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By MICHELLE JARBOE
Youre frazzled, pushing the speed limit and pulling Hollywood stops.
Desperate times call for desperate measures: Desperate Housewives is almost on but youre not almost home.
No problem.
This summer, Time Warner Cable will kick off its Start Over service in the Greensboro area. The free feature for digital cable subscribers allows viewers to restart, pause and rewind a program without an in-home recording device.
Time Warner will store these programs on its servers, which the company uses for on-demand video programming.
Digital cable starts at about $56 a month here and includes hundreds of channels. Customers who pay for a DVR, which saves and fast-forwards shows in addition to pausing and rewinding them, can tack on another $5 a month.
Time Warner wont disclose what percentage of its 350,000 local customers have gone digital.
A significant number of our subscribers subscribe to the digital service, and it continues to grow, said local spokesman Buck Yarborough .
Theres no set start date or local channel lineup for Start Over here yet, but customers in a South Carolina test market, where the feature has been available for six months, can restart shows on 62 stations, from local networks to CNN.
More than 60 percent of these customers have been using the service three times a week, Time Warner reports.
The Triad will be the first area in the state to sample Start Over, which will launch in Rochester, New York, and San Antonio, Texas, about the same time.
Contact Michelle Jarboe at 373-7075, or mjarboe@news-record.com
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