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DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the infomercials-and-bad-movies dept.

doormat writes "DirecTV plans on launching four Ka-band satellites by 2007. This means local HiDef channels over satellite for the biggest markets by the end of 2005, with room for 500 HD channels. Plus 1000 more HD local channels and 150 national HD channels by the end of 2007. Thats a total bandwidth of 34Gbit/s, which is about 10 times the bandwidth they currently have in the Ku band (the band they use now for direct-to-home TV service). The bandwidth crunch for satellite providers is over, and the Ka band is the answer."

11 of 295 comments (clear)

  1. 1st? by marshmeli · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st reply?

  2. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

  3. Ahat about by u-238 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    locals?

  4. Ku ___ band by iamdrscience · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not sure how to work it in, but there has to be some joke you can make about calling the "Ku band" the "ku klux band" or something.

  5. 60 year celebration of 1st foray of US soldiers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ... into the 3rd Reich:

    The small town of Wallendorf (on the right wing ), located across the Luxembourg-German border on the confluence point of the Sûre (Sauer) and Our rivers, made the headlines in the wire services and the press, when shortly after the first U.S. troops had reached the borders of the "Third Reich" on September 11, 1944, strong elements of CCR (Combat Command R) of the 5th U.S. Armored Division , supported by sub units of the 112th Infantry Regiment (28th U.S. Infantry Division), pierced the "Siegfried" line and pushed in direction of Bitburg (Germany), capturing a number of villages, as of September 14, 1944.

  6. Police radar by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Any correlation between this and KA band police radar? Because I'd sure hate for police to move from the easily detectable KA band to Lidar laser detection.

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  8. Re:Yey, more television I'm not going to be watchi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you know what cowboyneal always says about that?

    "one ded niggers as good as the next"

  9. Re:Yey, more television I'm not going to be watchi by ThatWeasel · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What's cowboyneal always say about that?

    Oh wait, that was what he says about it right there, riiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt. I think cowboyneal should speak better English when he is fraggin noobs after getting the cheat off of G4 television.

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  10. Re:Yey, more television I'm not going to be watchi by ThatWeasel · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ShatjFcskhdfdaShkjtfsadhjkgujb!!!! I get modded down for replying to an idiot.

    I guess now I know and knowing is half the battle. I wonder if they are gooing to broadcast old episodes of G.I.Joe in Hi Def on one of these 1500 channels.

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  11. Nice try retard... Direct copy of my post by mp3zero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice try! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=106092&cid=903 4685

    My post from May 02. Come up with something of your own sometimes you retard.