Time Warner Cable adding more HD in Central Texas

Now that U-verse is rolling into town, Time Warner Cable is looking to give current customers a few more reasons to stick around. According to a sidebar at News 8 Austin's website, the provider will be kicking out seven new additions on January 31st across Central Texas. More specifically, users in the area can expect to see National Geographic HD, The Movie Channel HD, Versus / Golf HD, Fox Business News HD, History Channel HD, Lifetime Movie Network HD and Weather Channel HD tossed in at month's end, and while Austin-area residents will see these slotted in the 1,600s, Waco, Temple and Killeen-area subscribers will need to look in the 1,000s. [Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family]

[Thanks, Jay]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 4:41PM]

Odd, it's not listed on Time Warner Austin's list of upcoming changes:
http://www.timewarnercable.com/centraltx/programming/legal_notices2.html

Anytime TW is adding channels I've ALWAYS seen it show up there first. Otherwise you've scooped the Time Warner tech's themselves... I hope that's the case. :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:20PM]

Those are great but when do we get SciFi HD????

[kuoirad Posted Jan 23rd 2008 12:36AM]

Abso-frackin'-lutely!

Great, more HD channels. Versus might be nice come TdF time, and History and NatGeo HD will have some interesting stuff, but I want SciFi HD! Oh, and *real* Discovery HD.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:51PM]

Great...now how about North Texas (Dallas)??? It is embarrassing that this is the home of Mark Cuban and HD-Net yet when I visit relatives Omaha and Tulsa they have more HD channels on their cable service than I. Pathetic...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 6:16PM]

Hooray, Faux Business News HD, Golf HD and THE WEATHER CHANNEL HD! Be one of the approximately two dozen people watching Fox in HD, see the guy with a club hitting the little ball better than ever and see the weather radar in glorious HIGH-DEFINITION!

Well, at least National Geographic and History Channel are good, but thats about it. If Time Warner expects to keep their business they'll have to do better, because Grande where available already does.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 8:18PM]

U-Verse coming to your TWC area or town does not necessarily mean TWC locally will add a bunch of HD channels like it is assummed-wrong!
TWC Wisconsin-Milwaukee has 13 HD national channels plus the HD locals, that's all:
U-Verse has been here - and - expanding its "Universe" for over a year now here and TWC could care less about adding the HD channels Texas, the Carolinas and NY are enjoying, today.
Don't assume that U-Verse will make the difference to TWC adding more HD channel additions...no way!