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post #6091 of 8616
11/26/08 at 2:25pm
Same here, all the QAM channels I use to get including locals are now gone. It's 2:24pm and nothing has come back yet except for the Internet.
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post #6092 of 8616
11/26/08 at 2:26pm
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Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005 View Post

KCOP is 720p. All MNTV stations are 720p just like Fox.

Well, I had to be sure.
Especially since Time-Warner still insists on broadcasting KTTV in 1080i.
(KCET too for that matter)
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post #6093 of 8616
11/26/08 at 8:10pm
I do know that Motorola HD boxes only have 1 HD resolution set at a time. Either 1080i or 720p. Can't have both at the same time.
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post #6094 of 8616
11/26/08 at 11:25pm
Except I'm talking about the raw QAM feed.
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post #6095 of 8616
11/27/08 at 12:13am
Midnight. Still no phone service. Internet and TV are fine.

Call my number from my cell phone and I get "due to network difficulties, your call cannot be completed at this time."

Remarkable. Can this really be affecting all TWC phone subscribers in the LA area? For nearly 24 hours, no phone service?

Unbelievable. It rained. Aren't their phone servers (at the other end of the same coax that provides Internet, presumably) indoors???

How long could it possibly take to fix something this major? Don't they have the staff? Competence? What in the world could take out some phone servers this deeply?
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post #6096 of 8616
11/27/08 at 12:37am
Ok. Finally decided to try a modem reset (for the fourth time today).

This time it worked. I now have my dial-tone back and all seems right once again. I suspect if I'd tried this a bit earlier it would have worked as well, as they've clearly fixed whatever the problem was.

Still no explanation for why "due to network difficulties..." was received when I called my number, suggesting a system-wide problem rather than an issue with my particular modem not being pingable. Regular phone service normally has either a rapid-busy, or it rings forever, or something like that, if there's line trouble with your number.

Also, the fact that I had working Internet service from the same modem is strange. Yes, the Internet lights were on and the phone lights were off, but that was even more reason for me to believe the problem was at the TWC end... not with my modem needing a reset.

Oh well. Case closed.
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post #6097 of 8616
11/27/08 at 1:11am
i just got a 46" TV and it makes TWCs compression even more noticeable than on my 32"
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post #6098 of 8616
11/27/08 at 4:36am
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Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005 View Post

I do know that Motorola HD boxes only have 1 HD resolution set at a time. Either 1080i or 720p. Can't have both at the same time.

Actually there is a way you can. My Moto6200 STB has live firewire ports which output each station's particular resolution (I have a firewire connection to my JVC D-VHS unit). Only trouble is, the guide or any other OSD isn't available. I rarely watch anything this way, but it good for comparisons, and there is less overscan.
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post #6099 of 8616
11/27/08 at 4:40am
^yea i use the firewire port on my motorola box to record to my PC. capdvhs shows you the native resolution that the channel is outputting and TWC constantly switches between 720p and 1080i on ABC, fox, fsn hd and espn.
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post #6100 of 8616
11/27/08 at 8:25am
I have some episodes of ER saved from earlier this year on my TiVo S3, and a one hour episode up until May 2008 used between 6.9 and 7.2 gig of space on the hard drive.

With the new season starting in September, one hour episodes are now using between 4.7 and 5.0 gigs of space.

So the amount of compression has increased roughly 30%, and it shows.

But it's also the methodology. When they were just passing on the transport stream, whatever came in went out. But now that they're decompressing and recompressing the feeds, the hardware doing the work has to be top notch to minimize artifacting, and has to be set up properly by competent engineers. From the images I'm seeing, that is not happening. I suggest that currently TW is interested in quantity and not quality.

If things don't improve by the time I have a TiVo-based alternative, I'm gone.
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post #6101 of 8616
11/27/08 at 9:43am
FYI - A couple of days ago, several new HD stations showed up in the EPG on my Tivo HD running an m-card. I don't have the whole list with me, but they included TLC, Discovery, and NGC. All the new channels showed black, so I called TWC who just informed me that they're just populating the EPG, but the channels themselves won't be available until sometime after the new year - at least for me.

On a separate but related note, I'm in North Redondo Beach, and just received a door hanger last week announcing Fios TV is finally available in my neighborhood. I'll be making the switch ASAP, so I guess I'll never find out if and when those new stations show up.
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post #6102 of 8616
11/27/08 at 12:02pm
TWC San Diego airs KSWB in 720p. KSWB is the San Diego Fox Affiliate. Our MNTV affiliate XHDTV has yet to brodacast in HD. They are in the process of becoming HD ready. It doesn't help that it's licensed in Tecate, BCN, MX.
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post #6103 of 8616
11/27/08 at 3:29pm
i sent an email to TWC asking if eagle rock would be getting the second group of new HD channels (planet green, the weather channel, bio, etc) and they said wed be getting them december 22nd. i think they were talking about the first group of new ones that include fox news since eagle rock is on the list to get those in december anyway.

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The new HD channels will be available in your area starting 12/22/08. Some areas will get these new channels sooner than others because; some areas already have the capacity and technology to launch these new services. Our team is working hard to enhance your system so that we can launch all these new channels in your area.
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post #6104 of 8616
11/28/08 at 6:36pm
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Originally Posted by DSperber View Post

Ok. Finally decided to try a modem reset (for the fourth time today).

This time it worked. I now have my dial-tone back and all seems right once again. I suspect if I'd tried this a bit earlier it would have worked as well, as they've clearly fixed whatever the problem was.

Still no explanation for why "due to network difficulties..." was received when I called my number, suggesting a system-wide problem rather than an issue with my particular modem not being pingable. Regular phone service normally has either a rapid-busy, or it rings forever, or something like that, if there's line trouble with your number.

Also, the fact that I had working Internet service from the same modem is strange. Yes, the Internet lights were on and the phone lights were off, but that was even more reason for me to believe the problem was at the TWC end... not with my modem needing a reset.

Oh well. Case closed.

Little known fact...if this happens again make sure to unplug your cable box then reset the modem...everything has to be turned on in a certain order with the phone turned on before the cable box....I had a similar thing happen when I switched out cable boxes....its weird but it happens...I am happy you now are back up and running....
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post #6105 of 8616
11/29/08 at 5:23am
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Originally Posted by llabine1 View Post

Little known fact...if this happens again make sure to unplug your cable box then reset the modem...everything has to be turned on in a certain order with the phone turned on before the cable box....I had a similar thing happen when I switched out cable boxes....its weird but it happens...I am happy you now are back up and running....

I have the cable into the house split. One side goes to the DVR, and the other side goes to the Arris modem (and then to my router+computers via RJ45 on the modem, and the nearest wall phone jack via telco on the modem to support all the phones in the house).

The DVR is thus totally independent of the Arris modem supporting Internet and phone.

I believe they simply hadn't yet gotten the telephone server up earlier the previous night and later in the day, as I had gone through the modem reset three times previously, all of which only succeeded in getting my modem's Internet lights lit up but no telephone lights.

It was only that fourth midnight reset (identical in procedure to all the earlier ones) which finally succeeded in restoring phone service. I'm sure the answer had to be on the TWC side.
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post #6106 of 8616
11/29/08 at 9:40am
Anyone know if we're getting Sci-Fi HD? I'm surprised we didn't get it, considering some of the channels we actually did get in HD. I mean, seriously, do I really need CNN HD instead of Sci-Fi HD?

Dan

PS: I searched this thread but didn't find much mention of Sci-Fi HD. If I missed something, feel free to point me to it. Thanks.
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post #6107 of 8616
11/29/08 at 10:41am
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Anyone know if we're getting Sci-Fi HD?

I would just be happy if it existed on the digital tier instead of the analog one. Why are Sci-Fi and AMC the only two available in analog only?

Although an HD version would be nice, instead of some of that REALLY useless crap that's being foisted off on us to get the "WE HAVE 8000 HD CHANNELS!!!" to be sort of true.
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post #6108 of 8616
11/29/08 at 10:46am
TWC has made a deal with NBCUniversal for that channel. It's probably going to be offered in SoCal next year.
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post #6109 of 8616
11/29/08 at 2:25pm
i sure hope so I want my scifiHD
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post #6110 of 8616
11/30/08 at 8:52am
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Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005 View Post

TWC has made a deal with NBCUniversal for that channel. It's probably going to be offered in SoCal next year.

Link?

Dan
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post #6111 of 8616
11/30/08 at 2:34pm
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Link?

Dan

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=652328
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post #6112 of 8616
11/30/08 at 6:06pm
OK this isn't HD... but on my non HD box upstairs, the software was recently updated, and all the menus are different. But whats happened now is that the channels aren't in order.

Example... HBOs:

It goes 503, 504 then skips to 508. And once you get to like 511, it rolls back over to 2. You can't see the other channels. Until you turn into them... and then they're sandwiched between some 1500 level channel.

Anyone got some insight?
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post #6113 of 8616
12/1/08 at 6:03pm
mojo is gone now so when do we get mgm-hd?
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post #6114 of 8616
12/1/08 at 6:30pm
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Originally Posted by senortighto View Post

mojo is gone now so when do we get mgm-hd?

not anytime in the near future
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post #6115 of 8616
12/1/08 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by CaCHooKa Man View Post

not anytime in the near future

yeah, i kinda realized that a bit later

wishful thinking though
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post #6116 of 8616
12/2/08 at 12:09pm
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Originally Posted by kenwebb View Post

i sure hope so I want my scifiHD

Your wish has come true:

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Beginning November 18, 2008 through February 2009, Fox News HD 465, Fox Business Network HD 466, FX HD 456, Animal Planet HD 451, Travel Channel 452 HD, Science Channel HD 460, NHL Network HD 471, USA HD 441, Bravo HD 442, Sci Fi HD 443, CNBC+HD 444, KVEA HD 401, TV Venezuela 823, and Sur Peru 817, will be launched in all areas.

On or before January 18, 2009, Chiller and Sleuth will be launched in all areas.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/socal...ng/alerts.html
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post #6117 of 8616
12/2/08 at 12:17pm
Good News
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post #6118 of 8616
12/3/08 at 6:43am
Woo hoo! Thanks for the info! Maybe that's why Mojo is gone - to make room for SciFi?

Dan
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post #6119 of 8616
12/3/08 at 12:11pm
I thought MGM-HD was suppose to take MOJO place already.

Also Golf Channel HD and Versus HD split into two channels this morning.
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post #6120 of 8616
12/3/08 at 6:31pm
im getting really poor signal on the new channel that versus is on. oh well. i only watched it like 3 times when football was on anyway.
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