Cablevision expands HD lineup with CNN HD
by Darren Murph 
posted Nov 7th 2007 at 10:57PM
Hot on the heels of Charter's decision to add The Weather Channel HD, Cablevision is claiming that its users will be able to check out CNN in high-definition. Reportedly, CNN HD will be the operator's 42nd HD "service" available to customers, and it's being made available to everyone gratis on iO TV channel 725. John Trierweiler, Cablevision's senior vice president of product management, boasted that the firm's HD lineup has "nearly doubled in size over the last year," but unfortunately, he didn't throw out any wild claims for the future for us to hold 'em to.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GhostDoggy @ Nov 8th 2007 5:42AM
How many people sit around watching CNN and the Weather Channel, and feel the need or urge to have it in marketed-HD? I say marketed HD, because I have no idea how its really presented (in terms of pixel and color resolution, if they are adding more banners to keep actual content area in low resolution, etc.), but to me this doesn't seem like anything more than an attempt to claim more channels in HD even if they are worthless in HD.
For instance, how many want the religious and shopping channels in HD? I feel like I have to wait for and hope that the commercials are in HD to claim HD content of value is being presented.
Moaner @ Nov 8th 2007 7:22AM
Cablevision already has an HD news channel (710). If they feel the need to add another it should be NakedNews.com
pimpdee976 @ Nov 8th 2007 8:56AM
the hell with cablevision I was a tech with cablevision for 6 years and they laid a bunch of us off because they wanted to make an example of we dont want a union. there service sucks I was getting 15 service calls a day for bad service. so I say the hell with cablevision