Bright House bringing ABC Family / Disney / MGM HD to Central Florida

[Saxamoophone]

Bright House bringing ABC Family / Disney / MGM HD to Central Florida - Engadget HD

ABC Family HD (1337), Disney HD (1335) and MGM Channel HD (1306)

Should start popping up in a guide near you around Thursday.

$5 goes out to whoever can guess which analog channels go missing Thursday

Sounds like CNN-HD should be added soon too.

[stevenl]

Well BHN is launching SDV, So that will let them use current bandwidth to add even more HD, however they have been and will continue to reclaim some analog channels.

[Curtis0620]

What about FSN, NFL?

[skottey]

I never felt like I was getting any value out of the HDPak. I found I rarely watched those channels. But you guys are going to like MGM HD. I have that on DirecTV and do watch it. It has some good movies and they are commercial free and from what I can tell so far, unedited.

Are these channels coming to BHN Tampa Bay? Not that I care entirely too much since I have no use for ABC Family and get the other two with DirecTV. But it is always nice to see more channels added to BHN.

[stevenl]

Also note that StarzHD and Cinemax HD are coming very soon to.

And I would assume they were coming to Tampa also.

And in regards to NFL Network BHN has teamed up with several other cable companies and they are all kinda in agreement not to add NFL Net unless they agree to meet some demands. They want almost 280million a year!! from these cable companies, and for 8 new games a year and a bunch of old footage... No one can convince me of its worth.

FSN Is in the same boat, in TAMPA BHN has FSN Because of the demand. In Orlando though the market has yet to demand it. Perhaps if the Magic have another good season this next year, and FSN gets to carry some college games, Orlando may add it, but for now Orlando just does not have the demand to honor the 75cents PER sub that FSN is asking. Specially because they do not want on a digital or sports tier. If FSN would agree to be on the sports tier, BHN would add it tomorrow.

[Saxamoophone]

Well BHN is launching SDV, So that will let them use current bandwidth to add even more HD, however they have been and will continue to reclaim some analog channels.

True..but these ones aren't SDV yet I'm guessing? (assuming it's still a sept time-frame).

Anyways, just checked my guide (via the good old slingbox-smartphone) and the new channels are up and running in Orlando.

So everyone enjoy looking at that 14 year old hanna montana in hd ;P

[stevenl]

I know my son will enjoy that

[skottey]

So everyone enjoy looking at that 14 year old hanna montana in hd ;P

All that money and such crappy teeth. What a waste. Hefner better make her fix that mangle-mouth before he puts her in Playboy in 3 years. Gross!

[iceturkee]

What about FSN, NFL?

in your dreams!

[iceturkee]

Also note that StarzHD and Cinemax HD are coming very soon to.

And I would assume they were coming to Tampa also.

And in regards to NFL Network BHN has teamed up with several other cable companies and they are all kinda in agreement not to add NFL Net unless they agree to meet some demands. They want almost 280million a year!! from these cable companies, and for 8 new games a year and a bunch of old footage... No one can convince me of its worth.

FSN Is in the same boat, in TAMPA BHN has FSN Because of the demand. In Orlando though the market has yet to demand it. Perhaps if the Magic have another good season this next year, and FSN gets to carry some college games, Orlando may add it, but for now Orlando just does not have the demand to honor the 75cents PER sub that FSN is asking. Specially because they do not want on a digital or sports tier. If FSN would agree to be on the sports tier, BHN would add it tomorrow.

hmm, sounds like their were bunches of magic fans unhappy with not being able to watch all of the games this past season. they were certainly vocal enough to the sentinel......as were the sentinel sports writers! i'm just hoping fsn florida adds several magic games in hd next season. with all of the fsn's going full-time hd in the first quarter of 2009, the number of hd games being broadcast will also significantly rise!!