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Recording is back.

WFSB didn't look to bad the other night. Not nearly as much blocking.

The Waternbury line is absolutely inferior to the Seymour. A friend of mine has HD through them and he has the same exact projector and large screen as I and his 3250HD via Component PQ sucks compared to mine on all the channels. It's sh!t and if I had it, I'd be demanding a refund every month. No joke.

Well, I have seen INHD and INHD2, as well as all of the HD locals on Comcast in New Haven. I can tell you that INHD and INHD2 in Waterbury pretty much looks like it's the same quality as they are on Comcast. But the locals, it's absolutely terrible! The locals can't even compare. You pretty much can't tell that Comcast is compressing the locals at all, but on Tele-Media in Waterbury, it's like comparing surfing the internet on a 56k modem, compared to high speed cable internet. It's like comparing a video tape that has been eaten by a VCR to a DVD. They REALLY need to do something about this, their product sucks! Each time I talk to Tim at Tele-Media about this, he tells me he's going to get to Engineering that day, and then call me right back with the results. Hasn't happened yet. Ugh....

Hey guys. I turned my 3250HD on this morning, and it was back to channel 02, as if an update had taken place. I figured it was the on-demand. So I hit the Guide button, but just got the regular program guide. I looked, and the On demand channels in the 900's all had their actual titles now. If I tried to turn to them, I got the not authorized message. Then, I saw a commercial for Tele-Media saying that On demand is now available. Is On demand working for anyone else here? Thanks.

Well, my On Demand started working tonight. I've tried out quite a bit of the stuff on there, and so far so good. No problems at all. The only thing they need is Sports On Demand. I know that my friend in Boston has Comcast with On Demand, and she gets sports highlights, and all of the games shown on cable from the previous few days. HD On Demand would be great too, but I'm not gonna push it right now, hehe.

The HD problem I was having keep coming back each time these damn 3250's recycle. They are recycling each night and TeleMedia says they don't know why. It's created chaos for me, as I cannot record any HD during the night and during the day, the boxes are screwed up in regards to copy flags and I have to keep rebooting them to get them fixed.

FOr the umpteenth day in a row, HD via Firewire is screwed up and only coming out 480i. Doesn't anyone else use Firewire with these bozos?

My 3250 has not been recycling every night, as you have described yours doing. It has got to be a problem with your firmware, since I beleive you said they gave you a specail version for firewire.

You guys having problems with pixelation and breakup on 703, 708, and 730? Last night I noticed it during the heavy weather, and accepted it as a result of that. But this morning, I'm still seeing all the problems with the HD locals. I called Adelphia Customer Service, and they insist on sending someone out to my house. It's not just me, right?

Nevermind, they fixed it this afternoon.

Hey guys. I just spoke to Tim Burt at Tele-Media. He said that they found the issue with WFSB-DT and WVIT-DT, and have ordered new equpment that will fix the problem. He told me that he doesn't have a timetable on when they will get the new equipment, n'or when it will be installed. As far as WTIC-DT goes, he said that Tribune is still playing hardball with them, and is not sure when a deal may be reached.

My 3250's stopped cycling. Three days of no problems. Of course, now that I said this, watch them start cycling at night!

Bill, I turned in my 8000HD because it was an absolute disaster. I had two. Both would have frequent sound dropouts and picture stuttering with HD recordings. Especially with DD5.1 content. No matter what we tried, we could not figure out how to fix it. It was determined that their firmware was quite old. In fact, it was a dozen updates behind.

Have you ever experienced what I described? Many across the country have and report it went away once they had the very latest firmware.

I have been VERY happy with my 8000HD. Quality has been GREAT on all but the locals. My recordings have only had one problem and all be it a big one, about 12 recordings just vanished, that was the only problem I have had. Both HD and analog record perfectly. I only experience sound drop outs occasional once or twice a week.

Has anyone found an effcient way to get stuff off the 8000HDs hard drive and onto DVD?? OR maybe onto an external drive for more storage? I heard rumors of a SA External firewire drive...

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I'm still holding out for them to add WTIC-DT by tomorrow night for the World Series.... I know it probably won't happen though.

What a shame your wish did not come true.

My gut says: "Highly unlikely". Plus, add to it the fact that they now realize they have a problem with their HD locals, and are waiting on new equipment to fix the problem. Perhaps this could prohibit them from even adding WTIC-DT even if they struck a deal.

Well the 3250HD STBs rebooted by themselves sometime around midnight last night and now are not passing HD via Firewire properly. The copy flags keep switching every few seconds. This is happening every Friday now. SOmetimes it's fixed in hours. Sometimes it takes days.

At the present time, just one of the two has screwed up firewire. Very strange.

Any of you guys having problems tonight (Thursday night) with your recievers? I'm getting no guide, no program info, and no digital channels. All I get is analog channels. When I reboot the receiver, it never gets the time on the receiver, and eventually gives me a message saying "Advanced Services are unabailable at this time." I'm using a 3250HD box. Keep in mind, the same thing happened a few months ago to me when it rained pretty hard out, as it is now. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. Also, I noticed earlier this evening that On-Demand services were not working. Once again, not sure if there is any connection there.

I have an 8000HD and am not having any problems with regular TV, Digital, HDTV or the guides. All is fine in well over here in Wolcott....

Must have something to do with my location, I guess. It's still not working as of 8:38 AM Friday.

I have a been searching through the forums and this tread seems pretty current. I may be off topic but the thread title seems to put me with the people that would know..

I am in the process of buying an HDTV .. I think... my current one is projection TV is having intermittent problems.. and I read how bad Tele-Media is on HDTV stations so I would like to know if I am wasting my time. We are not really big TV watchers but do like to watch DVD movies usually on the weekend.. it seems that from all that I read that if I'm buying an TV today I should seriously consider HDTV...

Is Tele-Media a worthwhile provider? Am I wasting my money with HDTV.. ?? I don't know much about Satellite so I will probably start with cable... as I have that in the house now.

Any Help? or should I really start a new thread??

Thanks for any help...

Jack

Hi Jack, welcome to this thread.

I believe that you should DEFINITELY get an HDTV, it's almost imperative that you do these days. You say you watch DVDs, well if you have an HDTV and a DVD player with component (RGB) outputs, and progressive scan, you can watch your DVDs in wide screen, so that it's like you're at the movie theater.

As far as HDTV programming goes, I think you should start with Tele-Media. The reason is because if you don't like it, you can always just cancel the service. If you went straight to satellite, you'd have to sign a year contract.

Tele-Media is working out the bugs they have with HDTV right now. The only one that really remains is the problem with the local HD channels. They supposedly have ordered, or received by now, new equipment to fix the problem with the locals. Once this is fixed, there really aren't any other problems with their HD service. And I believe you would end up staying with Tele-Media, since you get all of their HD offerings, with the exception of premiums like HBO-HD, Showtime HD, etc, for just $7 a month, that's a total of 8 channels currently. Future additions to their HD package will likely include FOX HD, to complete their HD locals, Discovery HD Theater, TNT-HD, and Bravo HD+. Also, expect Tele-Media to carry YES-HD by the beginning of baseball season, which would show New York Yankees games in HD. And, if Tele-Media can get an agreement with NESN, you will see NESN-HD, which would show Red Sox games in HD.

I hope this info helps.