Cleaveland Locals in HD

[smakovits]

I have tried looking around for information about locals in HD for cleveland but everything I found was 6 months+ old. Does anyone have any new information on this subject as to when Dish might launch locals in HD so I can ditch my OTA antenna.

 

[ClevelandRob]

I was told no later then December of '06, so don't hold your breathe! New birds are supposed to launch in March I think... so hopefully sometime in the summer. We ARE the largest DMA without HD Locals...

 

[mattopia]

Soon I hope!

Some of the uplink reports have shown that there is some spotbeam activity at 61.5 that could mean more HD locals overall before the new birds go up. However, most anyone around here is on 129 for HD, so if our HD locals go on 61.5, we're going to need a fourth LNB, which probably means a second dish.

There's nothing "official" though - all speculation at this point.