B3v’s Nimiq 4, Nimiq 5 and the Captain 8000

Nimiq 4 is supposed to hold many HD channels–BEV is apparently either rolling out or has rolled out MPEG 4 receivers to its customers and some analysts have speculated that Nimiq 4 will be all MPEG4, although pajamasfta has been unable to confirm this.
Possibly the reason that (MPEG-2 only) Captain 8000’s are so cheap [...]

hd channels listing on dn

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/61-5list.htm for 61.5
http://ekb.dbstalk.com/110list.htm for 110
http://ekb.dbstalk.com/129list.htm for 129

one step forward one step back one step… d!5h hd

[following are excerpts from a posting giving information about hd channels on dn--note that I have no way of confirming this post--another contributor on the same site said that all of the voom channels listed below are still available on 61.5]

unfortunately not all is well in DN’s HD land….some nice HD has been removed due [...]

d!5h expands hd lineup

D!$H Corporation, today announced plans to bolster its rapidly expanding HD programming with the launch of an additional 22 national HD channels beginning Monday, May 12.