It's interesting to see how they breakdown the number of HD Channels offered by each of the Cable/Satellite companies. The article says Dish currently has 20 less HD Channels less than DirecTv. *BTW Note the Sources- it says the sources were the companies?!?
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Time Warner adds 11 HD channels in Dallas area | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Business News
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Time Warner adds 11 HD channels in Dallas area
Dallas, 3 other cities to see changes today
01:28 PM CDT on Thursday, March 27, 2008
By ANDREW D. SMITH / The Dallas Morning News
asmith@dallasnews.com
Time Warner Cable will add 11 high-definition channels to its lineup in Dallas, Plano, Richardson and Mesquite Thursday.
Other local cities should get the new feeds – and more – in the next nine months. New HD channels on Time Warner Cable
• CNN HD
• TBS HD
• History Channel HD
• Food Network HD
• A&E HD
• HGTV HD
• Discovery HD
• Animal Planet HD
• National Geographic HD
• Versus/Golf HD
• Fox Sports SW HD
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HD channels in the Dallas area
The totals include premium channels such as HBO but not pay-per-view or special sports packages:
• DirecTV: 67
• Dish Network: 47
• U-verse: 42
• Time Warner Cable: 31 (in Dallas, Plano, Richardson and Mesquite)
• Fios: 30
• Charter Communications: 22
• Time Warner Cable: 20 (elsewhere in North Texas)
SOURCES: The companies
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"We should have around 50 HD channels, not counting HD video on demand, everywhere in North Texas by the end of the year," said company spokesman Gary Underwood.
The added channels will bring Time Warner's HD offerings to 31, one more than Verizon's Fios TV but less than AT&T's U-verse, Dish Network and especially DirecTV, which sells more than twice as many HD channels.
Verizon has promised to increase its Fios HD channel offerings to 150 this year.
The other providers have promised to add new channels aggressively but haven't given specific numbers.
Cable companies have struggled to stuff more HD channels into their already full systems.
But Time Warner, which has spent more than $100 million upgrading the antiquated local networks it took over in 2006, says it has finally overcome capacity problems.
Rather than sending its entire programming stream to every home, the company's new system sends the entire stream to neighborhood substations or nodes, which are smart enough to pass on specific channel feeds as viewers request them.
"The channels that any household watches frequently will still be delivered to cable boxes in that house," said Mr. Underwood. "It's only when viewers flip to a channel they rarely use that the box requests that channel feed and the node delivers it."
He noted that viewers need an HDTV and an HD cable box to watch high-definition programming.
"Users won't notice any extra delay. They'll just flip the channel normally," he said.
"We will see a big change on the network, though. It frees up a lot of space that we can use to offer new things."
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Time Warner adds 11 HD channels in Dallas area | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Business News
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Time Warner adds 11 HD channels in Dallas area
Dallas, 3 other cities to see changes today
01:28 PM CDT on Thursday, March 27, 2008
By ANDREW D. SMITH / The Dallas Morning News
asmith@dallasnews.com
Time Warner Cable will add 11 high-definition channels to its lineup in Dallas, Plano, Richardson and Mesquite Thursday.
Other local cities should get the new feeds – and more – in the next nine months. New HD channels on Time Warner Cable
• CNN HD
• TBS HD
• History Channel HD
• Food Network HD
• A&E HD
• HGTV HD
• Discovery HD
• Animal Planet HD
• National Geographic HD
• Versus/Golf HD
• Fox Sports SW HD
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HD channels in the Dallas area
The totals include premium channels such as HBO but not pay-per-view or special sports packages:
• DirecTV: 67
• Dish Network: 47
• U-verse: 42
• Time Warner Cable: 31 (in Dallas, Plano, Richardson and Mesquite)
• Fios: 30
• Charter Communications: 22
• Time Warner Cable: 20 (elsewhere in North Texas)
SOURCES: The companies
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"We should have around 50 HD channels, not counting HD video on demand, everywhere in North Texas by the end of the year," said company spokesman Gary Underwood.
The added channels will bring Time Warner's HD offerings to 31, one more than Verizon's Fios TV but less than AT&T's U-verse, Dish Network and especially DirecTV, which sells more than twice as many HD channels.
Verizon has promised to increase its Fios HD channel offerings to 150 this year.
The other providers have promised to add new channels aggressively but haven't given specific numbers.
Cable companies have struggled to stuff more HD channels into their already full systems.
But Time Warner, which has spent more than $100 million upgrading the antiquated local networks it took over in 2006, says it has finally overcome capacity problems.
Rather than sending its entire programming stream to every home, the company's new system sends the entire stream to neighborhood substations or nodes, which are smart enough to pass on specific channel feeds as viewers request them.
"The channels that any household watches frequently will still be delivered to cable boxes in that house," said Mr. Underwood. "It's only when viewers flip to a channel they rarely use that the box requests that channel feed and the node delivers it."
He noted that viewers need an HDTV and an HD cable box to watch high-definition programming.
"Users won't notice any extra delay. They'll just flip the channel normally," he said.
"We will see a big change on the network, though. It frees up a lot of space that we can use to offer new things."
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