Washington, D.C. (October 15, 2007) -- DIRECTV today added six new national High-Definition channels to its rapidly expanding lineup.

The new channels are: Fox Business Network (channel 359); HGTV HD (channel 229-1); FX HD (channel 248); Speed Network HD (channel 607); Fuel HD (channel 612) and The Cartoon Network (channel 296).

DIRECTV's launch today now gives the satcaster 47 national HD channels (51 if you include the four broadcast networks, available in most markets.) The company says it will offer 70 HD channels by month's end and up to 100 high-def channels by the end of the year.

DIRECTV today also added the following regional sports channels in high-def: FSN Southwest (channel 643); FSN West HD (channel 652); Fox Sports Prime Ticket HD (channel 653); and FSN Detroit HD (channel 636).

And, it added three channels in the 130s and three channels in the 140s for high-def PPV movies.

The Fox Business Network, which just launched this morning, was created by Fox to compete with business channels CNBC and Bloomberg News.

Unlike CNBC's new CNBC HD+, the high-def edition of Fox Business Network offers true HD images.

CNBC HD+ provides a standard-definition picture on three-quarters of the screen, with HD graphics on the right hand side of the screen.

771 I think it is, on most of the hd channels. funny thing is all of the hd channels worked fine before.

Got new b-band converters sent to me, no change. tech is comming out on Thurs. no idea what it could be but maybe the dvr?

I assume you have the 5LNB dish, and the correct receivers. My guess would be your multiswitch is wrong or you are trying to use diplex with the sat cable.

on this latest release 229-1 for HGTV wouldn't work. Everytime they release new channels I hard reset(red button) and they all work fine. Almost like the receiver needs to relearn the satellite. I'm going to call D* next week anyway to have them come align my dish as it is in high 70's low 80's on 103(b). And I think when it's cloudy I get a lot of searching for signals.

Please let us know what they think it is.

And let me add...cmon D*...add some FSN BAY AREA for Sharks in HD!!!!!!

be interesting to see the F1 race this weekend and see how it looks as the SD version is nothing to right home about. See if the HD will help in upconverting at all.

and its a wideband one so they said it should work.

Is there anything that I could do before the tech comes out?

beaming

Go Avs
Go Rockies
Go Broncos
Go Nuggets

in HD...channel 654. Till they turn it on Conus, we are screwed here in Sac./Reno/Central Valley/etc.

But I'm sure Rubberduckie knows something "I" don't and I'm wrong! :-p

My channel 96 shows up already saying its showing the game in HD on that channel.<ul><li><a href="http://fsnbayarea.com/FSNHD.jsp">http://fsnbayarea.com/FSNHD.jsp</a</li></ul>

Give DirecTV a call and find out why?