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Comcast delivers five new HD Channels In Baltimore, Maryland area

Country’s largest cable operator Comcast has included five new high-definition channels in Baltimore, Maryland area. With this addition, Comcast now has 36 HD channels in this area. Comcast is planning for aggressive expansion of HD channels in Southern Maryland area. All these new addition and expansion plans are to keep up the competition with DirecTV [...]

Comcast plans to bring 20 HD Channels In Illinois

According to an article by the Peoria Journal Star, Comcast will add more than 20 channels in high-definition in central Illinois. Apart from ABC Family in HD and Disney
Channel HD added on Comcast HD line-up from April 1 and there are plans to add more than 20 HD channels before April end.
A&E HD, AMC HD, [...]

Hallmark Movie Channel debuted on Time Warner Cable in San Antonio

High-definition version of Hallmark Movie Channel was added in San Antonio by Time Warner Cable. The channel was launched on April 2 has not been added by DirecTV and Comcast even though they have carriage agreement with channel. Now the channel is available on channel 153 in Time Warner’s San Antonio lineup. The channel will [...]

Comcast adds five HD channels in Utah area

Satellite TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network are adding new national and local high-definition channels to its line-up. Its now Comcast turn to add new high-definition channels. Comcast has added Five new high-definition channels in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. The new channels added are :
American Movie Classics HD
CNN HD
HGTV HD
Food Network HD and
Sci-Fi [...]

ESPNews HD Launches Today with a New Look

As announced earlier, ESPNews has launched its high-definition channel today at 8.00 AM ET with the networks first hour simulcast on ESPN HD and later on ESPN 2 HD and ESPN. Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable have signed carriage agreement with the channel to carry the new HD channel, but not to carry during [...]

Comcast adds 9 HD channels in Sacramento, California area

Cable operators and Satellite TV provider are adding new high-definition channels in different market areas after the aggressive HD expansion by DirecTV, Comcast is also adding Nine new high-definition channels in Sacramento, California area.
This is according to news from www.sacbee.com
To accommodate new high-definition channels to its line-up in this area, Comcast has moved the public [...]

Hallmark ready to Launch Movie Channel in HD

Crown Media will launch its new high-def Hallmark Movie Channel in Peoria, Illinois on April 2 and will include a screening of The Magic of Ordinary Days and an appearance by veteran actor Ernest Borgnine.
This is According to an article by TV Week.
With the scheduled launch of the channel next week, the Crown Media’s decision [...]

Comcast tests for the deployment of 100-gigabit optics

After Verizon claimed last November, that Verizon have completed a live 312-mile network route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical transmission, Comcast also announced that they have conducted the same 100-Gps optical networking equipment which will carry live Internet traffic over a production fiber infrastructure, last week. Yes, this test [...]

Seattle subscribers of Comcast are happy to have Two new HD channels

Comcast is expected to add two high-definition channels of Disney’s namely ABC Family and Disney Channel in high-definition in Seattle area.Comcast spokeswoman Jenni Moyer spoke to TVPredictions.com last week that Comcast would add two new HD channels in Seattle area. But she was not clear, if Comcast would add these channels to other market areas. [...]

Cox Communications also to launch TiVo following Comcast

After Comcast’s launched TiVo service last year, Cox communications also about to launch the service in New England Area. Tom Rogers, TiVo president and CEO during a conference call last week said that Cox is trying the TiVo service and will launch the service very soon. Tom Rogers also said that Comcast has started marketing [...]