TWC Staten Island adds Food Network HD and HGTV HD

[wireblsam]

The benefits of removing all analog channels from your system.....

Time Warner Cable's New York/New Jersey system today adds new channels including Spanish-language network CaribeVision, ESPNU, Russia Today and (in NJ, Hudson Valley and Mount Vernon) Jewelry TV on digital; two free VOD channels, Entertainment on Demand (featuring programming from BET, Comedy Central, Fox Reality, MTV, The N and VH1) and Kids Preschool on Demand (with titles from BBC Kids, Noggin and Sprout); Mandarin-language programmers ETTV News, ET NY and Phoenix TV as premium channels; and in Staten Island, the HD versions of Food Network and HGTV.

http://cable360.net/technology/news/25393.html

[gparris]

Yes, benefits indeed...getting rid of even half the analogue channels would help out right now.
If one analogue channel equals at least two HD channels : 35 analogues x 2 = 70 HD channel availablity?
That equals approx. what Directv says it could be adding before the end of the year with just one satellite!
TWC: OUCH!

But remember, other things come into play that the cable company has to take care of first such as contracts that indicate the analogue channel can be accessed to digital subscribers-only (requiring that "dreaded" box).
So contracts, as I understand it, may currently state (for our local TWC area) that TWC here cannot go all-digital like Staten Island, NYC.
Of course, all of Comcast Chicagoland been doing this, too, maybe leaving a couple dozen analogue channels left out there for non-boxed subscribers.

SDV is what I think TWC is going all out for, including here and this all or mostly digital system setup is not going to be the norm for most TWC locations, unfortunately, IMO.

Outside of SI, NYC, San Antonio, TX, which where AT&T's headquarters is, there are very many more HD channels in that TWC service  area:
HD channels include TMCHD, CinemaxHD (east and west), StarzHD (east and west), HBOHD West and ShowtimeHD West, in addition to MHD, A&EHD, WealthHD (on demand) and others.
They will probably get these last two, also those Food-HD and HGTV-HD channels, maybe even Nat Geo HD (like TWC Hawaii has had) very soon, too.

Kinda stinks to have TWC in Milwaukee, doesn't it, if  you want more HD channels?