It's good we have some more HiDef channels now and I really enjoy the ovation arts channel. There was a very good documentary on Peter Greene with lots of the original music from Fleetwood Mac, great stuff also like the new Smithsonian channel as well.

I know isn't it cool...
I just love watching my programs and thinking "oooh she doesn't look soo good in HD"

Shows a lot of blemishes!

how many HD channels are they upto now

Considering ditching Time Warner (for TV) and jumping to DirecTV, but have been waiting til they started switching on all these extra channels.....

I think it's about 26 now and supposedly up to 100 by the end of the year.

and the best part is, the 26 channels are the ones you actually watch....TNT, Sci-Fi, CW, abc, nbc etc

and the best part is....we've never had any trouble with Direct TV, Time Warner were idiots and we got totally fed up with having to phone them every goddamn week....

oh blimey just wait til I tell the geeky OH, she will be over the moon if she could watch Atlantis in HD Although all the local channels I get in HD through the TV aerial


tell me about it. We went through a period where TW continually c0cked up our billing

We watch Atlantis as well...and it was totally bloody awesome in HD on Friday....sorry didn't mean to rub it in

when we finally cancelled TW it took them 6 months to take the $500 off our bill (the cost for the receiver) even though I had handed it in by hand at the local office and had a receipt for it....wan**rs

I just checked it out I only have 16 HD channels and they are still shite apart from about 4 of them, and the networks in HD

We are getting screwed here with TimeWarner, but DirectTv doesn't work with TiVo (and I'm a TiVo addict).

I'm getting ready to march on Washington.

Verizon's FIOS would work, but they haven't deigned to roll out service here yet.

I didn't realise that Direct TV didn't work with Tivo.....
but saying that they do have their own receiver that includes the recorder, pause live TV and all that jazz

double barstewards. Thats a bit of a downer about Tivo. I'm sad enough to admit that the Tivo was the first thing I bought when I got here (we had one for a couple of years in the UK and loved it)

TiVo doesn't work with Switched Digital Video, either, which the cable companies are using more and more. We were the guinea pig city for rolling out SDV .... which means that the TiVo HD cannot receive most of the HD programming. I've been seething for months because this should not be allowed under FCC rulings but so far no joy.

we got lucky with Time Warner. Our box went up the wall so we took it up to the local office. They then gave us a new box that has the internal DVR function enabled and it records HD

So now we effectively have 2 DVR's, Standard Tivo for normal Telly and set top box for all the Hi-Def stuff