^We were supposed to get ESPN News, ABC Family, Toon Disney, and Disney Channel in HD by now. I wonder if it’s Disney or Direct TV that’s the hold up.
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are technically just SD channels up converted to hight quality SD (basically what we should be getting all the time) as Direct TV SD looks worst than video tapes. Hope we get Encore soon (its the only one not in HD yet).
Direct TV customer service is horrible. They make you hold an hour and then hang up on you. What is worse, we paind hundreds of dollars to get new HD receivers, as are old ones wouldn’t be getting the new channels, and were told that the new receivers and HD pack we were currently getting would cover all the HD expansion.
Well, they lied. I wake up later to find that I can’t watch HDN Movies and MGM HD (of which I just watched The Chipmunk Adventure on MGM and Vertigo on HDN Movies the day before). I called them, I wasted about 2 hours waiting only to talk to someone who barley spoke english (like every time I call them) and then be told that it’s going to be $5 extra a month for those specific HD channels that I was getting all along in addition to the $10 I’m already paying.
So I threatened to drop them, they gave me an extra 3 months of those channels but after that, I’m not renewing those extra channels. MGM doesn’t own any of thier good movies anymore besides James Bond and Pink Panther (WB owns most good MGM movies) and HDN Movies isn’t worth $5 by itself.
From my experiences: Apple=Awesome CS, TimeWarner=Good CS, and Direct TV=Horrible CS.
A113, what does XDD stand for? I’ve never heard it used before.
“Tired of Direct TV? Switch to DISH Network.”
LOL just kidding. I’ve never even tried DirecTV, but I don’t have any problems with DISH. However, I don’t have DISH HD, so I wouldn’t be able to say anything about that.
xD or XD is an emoticon, which shows a smiley that is laughing very hard, and adding more D’s to that adds extra laughing, supposedly. I usually didn’t use it until NikChik11 became my friend, and I caught her xD-titis. xD
I’ve never been a fan of direct download, I much prefer to have a hard physical copy of a movie in my hands that isn’t just on some hard drive that could easily erase.
As for The Incredibles on Blu-ray, I’m really dissappointed and actually surprised that it doesn’t appear to be coming this year, day & date with Wall-E, like Cars was with Ratatouille last year. I thought they were gonna release the Pixar catalog on Blu-ray in their reverse theatrical order, along with the latest one. But, nope, Disney’s wanting to get Nemo out of the way first, which is set to come side by side with Stanton’s new film Wall-E on November 4 (just a wild stab that’s when they’re coming).
Personally, I don’t see all the hype. Sure, all those Blu-Ray ads are making DVDs sound pathetic, but do we really need 100% sound and video quality? It’s just unnecessary. The only appeal is the scratch-proof coating, and even that I don’t need since I take such good care of my videos.
One day, Blu-Ray will be cheaper and more titles will (hopefully) be released. Direct downloads are definitely going to triumph though. If there’s any higher power though, DVDs will still be produced and sold for years to come.
Well, Blu-ray debuted only 2,5 years ago. How many of you had DVD players in fall 1999? Blu-ray seems to be the only logic choice if you have HDTV. Some players are already cheaper than $200 and prices are going down and down. Disc prices for new movies are quite cheap.
But as of today there is no word on the release of “The Incredibles” on Blu-ray.