Re: Fwd: Comcast the only place to get HDTV?

[Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>]

>You mentioned CBS.  When my cable TV bill came, there was
>a flyer promoting the additional digital channels now available.
>Besides the cable carriers (ESPN-DT,HBO-DT etc) there was a 
>listing of three over-the-air-DTV channels:
>WCVB-DT, WHDH-DT and WGBH-DT...
>no WBZ-DT.  I don't know why channel 30 isn't available
>through Comcast yet, but I guess CBS in HDTV 
>will not be available through a cable hookup yet.

RCN also doesn't have CBS in HD.  ABC, NBC, PBS, and even Fox are available
in HD, but not CBS.  Looks like they have a slot reserved for CBS-HD at
channel 161 (between ABC-HD and NBC-HD), but it isn't filled in yet.

Maybe Viacom is looking for $$$ for retransmission consent on their HD
signals, and the cable guys aren't buying it?  How much of CBS's programming
is in HD, anyways?

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu