DISH rolls HD locals to seven more cities
DISH Network was apparently 'it" in the game of "HD locals
tag", so today was their turn. The second largest satellite provider lit up the locals in seven areas today
and we've got them for you in alphabetical order for no good reason whatsoever. Albuquerque,
Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C. join the high-def local ranks
previously occupied by only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and Nashville. The HDBeat labs are
in the Philly area and sure enough, when we checked our local availability, we saw those magical two letters,
"H" and "D". We're still opting for
free OTA here in the labs, but the rest of you big spenders can have your HD locals delivered from space at a price
of $5.99 a month. Oh, DIRECTV: you're it![via HDTV Magazine]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tucker @ Mar 8th 2006 1:28PM
Great news, Kevin... Quick question, do you know what the "market area" is? I'm up in the Lehigh Valley, so I'm just too far out of range to get Philly OTAs, but crappy Service Electric cable has been promising me HD "in two weeks" since August... I'd love to jump ship, but since the majority of content I'm interested in seeing in HD is on locals, it'd be pointless for me to go satellite. I can never get a straight answer out of any of the providers, either. So frustrating to have such an expensive TV and no content. At least I have my Xbox360 to look at now, but I wants me some TV!!!