itd be nice, to have all those, my only problem is the majority of those channels have less then a few hours of HD programming a day if any that day. So have 150 HD channels is nice to make a claim but if half of them rarely show HD content its kinda pointless. The channels BHN has (aside from some of the new national ones) mostly all show HD content the majority of their programming time. I think BHN has focused on adding the channels who have the most HD content first, and throwing in a few that are just popular like usa, scifi etc
A&E had very little HD content when BHN added it. TBS HD still doesn't have much HD content and last I checked we have that channel as well. The bottom line is for the kind of money most of us are paying each month I expect quite a few more HD channels. Some of these HD channels have tons of HD content while others are limited. Now if an HD channel has two hours each week of my favorite shows I would rather have this channel instead of many others on my lineup today. USA Network HD, FX HD and SciFi HD fall into the group of channels many consider must have HD channels. ABC Family could also be considered one of those channels with series shows such as KYLE XY etc.
What is clear is that most of the new HD channels being added happen to be Time Warner owned channels. Some of the few glaring channels still missing from our lineup for years is Cinemax HD and Starz HD. Cinemax HD is also a TW owned network which only proves how messed up BHN really is that they would rather add TBS HD with very little HD content over a TW owned channel that has tons of HD content each day.
As a side note and in response to a previous poster it is indeed nice to have 40+ free on demand channels but again this is BHN who would rather add many very limited On Demand channels while not offering say Starz On Demand and Encore On Demand channels which happen to have programming people want to watch. Just these two channels alone have hundreds of programming choices each month but no Music Choice On Demand with ten music videos each month is all they add.
I'm not saying BHN is the worst cable company because they are far from it but at some point they need to wake the hell up before its too late. I can say without a doubt that when I buy my house I will "not" be a Bright House Networks customer at least not for cable services. I most likely will be a DirecTV, Dish Network or a Verizon FIOS customer. I will make this switch just on the pure fact that I trust all of these companies to attempt to stay current and at least somewhat succeed while I no longer have any trust in BHN to do anything at a large enough level. If Bright House cannot change now with DirecTV, Dish Network and Verizon FIOS competing with them at a very high level they never will change and that is the basis I decide who I will be switching with.
Bright House still has another year to prove me wrong but if they haven't done anything by the start of 2009 I'm sure they never will.