TWCable TV iPad app 2.5

Today Time Warner Cable released a new version of its TWCable TV app for iPad. There are a few new tweaks, but little about which to get excited except for the hearing impaired and the lawyers.

According to its blog post, TWC is providing 3 new features in this version: "basic" search (for shows by title), closed captioning and parental controls to block live viewing of certain channels on the app itself.

Search box in upper right corner of the guide

Closed captioning in the settings menu

and in action

and parental controls

In other words, nothing too dramatic. Closed captioning is interesting because in addition to the benefits to the hearing-impaired iPad users, it was one of the things cited by Viacom in its since-dropped legal action against Time Warner Cable as a difference between a TV set and the iPad app.

For my account, there are no new channels available unlike the last iPad app update which added 15.  There are still 87 channels the only change I noticed was that the app now has the HD feed of Cooking Channel SD feed.  Of the 87 channels, 21 are now SD and 2 of those are 21 are services carried in HD on the system (Bloomberg and Sundance).

1. A&E HD
2. ABC Family HD
3. Africa Channel HD
4. AMC HD
5. Animal Planet HD
6. Bio HD
7. Bloomberg (still SD)
8. Boomerang (SD)
9. Bravo HD
10. Cartoon Network HD
11. Chiller (SD)
12. CNBC HD+
13. CNBC World (SD)
14. CNN HD
15. CNN International (SD)
16. Cooking Channel HD
17. C-SPAN HD
18. C-SPAN2 HD
19. C-SPAN3 HD
20. Current TV (SD)
21. Discovery Channel HD
22. Discovery Fit & Health (SD)
23. Disney Channel HD
24. Disney XD HD
25. DIY HD
26. E! HD
27. ESPN Classic (SD) - this service is not on the WatchESPN app
28. ESPNews HD
29. EWTN SD
30. Food Network HD
31. Fox Business HD
32. Fox News HD
33. FX HD
34. G4 HD
35. Galavision HD
36. Gol TV HD
37. Golf HD
38. Gospel Music HD
39. Great American Country (SD)
40. GSN (looks like HD)
41. Hallmark Channel HD
42. HGTV HD
43. History HD
44. History International HD
45. HLN HD
46. Home Shopping Network HD
47. Hub HD
48. IFC HD
49. Investigation Discovery HD
50. Jewelry Television by ACN (SD) -- the weird branding continues
51. Jewish Life TV (SD)
52. Lifetime HD
53. Lifetime Movie Network HD
54. Lifetime Real Women (SD)
55. Mav TV HD
56. Military Channel (SD)
57. MSNBC HD
58. Mun2 (SD)
59. National Geographic HD
60. National Geographic Wild HD
61. NY1 News HD
62. NY1 Noticias for Time Warner (SD) -- odd "for TW" branding continues
63. Oprah Winfrey Network HD
64. Ovation (SD) looks like HD
65. Oxygen HD
66. Planet Green HD
67. QVC HD
68. Reelz Channel HD
69. Science HD
70. Shop NBC (SD)
71. Sleuth (SD)
72. Smithsonian HD
73. SoapNet (SD)
74. Style HD
75. Sundance (still, oddly SD)
76. SyFy HD
77. Tennis Channel HD
78. TLC HD
79. Travel Channel HD
80. TruTV HD
81. Turner Classic Movies HD
82. TV Guide HD
83. TV One HD
84. Universal HD
85. USA HD
86. WE tv HD
87. Word Network (SD)

This is version 2.5.4474 of the app.