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I've added some info to the FAQ that might help you with your situation if you already didn't know this.

Click the link below "Defining the.........DCT setup"

If there is anyone on Beacon Street in Boston with Comcast Digital...please pm me! I just moved there, and am trying to figure out if my building supports it or not!

-Juice

Which HDTV Channels does Comcast have in my area?

We currently offer the following channels in the Boston Metro area:*
WGBH (PBS) - Channel 802
WCVB (ABC) - Channel 805
WHDH (NBC) - Channel 807
WFXT (Fox Widescreen) - Channel 825

We currently offer the following channels in Western Massachusetts:*
WFSB (CBS) - Channel 803
WWLP (NBC) - Channel 822
WGBY (PBS) - Channel 847

We currently offer the following channels in Massachusetts:*
ESPN - Channel 849
INHD - Channel 881
INHD2 - Channel 882
Select Red Sox and Bruins home games from NESN - Channel 882

We also offer 2 HDTV Premium movie channels in Massachusetts*
HBO East - Channel 870
Showtime East - Channel 877

Two more channels coming Dec.22
Cinemax East - Channel 868
Starz! East - Channel 875

Interesting... when I enter my Watertown zip code, I get "coming soon" rather than "Dec 22". Maybe Boston gets it earlier?

Wow, It was on the website yesterday coming Dec.22, Now it says coming soon. Oh sh*t, Somethings going on

Thanks for the tip, before I got a chance to call them...everything came back! Weird, after several weeks of bad picture and no modem it just came back...maybe it was not just my house, but our area and they fixed it. I'll keep the trap issue in mind if it happens again!

I live in Medford. I just checked the Comcast website and it indicates that the two new stations will be available on January 13, 2004.

comcast vod now has ws movies. how do you get the picture to fill a ws tv??

tv is set to 4:3 expanded so it's streching the sides with blackbars at top&bottom. if i select the 16:9 native mode then the whole picture is stretched and still with the blackbars at top&bottom. reading the posts couldn't find info on this applying to ws tv's.

That's what I'm getting now, too. They must have put the new date in within the last couple of hours.

avic,

You will always get bars at the top and bottom of a widesceen movie, unless its in HD. When they list the movies in WS the output is still an NTSC 4:3 signal with bars, this is so you can watch it the way it was formatted on a 4:3 tv. It puts the bars at the top and bottom of your TV because it doesn't know that YOUR TV is a WS TV. Your TV is strectching the picture, which it always does when your watching regular analog TV. Think of those black bars as being just part of the movie.....

miatasm: the black bars aren't the problem, it's the stretch that ruins the movie. but if don't stretch then i'll get the 'postage stamp' forget it, i'll wait for vodHD. btw for your faq, looks like firmware 7.05 reactivates DVI

Anyone else experiencing blackout problems with ch.40 Food Network? The channel keeps coming and going on both of my 5100 boxes. No problem on my DIRECTV RCAF38310 so the problem, I believe, is at Comcast. Currently at 12:22AM,the station is black.

Big news for Comcast Boston subscribers!

http://www.comcast.com/Support/Corp4....asp?LocResult

"COMING SOON TO THE BOSTON METRO AREA!
WBZ (CBS) - Channel 804"

No ETA -- hopefully 'SOON' means 'before the Super Bowl'.

-Kord

Hopefully in time for the Pats-Bills next Saturday!

Just called customer service and received the expected response. A deal has been reached but the CSR's have not been notified of a go-live date.

I realize that Comcast's moves are rarely logical, but, given what a huge issue that the lack of CBS-HD has become, I can't imagine that they would announce it as coming soon if they weren't prepared to go live in a relatively short period of time. The CSR's phones are hopefully ringing off the hook.

I'll expect that UPN will come soon too. WSBK is owned by Viacom as well.

I belive part of the timing may depend on if Comcast-Boston has the required equipment in place to add this channel now. If they have not been planning for this, it could take a few weeks.

Made sense that it would happen, the Comcast /Viacom contract was up for renewal New Years. Sure Viacom didnt work MTV VH1 Spke,and Nick pulled from Comcast Hope 804 is up and running by 2/1/04 at the latest

Remember when Comcast added ESPN-HD? Comcast quickly added the channel and came out with an advertising campaign along the lines of "now you can watch Monday Night Football in HD on Comcast but its not available on satellite". Same applies here for the Super Bowl. Expect Comcast to want to push that angle with CBS-HD, so having everything ready by 2/1 should be no problem.

CBS probably won't be added untill after Cinemax and Starz as they're focusing on the VOD rollout.

Somewhat OT but related...

Anyone know if RCN/Boston is close to making a similar arrangement with WBZ?

Most likely they are going to push the launch out early January in time for the AFC Playoffs. WBZ has already committed to showing all the AFC playoff games in HD. Now maybe I'll finally watch football on TV.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Again, this represents something of a competitive advantage.

'coming soon!' can't possibly mean after 2/1. they'll surely have it for the superbowl and maybe well before. hope they throw in their stepchild UPN. after CBS, cinemax and starz i'd say comcast gets the HD leader title in this market.

This all sounds great. Now if Comcast can only do something about the volume level difference between analog and digital channels. When watching late at night, if I switch from a digital to an analog channel, the increase in volume wakes up my entire condo building! How hard can it be to adjust this?

Should be a good day for HD sports tommorow (today?)

1pm NESN HD (InHD2 882) Bruins vs. Carolina
5pm CBS HD (maybe 804???) KC vs. Minnesota
8:30 pm ESPN HD (849) Pats vs. Jets
9pm InHD (881) college bball

Must avoid sitting on couch all day long!

That's not a Comcast issue, read the FAQs!

Motorola High Definition STB FAQ

DCT2000/5100 Sound Levels and Compression

Why is it not a comcast issue? It is very very annoying, and it doesn't matter to to consumer if the fault is Motorola's or Comcast's, we pay Comcast for the use of the box.

And the "compression" setting is useless to those of us using digital out for the sound.

We have to put up with the sound being 2x louder on the analog channels from the HD ones. Ugh.

But its not the boxes' fault either......ANY device will do this. I've done extensive testing with multiple devices, Samsung OTA HD Decoder, Panasonic DVD/VCR, ect. --- to the same input with the same settings of the A/V reciever and the volume levels are the same.

The Problem is not that the Analog is too high it that the Digital Audio output is too low. But its not really too low, its how DD gets its dynamic range. If Comcast or Motorola were to make a change to these output levels, it would kill the Dynamic range & Dolby Labs would probably have a nice little lawsuit.......

This will not change, its not anybodys choice to change this, its just how it is, unfortunately.... Go ahead and blame Dolby for having too much dynamic range & making DD sound so good.......

If they offer it already in "Western Mass." (803), what would be the big issue of adding it to Boston Metro (804)???