MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has told its customers that HDNet is coming December 13th, and that as of December 1st, it is changing how it prices high definition channels.
The company will no longer offer the HD Theme Pack as a stand-alone package for $6.99 a month or as a theme pack option for its Digital Select customers and will instead charge a new HD system access fee of $5.99 per month.
Customers who pay the monthly HD access fee will be able to see all of the HD versions of every standard definition channel available to them. And as new high definition versions of standard definition channels are launched, they will be added to the channel lineups of subscribers paying the HD access fee.
For example, Cogeco is adding A&E HD, which will be available to customers who subscribe to SD A&E and who pay the HD access fee, and MPix HD, which will be part of Cogeco’s movies package but only available for subscribers who pay the access fee.
Customers who opt into the new fee right away will not have to pay it for six months.
The company also announced that on December 13th, when the Discovery HD free preview ends, it will move to the HD Premium Pack along with U.S. all-high-def channel HDNet.
