Welcome to the Comcast Cable section of this website!
Please be aware that if you have read this page before many changes
have been made with corrections. These changes were made on
2-5-2007.
Channel Lineups in your area can be found here.
Comcast Cable offers the following HD national channels below.
Please note that channels listed below may not be available in
your specific market for many reasons with the main being bandwidth.
HD local channels are available though this greatly varies from market to market.
ESPN HD
ESPN2 HD
InHD (InHD2 went off the air thus is no longer available anywhere)
Versus HD (aka VS HD).
NFL Network HD (may also be shown via InHD or special events HD channel)
MHD (music HD channel with content from MTV, VH1 and CMT)
National Geographic Channel HD
A&E HD (only in very select markets right now)
TNT HD
Discovery HD Theater
Universal HD
They also offer the following Premium channels in HDTV listed below.
HBO HD, Cinemax HD, Showtime HD and Starz HD.
Free On Demand channels are free as you would guess and content ranges
from BBC America to TNT and TBS On Demand. Check your local
lineup for On Demand offerings.
Premiums On Demand channels are free of charge if you subscribe to the
premium services themselves. On Demand Premium channels are
listed below.
HBO On Demand
Cinemax On Demand
Showtime On Demand
The Movie Channel On Demand
Encore On Demand
Starz On Demand
Howard TV On Demand
WWE On Demand
Also Comcast has made a big push for HD On Demand content with much of it free of charge.
Comcast has many free HD Movies On Demand along with some content from
Discovery, Cartoon Network, TNT and NGC to name a few of them.
These are all free to all digital HD customers.
Also Comcast has quite a few HD movies from both Starz and Encore that
are free for Starz and Encore customers with an HD box. This HD
On Demand content will be greatly increasing over this current year
2007.
Comcast also is planning to add switched digital video technology to
compete in the future for new HDTV channels. Switched Digital
Video (aka SDV) is just a way to increase their bandwidth.
Comcast will soon be rolling out Motorola Follow Me TV which will allow
multiroom viewing over your existing coax cables. This will allow
you to playback a DVR recorded show in another room with any digital
cable box.
Comcast is also going to start rolling out Tivo software to all current
Comcast customers who have the Motorola 34xx or 64xx series DVR boxes.
This will cost extra but all that must be done is to call Comcast
to order it and the software will download and install on your current
DVR box all on its own.
After that is done your existing remote will work for just the core
basic DVR features until you get the new Comcast Tivo peanut remote
that Comcast will mail to your home. You may be able to pick this
remote up ahead of time but that is unknown at this time.
Comcast will also start rolling out in some markets a new Panasonic HD
DVR that will feature a 250GB hard drive or bigger. This box at
rollout "will not" support Tivo but will within several months after.
This Panasonic box along with all existing DVR boxes will get a
brand new iguide update that is said to be far far far better than the
current iguide available today.
Also for you digital voice customers most of you now have unlimited long distance calling to Canada now.