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Article: Suit Assails DirectTV's HD; Plaintiffs: Package Isn't True Hi-Def.(TV Currents)
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- TelevisionWeek
- Article date:
- September 25, 2006
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Byline: James Hibberd
A California attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit against DirecTV over the image quality of its high-definition channels, claiming the bandwidth-strapped satellite broadcaster is downsizing its HD package.
The suit alleges DirecTV's hi-def channel streams have become so crunched, they no longer meet the commonly accepted definition of the term "HD'' and are therefore defrauding subscribers. In other words, he claimed DirecTV's HD isn't really HD.
"[DirecTV] knowingly misrepresented the quality of the video in its HD Package to convince consumers to invest in their decoder box and subscribe,'' the suit states.
Philip Cohen, a ...
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