The company made the disclosure in an analysts call following the release of its first quarter report.
Charter did not reveal how many subscribers are getting the advanced services, nor did it breakout the specific HD and DVR numbers.
The cable operator credited the increase, however, to what it calls a "robust" HD programming lineup, although it offers less than 30 high-def channels in most markets. Charter emphasized that it has expanded its On Demand service, which includes high-def movies and TV shows.
"Our video product is more robust than ever and we will continue to aggressively expand our HD and on-demand offerings which now include nearly 200 HD viewing choices..." said Charter president Neil Smit.
Charter also said that it will implement a new technology called Switched Digital Video in most systems by year's end, which will expand high-def capacity.
"We currently are trialing it in LA, have had good success there and also we continued to migrate analog to digital. We cleared up on the HD side, we currently have about 22.5 (HD) channels so as we continued to migrate analog to digital we free up bandwidth and dedicate it to HD," Smit said.
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