MONTREAL, Oct. 30 /CNW Telbec/ - Cogeco Cable announced today a major upgrade of its High Definition (HD) television offering. Most of Cogeco Cable's Digital Television subscribers in QuDebec will now have access to eleven HD channels, eight of which are in French and three in English. "The growing popularity of large TV screens confirms it: our customers are constantly looking for exceptional image and sound quality when they watch television," indicated Ron Perrotta, Vice President, Marketing, Cogeco Cable. "We are putting all our efforts towards providing the best HD offering possible. Only two months after launching five new HD channels in Ontario, we are proud to provide our customers with the most complete French HD offering available in QuDebec. And we will continue to improve our offer in the coming year, as more and more channels offer HD programming." Cogeco's Passeport customers with a HD receiver can access the HD service for only $2.99 per month. In most of their Quebec territories, Cogeco Cable will offer access to 11 HD channels, seven of which are owned by Astral Media, the largest operator of specialized television in French, Pay TV and Pay Per View TV in Canada. Subscribers will now be able to watch shows on SRC (Montreal), CBC (Montreal), Canal Vie, HiSToRiA, ZtDelDe, Canal D, SDeries +, VRAK.TV, CTV (Toronto) and Global (Toronto). Subscribers will benefit from a vast array of HD shows, including Tout le monde en parle, Desperate Housewives, CSI and MDetamorphose. Furthermore, subscribers of the HD service also subscribing to Super Ecran (SE) will have access to High Definition Super Ecran at no additional cost. Cogeco Cable has gained close to 80,000 new Digital Television customers during its 2006 fiscal year ended August 2006. "The diversity, quality and control of our Digital services are the elements on which we base our development work," concluded Mr. Perrotta. "This approach is perfectly in line with Cogeco Cable's customer-oriented tradition. ABOUT COGECO CABLE Cogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca), a telecommunications company offering a diverse range of services to its customers in Canada and in Portugal, is the second largest cable operator in Ontario, QuDebec and Portugal in terms of the number of basic service customers served. The Corporation invests in state-of-the-art broadband network facilities, delivers a wide range of services over these facilities with great speed and reliability at attractive prices, and strives to provide both superior customer care and growing profitability to satisfy its customers' varied electronic communication needs. Through its two-way broadband cable infrastructures, Cogeco Cable provides its residential and commercial customers with analog and digital video and audio services, high-speed Internet access as well as telephony services. The Corporation provides about 1,556,000 revenue-generating units (RGU) to approximately 1,477,000 homes passed in its Canadian service territory and 629,000 RGUs to approximately 826,000 homes passed in its Portuguese service territory. Cogeco Cable's subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CCA).