Seattle, WA - Comcast - Page 518

Originally Posted by Ken H

Anyone watch CBC HD here?

Originally Posted by pastiche

Frequently. It's 619 with Comcast equipment; 60-2 without.

Originally Posted by Ken H

A few questions:

1) Is the channel number grouped with the other HD channels, when you use the box?

2) Have you noticed any difference in HD picture quality in the last month, or so?

Originally Posted by jimre

I don't watch it enough to notice one way or the other. Here in the Seattle area, this feed is actually Vancouver affilate CBUT. Presumably you get a different affiliate feed in Michigan?

Originally Posted by Ken H

1) Is the channel number grouped with the other HD channels, when you use the box?

Originally Posted by Ken H

2) Have you noticed any difference in HD picture quality in the last month, or so?

Originally Posted by pastiche


Out of curiosity, what's the selection of cross-border channels like on Comcast in Detroit? Is it CBC-only or do they also carry the relay transmitters of CTV, TVOntario, etc. from across the river?

Originally Posted by Ken H

Comcast will provide up to 3 DTA boxes for subscribers that will get all the Limited Basic channels and output analog.

Originally Posted by levibluewa

NOT HD boxes though , without incurring a fee.

Originally Posted by pastiche

Any recently-issued Comcast equiment tunes digitally, only. There are probably still some analog limited basic boxes floating around, but they'd be useless to anyone who has even an analog cable-ready TV.

If you have any equipment with a built-in analog tuner (i.e. most any TV), it'd be telling to see what it picks up, as well. Limited basic on analog includes 2-14, 16-17, 19-24, 26-29, 75-78, and 99. If the line is filtered for HSI-only, most of this would probably be missing, though since digital 79 is working for you, you might see a couple of channels in the upper 70s.

Originally Posted by steve_launch

I finally got home and got a chance to try this on an analog tuner (no box). I'm basically seeing exactly what you had predicted.

2-14, 16-17, 19-24, 26-29 and 99 either don't come in at all, or are extremely fuzzy (for instance, on 8 I can get a grainy picture, but it's far from normal).

75-78 come in perfectly clear

99 does not come in at all.

Does this sound like what you expected with a potential HSI filter on the line?

Originally Posted by steve_launch

When I called in to make the appointment the CSR was totally adament that there were "no analog channels left and I shouldn't be expecting to see anything without a DTV converter". I had to argue for at least 5 minutes before they agreed to make the service appointment. Jeesh..

Originally Posted by pastiche

Good luck and let us know how it goes. When I called Comcast to have my old analog Limited Basic bandpass filter removed, the CSR seemed confused, but the field tech knew exactly what I was talking about, removed it, came inside to measure signal strength, and was on his way.

I actually thought that Limited Basic customers were still expected to be analog! I've never been offered a DTA to use with my service (though my own QAM-capable equipment makes that a moot point.)

Originally Posted by subako

Heads up. SyfyHD seems to have switched from an east coast feed to a west coast feed. Your listings may not have caught up.

Originally Posted by troublebound

Thanks.

Looks like USA HD (672) also changed. TiVo guide data hasn't caught up yet on either one.

Originally Posted by subako

Heads up. SyfyHD seems to have switched from an east coast feed to a west coast feed. Your listings may not have caught up.

Originally Posted by thewarm

http://www.multichannel.com/article/...Basic_Tier.php



quote from Missing Remote

"It seems our poor cable companies are all suffering terribly from theft of service, hence the FTC is going to let them encrypt all the basic channels as well. For many of us, this already happened for the HD channels and with the prevelance of the Ceton and Colossus, perhaps it's no longer a big deal for HTPC DVR fans but I have to imagine, once they win this battle, then it's on to plugging the analog hole and turning on copy-protection on all broadcasts..."

Originally Posted by Dartman

I just got a HD Homerun Prime during black Friday and have had it running for almost a month now on Comcast in Portland Oregon here. I use Windows Media Center and it works great. I got lucky at my local office as they gave me a M card and self install kit without any issues though she did say it would cost a extra 8.95 a month for the card even though I've heard first card is supposed to be free. I installed the drivers and stuff from the disk, it self updated to the latest ones and updated the firmware as well. I had to redo some of the media center crap I disabled due to never needing to use it so not wanting to have it taking up valuable resources.
I called their 800 number, told the gal what I needed, and she activated the card without issues in like 5 minutes and was very helpful and nice, just like the lady at the office was.
Once I had everything back up and running the card populated the guide and all my HD and movie channels showed up, before everything was up it just showed the first 39 channels, after, everything worked.
Any of the normal HD channels are copy freely so you can convert and edit them to your hearts content, the one movie channel I have is copy once so you cant edit or do anything with those except watch them on the original machine that did the capture.
You HAVE to use media center or myth TV because of the DRM involved, my copy of CWEPG recognizes the card and can do some QAM channels with 2 of the three tuners, none of the extra HD channels except locals, plus it uses the RF channels and not the virtual numbers the cable co assigns to them.
I have figured out how to make WMC use the file names I want now so been using it a lot to capture season passes and individual programs and then redoing the captures to something my media players can see and watching them after editing on the network to the TV in the front room.
The tuners seem to be much better then the one in my Divco Fusion3 gold with a good LG HD tuner chip. I get better bitrates on my captures now and less errors then before. The gal at my office did say that she might be wrong about the 8.95 a month rental charge for the card seeing how I brought up that I had heard first card is free and was going to research it more after we left and she had free time. If she turns out to be wrong there will not be the extra charge on my bill so we'll see next month.
I do have a nice Motorola HD box with every output known to man on it and that one is not costing me anything and I don't have to return it.

Originally Posted by Dartman

I just got a HD Homerun Prime during black Friday and have had it running for almost a month now on Comcast in Portland Oregon here. I use Windows Media Center and it works great. I got lucky at my local office as they gave me a M card and self install kit without any issues though she did say it would cost a extra 8.95 a month for the card even though I've heard first card is supposed to be free.