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Time Warner Cable's TV-On-Your-Tablet iPad App Approaches
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 14, 2011
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We can come up with lots of reasons to hate on Time Warner Cable (the cable guys, poor DVR software, slow Internet speeds, spotty service, that awful thing where the sound slowly desyncs with the video) but something we missed in David Pogue's column last week actually has us excited to subscribe to the cable monolith. Later this month the cable company is planning on releasing an iPad app later this month (possibly tomorrow, the Ides of March). Of course, there are catches.
For one thing, it'll only work when you are using Time Warner Cable's internet. And you'll only be able to watch 32 channels (initially). But in the future that number should grow and if the videos TWC has put on YouTube are to be believed other fun features like scheduling your DVR and changing the channel from your iPad are in the offing. Now if we could do all of that on our phones...
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