FIOS quietly adds Discovery HD in some markets

There are some things that we just love to be wrong about. We theorized about why Verizon's FIOS only added one new HD channel in six months, while other providers were adding them in record numbers. Shortly after, Verizon announced major HD expansion plans for 2008 and now customers are reporting on AVS, that Discovery HD is showing up on channel 846. Oddly enough, there isn't any guide data yet, we'd guess they're waiting for the official launch. At this point it's hard to tell which markets are the lucky ones, but we can tell you that it's on in at least Tampa, Northern Virgina, and South Jersey. There have been a few rumors about five new HD channels being added by the end of '07, but up till now we haven't had any reason to believe them. As much as we love new HD programming, we'd rather have a different channel, based only the fact that most of Discovery's HD programming is already available on HD Theater and the most of the rest is upconverted and stretched.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 7th 2007 5:18PM]

I have it in Northern Virginia (Alexandria). I had to manually tune my Verizon box to 846 to view the channel, and then it appeared in the guide. My TiVo Series 3 had the channel and left me a message notifying me, but no guide data yet.

[mroach Posted Nov 7th 2007 5:26PM]

I'm on Comcast in New England and last night I noticed Discovery HD and History Channel HD showed up. No guide data yet on my Tivo. I'll check again tonight. Discovery HD has pretty much been upconverted episodes of Dirty Jobs. I think one episode was native HD though. There was also an Everest documentary.

[mjwedeking Posted Nov 7th 2007 5:39PM]

I have it in Southern California :)

[UnnDunn Posted Nov 7th 2007 5:46PM]

I thought Verizon added national channels to all markets simultaneously...

[Squid7085 Posted Nov 7th 2007 5:54PM]

Still waiting for Discovery Channel HD on Cox in Wichita,KS...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 7th 2007 8:50PM]

Discovery HD on 846 in the Richmond Area

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 7th 2007 9:22PM]

We have had Discovery HD for at least 12 months now on 846 in Dallas, TX.

[RiversideGuy Posted Nov 8th 2007 10:43AM]

One new HD channel in 6 months? How about TWC-NYC who added exactly 2 HD channels SINCE 1/1/07? Or how about one neighborhood getting 6 more HD channels than my neighborhood? Or how about another neighborhood getting 9 (NONE) new HD channels while I get nothing?

Thanks goodness both those areas ALSO get a 10% rate discount... while I pay full fare!

How come we don't see any story based on this?