After watching Arrested Development and House this week, I noticed an odd message at the beginning of each episode. They both said something like "HDTV brought to you by DirecTV." What does this mean? That's the only thing on my HDTivo that isn't brought to me by DirecTV. I am eagerly awaiting the day that we can get local HD channels over DirecTV (there are several we can't get due to trees). Do you think that's what is going on with this? Is it a push towards that?

On a related note, I keep seeing that DirecTV commercial, the one with the people flying satellite kites. There's a narrator saying that DirecTV will be launching 1,500 HD channels across the nation. 1,500? How is that? Local channels, I assume, but I'm quite curious.