Comcast enhancing infrastructure, adding more HD options in Northeast
by Darren Murph 
posted Dec 14th 2007 at 2:03PM
Comcast has been on quite the tear of late, and it seems it's not quite done for the year just yet. Apparently, the carrier will be making "infrastructure improvements to its Beaver Valley and Myersdale systems, which were acquired from Adelphia last year." Additionally, the North Hills / South Hills areas will be seeing unspecified "network upgrades" by next year, and the company's fiber network will be expanded from Morgantown, West Virginia to Myersdale in order to "launch its digital voice phone service." On the lineup front, users in the Pittsburgh region will reportedly gain History HD, USA HD, Sci-Fi HD, CW HD and Discovery HD, while customers in the ex-Adelphia sectors will receive Universal HD, HGTV HD, Food Network HD, A&E HD, National Geographic HD and MHD.
Filed under: The CW, Discovery-HD, Universal-HD, Cable
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gordon Werner @ Dec 14th 2007 2:37PM
Why can't Comcast roll these channels out everywhere? In Seattle we've had fiber-based cable for years now ... adding these other channels shouldn't be a problem
Mark @ Dec 14th 2007 3:34PM
Turned on my TV this morning and found these new channels - good work Comcast... seriously
Charles @ Dec 14th 2007 3:52PM
I just got USA HD recently here in Wexford, PA (North Hills). I still don't have History HD, Sci-Fi HD, CW HD, Discovery HD, HGTV HD, Food Network HD, A&E HD, and Lifetime HD (if there is such a channel).
mroach @ Dec 14th 2007 3:57PM
I'm in Massachusetts so I've been getting used to getting all the new HD channels first. We have all of those EXCEPT SciFi. WHY? That's the only channel I REALLY want out of all of those.
Has Comcast rolled out CNN HD to anywhere else in the country? I'm still lovin' that. Even though it's only a few shows that are in HD and only studio shots, it's still great. I'm really looking forward to having CNBC HD. Hopefully soon...
HBO Kid @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:19PM
the local newspaper reports the north hills suburbs of pittsburgh will be upgraded in 2008. See the last section of this page.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07347/841207-237.stm
Charles @ Dec 14th 2007 7:55PM
I just checked again and now I have History HD; that's a little more appeasing.
The reason it's going to take a long time for North Hills users is because the Ross Township node is only 550 MHz.