The reason why Time Warner's HD lineup isn't that great
We are constantly receiving emails asking why a certain channel isn't carried by a provider and while the business behind carriage agreements is complicated, in a recent interview with TVPrediction.com we learned one possible reason why Time Warner seems to always be behind the curve. The Senior Vice President in charge of programming doesn't have a HDTV! That's right, when asked "What is your favorite show in HDTV?", her response was "Well, this one is easy. I don't have a high-def set. My husband and I are renovating a new home so I'm getting one when I move into my new house...I did see Discovery's (Planet Earth) in HD and it was extraordinary." We're glad you caught an episode of Planet Earth, but seriously isn't it your job to evaluate content for Time Warner? How can you possibly do that without an HDTV? Of course this wasn't the entire interview, she also dodged the question about why they don't carry ESPN2HD and complained that some networks upconvert and call it HD, hmm, hello TNT-HD, a Time Warner Company, just call over there and tell them to cut it out. But this interview wasn't all good news, she also explained that in order to compete with DirecTV's 100 HD channels that they will be rolling out Switched Digital Video, which we all know makes our beloved Series3 useless.
