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According to Multichannel News, Dish Satellite customers (that's me!) will be able to receive CBS programmes in HDTV -- I think this is one of the first broadcast carriers that have agreed to do that. I don't know if it will be broadcast in true HDTV (which means widescreen)
Here's the article if any1 cares:
EchoStar Communications Corp. said Thursday that it would deliver a nationwide high-definition feed from CBS starting this fall.
Not all Dish customers will be eligible for the feed. Those who are include three categories. The first group encompasses all subscribers who live in a 'white area,' or outside of the range of a local CBS broadcast signal. Also included are Dish customers who purchase local-broadcast packages within CBS owned-and-operated markets. And CBS affiliates can choose to authorize the national HD signal to be delivered via satellite.
Dish subscribers won't pay additional fees for the CBS national HD feed as long as they already subscribe to a broadcast-channel package from the direct-broadcast satellite company.
EchoStar will deliver the CBS national feed from satellites at the 148 degrees and 61.5 degrees west longitude orbital locations. Dish subscribers would need special receiving hardware and compatible digital-television sets to see the signals in HD.
CBS delivers primetime and sports programming in HD. Earlier this summer, the network added daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless to its HDTV schedule.
Cable operators carry HD feeds from broadcast networks on a market-by-market basis.
Here's the article if any1 cares:
EchoStar Communications Corp. said Thursday that it would deliver a nationwide high-definition feed from CBS starting this fall.
Not all Dish customers will be eligible for the feed. Those who are include three categories. The first group encompasses all subscribers who live in a 'white area,' or outside of the range of a local CBS broadcast signal. Also included are Dish customers who purchase local-broadcast packages within CBS owned-and-operated markets. And CBS affiliates can choose to authorize the national HD signal to be delivered via satellite.
Dish subscribers won't pay additional fees for the CBS national HD feed as long as they already subscribe to a broadcast-channel package from the direct-broadcast satellite company.
EchoStar will deliver the CBS national feed from satellites at the 148 degrees and 61.5 degrees west longitude orbital locations. Dish subscribers would need special receiving hardware and compatible digital-television sets to see the signals in HD.
CBS delivers primetime and sports programming in HD. Earlier this summer, the network added daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless to its HDTV schedule.
Cable operators carry HD feeds from broadcast networks on a market-by-market basis.