Why do I all of a sudden have certain channels on DirecTV?

I have a HR23 receiver and I can't see any HD channels but local. BUT, if I go to sports mix or sports guide and click on the HD versions of channels, they somehow are in HD. But the only way they're in HD is that way. Has anyone had this problem?

Cable has them all, how do they stay in business with all of these missing channels, these are the channels missing on my DirecTV Guide On DirecTV Cinemax MoreMax Not on ...show more

I have HD with my cable company(Brighthouse) and they dont have as much HD channels as Directv, I'm just looking at some simple channels too, like Spike tv etc, which i have on ...show more

I checked out the local channel availability in various areas around the country. In some areas, all 4 of the major affiliates (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX) are available in HD, but in many areas only 1 or 2 are available. In the Portland metro area, only FOX...

I recently bought a Sanyo 42inch 1080p HDTV. My wife did not buy any of the HD cables so all I did was plug it in and connect the cable from the wall to the back. No other cables were connected. For my Blue Ray player the picture looks great but for...

i don't have any of those channels but once in a while i check and i see that i have access to these channels for about a week?

On DirecTV they have: 299: NIKe 300: NIKw 302: NKTN

i changed my package and some channels that are in the package arent coming up i try them and it says "channel not available" and doesent even change....i called them and they couldent fix the problem what do i do..

I'm thinking of switching from Time Warner Cable to DirecTV. I noticed on DirecTV's channel lineup on their website that HD channels are kind of scattered all over the place (channel 107 is HD, 108 isn't, 158 is HD, 159 isn't, and so on), whereas on...