Comcast bringing 5 new HD channels to Philadelphia on April 4th

With Comcast doling out the HD love elsewhere in the Northeast, it's about time the city of brotherly love got a dose of its own medicine. According to a fresh message delivered to a subscriber shacked up in the outskirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the aforementioned carrier will be adding five new high-def channels on April 4th. Included in the bunch are CNN HD (217), AMC HD (238), TLC HD (225), History Channel HD (217) and Animal Planet HD (230). Surely you can hang on just 2.5 more weeks, right?

[Thanks, EPaps]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 3:49PM]

Very happy about History and my wife will be pleased with TLC.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 4:06PM]

What about Discovery HD, and I don't mean Discovery HD Theater. I could care less about CNN HD, give us Discovery HD.....

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 5:46PM]

We in the Baltimore Market are getting similar HD line ups, except no animal planet hd.

[AFX Posted Mar 19th 2008 8:16PM]

Let the compressing begin!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 8:57PM]

Is Comcast really this retarded? They finally, FINALLY, add channels to Philly and don't include USA and Sci-Fi like they have been in every other market! When I saw the message on my cable box I had a real WTF moment.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 8:13AM]

finally new channels... but my dad is bummed that no science channel or science channel yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 3rd 2008 12:40PM]

Um.. bit of a typo in your post... you list 217 as the channel # for History as well as CNN. Screenshot above clears things up though.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 4th 2008 5:30PM]

Come on COMCAST customers! Demand they add HDNet and HDNet Movies. Far and away better than the stretch-o-vision crap channels Comcast has BEEN adding all across the country.