TWC & cablecard: ESPN2-HD, A&E-HD, HGTV-HD, TBS-HD now available

[MarkK]

I have a cablecard, and no TWC box.

To my surprise, last night I was able to view 528, 534, 537, and 542 for the first time.  Previously they had all simply displayed a preview channel.

This suggests that TWC has moved away from switched digital video for these channels.

Any other channels?  Where did they find the bandwidth?

[basshive]

Maybe they used the bandwidth that was supposed to be used to give us Smithsonian and History HD  Seriously tho no idea but that is indeed cool for pure cablecard users.

[OlsonNet]

Awesome. Thanks for the tip. Can finally get these on my Tivo Series 3

[kevbeck122]

Maybe they just weren't worth having on SDV.  If one person on every node was watching the channels.. then there's really no point to SDV since they're still using the bandwidth.  Otherwise they could be upgrading their SDV equipment in preparation for the big Navigator roll out.  Those are just a couple of my theories.

[SugarRay]

My cablecard is not getting these extra ch?  Did you have to reboot your card?

[greenskingIV]

My cablecard also is now getting these same channels along with MoviePlex on channel 188. All these channels use to be preview channels all the time.