Comcast bringing more HD to Florida's Treasure Coast
Barely a month after Comcast tossed a slew of HD channels down Jacksonville's way, we're now hearing that a handful will soon be coming to Florida's fabled Treasure Coast. More specifically, Discovery HD, USA Network, Sci-Fi HD, Animal Planet HD and History Channel HD should be live in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties by 6:00AM EST tomorrow morning. Furthermore, HGTV HD and Food Network HD -- which is already available to Indian River subscribers -- will be available across the Treasure Coast on the morning of February 1st as well (according to Comcast spokeswoman Marta Casas-Celaya, anyway). So for those of you camped out in the area, be sure to fire up your HD DVR tomorrow bright and early and report back with your findings, would ya?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
tgrove @ Jan 31st 2008 10:47PM
the channels have been on my EPG for weeks now and final I can watch them tomorrow. woot!
Bill @ Feb 1st 2008 4:14AM
We here in Southern Arizona we will be also getting CNN,TLC and Sci-Fi HD on Feb 19th to add to the 35+ HD channels to date.
Larry @ Feb 1st 2008 9:52AM
It's true, the listed channels are all available in Palm Beach. They've been teasing us with them for the last few weeks (they were visible, but not available).
Eleventeen @ Feb 1st 2008 2:05PM
We've had all of those in Tallahassee since mid-December (to the best of my knowledge.)
Discovery channel is a let down, most of the content looks like it's upscaled but they didn't do a hot job, and the true HD stuff looks to be compressed down so far that you can hardly tell the difference. We don't have TLC or Science Channel HD right now so I can't tell if this is all of the Discovery networks that do this or not. Some of the History channel stuff is in the same boat.
However, Food HD is impressive. Whomever they have running their plant knows their stuff, and the production values are extremely high on all of the shows we watch at our place. Since they have a different schedule than regular Food chan (unlike Discovery, et al.) *all* of the content shown was originally filmed in HD. Good Eats (with the excellent Alton Brown), in particular, looks like they have been filming in HD for a number of years now and so there's an extensive catalog that they have to pick from.
timhoeck @ Feb 2nd 2008 11:42AM
Yup, finally. I had to add manually add them on my TivoHD - it didn't seem to pick them up automatically.
Looking forward to SciFi. Still missing many of the other HD channels floating around with other areas/providers.
Hey Comcast - can you give us a bit more before you raise our rate? And when are we going to get some Comcast/Tivo action , and some HD On Demand?
Tim H @ Feb 2nd 2008 11:43AM
Yup, finally. I had to add manually add them on my TivoHD - it didn't seem to pick them up automatically.
Looking forward to SciFi. Still missing many of the other HD channels floating around with other areas/providers.
Hey Comcast - can you give us a bit more before you raise our rate? And when are we going to get some Comcast/Tivo action , and some HD On Demand?