons and SD cartoons | |
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join:2002-12-04
USA | Re: can't wait for my favorites in HD Yes. There is a big difference. | |
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degeester
join:2002-03-08
La Quinta, CA | Bring on the 180 Channels! Per technician installing FIOS @ neighbors, I won't get FIOS TV until fall of 2008, so they should have the process and channels down pat. | |
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Rob A
Jets 19 - Steelers 16
Premium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | That's all fine and dandy... But it doesn't do me any good if the service ain't available! | |
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