DirecTV continues to be successful in diffusing disagreements with network content providers before things got too out of hand. DirecTV customers were on the verge of losing a lot of Fox channels such as FX, Speed and the National Geographic Channel due to a pricing dispute with Fox. DirecTV felt Fox asking customers to pay 40 percent more a month for the same channels was unfair. Unless the two came to an agreement, several Fox channels would have been suspended starting November 1. Well you don’t have to worry about that now. DirecTV and Fox reached an agreement hours before the deadline to keep those channels flowing to DirecTV customers.

DirectTV customers are finding themselves days way from potentially having 25 fewer channels than they do now. Bloomberg reports DirecTV may pull Fox-owned channels such as National Geographic and FX as early as the beginning of November. DirecTV and Fox has to reach an agreement on pricing or else those channels will disappear.

Major movies studios such as 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony and Universal are ready to release a new video on-demand service at the end of April. The service is called Home Premiere and it offers movie rentals for films that have been in theaters for two months. Each movie will cost $30 to rent for 48 to 72 hours. This VOD service is meant to grab customers who would have missed new movies as soon as they were released in theaters.

The 3D revolution will be televised. That’s the word from a conference held last week on how 3D is pushing its way into our cultural mainstream. As proof, the conference pointed to six of the top ten movies of 2010 were 3D movies. And it looks like more will be as the number of theaters more »

According to some whispers on the street heard by HDGURU, DirecTV is on the precipice of offering 3D HDTV television channels service as early as March 2010. If this report is true, then chances are DirecTV will have an announcement at CES 2010 in early January. Interestingly enough, DirecTV will soon be launching a new more »

So, have you been worried that you might miss a minute of the historic inauguration coverage that will take place in DC next week? Well, fret no more. Websites, satellite companies, television networks and even photo sharing sites plan to give you a firsthand look at all of the action.

DIRECTV is using its Mix channel as a way to showcase all of the coverage. Viewers will be treated to eight different screens simultaneously displaying inauguration coverage from each network. Subscribers to DIRECTV can either choose to watch all of the screens at once or tune in to one of the selected channels for full screen viewing. Their will also be a ticker running at the bottom of the screen sharing facts about the inauguration.

Competitors of Dish are scrambling to figure out what to do now that the SlingLoaded 922 has hit. While every major company offers a DVR, there’s only one that can placeshift without additional hardware and that’s Echostar’s Dish. Hava, a Slingbox competitor, told Gadgetell that they were working with major companies like AT&T and DirecTV. more »

Whoa, Netflix! First came the Watch Instantly on the PC, then dedicated boxes, then Mac, then yesterday’s announcement of Xbox and now this one: TiVo will stream Netflix content on series 3, HD and HD XL receivers and up (sorry DirecTV users, no soup for you). Hot dang, what is next for Netflix, streaming on more »

Some of you may remember the DirecTiVo that was introduced three years ago. It didn’t quite work out, and it left many DirecTV users quite disappointed.

It appears that an attempt at redemption is at hand as DirecTV plans to release a TiVo powered, high definition DVR. This DVR is able to receive (and presumably record) all of the DirecTV digital and high definition channels.

At 3:48 pm today, a Boeing 702 model satellite was launched aboard a Sea Launch ZEnit-3SL rocket from the Odyssey Launch Platform.The new satellite called the DIRECTV 11 was introduced to enhance the HD capacity of DirecTV. Which means that subscribers will be getting an additional 150 new HD channels by this September.

Today’s launch is just the first of two satellites that DirecTV is working on. The second satellite is currently being readied to deliver up to 200 HD channels sometime next year. The newly launched satellite is reportedly DirecTV’s tenth operated and owned satellite. The tests are not yet complete but if successful, subscribers can expect to surf more and more HD channels.