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post #11041 of 15821
12/17/07 at 4:43pm
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Originally Posted by Spyre View Post

Howdy!

Since this morning I've had no digital channels and extremely fritzy analog channels. Just wondering if others are affected by this in the North Bothell/Mill Creek area? I called Comcast and they don't have any reports of an outage. Is it just me?

I live close to mill creek and have had no problems...
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post #11042 of 15821
12/17/07 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by Spyre View Post

Howdy!

Since this morning I've had no digital channels and extremely fritzy analog channels. Just wondering if others are affected by this in the North Bothell/Mill Creek area? I called Comcast and they don't have any reports of an outage. Is it just me?

No problems on 228th and B/E Highway.
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post #11043 of 15821
12/17/07 at 11:19pm
What will Comcast do to my internet bill if I cancel my cable TV? I did that about 5-6 years ago to switch to DirecTV and Comcast tried to bump it by about $10-15 per month. Then I found "Earthlink powered by Comcast" and got the price back down to about $45 even though I didn't bundle cable TV. Switched back to Comcast when I got HD and the HD DirecTivo was $1000 that I couldn't afford. But an HD DVR from D* is much cheaper now, they have more HD channels, and the monthly price is significantly less than Comcast. I figure I save about $300 over two years even if I have to pay $199 for the D* HR-20.
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post #11044 of 15821
12/18/07 at 1:06am
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Originally Posted by rader023 View Post

No problems on 228th and B/E Highway.

Strange. All my digital channels are now back except for the four newly added HD channels (670-673). Two of them don't show up at all and two of them are super pixelated and choppy so as to be unwatchable. And it's just me? Ugh!
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post #11045 of 15821
12/18/07 at 8:13am
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Originally Posted by ntaylor View Post

What will Comcast do to my internet bill if I cancel my cable TV? ...

Your internet bill should increase by $10.
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post #11046 of 15821
12/18/07 at 8:20am
So, I know these things can sometimes be unreliable, but a co-worker of mine and I were chatting yesterday about HD and he mentioned that he knows someone that works for Comcast Seattle and they told him that Comcast is going to be really agressive in the 1st Quarter of 2008 as far as adding HD channels. I'll try to find out more info.
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post #11047 of 15821
12/18/07 at 9:19am
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Originally Posted by gimmiefuel View Post

...I'll try to find out more info.

Good luck with that.
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post #11048 of 15821
12/18/07 at 10:20am
I'm finally going to get the digital subscription with a set top box in a few weeks (called to cancel my expensive basic cable and got a deal). Do any A/V cables come with the STB?
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post #11049 of 15821
12/18/07 at 10:40am
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Originally Posted by gimmiefuel View Post

So, I know these things can sometimes be unreliable, but a co-worker of mine and I were chatting yesterday about HD and he mentioned that he knows someone that works for Comcast Seattle and they told him that Comcast is going to be really agressive in the 1st Quarter of 2008 as far as adding HD channels. I'll try to find out more info.

I was reading in the Comcast HD thread that in some towns in rural Virginia, Comcast suddenly added 15 new HD channels last Friday without any advertisement or warning. If only we get so lucky next quarter...

Looking at the list of channels just added in Va, here is what we still don't have that Comcast carries: FSN-HD, CSN-HD, SCIFI-HD, DISC-HD, APL-HD, TLC-HD, TBS-HD, FOOD-HD, HGTV-HD, CNN-HD

If Comcast is truely going to be aggressive next quarter, then it seems that at the very least they could easily start by adding these 10.... but if it actually happens any time soon, I'll probably go into a state of shock.
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post #11050 of 15821
12/18/07 at 11:25am
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Originally Posted by ABHD View Post

I was reading in the Comcast HD thread that in some towns in rural Virginia, Comcast suddenly added 15 new HD channels last Friday without any advertisement or warning. If only we get so lucky next quarter...

Looking at the list of channels just added in Va, here is what we still don't have that Comcast carries: FSN-HD, CSN-HD, SCIFI-HD, DISC-HD, APL-HD, TLC-HD, TBS-HD, FOOD-HD, HGTV-HD, CNN-HD

If Comcast is truely going to be aggressive next quarter, then it seems that at the very least they could easily start by adding these 10.... but if it actually happens any time soon, I'll probably go into a state of shock.

I wish this happens with comcast seattle too this friday .
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post #11051 of 15821
12/18/07 at 12:16pm
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Originally Posted by surak View Post

I'm finally going to get the digital subscription with a set top box in a few weeks (called to cancel my expensive basic cable and got a deal). Do any A/V cables come with the STB?

It will come with component cables. If you want HDMI, you'll need your own HDMI cable.
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post #11052 of 15821
12/18/07 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by gdeep View Post

I wish this happens with comcast seattle too this friday .

Well it is the weekend before X-mas...
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post #11053 of 15821
12/18/07 at 1:17pm
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Originally Posted by ABHD View Post

Well it is the weekend before X-mas...

Now THAT would be a Christmas miracle.
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post #11054 of 15821
12/18/07 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by homerjr View Post

Now THAT would be a Christmas miracle.

That will be my christmas present....
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post #11055 of 15821
12/18/07 at 2:26pm
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Originally Posted by gdeep View Post

That will be my christmas present....

Not mine -- I asked for Speed-HD.
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post #11056 of 15821
12/18/07 at 2:28pm
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Originally Posted by wareagle View Post

Not mine -- I asked for Speed-HD.

Christmas Wish: FoodNetwork HD, Sci-FiHD and Discovery HD are added.
Sign Of The Apocalypse: HDNet is added.
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post #11057 of 15821
12/18/07 at 3:32pm
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Originally Posted by gdeep View Post

That will be my christmas present....

FX-HD, FSN-HD, and SCIFI-HD would be great.
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post #11058 of 15821
12/19/07 at 9:37am
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Originally Posted by drew00001 View Post

FX-HD, FSN-HD, and SCIFI-HD would be great.

Yep, I'd like these channels, too.

But what I'd really like is guide data for the 4 channels they just added...still no data for me in the 98109 area.
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post #11059 of 15821
12/19/07 at 10:40am
Aye, it is getting annoying. Fortunately ( ) there is little I watch on those channels and even less that is actual HD and not stretched SD, so looking up the guide data on my DCT-2000 and setting manual recordings on the TivoHD is working for the moment, but I would like to be able to update my season passes...
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post #11060 of 15821
12/19/07 at 11:31am
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Originally Posted by hummingbird_206 View Post

I'd really like is guide data for the 4 channels they just added...still no data for me in the 98109 area.

On tivocommunity.com, people are having luck getting schedule date for the new channels by programming their Tivos with a Zip Code they know has the guide data . . . and of course their exact channel lineup. My zip code is 98005, and I have been gettinng the schedule since last Friday. The Tivocommunity.com link is as follows.

http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/sho...=1#post5785230
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post #11061 of 15821
12/19/07 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by drew00001 View Post

On tivocommunity.com, people are having luck getting schedule date for the new channels by programming their Tivos with a Zip Code they know has the guide data . . . and of course their exact channel lineup. My zip code is 98005, and I have been gettinng the schedule since last Friday. The Tivocommunity.com link is as follows.

http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/sho...=1#post5785230

I have been thinking about doing that, but after my 3 phone calls to TiVo and redo of the guided setup on Saturday, I just haven't had time to get back to it.
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post #11062 of 15821
12/19/07 at 2:17pm
zap2it doesn't show the channels either for the 98005 zip code, but since you are getting them, drew00001, I am tempted to re-do guided setup since we're still blank here at 98004...
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post #11063 of 15821
12/19/07 at 4:28pm
I just got the guide data for the 4 new HD channels!!!! Zip 98109, finally.

I was about to repeat the guided setup with zip 98005, but thought I'd try and force a connection one last time to see if I got updated, and lo and behold there was the new info. Merry Christmas to me
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post #11064 of 15821
12/19/07 at 4:46pm
Praise the Maker - my Tivo in 98004 now has the new channel guide data, though Season Passes seem to still only show the SD channel...
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post #11065 of 15821
12/19/07 at 6:59pm
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Originally Posted by Nausicaa View Post

Praise the Maker - my Tivo in 98004 now has the new channel guide data, though Season Passes seem to still only show the SD channel...


Your season passes don't magically change to the HD channel. They stay with the channel to which they were originally subscribed. If that channel mapes to a new position, then the season passes will move--given that the channel Id stays the same. If you want season passes on the new HD channels, you must recreate them.
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post #11066 of 15821
12/19/07 at 7:50pm
I'm buying a new house, and unless I see some new HD channels very soon on Comcast, I'm pretty sure I'll be getting DirecTV at my new place. At least they seem to be doing something. 4 new HD channels in a year doesn't really cut it for me, especially when I see the Comcast commercials with all the claims about superior HD. I want more. The 10 new ones would be a good start, but really I would be satisfied for a while with just FX HD and Science Channel HD.
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post #11067 of 15821
12/19/07 at 8:31pm
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Originally Posted by ydkj0022 View Post

Your season passes don't magically change to the HD channel. They stay with the channel to which they were originally subscribed.

I understand that. But when I created new season passes from the HD channels, the only episodes listed were the ones on the SD channel. Also, my existing SD Season Passes did not show any episodes from the HD channel, and they should. So the Season Pass doesn't seem to know that there are episodes on the HD channel (even though it shows the HD channel in the Season Pass title).

However, it now looks like the HD channel data has been indexed because my Season Passes are now showing the HD channel episodes as well as the SD channel episodes.
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post #11068 of 15821
12/20/07 at 3:34pm
TiVo data for the new channels reached 98103 earlier today.
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post #11069 of 15821
12/21/07 at 8:06am
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Originally Posted by Todd Nicholson View Post

It will come with component cables. If you want HDMI, you'll need your own HDMI cable.

Thanks for the info. Will the box have any digital audio out (optical or spdif) ports?
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post #11070 of 15821
12/21/07 at 12:44pm
My DCH has optical out.
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