Since January 2005, more than 100,000 households have subscribed to Rogers Cable’s HDTV service

Rogers Cable Communications is reporting what it considers substantial growth in the last year with HD subscribers in Canada. Since January 2005, the company's HD customers have more than doubled to 100,000 HD households, according to published reports. Canadian retailers quoted in several publications predict tha

With its initial deployment to 1,000 customers in Toronto, Rogers Cable recently became the first Canadian cable company to provide video-on-demand (VOD). Rogers customers will be able to rent from a library of movies and other programming through their digital set-top boxes with VCR functionality. The offering is the

Available HD channels include the HDTV Discovery and The Hustler Channel.

Strategy Analytics forecasts that the number of UK HD households will be significantly less if the country’s spectrum regulator does not make bandwidth available for terrestrial delivery of HDTV.

Rogers Cable has hit the 200,000 benchmark for HD subscribers in Canada, which it says is double the number of HD households of a year ago. By New Year's, it plans to add more channels on its HD tier--including National Geographic HD, Showcase HD, WGN HD and HD on demand. Rogers said it now offers the most free HD

The recent closure of two of Germany’s HD channels has “cast a shadow” over European hopes for rapid adoption of HDTV.

You know it's a good sign for HD proponents when industries fight for customers, even though the percentage of HD homes remains in single digits. A new study by Merrill Lynch has come up with some conclusions that seem to defy conventional wisdom--namely that cable is now doing a more effective job of luring HD subs to