The biggest satellite TV company, DirecTV, already offers a bit more than 100 channels in the format that provides for much sharper pictures and clearer sound than conventional standard-definition channels have.
Clearly, satellite is the way to go if HD is what you’re looking for in TV viewing.
Southeastern Wisconsin’s cable giant, Time Warner, has just less than two dozen high-def choices. Charter, which serves scattered communities in the area, offers a similar level of HD service.
Time Warner plans to add two HD channels - History Channel HD and National Geographic HD - on May 29.
On a visit to Milwaukee this year, Glenn A. Britt, national president and chief executive officer of Time Warner Cable, told Inside TV & Radio that he was a “big believer in high-def.” And he promised a rapid addition of channels in the “next several months.”
But bandwidth remains a problem with the cable giant here. In simple terms, there’s no room for huge channel additions right now.
