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Rounding Up HD News: HD Sports ‘Madness,’ Netflix Bulks Up on Blu-ray

Feb 28, 2008  •  Post A Comment

Special HD Treatment for Spring Sports
College basketball’s March Madness and golf’s Masters tournament are among upcoming sporting events that will offer extra features for high-definition viewers. For the Masters, which takes place April 10-13, DirecTV will have a “Masters Mix” channel with four camera viewpoints on a single screen, including Augusta National’s famed “Amen Corner.” CBS will offer Comcast and Bresnan customers high-definition video-on-demand highlight packages for March Madness, which takes place March 20-April 7, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Finally, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network will air 40 games each of baseball’s Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals in HD, Web site TVPredictions.com says.
Netflix Will Add as Many as 1,500 Blu-ray Titles This Year
Netflix will add 1,300 to 1,500 Blu-ray titles this year as next-generation DVD customers converge to a single format, Chief Financial Officer Barry McCarthy said at a conference this week. Netflix, which has about 90,000 titles, will add about 300 new Blu-ray films, with the remainder as back-catalog titles, McCarthy said.
Discovery HD Adds Live Muscle-Car Auctions
Discovery HD will start broadcasting live muscle-car auctions when it debuts “Mecum Auto Auction: Muscle Cars and More” on March 29. Discovery will broadcast three-hour auctions for six consecutive Saturdays ending May 17.
Rainbow Media Sues EchoStar Over Voom Channel Movement
Rainbow Media sued EchoStar to stop its Dish Network from moving Rainbow’s Voom HD network to a less popular subscription tier, Multichannel News reports. Rainbow, whose satellite was acquired by EchoStar from Cablevision in 2005, received a temporary injunction from a New York State Supreme Court judge earlier this month, preventing EchoStar from moving the channel, Multichannel News says, citing people it didn’t identify. Both companies declined to comment, Multichannel News reports.

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