Time Warner to turn off analog version of HBO station
Updated: 05/08/08 2:02 PM
If you're used to getting HBO on Channel 5 without a digital box on Time Warner Cable, that practice is about to end.
Time Warner has sent out notices to subscribers saying that starting on June 24 HBO will only be available on digital channels 201 through 206.
A Time Warner Cable spokesman said the analog duplication is being dropped in anticipation of the much-publicized national conversion to digital in February of 2009.
The dropping of Channel 5 may upset HBO subscribers who receive the pay-cable channel only through that analog channel or who get it on Channel 5 on some of their extra TV sets that don't have a digital box.
