Multichannel News, May 25th, 1998
Time Warner Cable is getting ready to join the digital dance.
The long-awaited foray into digital by the cable industry's second-largest operator will begin in mid-June in Austin, Texas, with the installation of several-hundred advanced-digital set-top boxes in the homes of local employees for field-testing.
After an evaluation of the terminals and digital-headend equipment, the 243,000-subscriber Austin system will launch commercially probably before the end of the year, MSO spokesman Michael Luftman said, although that timetable is very tentative.
Time Warner will use Scientific-Atlanta...
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