1,650 HD channels on DirecTV
DirecTV has announced a plan to launch 4 Ka band satellites by 2007 that will provide about 1,650 HD channels. The first two satellites slated for a 2005 launch will support 500 local HD channels. The other two satellites will provide "more than 1,000 additional local HD channels, more than 150 national HD channels, and other new programming offerings."

This is great news for current DirecTV customers, like myself, who feared that limited satellite capacity would prevent DirecTV from offering more HD channels as they become available. Now there appears to be absolutely no reason to have cable.