There are 5 on this satellite, but none English - yet. There is however freebie HDTV to be had on other satellites. All the PBS stuff and about a dozen or so independents of a regular flavour. You'd need a dish motor and dual-mode block converter to pick all these up. Add $80 for the motor and the same again for the LNB. Also, the receiver would have to be so equipped, add $200 here. I noticed that the HD receivers also have ATSC built in now. I'm guessing come February of next year there will be a lot more HDTV.