Bright House adds two HD channels including FX

[Bschneider]

Bright House adds two HD channels that includes FX-HD

This afternoon Bright House added two new HD channels to their lineup. Now viewers can enjoy popular shows such as Rescue Me and Nip/Tuck on FX-HD. The other channel is Lifetime Movies.

Lifetime Movies HD - channel 737
FX HD - channel 738

[AmelFl]

sweet!

go BH!

[FTBoomerIII]

When will they add channels we actually want

[Palmateer]

Yeah, I "accidentally discovered" them yesterday.

I wonder how long it will be before Bright House tells all their customers these are available.

[skottey]

I noticed this last night around midnight.

Holy crap.... I now get an HD channel on BHN that DirecTV doesn't offer me.. LMN HD... wow... yippy.... not that I will ever watch LMN HD.

As I foolishly pay for both DirecTV Premier (the full premium and sports channel package, along with two DVRs ~$140) and the basic HD-DVR digital package with BHN (approx $70/month), I can now happily say I get a channel on BHN that I don't get on DirecTV. I am paying $70 a month for American Life, which DirecTV doesn't have (the wife and I DVR "Til Debt Do Us Part," a Canadian import show about you guessed it, consumer debt) and LMN HD, which I don't watch. Oh, and must not I forget Bay News 9 *insert sarcasm here*.

I am still waiting to see what they do. When FIOS goes live in my neck of town (sooner than later I hope), I intend to lower my DirecTV package (riding out the contract perhaps) and go full FIOS with all those sexy movie channels (dropping BHN). I am not too hot on the Verizon DVR though. But I have really gotten to enjoy the DirecTV DVR and like it. Not too impressed with the BHN DVR these days.

I would actually like to see BHN add Fox News HD. I still don't get that one on DirecTV, so Fox News is one of the few SD channels I still watch. BHN and DirecTV both get FX now, why not Fox News HD? Hopefully soon, from at least one of the providers.

[skottey]

When will they add channels we actually want

Yeah, like Fox News HD instead of FX, and Travel Channel HD instead of LMN HD.

[skottey]

Yeah, I "accidentally discovered" them yesterday.

I wonder how long it will be before Bright House tells all their customers these are available.

Yeah... that is how they roll..... just add them and let people stumble on them. I think they are embarrassed that this is all they got. When they added seven channels 10 months ago they were up our a$$e$ about it, but they put out this crap and they do it under the radar.

I want Fox News HD and Travel Channel HD.... that goes for both DirecTV and BHN! I don't care who is first.

[FTBoomerIII]

Yeah, like Fox News HD instead of FX, and Travel Channel HD instead of LMN HD.


FoxNewsHD and SciFi for me

[skottey]

FoxNewsHD and SciFi for me

I hate to brag, but I get SciFi HD already on DirecTV... hahaa.... I love Scare Tactics! Great stuff!

Sorry!

[AmelFl]

FX is a great channel

lots of great movies and series

[skottey]

FX is a great channel

lots of great movies and series

The opinion is in the eye of the beholder. Don't the movies have commercials? I won't watch commercial-ridden cut up movies. There are too many premium channels and even the $2 DVD bin at Big Lots. I see no need to watch non-original programming on a commercial cable channel, especially movies. TBS movies? No thanks!

[bdraw]

I agree with skottey in regards to movies, but I do like original series on cable channels. I'll admit I never watched FX before (because I never watching anything that wasn't a movie a football game or on the history channel before HD), but I do like Battelstar Galatica for example.

[AmelFl]

my favs

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-present)
Nip/Tuck (2003-present)
Rescue Me (2004-present)

[rossinfl]

the riches was a real good show also. if you have hd dvr just fast forward the commercials

bhn needs these hd chnls asap : espn U, usa, fsn, wgn, etc., etc., etc.

[skottey]

I agree with skottey in regards to movies, but I do like original series on cable channels. I'll admit I never watched FX before (because I never watching anything that wasn't a movie a football game or on the history channel before HD), but I do like Battelstar Galatica for example.

One cool thing about BHN is that they throw us a few bones. AMC has a show I like called Breaking Bad, and I had only watched all the episodes on BHN's HD Showcase on Demand. There were no commercials, and they were uncut with language and a little sex. I loved the show but missed the pilot episode on HD Showcase on Demand. So I attempted to watch it on the regular SD AMC channel. It was FULL OF COMMERCIALS, they bleeped out the bad words, and the picture quality was of course awful. I ended up going to the AMC Breaking Bad website and watching the episode on my computer screen (something I normally hate doing). The show was obviously intended for a premium channel, uncut, but when Showtime/HBO/Starz didn't take it, they offered it to other cable outlets and AMC must have picked it up. Excellent show. Hopefully, when season 2 comes arond somebody will have it uncut and HD preferred.

I do watch cable shows, as in original programming... I do just DVR them and FF the commercials. The commercials aren't even the biggest problem. The problem is the stuff they cut out. Here they are cutting out the word "shit" (can I say that here? LOL) yet another basic cable channel, MTV, airs far worse filth than that. The cable channels are horrible when it comes to movies.

[bdraw]

I don't watch any movies that are cropped to fit my screen, the audio is normalized so explosions are as loud as dialog and the background moves around when it's not supposed to, regardless if was censored or edited.

So the only movie channel on cable I watch is HDNet movies, otherwise it's Blu-ray or when I absolutely have to DVD.

[skottey]

I don't watch any movies that are cropped to fit my screen, the audio is normalized so explosions are as loud as dialog and the background moves around when it's not supposed to, regardless if was censored or edited.

So the only movie channel on cable I watch is HDNet movies, otherwise it's Blu-ray or when I absolutely have to DVD.

Starz and Showtime are better about maintaining OAR than HBO... sometimes Cinemax gets it right, but not often. 16x9 is still better than 4:3. I compared side by side a Cinemax HD recorded version of Transformers from DirecTV to my HD-DVD disc (yes, I still have a hefty collection of 50 HD-DVDs, many bought after the technology "died"). Cinemax cropped the movie to 16x9, so obviously it was better on the HD-DVD, but it was bearable, unlike 4:3.

BTW, BHN has MGM now, they maintain the OAR. Many of the multichannel Showtimes in non HD (and HD if you have DirecTV) do too. Starz HD is good too, if BHN every gives you a chance to see it.

[Palmateer]

Another vote here for Fox News HD :)

FoxNewsHD and SciFi for me

[bdraw]

I don't subscribe to movie channels because I've already rented just about every movie they show, plus they usually overcompress.

[AmelFl]

watched a bit of 'Its Always Sunny In Philla' last night, big dissapointment...it was in basically in SD

bummer