Ok, Cinemax is going to be running all six movies in HD on November 10th. Set your HD DVRs, as these broadcasts should look a lot better than a DVD on HD sets.
I’ll sit back and be bothered that DirecTV doesn’t carry the HD feed of Cinemax. Of course, I’m sure there will be torrents and such floating around for illicit downloading fun. (Not that we endorse that or anything).
Comment by BobPalpatine
November 3, 2006 @ 8:41 pm
Ooh, makes me wish I had an HD DVR and Cinemax HD. I wonder why DirecTV doesn’t carry Cinemax in HD? They have the bandwith available and they already carry Cinemax.
Comment by Fish
November 3, 2006 @ 11:53 pm
They don’t have the bandwidth. They are cutting off TNT HD every Sunday afternoon to facilitate running NFL Sunday Ticket in HD — I believe they are launching 1 or 2 new satellites for HD, but not until next Spring. The only premium stations in HD on DTV are HBO and Showtime.
Comment by BobPalpatine
November 4, 2006 @ 12:12 am
DirecTV in most major markets is now set up for up to 135 channels of HD. The official launch is in January according to the rep, but right now most markets actually have the capability it’s just that DirecTV sucks.
Comment by Fish
November 4, 2006 @ 7:08 am
Well, hopefully the DTV rep wasn’t feeding you a line. It was what we had in the place I’m living when we moved in, so I got it — I had it when I was with my parents, mainly because they live out in the middle of nowhere and can’t get cable. I recently purchased a new receiver (the HR 20 HD DVR box). If I had Cinemax I’d definitely drop Star Wars on there as “Keep until I delete” and maybe even pick up the BlackMagic HDMI capture card for my Mac to archive some of the stuff (might do that anyway — the card is under $250 and would be a nice thing to have if I ever move to a MacBook Pro as my main machine and send the G5 out to be a dedicated home theatre computer, but I digress — I spend more money on consumer electronics in my mind than I could ever hope to make in a year)
Oh well, Barry Lyndon (in a beautiful HD transfer) is “Keep until I delete” — that’s worth something.
Comment by BobPalpatine
November 4, 2006 @ 11:38 pm
No, you forget my job. I have to train on this stupid stuff. DirecTV has the bandwidth. I think they are waiting until more people have the receivers and dishes capable of the new compression.
Comment by aPPmaSTer
November 6, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
Torrents…vicious little files. Nobody should have anything to do with those illegal things. But if you do happen to stumble onto one of the Star Wars saga in HD, by accident…be nice and share :D
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