Time Warner Cable, Cisco team up on new HD website

While we've seen companies go out of their way in the past to provide customers with HD assistance, it looks like Time Warner Cable (partly owned by Time Warner, parent company of AOL, which owns Engadget) has teamed up with Cisco to give consumers yet another venue to have their questions answered. A variety of flashy help buttons enable befuddled individuals to select the kind of HDTV most suited for their viewing habits, learn the definitions of commonly used high-definition terms, and of course, goes on to plug TWC HD services. Sure, it's simply an interactive advertisement at heart, but at least it's giving consumers a drop of knowledge whilst fishing for their business.

[Via BroadcastingCable]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 8:42PM]

Hey Time Warner, how about you catch up to the satellite guys and roll out more HDTV stations first. There are a bunch of HD channels out there on DirecTV and Dish Network that you've yet to release!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 9:43PM]

a website that will show you how few HD channels TimeWarner has?

spend some of the money adding HD channels you a-holes.

[peter0328 Posted Aug 23rd 2007 10:16PM]

How come everytime you mention Time Warner, you always go on to say how its owned by AOL and they own you guys? I think I figured that out the last houndred times you mentioned it, thank you very much.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 10:57PM]

It is called full disclosure. Journalism 101...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2007 7:45AM]

Yeah, full disclosure.

We can't assume you already know our affiliations, so we have to broadcast it every time.

[BenD Posted Aug 24th 2007 8:11AM]

Partly owned by Time Warner, parent company of AOL, which owns Engadget -- aka "the Man"

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2007 8:23AM]

Wow. I didn't know Time Warner owned Time Warner Cable. Who'da thunk?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2007 10:47AM]

Think about one of the biggest media markets in the country... NYC. Totally controlled by TWC; keep in mind this is a jungle of tall buildings so OTA and satellite are not at all possible for large sections of the city. One area (Staten Island, about 5% of the total population) is generally more accessible to getting OTA & satellite so what does TWC do? They offer them 4 ADDITIONAL HD channels AND to top tat off, their rates can be had at 20% LESS than the rest of the city.

And how many HD channels do they carry? Try 15 (not including any channels you must pay extra for).

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2007 11:02AM]

you think that's bad, I am on TimeWarner cable but they don't carry the WB (now CW) high def channel but they carry all the other broadcast networks in HD (including universal). Ridiculous.