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Hopefully this means they will bring back all the Premium HD channels they cut last year.

(in my area they got rid of several HBO and Showtime channels to make room for overly-compressed, barely HD versions of BBCA and DIY)

With the box off, hit MENU to get the setup screen. Double-check the settings, especially for 4:3 override. It should normally be 480i to pass SD as-is.

Notice on my March Bill:
Effective 4/4/12, these channels will be added to
Digital Preferred: Smithsonian Channel (chl. 153);
BBC World News (chl. 154); CNBC World (chl. 155);
and Inspiration Network (chl. 157).
NOTE: CNBC World will also continue to air on its
current Digital Preferred channel 178 until 4/10/12.
Effective April 5, 2012, Spike TV will no longer be available on
Digital Economy. Spike TV will still be available on Digital
Starter. H2, formerly History International, will be added to
Digital Economy.
Effective April 26, 2012, Tele5, a general entertainment channel,
will be added to the Polish Super Pack, replacing TVP Info.

Cool. I've been waiting for Smithsonian for a long time. From the channel number, it appears to be SD only?

BBCWN was expected, as that was part of the deal to move BBCA to Starter.

My guess is SD only which is kind crazy since Smithsonian HD has been available on-demand for quite some time. While SD additions are OK, I was hoping for HD additions with the elimination of analog basic.

Thanks, Andy. I also happened to stumble across the comcast channel with instructions. Actually, I had to select TV capabilities that 480i was supported. I never saw this menu before and not sure what changed. Oh well. It's fine now.

Any news on FSC-HD or FSC+?

RCN has CLTV HD will comcast add any time soon?

Is HDNet available on Comcast in the Chicago area?

You'll need to be more specific about the location, Mikey Man.  Which municipality, or if you're thinking about a spot inside Chicago, what part of the city?

It is available in Chicago Area 2, but HDNet Movies is not.  Area 3 should be the same.  I can't say about areas 1, 4, and 5, nor about any of the suburbs.

HD Movies is NOT (going to be) available on ANY CC system; their last contract with Cuban was ONLY for HD Net on Preferred. If you look here, it's NEVER been shown as available:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1058081

On the few systems that did have HD Movies, that CC took over, (like the Insight systems, etc.) it was removed right after the takeover was complete - while HD Net remained on...

HDNet is here in Schaumburg and probably most of the N and NW suburbs fed by the Mt Prospect super-headend.

I'm in the 'burbs, Alsip area.

There's some cool concerts on HDNet. I don't see the channel listed in my zone, but it's some other areas?

HDNet is rebranding itself as AXS TV this summer:
http://www.hd.net/press_articles/axs-q-and-a/

Anyone have any info on the new streampix service? Is there going to be an app for devices like the iPad? Or is it pretty muck the same as on demand? Couldn't really tell anything from the Comcast web site.

It's both a premium OnDemand channel (if you use a cable box), or streaming on a device. I think Comcast is working on apps for various devices that should be out soon, if they are not already available.

No app out for the iPad yet other than the xfinity app which has been available for awhile. I am wondering if the content available from Streampix differs from what is available On Demand. Comcast is certainly not providing a lot of information.

There isn't a separate Streampix app, but it's in the Xfinity TV app. I don't know if on the iPad it's listed different, but on the iPhone version, it's under Play Now > Networks > Streampix

I'm in Lincoln park with 2 DCX3400's boxes and neither of them changed their time last night. Anyone else seeing this?

Getting nowhere fast with Comcast. I can see in diagnostic menu that my DST entry date and ext date are both 2011..

Edit: After 30 minutes talking to someone and texting some friends to see what their boxes are saying (none are right), the tech is now saying all of comcast is wrong. Who knows if that is accurate.

Off the McHenry Headend up here by the IL-WI line, the time on my DCX3400 updated on it's own to DST.

Not a Comcast-wide problem, by any means.

Thats for confirming. I kind of figured as much. I do know at least one other person down the street from me with the same issue.. not sure if its sporatic or my area. I'm done caring for the day, the weather is too nice! haha This all stemmed from my wife not wanting to miss Oprah tonight on the DVR. I'll just set a manual recording around it in case the time updates.

Yep. That is where it is at on the iPad app as well. Never looked under networks before. Thanks.

Is there any way to access Streampix, or any value to it, if one doesn't have a smartphone?  Apparently one of its functions is to stream video to the customer's television, which sounds no different from On Demand except for possibly a different set of selections.  But I couldn't figure anything out from what I found on comcast.com.

It's in On Demand. Under premium networks, I believe. It'll be listed as Xfinity Streampix

Thank you.  I'd never have thought of looking for it there.

The funny thing is that the reason I posted here rather than phoning Comcast was that I expected a heavily technical answer that a phone rep might not have been able to give me, or not been able to convey correctly.

It doesn't look like there's anything decent under the StreamPix selection. It looks like old stuff, that most would probably not be looking to watch again, IMO.

There is something weird going on with CLTV this morning. It was dead for a bit, and now is showing the feed from different channels. It started as some informercial, then aired Bloomberg for a few minutes. Then Discovery Fit and Health, then Nicktoons, and now NatGeoWild.

A look at the diagnostics show the same frequency and subchannel as always, and these channels are normally on completely different frequencies, and still there on those originals.

Got a message that my tv isn't ready for comcast digital enhancements when watching using my tivo. Tv only works ok, do i need a cable card now even for the basic? If so this is bad.

Anyone else having any problems with On-Demand? Tried watching On-Demand and a message came up saying to unplug our box for a minute and then try again. The same message was on all 3 of our boxes. I unplugged all of them and plugged them back in a few hours ago and On-Demand isn't working on any of them now.

Pretty sure you're going to need a CableCARD, unless you want to tune to the QAM channel. Last I checked, the TiVo doesn't have any way to manually map QAM channels to those listed in the guide data. So as an example, if you're tuning to cable channel 2 for WBBM, and you don't have a CableCARD, you're getting the analog feed - which is going away in early April.

You say your TV works fine by itself. Does your TV have a DTA or a box?