Aurora Adds High Fidelity HDTV

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Aurora Cable has launched carriage of a suite of new HD channels from High Fidelity HDTV.

Beginning December 1, Equator HD, Oasis HD, Treasure HD and Rush HD will be available to viewers in and around the GTA and Golden Horseshoe.

"We feel proud to work with High Fidelity HDTV and offer our subscribers their suite of four high definition channels,” Aurora Cable’s Vice-President and General Manager, Linda Morrison, said in a release. “They truly reflect the HD standard we have been waiting for since HD was first tested by cable companies in Canada back in the mid 1980s. Aurora Cable’s dramatic subscriber growth in the past few years is the result of providing subscribers with state-of-the-art services like Equator HD, Oasis HD, Treasure HD, and Rush HD. The quality of these channels complements our pure VoIP telephony and our 9 Megabit Internet service.”

“We are pleased to be part of Aurora Cable’s HDTV offering,” added High Fidelity HDTV co-founder Ken Murphy, “and we now look forward to serving these new GTA subscribers with some riveting, refreshing, and retrospective channels.”

John Panikkar, co-founder of High Fidelity HDTV, pionted out that programming on the channels is “all ...true-HD, shot and shown, and all of it original, and new to Canadian audiences.”

Aurora Cable (ACI) reportsd it now has $3,000,000 worth of glass fibres buried throughout Aurora and Oak Ridges, enabling the company to take full advantage of future developments in television, Internet and telephone technologies.

High Fidelity HDTV is a Canadian-based broadcasting company, focused on the specialty television sector and broadcasting four all-HD channels: Equator HD, Oasis HD, Treasure HD, and Rush HD.

High Fidelity HDTV has a close relationship with Rainbow Media Holdings, a major HD content provider in the U.S., as well as with other leading high definition producers in Canada and abroad.


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