Yep, saw that about channel 9500. I called in and asked about the games in HD. A very nice gal who didn't know anything said, ''If you have an HD receiver you may get the games in HD.''
Oh well, I guess we'll have to wait until Saturday to find out if nothing obvious shows up in the uplink report on wednesday.
Yeah nothing we've seen so far says the overflow games will be HD (unless you interpret the charlie chat slate that way). Everything I've seen so far has talked about the 24/7 HD simulcast of the main channel.
I hope they dump the HD-PPV channels (since they will have 9) and turn those into the overflow channels. Taking a few hours out of the day to convert them over to BTN HD alternatives should not be a big deal.
For my fellow Minnesotans, I think we are out of luck for HD. hdsportsguide.com does not show the gopher game in HD and gophersports.com lists it being on ESPN 360.
For my fellow Minnesotans, I think we are out of luck for HD. hdsportsguide.com does not show the gopher game in HD and gophersports.com lists it being on ESPN 360.
One of my Big Ten contacts says that BTN will be producing ALL football games in HD, and it was his understanding that the overflow games would be carried by Dish and Directv in HD as well.
We'll see this weekend. They could use the PPV channels either directly or on a time-share basis (where a PPV goes dark during a game).
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