Time Warner hints at 100 HD channels coming to SoCal
September 23rd, 2009, 6:56 am · 16 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
News that Time Warner Cable picked BigBand Networks to provide switched digital video technology means one major thing for cable customers: More high definition channels are coming sooner than later.
The Redwood City-based BigBand announced its new cable customer in a press release. BigBand will handle Time Warner’s Los Angeles operation, which includes Orange County. BigBand is also deploying switched digital video in Time Warner’s New York and Dallas systems.
Cable TV companies have limited space to stream channels 24/7 in the cable line that feeds TV directly to a customer’s house. Switched digital video allows the cable company to turn some of those channel streams into a video-on-demand channel, which frees up space to add more HD channels or other new content.
Orange County’s former president of Time Warner operations mentioned this was coming last year. But so far, the technology has not been implemented here. Time Warner has been testing this in San Fernando Valley.
So far, the only customers that will be affected by the change are those with TiVos and CableCARDs. See my past stories about what to do if you’re in this situation:
In a press release, Time Warner says technology has allowed the company to offer over 100 HD channels to customers, plus more HD Video on demand, said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable’s executive vice president of technology policy and product management.
“We have launched (switched digital video) in over 20 markets to date and know firsthand that, if we want to deploy new programming options for our customers, SDV is the fastest, most cost effective method for our existing network,” he said. ”With the bandwidth that has been reclaimed Time Warner Cable is able to offer over 100 high definition channels to our customers …”
Can anyone guess what those 100 channels are?
Here’s a look at what the HD channels currently offered in Huntington Beach:
| TWC HD channel, 9/2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KVEA HD (Telemundo) | 31 | HGTV HD |
| 2 | KCBS HD (CBS) | 32 | Food Network HD |
| 3 | KNBC HD (NBC) | 33 | Disney Channel HD |
| 4 | KTLA HD (CW) | 34 | ABC Family HD |
| 5 | KABC HD (ABC) | 35 | TLC HD |
| 6 | KOCE HD (PBS) | 36 | A&E HD |
| 7 | KCAL HD (Ind) | 37 | History HD |
| 8 | KPXN (ION) HD | 38 | National Geographic HD |
| 9 | KTTV (FOX) HD | 39 | USA HD |
| 10 | KCET HD (PBS) | 40 | Bravo HD |
| 11 | KCOP HD (myNetworkTV) | 41 | Sci Fi HD |
| 12 | Palladia HD | 42 | CNBC HD+ |
| 13 | TNT HD | 43 | Live Well HD (KABC-DT2) |
| 14 | HD Theater | 44 | Animal Planet HD |
| 15 | TBS in HD | 45 | Travel Channel HD |
| 16 | Discovery Channel HD | 46 | FX HD |
| 17 | Universal HD | 47 | Science Channel HD |
| 18 | Smithsonian Channel HD | 48 | FOX Sports West HD |
| 19 | Crime & Investigation Network HD | 49 | Prime Ticket HD |
| 20 | MGM HD | 50 | Fox News HD |
| 21 | The Golf Channel HD | 51 | Fox Business Network HD |
| 22 | ESPN HD | 52 | Versus HD |
| 23 | ESPN2 HD | 53 | MLB Network HD |
| 24 | ESPNews HD | 54 | NHL Network HD |
| 25 | HBO HD | 55 | HBO HD |
| 26 | Showtime HD | 56 | Cinemax HD |
| 27 | Starz HD | 57 | Showtime HD |
| 28 | Cinemax HD | 58 | Starz HD |
| 29 | HD (Pay-per-view) | 59 | iN Demand HD Sports 1 |
| 30 | CNN HD | 60 | iN Demand HD Sports 2 |
Earlier on Time Warner and switched video:
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So, they support LA RAZA! Horrible, cancel your cable.
Wow, Marley, sounds to me like you are scared s—l–s of Mexicans. Haha, sorry about your luck. You are always welcome here in Santa Ana.
I love TIME Warner cable
I was paying $198 for everything the full package and top level internet and all the movie channels, I said thats too expensive I called to cancel, they said HEY!!! we have a deal you can keep the same channels for $140 no trial or limited time, I said cool I’ll take it, four months later, I said thats tooo much for cable I called to cancel they said, HEY!!!! we have a deal you can keep all your movie channels and internet for $99 I said O.K and thats where ive been for a year now.
Time Warner gets it, because they worked with me I will stay a loyal coach sitting reality show watching Mr Pibb drinkin cheeto cheese puff eating O.C slob.
Marley, you are a racist just like most poster on the oc register
Ignorant JERK! who has no concept of other cultures…..
They also hint that their garbage basic price will go to $100 a month!
Check this link for a list of known deals that TWC has to supply HD. Plenty to choose from to get to 100.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=652328
/Dan
How about ala-cart?
What I want!
100 info-mercials all at the same time.
…The other 40 channels are in Spanish though.
NFL Sunday Ticket?
Nope. So, I don’t care. Worst cable service there is.
I dropped my time warner cable the second that I saw they fund La Raza. They are one of the reasons that illegals are employed.
This type of technology reminds me of the 1960′s when the telephone companies were starting to offer Touch Tone. Instead of spending a lot of money to convert the central office equipment to process the tones, they added pulsing equipment that would convert the tones into dial pulses. It took the same amount of time for the call to go through as using a dial telephone.
In my opinion, this is just a band aid fix for TW and Cox to try and squeeze out more revenue using a hack and slash approach instead of investing in more fiber and base equipment. Good Luck!
To Much Money.. Turned off the CABLE…
and still watching TV …. Yeah…..
The other 40 channels are religious, spanish, korean, japanese, chinese, tai, arabic, cartoons, shopping networks for all the moms that have nothing better to do, and infomercials……. YAWN!!
Where’s FUEL!!
wish they would put on nasa HD channel. I really like having the current nasa select as well, and hope that lineup doesn’t suffer.
Jim