Time Warner NYC Up to 100 HD Channels

Multichannel News is out today with a story of the positive benefits of competition for HD consumers. Now that Verizon has rolled into New York City, key rival Time Warner Cable has increased its high-def channel count to over 100 in each of the city's five boroughs. 65 of those are part of the regular cable package that's available to all customers with an HD box, while the remainder are various incarnations of premium movie channels from the likes of HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and Starz.

New York City's other primary cable company, Cablevision, offers about 70 high-def channels.