ESPN2-HD coming to DirecTV next month

This news is semi-old because it was announced earlier in the year, just without the details. Today the details became clear in an e-mail I just received from Broadcasting & Cable. It was announced that DirecTV will launch ESPN2-HD on September 8th. Approximately 700,000 DirecTV subscribers will receive the new channel.

ESPN actually launched this channel at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) back in January. It took until now to get the content to satellite viewers, which is surprising. It's possible that DirecTV didn't have the bandwidth to carry the channel until now. Prior to this announcement, only Adelphia and Mediacom cable customers had access to ESPN2-HD.

I won't see the new channel; do we have any folks receiving ESPN in HD now? The HD content seems far and few between for an HD channel; my hope is that the second channel contains more in high-def, and I don't mean "Sports Center."