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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 2028870" data-attributes="member: 18182">I work for DirecTV customer service, so here is a bit of info for ya.  The HD package right now only includes ESPN HD, Discovery HD Theater, Universal HD (used to be known as Bravo HD), HDNet & HDNet Movies.  The package is $10.99 a month and the offer for 6-months free is no longer available!  If you subscribe to HBO and Showtime, there are HD feeds for each major network.  HD locals aren't available thru DirecTV yet, but 10 markets will launch by the end of the year (giant cities like LA and NYC and so on).  You MIGHT be able to get national HD feeds of ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX from NYC & LA, but we have to beg permission from your local affialates to provide with them, so sometimes you can get them, sometimes you can't!  If you get the NFL Ticket in the fall, several games are broadcast in HD each Sunday.  That's it for now . . . but by year's end we will have a large HD expansion . . . but the brass won't tell us what exactly that means yet as far as how many channels and which channels will be available in HD.  You can buy that HD DVR bad boy in retail and thru DTV customer service (over the phone), but I am not aware of any rebates or credits offered at this point (I'll double check later).  Full retail is a cool grand on that puppy!Hope that helps</blockquote>