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Mobile Miscellany: week of December 26, 2011
This week may not have been incredibly packed with news in the mobile world, but it was still easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here's some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of December 26, 2011:
HD channel expansion roundup
Once upon a time, a smattering of new HD channels in one major metropolitan area was a huge deal. Nowadays, it's almost expected that one area or another will experience some HD expansion each week. In order to keep things nice and tidy around here, we deliver high-def expansions, market expansions and anything else dealing with HD channel growth right here. If we missed an area that you're familiar with, drop us a line in comments so everyone can catch up. The more the merrier, we say!Read - DISH Network(R) Adds 30 HD Channels in HawaiiRead - DISH Network(R) Adds 30 HD Channels in AlaskaRead - DIRECTV to Deliver Local HD Programming to Customers in Lafayette, Ind.Read - Comcast digital switch update: Bellevue's next, Seattle in fallRead - FashionTV(R) Introduces New 24/7 FTV(R) HD Channel in the U.S. on DISH Network(R)Read - National Geographic Channels International Co-Produces Alaskan Killer Shark With Off The Fence ProductionsRead - Cox Launches WRIC in HD to Customers in King and Queen County, New Kent, and West PointFox News Chicago switched to HD (Thanks, Garst)Read - Time Warner Cable North East Ohio new HD Channels (Thanks, Justin)Read - Special Preview: ABC Family HD, Disney HD, HBO2 HD and BET HD (Thanks, Gary)Read - KMSP Fox 9 news in Minneapolis now in HD (Thanks, Nathan)
All DISH customers with 5 new national HD channels step forward -- not so fast Turbo HD subs
No sooner did DISH Network light up HD feeds for Speed, FX, Fashion TV, Logo and MavTV (as promised) than we started receiving complaints from left-out feeling Turbo HD package subscribers. It appears that being all-high definition with your channel choices means no Speed or FX for you, while the others are on the $10 extra Platinum package. Still, for those on the Classic Silver 200 package and above there's plenty of NASCAR practices, widescreen F1 and Rescue Me enjoyment to be had. DISH is still holding itself out as the HD leader with a claimed 140+ national channels (MSNBC HD confirmed launching in June) but with a price hike failing to gain access to the latest channel lineup additions we're sure there's at least a few customers with differing opinions.[Thanks, J David]
RRsat to broadcast Fashion TV Paris HD to overseas markets
For fashionistas looking for even a smidgen of HD in Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East and / or Africa, take your eyes off the mirror a second and check this out. Fashion TV has chosen RRsat Global Communications Network to provide uplink and playout services for the new Fashion TV Paris high-definition channel (FTV HD). Folks in Asia, Australia and Africa can catch it via THAICOM 5, while it'll be distributed via EUROBIRD 9 to Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
