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TWC sportsnet is already available on the TWCTV app so I would try the app to see if you have it too! Ihave listed as "TWC Sportsnet 2" with no channel logo on the app guide which is what I am guessing they are calling the national version of the channel.

Also big news:

These are on the TWCTV app:

NFL Network HD
NFL Redzone HD

Nayan: We definitely are lucky. The things we do not have on the list are not common. Nuvo TV HD, RFD-TV HD, both of those west coast HD Showtimes (They have the East versions too so they count), Starz West HD (They have both East and West) and the Pac 12 HD Regional Channels are only on Bakersfield.

Some BHN systems have Cinemax West HD and the only reason we do not have Indieplex HD and Retroplex HD is because BHN Orlando did not drop MoviePlex for it a few years ago. Once the new Starz deal is done, this hole will be pluged within a few months.

After that, we just have some different Fox Sports RSN's as all BHN systems outside The Panhandle do.

Please post if those TWC RSN's pop up.

Kevin: Great finds as always. Your always on top of things and love that.

had to go buy the paper today seems that the TWC notice was not posted on my local newspaper's website right dang it.

The notice basically had:

Move: Fox Movie Channel from Digital Extra channel 252 to Digital basic channel 252 (Dallas) (which means the Dallas Channel lineup)

The rest of the notice is the same as before.

So I am betting the second run of the legal notices this month will mention NFL Network and NFL Redzone.

I am also betting there might be an HD announcement for the outlying area here on TWC come october 15. unless they were only using channel 813 for NFL Network just to have an open HD slot on 812 for when they do add another round of HD channels. Well they at least have 100 HD channels in the outlying area but the biggest bummer is 14 of those are locals.

On the tv guide(select guide area) we need to get Primetime Hours added....For instance its 8am and I want to check whats on tonight I had to scroll a bunch of hours just to get to 8pm.

So on the guide we select primetime once and " Bam " its 8pm or 7pm which ever is more convenient...both Uverse and D* have this implemented in their guide and I found it a useful tool when I had their services.

Yep, I thought TWC would insist on (and get) the "value add" piece of the NFL deal. I'm sure the NFL resisted this-- as they were no doubt looking to cut an exclusive deal for this with one or the other carrier. Good job, Melinda (Witmer)!!

Is Red Zone awesome, or what?

yeah another thing I got TWC Sportsnet and TWC Deportes this morning and channel numbers are different than advertised in the legal notices for my area:

146 TWC Sportsnet SD
147 TWC Sportsnet HD
338 TWC Deportes SD (better fit as it is now in the same area as the rest of the spanish SD channels)
723 TWC Deportes HD

seems TWC Dallas might be launching Shop Zeal6 (channel 148) and Shop Zeal7 (channel 148) too soon because the shopping channels are in the 150-173 range here.

Kevin: Sucks you had to buy the paper. Hopefully you'll get that notice mid-month. Really hoping you get your big update and that Starz deal finally gets done.

Peter: That would be nice but I'm used to just scrolling.

Toad: It definitely is and hopefully we will see HD OD content soon.

Kevin: What's on those channels and how much Laker Coverage is there?
Edited by HDOrlando - 10/2/12 at 12:19am

so far a lot of Sports programs about the Lakers and Galaxy. Also it seems TWC is squeezing the 16:9 frame ratio for the HD channel into a 4:3 screen so basically it looks like someone pushed the sides of video closer on the SD channels which is a poor implementation of how to do SD channels off of 16:9 feeds. They should be doing them like everyother provider does 16:9 within a 4:3 frame or just 4:3 safe the logos and cut the picture into 4:3 and chop off the sides instead of squeezing the channels .

I happen to have a package that includes all of the digital tiers besides the premiums so I get TWC Deportes!

The cool thing is it seems that TWC put TWC deportes in the spanish tier which means they are not charging a large amount to subscribers of the spanish tier or sports pass out side of the TWC Sportsnet markets. I am guessing maybe 5-10 cents a channel?

Also TWC Sportsnet had/has issues with the HD channel and it is coming that way from LA as people were complaining about it in LA about how it was tiling and freezing.

Also got the paper at a 7 eleven :P which is a locally based here dallas got one by you?

Kevin,

I've heard the bad reviews of the TWC channels. Having them on all TWC systems will get them some extra revenue but at a discounted rate for those systems. I still think BHN will pick up these channels eventually.

Yes, we do have 7-11 and love my Slurpees.

I saw the SportsNet program schedule on Zap2it. Not much on it at all. And the few programs they did have are scheduled to be repeated a million times. It obviously is worse for those people outside of Laker territory as there will be no games shown. You only get to see the pregame/postgame/analysis shows and the classic games they chop up into 2 hour blocks.

Today (Tuesday is when real programming starts) They have a ton of shows to be shown once the hoopla launch show is finished its run. I noticed that they are showing more shows starting tonight and that TWC Deportes has a totally different lineup than TWC Sportsnet which is probably part of the reason they put it in the Spanish package in systems with SDV and a spanish package.

St. Pete now has the new guide. Whoopee! Except for the guide filter,still stone age tech.

I'll never watch anything on TWC SportsNet when we eventually get it.

I do like the new guide though although I want those Fox Sports logos changed.

The fact that we have NFL Network has set in.

Now, there really is not as much to talk about besides the guide and On Demand stuff.

It seems were waiting for that Starz deal to get done and some are hoping beIN Sport gets done. The other two big fish AXS.TV/HDNet Movies and EPIX are probably longshots.

After that, it's waiting for BHN to add Sundance in HD and waiting for other cable networks to go HD (Chiller, Military, etc.)

May some more stuff happen.

Comcast Sportsnet Houston and so on to.

You have the dark (new) guide or the old guide still?

Thank you all for sticking with us all this time

Would like a 16x9 full screen guide on my 8300HD.

Me too!

mgsports: How is CSN Houston even relevant in that equation?

As relevant as about 90% of his other "postings" that nobody understands (either)...

The dark guide, which arrived just a few days previously.

Other BHN'S could be adding that channel and so could Time Warner in Dallas.
Edited by mgsports - 10/4/12 at 4:11pm

mgsports,

They do not but it's not in the class of those that I listed above.

I know you want to chat here in this thread but you make a lot of posts that are not relevant to our discussions like stuff about Comcast. It derails discussion here and I'm not the only one who would like you to stay on topic and make relevant posts.

Navigator oddities abound tonight with my 8742.

Just turned it on and everything was black. "Fringe" is in my DVR list, but doesn't show as an active recording but when selected it says it's recording and pressing play doesn't start at the beginning but goes to the current time. "Grimm" is still in my scheduled list yet it also says it's recording even though it doesn't appear at all in my DVR list. I presume I was seeing black at first because both tuners were in use, but why wasn't it showing what was being recorded and why are my recording indicators not present or even in the list correctly. Odd Odd Odd. Let's hope they both don't disappear at the end. Since Grimm wasn't even in my DVR list at all yet, I'm starting with that one. I feel a restart in my future.

later....

So now after the shows have completed, Grimm now shows in my DVR list. Curiously, the red record light is still on when nothing is recording now. This may have been triggered by a half hour show just before Fringe and Grimm that was recording a timeslot where the show was no longer schedule due to a later guide revision. Perhaps that confused things too much and is why we need the feature where the scheduled recordings get reprocessed after guide updates to remove items no longer airing.

even later...

After finishing Grimm likely due to tuner buffer, Selecting play on Fringe and Grimm from the DVR list immediately would go back to live tv and the recordings disappeared after rebooting. So nothing was actually recording tonight. WTF?
Edited by Kevin M. Dean - 10/5/12 at 7:44pm

Kevin,

I do not have a DVR yet but my guide was acting up tonight.

My timer was frozen and it was harder to move from channels. A reboot fixed it though.

Sucks nothing recorded for you but at least that stuff is available On Demand.

I apparently missed some earlier stuff as well that didn't show up anywhere in the listings but the are marked for later recordings. I only missed Fringe (which is downloading now) or like you said can be grabbed on On Demand in a day or 2.

Clearly something weird was up.

Kevin,

What DVR do you have as I am thinking about getting one myself.?

Cisco 8742 which other than Friday's craziness is usually pretty good. Most of the issues seem to be with existing bugs in the Navigator software. My friend with an old 8300HD has similar issues except his will actually record black even though he can tune to and see the channels while they're "recording". TWC/BHN screwed the pooch ever since they started programming their software in-house years ago. The latest version apparently has a new programming team, but is still in-house and they have a lot more to fix. You pretty much have to babysit your series recordings to manually resolve conflicts because it's unreliable on it's own to take care of it. The other night I caught 3 recordings all set to happen at 8:00 pm and it didn't indicate a conflict. It's that kind of poor programming that causes nothing to record because it's not seeing the conflict and gets confused. So, I usually manually clear one of them ahead of time. Most of the time this doesn't happen but it happens enough to require manually keeping an eye on things. I may have caught whatever my Friday issue was ahead of time if I wasn't busy that day. Who knows?

You can read up on Navigator specific issues at:

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/newestpost/723830

Is there a current list/link of the DRV's that BHN is using now. My very old 8300HD just does not have enough space on the hard drive.

I have an Cisco 8640 that did/does some strange things. Last week, the wife wanted to record the series of a new program just starting. She accidentally pushed record now instead of record series with options. I canceled the recording, red indicator on the guide disappeared and I started the whole programming over. I got a message back that said I could not longer record this show??? (words to that effect). WT.. Tried it two more times, same problem. Did a hard reboot, looked at the guide, it was now red again?? canceled it tried to do the series w/options, same message. Will wait until next week and try again. I suspect that the DVR did not do its housekeeping correctly, delete the initial recording request even though the red guide indicator changed back to normal??? None of this is showing in what is recording now, or scheduled. Some series with record a new show 2-3 weeks in a row, and then skip the next new version. Nothing in the series manager.