New Hampshire - Comcast - Page 9

I've always consistantly had Dolby with movies on my premium HD channels HBO, Max, Sho, Starz. Off and on with the rest.
DJ

Woo hoo!!! ESPN-HD, INHD1 & INHD2 all showed up tonight! Man, what a picture from Baltimore. The Orioles vs. the Angels... and indoor football? Well, that's one of the last sports I expected to see in HD.

Later,
Kevin

Yeah we're cookin now! I'm having some dropouts with the new channels. The existing HD channels are solid as a rock but I'm sure they'll get it going. Now too bad the selection consisted of Girl's softball, a MLB game I couldn't care less about and some other sport that made me yawn (don't even remember what it was!). We settled for Pauley on one of the 2 thousand HBO's. Sad night!
-Trouble

Thanks Kevin, et. al. When I enter the USPO provided 03885 zip for Stratham into Adelphia's website they tell me it does not exist.

My disapointment is that Boston's Ch38 which sometimes carries the Patriots post game show Fifth Quarter isn't available.

That was quite the storm!

I've been told that surge supressors generally can't protect anything from a direct lightening strike. I once had a TV get blown up through one so there must be some truth to it.

Has anyone been getting either INHD channels since Friday night? I know I watched it on Friday and now here it is Sunday morning and nada.

Kevin

Hey guys...just got back from a golf trip and saw that we now have ESPN & INHD1 & 2 on our grid, but no picture...just black screen. So, who wants to be the lucky one to have the privilige of calling a CSR to ask them why we're not getting the channels (and also to tell them what INHD is to begin with...they think it's OnDemand!)?

I had all the stations on Friday, but noticed Saturday that 772,774 and 775 were black (still are now). Also on Saturday the signal on the HD tier was a bit pixelated, but it worked itself out. My guess is they were trying to get some settings tweaked Friday, then pulled it on Saturday, which may have invloved resetting something, which led to the poor signal for a time on Saturday.
BTW, I checked my splitter (againn) and that had no bearing on the problems this weekend.

ESPN-HD worked all weekend in Atkinson... although the fact that they seem to broadcast in stretched 4:3 all the time leads me to believe that I'll rarely watch it. Is it always that way? First NESN-HD does it and now ESPN-HD? What, can't sports channels figure out that our HDTVs can stretch it on their own? Of course, the opposite isn't true: I can't "un-stretch" their current picture!

Kevin

Getting INHD 1 & 2 intermittently this morning (DD 2.0)...nice PQ when it's working. I'm sure they're still trying to get some bugs worked out.

Kevin: Yes, ESPN always runs in stretch mode, unless it's a live sporting event. However, beginning June 7, they'll open their new HD facilities and will start broadcasting Sportscenter and a few of their other shows in HD. Of course, most of the highlights from games will be 4:3, and it remains to be seen whether or not they will box SD or continue to stretch it within the HD show.
Cameron

I have all the HD stations tonight. Hope it keeps up.

They're heeeeere. HDNet and HDNet Movies came online this afternoon sometime around 5PM in Windham. Who'da thunk....15 channels of HD in NH of all places! I learned something today too: Soccer is just as boring in HD as it is in SD.
-Trouble

Well, they were here, now they're gone just as fast! Must be working out the bugs.

Kevin

Hello all!

I'm under Comcast right now (in MA) and will be moving to Milford, NH in about 60 days or so. We've got a brand new house being built and I'm excited to see that Adelphia may be 2-3 channels up on Comcast right now! Can anyone answer the following quick questions for me?

For those of you not familiar with InHD, we've had it here for close to 10 months or so. It is really good, and Friday College Hockey Night from CSTV gets picked up on it. Good stuff!

Thanks!

1. Does Digital "Bronze" include all HD channels (w/the exception of HBO/Max/ST etc..). I want all the locals, + HDNET, InHD, ESPNHD, NESN etc..
2. Do they charge extra for any HD channels?
3. Phone number for the local office? Everytime i call the national # they tell me they can't find my service center and cant give me pricing.
4. How does the STB compare to the motorola STB that comcast dishes out?

Thanks again!

Todd

Hey there NH guys. I'm in Connecticut, and just had HDNet, HDNet Movies, INHD, and INHD2 activated in the past few days. We've had ESPN-HD for over a month here, but have no NESN-HD. Oh, and obviously I have Adelphia. I have noticed that with the addition of new HD channels, each channel's picture quality has been degrated. I'm talking pixelexation that is very obvious when there is quick motion, or changing of scenes or cameras during sports games. I wanted to know if you guys in NH are having this problem too, or it it's just a problem with my local system here in CT. Thanks guys.

You know, funny you should mention this. I think I do see a lot more digital "oddities". In fact, something I noticed tonight during "8 Simple Rules" (which had sync'ed audio!) is that just before commercials, when the screen goes black for a second, I could see a bunch of black cubes making up the screen. I never remember seeing that before.

Are they running out of bandwidth so soon? If I add all the HD movie channels like HBO & Showtime, will my PQ degrade further? I never thought there'd be a flip-side to getting more HD channels.

Kevin

Oh yeah, regarding Todd's question about pricing, I think the offices are independent. As I mention above, in my town, HD is an extra $7.95 per month, and I think most of that is for the box. I already had "Extended Basic" but I don't know if that is required to get HD.

I really don't like this degraded picture thing. I know for a fact that it's happening, because this morning I was watching a show on HDNet. INHD was just added this afternoon, and the same show was on repeat tonight on HDNet. Well, the show sure looked a lot better this morning. Almost affraid of Adelphia adding more channels, in fear of further deteriorating PQ.

I'm fairly sure that they just have some bugs to work out. I'd rather have them add channels while they're still perfecting things than to wait until they're 'perfect'. I also have seen the blocking/artefacts. I sat through some awful movie with Sean Connery and Leslie Neilson on HDMV yesterday and it was perfect but later in the evening saw blocking on several of the channels so it's not a consistant sort of thing. The signal was pretty solid with just a few breakups during 28 days last night and there was a HUUUUUUGE thunderstorm moving over us (we're pretty close to the A* office on 102 in Londonderry so they'd be facing downlink issues I'm sure).
-Trouble
-Trouble

I also think that they're just getting the bugs worked out. They had to bring in new equipment on the headend to add these channels, so they may need some tweaks. I don't believe bandwidth is the problem - notice all of those OnDemand channels above the HD tier? That would lead me to believe they've got plenty of room (at least in communities where they've upgraded the lines).

This is now a pretty d*mn good lineup:
704 WBZ-DT Boston (CBS)
707 WHDH-DT Boston (NBC)
709 WMUR-DT Manchester, NH (ABC)
711 PBS-HD (National feed)
725 WFXT-DT Boston (FOX)
750 HBO-HD
751 Showtime-HD
752 Starz-HD
753 Cinemax-HD
770 HDNet
771 HDNet Movies
772 ESPN-HD
773 NESN-HD (New England Sports Network)
774 INHD1
775 INHD2

Now all we need is DiscoveryHD, UPN and WB! We're never completely satisfied, are we boys??!!

Way to go, Adelphia!

I am definitely enjoying this ramp up with the HD tier, but have a question/annoyance. I was watching the Miami/NC college baseball game in HD on 775 last night. Why in the heck can't we get away games for the Sox/Bruins in HD on NESN? Do the home teams not provide the feed to the away teams? I mean, I watched 20 minutes of a game that I could care less about strictly because of the beautiful picture.
Surely this can be worked out? Is it strictly a license thing?

rich - No, the home teams do not provide feeds to any away team, or any other network for that matter (such as ESPN). Their production/direction would be completely different than NESN's. For example, last night you'd be seeing just about all D'Rays from Tampa from their production crew, while NESN is naturally focused on the Sox.

Until the point when HD productions require less expense, set-up time and dedicated HD Trucks, we won't be seeing road games in HD. I'm with you...we get spoiled by the HD broadcasts, but that's todays reality.

We're a few of the lucky with basically dedicated HD at the local stadium. I'd imagine YES in NYC has HD at home as well (guessing). As for DiscoveryHD, they can keep it if it costs extra. I love discovery but I think D* was charging 10$ a month for it a while back and I've yet to hear rave reviews of it due to limited HD content.
-Trouble

Actually, YES doesn't have it yet. That's one thing we have over Georgie!! Maybe he's spending too much on his infielders to afford HD!

I know Philly does all Flyers/Sixers/Phillies in HD, and I believe GN in Chicago has the Cubbies...I'm sure that in a few years almost everyone will. Thankfully, we're ahead of the curve.

As for Discovery, I agree with you on not adding cost. Right now we have it pretty good in that regard.

HA! I was sure YES would have HD. My father-in-law is a HUGE Yankee's fan (To the point where he's throwing the first pitch/game ball/whatever you call it later this month at a Yankee's game!) I'll slap him down with this news but unfortunatly he'll come back giving me huge grief about Ted Kennedy even though I live in NH and not MA! He has a 61" plasma and lives in NYC so he digs HD for his precious Yankees bigtime.
-Trouble

I am NOT a fan of Teddy in the least so thats why it's funny!!

Anyone watching INHD1 or 2 notice a pulsing brightness change during the broadcast last night? It was only on those stations, around 10pm last night. It would brighten every 2-3 seconds, dim, and repeat. I hope it is just a bug to be worked out. It was slight but definitely annoying.

Wasn't watching INHD last night. Anyone still getting pixelation/freezes/dropouts? They seem better here.

No drops or pixelations here.