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Come on, Doyle, you've been facing economic problems for a few years now like everyone else -- and we're now supposed to believe that it's suddenly the reason behind your poor subscription efforts.

Cablevision Systems customers can now watch free Hulu content, iTunes movies and TV shows, and YouTube videos -- along with digital photos, music, documents and just about anything else accessible on a Windows PC -- on their big-screen TVs. The New York-area operator's Optimum Link service, which launched April 1, is $4.95 per month for subscribers who take both

Starting today, Feb. 17, if you’re a Verizon FiOS TV customer you’ll be able to stream ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and Buzzer Beater to your computer from verizon.com/fiostvcentral or ESPNnetworks.com using your Verizon username and password.

If you're going to spend much of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend on the couch — after all, you'll have lots of food to digest -- there's plenty of TV to watch. Check out our marathon roundup: (All times are ET/PT and subject to change.) Thursday, Nov. 25
Godfather marathon (11:30 a.m.-4:30 a.m. Friday, AMC)

Starting Monday, Jan. 4, Daily Show and Colbert Report will be filmed and presented in the enhanced format, joining most other Comedy Central series, including South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program and Important Things With Demetri Martin in being delivered in the HD format.

Dish Network Corp.'s first-quarter profit climbed 21%, but the satellite-television provider continued to lose subscribers as competition mounts. Sister company EchoStar Corp., meanwhile, swung to a first-quarter loss amid declining revenue.

ESPN has launched it first ESPN-branded HD service in Brazil, ESPN HD Brazil, which is also the first 24/7 all-sports HD network in the country. ESPN HD Brazil, which includes live coverage of major sporting events such as the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup, the Spanish League, the Italian League and MLS.

DirecTV is offering customers 33 movies via its on-demand service in 1080p high-definition format, the so-called "full HD" standard, which the satellite TV operator claimed is more than any other service.

Dish Network -- which has boasted of being "first" to offer 1080p content -- currently lists about 20 movies in the HD format through its own on-demand service.

MASN, the local leader in live sports entertainment and the television home of the Nationals and Orioles, will launch its full-time HD channel on Wednesday, April 1 and will televise 210 Major League Baseball games in high definition in 2009.

The saying for March “in like a lion out like a lamb.” That saying should be reversed if you’re a fan of High Definition via satellite!
It appears that both Dish Network and DirecTV will turn up the heat to their HD customers by launching a handfull of new national HD channels this week.