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Well yes, if you look at channels like Hallmark who run old Lucy, Golden Girls and shows like that full time.

Fuel and Speed are the same and more better to go up against ESPN. Comcast in Orlando needs to be like BHN and annouce things monthly.

sgooter: I think I sent an E-Mail to him at the wrong address but would love it if Gary could explain the policy change. Since WKMG does not do HD news, I do not see them putting any HD content in the few local morning programming hours they have.

Nayan: I'd like the channels to have at least a little HD so they are in the HD section. I do like the retro networks, we shall see.

mgsports: I've heard that from Comcast Orlando customers.

They could probably put some of those speed shows on FUEL so that is a very good point.

BTW: Notice will be here within the next half hour and while were on the subject, it could include FUEL HD.

Everyone,

The notice came this morning and it was small for a second straight month.

There was NOTHING new and NO changes to the month to month deals.

Interestingly, WKMG is still on there and given how BHN is going to re-trans Retro TV who is now an affiliate of WKMG, you would think progress is being made.

It's nice to see there is no real drop dead date. It shows WKMG never had the guts to ever pull it in the first place. They would lose a lot of viewers. LOL!

GSN is on the month to months for Time Warner Cable notices but still expires April 30 for us.

The only other observation I have is given how they are putting out notices at the end of the month and 1 1/2 months in advance, we might not get any HD until June but do see something coming in the next notice at the end of April so we get HD in the second quarter.

Even though we have been spoiled this year (15 HD channels in the first quarter), it sucks to get nothing but month to month stuff for a second straight month.

I thought we would get more than just the usual month-to-month list in our notice but like you said, there's not much left to get. At least they're not taking anything away!

BHNTech: Can you explain what "The program was not recorded because the channel was not available (6)" means. It's okay to get technical, we like technical. I get this error every so often. Happened on two shows Wednesday night, Ghost Hunters and Watch What Happens. We have two DVR's and the second DVR recorded the shows fine so they couldn't be that "unavailable." Thanks in advance!

Oh but technically it could have been unavailable. What is the channel number for those shows. If they are SDV there are RARE moments when boxes haven't properly updated and are pointing to the wrong servers (this is a very non technical description of a highly technical problem). One way to avoid this is to turn the box off at night (don't remove power just turn it off).

What did you here from Comcast Customers others want to know?

mgsports: I once saw a post in an Orlando Sentinel thread discussing Bright House and a user complainted. I also had a friend who used to have Comcast Orlando. They simply wanted wanted more info on additions.

But Orlando Sentinel only shows BHN Updates not others.

mgsports,

I know that but people posted in one of Hal Boedeker's blogs about Bright House mentioning it. It was a few years ago.

Thanks and he does sometimes for Comcast and Comcast do changes every month like TWC and BHN do.

We should be getting Retro TV Network back around 9 am or 10 am (That is when it seems stuff goes live on launch days) on channel 1061.

Maybe then we will find out the mystery of why it will be in the HD section and not the mid-400's that those subchannels were moved too a year and a half ago. Could WKMG somehow be showing some local HD programming on it? We shall see.

Anyone have Retro TV Network up on 1061 yet?

I think you are on to something. I have several channels that won't come in at all and the box says "not available" for an IP address. I'll go to your site and post information for you. Thanks.

Yes if you punch in the number but it's not in the guide yet

This is way OT but on April 9th the Orlando Sentinel will be going behind a paywall like Florida Today and other newspapers have done. The reason I am mentioning it here is I know a few of us read Hal's TV column and it's not known if the blogs will count towards the monthly limit.

Nayan: Hopefully, we will know why it will be in the HD section soon.

Let's hope not on Hal's blog but good thing I am a Sentinel subscriber.

It's in the Guide on Channel 463 still as LATV but the guide info for RTV starts on Monday.

Wolfpanther,

It is indeed and there is RTV programming. So, it does look like LATV is gone.

The big mystery now is why it is also slated to be in the HD section?

BHNTech: I put a post at DSL reports forum for you yesterday. I have a little more information. Since I had shows set to record last night that I didn't want to lose, I rebooted the box by unplugging it around 7:30. It took three tries to get it to boot. The first two got stuck right away displaying Alt and the screen saying "Accessing information." Sorry I don't remember the exact term. Anyway after the successful reboot, it had an IP address and it recorded all shows properly last night. I'll check for an IP address each evening. That should solve my problem temporarily until we figure out why it loses access to the network? Thanks again!

Got your msg and replied

Speaking of HD channels TWC did announce one new HD channel today! Azteca America HD in North Texas on a channel that is TBA. This will be OTA Azteca America (KAZD) HD. That will bring me to 135 HD channels and the Greenville system to 99.

Nothing else really yet this week yet find out tommorow and (wednesday for NYC and east coast TWC systems)

HDOrlando here is the schedule for Legal notice each month for TWC so you can take a look at them for yourself this is when they go in the papers but might not web update right away:
Hawaii (HI) 1st and 3rd monday of each month
Texas (TX, Anthony NM part of (El Paso) system 1st and 3rd monday each month
East (NY, ME, MA, NH, NC, SC, VA, AL) 1st and 3rd wednesday each month (Started last month)
Midwest (KY, OH, KS, MO, NE, PA, WI, WV, IL, IN) 2nd and 4th friday of each month
West and Mountain West (CA, ID, WA, CO, AZ) 1st and 3rd tuesday of the month except gunnison which is every 1st and 3rd wednesday of each month
this does not include the insight systems or KY-TN TWC systems that were New Wave Communications

Anyone else having problems streaming Netflix at night on their Road Runner? Netflix streams only about 5-6Mbps on HD shows, and it keeps rebuffering, even when the PS3 is the only thing on, on the network.. YouTube is also having rebuffering problems again, on all my computers. But all speed tests show fine.

2 new small glitches with Navigator.

• A variation on the stop/save/delete screen not going away when rewinding at the end of the program. This time stopped, deleted, live tv came on, but the stop screen for the deleted program stayed.

• Twice since the update, I've turned on the box and all the GUI screens like List, Info overlay and Guide have been squished inward. For example the video on the corner of the Guide screen is in the correct position, but the actual right edge of the guide is pushed in a few inches leaving the video extending out further to the right. Usually turning off the box and turning it back on clears it.

So... Navigator.... keeping you on your toes with new and bizarre glitches.

I was noticing some Youtube buffering issues the other night. Haven't really checked back to see if it cleared up.

Kevin,

Great eye and thanks for that tip.

Also, noticed that while the DVR -> AVR -> TV HDMI blinking is much improved it still occasionally comes back. For example, if I leave the DVR paused for a while and the screensaver kicks in. Sometimes when I start playing again the HDMI blinks on and off in the audio. My usual fix for the blink is to turn off the DVR, switch my AVR to an inactive source, wait a few seconds and then switch back to the DVR source and turn it back on.

My wife has pointed out an occasional bug in the new software. If you are watching a recorded show it gets to a point where you can't FF anymore. Usually somewhere after the halfway point. When you hit FF it jumps to the end as if it played to the end and gives you the option to delete, save, play again, resume, etc. You cannot FF from any point beyond that point in the show. This is happening randomly and on both of our DVRs.