Between CES and the Television Critics Association event, there was no shortage of HD-related content developments this week. DIRECTV, which last year announced plans to launch 100 national HD channels in '07, said at CES that it has inked carriage deals with 70 cable networks for their high-def feeds, including Cartoon Network, CNN, FX, History Channel, NFL Network, Sci-Fi, Speed and USA, the majority of which will launch in Q3. Interestingly, most of these channels had not yet officially announced their HD plans, although CNN and FX were widely rumored to be getting close to a launch.
TBS is also scheduled to come online this year in HD, according to parent company Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner. CNN, another Time Warner company, will launch its high-def simulcast in September, while Cartoon Network -- yet another channel owned by Time Warner -- will launch sometime in the second half of the year.
More on this from TV Week. They also report that DIRECTV may be interested in buying the VOOM HD suite of channels from parent company Cablevision.
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