TWC brings a dozen HD channels to Kansas City, has SDV to thank
by Darren Murph 
posted Jul 5th 2008 at 3:49PM
Remember how we told you that switched digital video was enabling more and more cable carriers to add more HD channels? Case, meet point. Just days after Time Warner Cable implemented SDV in Kansas City (and ticked off more than a few CableCARD users), we've now found out why such a decision was made. As of now, twelve new high-def channels are at everyone's disposal, including TBS HD (1014), TLC HD (1040), Travel Channel HD (1050), CNN HD (1044), Science HD (1023), Versus / Golf HD (1055), Animal Planet HD (1057), Fox News HD (1060), ESPNews HD (1204), Outdoor Channel HD (1202), Biography HD (1217) and Planet Green HD (1226). Unfortunately for the 1,200 or so KC-area CableCARD users, every last one of these new stations are being delivered via SDV, so unless you revert back to the company-issued set-top-box, you'll be moseying over to the neighbor's house in order to catch a glimpse.[Thanks, Jondy and Matt]
Filed under: Cable, New content
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aaron Barnhart @ Jul 5th 2008 4:57PM
C'mon guys, play nice. EngadgetHD has this blog to thank:
http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2008/07/time-warner-sor.html
Brent @ Jul 8th 2008 12:12AM
Or Aaron it could be that the EngadgetHD folks subscribe to the RSS of all the timewarner news feeds and that's why they report these kind of things for all time warner cities like this one
http://www.timewarnercable.com/InvestorRelations/PressReleases/TWCPressReleaseList.ashx
.... just a thought
I'm a KC guy and very happy to see the new channels. Even more happy that I don't have to deal with CableCard. I have SageTV with a Hauppauge HD-PVR that doesn't care whether it's switched digital or not...