DirecTV to broadcast the 90th PGA Championship held at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan with its PGA Championship Interactive service from Aug.7 to Aug.10. DirecTV also supplements with TNT and CBS broadcast feeds and also offers PGA.com through online. This interactive service is free to DirecTV subscribers and will deliver the PGA Championship Tournament [...]
DISH Network took almost three weeks time to sign an agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) after DirecTV’s agreement with NBCU to bring 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. DISH Network announced that its agreement with NBCU will allow DISH to deliver two high-definition specialty channels to its HD line-up solely dedicated to the 2008 Beijing Olympic [...]
DirecTV has announced that they just switched to Entropic’s Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) technology in DIRECTV’s SWM-ODU dish unit with the help of leading provider of silicon solutions Entropic Communications. This technology will deliver HD programming directly to all of the consumer’s set-top boxes. Using SWM-ODU technology, DirecTV subscribers will be happy to note that [...]
DirecTV has announced that the satcaster is planning to launch more than 30 high-definition channels starting from August 14. At present DirecTV is offering 95 national high-definition channels. This new HD channels addition will take the DirecTV’s tally to 125 HD channels. DirecTV’s main competitor DISH Network has already announced that they will launch 17 [...]
DirecTV is also joining the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games broadcast as the satecaster has reached an agreement with NBC Universal. This agreement will allow DirecTV to launch a special video on demand (VOD) Olympics programming package to its subscribers who have the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR or R22 DVR receiver. NBC Universal will provide DirecTV [...]
DIRECTV Mas, which offers Spanish and English-language programming, has honored Oscar de la Hoya, a legendary boxing hero. Oscar De La Hoya, nicknamed as “The Golden Boy” comes from a boxing family was awarded with “DIRECTV Mas Community Service Award” and $250,000 contribution to the Oscar de la Hoya Foundation. The Mexican American boxer was [...]
DISH Network has announced on Thursday that the satcaster will launch 17 high-definition channels on August 1 to reach 100 channels. DISH Network, during January this year announced that they would offer 100 national HD channels by year’s end. DirecTV is also gearing up to reach the 100 HD channel mark, it seems DISH will [...]
Time Warner Cable is also planning to deliver more high-definition channels to its customers. According to www.engadgethd.com, Cable operator is all set to deliver twelve HD channels in Southern California. Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS and Cablevision Systems Corp are all delivering new national and local HD channels and The leading satellite TV provider DirecTV is [...]
DirecTV has launched ‘DIRECTV on Demand service’ to its subscribers across the country on 30 June. DirecTV has tested ‘on Demand service’ since October and the customers highly anticipated service. DirecTV subscribers with a DirecTV Plus HD DVR or R22 DVR receiver will have access to over 4,000 standard-definition and high-definition titles and is available [...]
Cable operators are rolling out new HD channels in various markets and this rush is understood, before the satellite major DirecTV starts its HD expansion in September, every operator wants to be in the race and hurrying with the HD expansion. Time Warner also does the same, now the cable operator has added several new [...]