Rochester, NY - HDTV - Page 60

hard saying... "HDTV antenna" is probably UHF only, and maybe got channel 10 in upper-vhf range under good conditions. Weather has been bad..maybe your cable got wet? could try a combination antenna?

I just looked it up and the antenna is a "Channel Master 4221HD Multi-Bay UHF Short Range HDTV Antenna", properly oriented to 243-244 degrees with a compass. mounted near the peak of my roof, probably 40' above ground. It's weird that only that channel is a problem.

Contact the station & see if there working on the tower. In Buffalo When WIVB started working on their tower they temporary moved their OTA feed to a secondary tower that uses less power than the main tower while they worked on it. Maybe Channel 10 is doing something similar. The only other thing i can think of is to check your antenna setup & make sure their's no problems with it.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the downturn in quality on WROC since they added the 8.2 subchannel. NFL football looks much worse than in prior years. Constant artifacts whenever there is any motion. I think they have went from the best to the worst behind WHEC and even FOX. ABC looks pretty awful as well running 2 HD channels fulltime.

Kind of disappointing that we are going backwards in quality.

-Tim

Last night i got this message on my TW HD DVR "HDTV HD is currently Unavailable. Please Try Again Later". I was forced to watch the SD channel until it came back around 9:30PM. This morning the same problem happens on Lifetime HD but i can still watch the SD Channel. Has anybody else had this same problem recently?

It happens so frequently for me on any random channel that i'm just used to it. That or the channel will get pixelated and "skip"

I've been btchn about it for years...

I heard on the radio this morning TW will be increasing their rates next month. I'll post the new rates below.

From: http://stopthecap.com/2011/10/31/tim...ases-for-2012/

Digital Cable (was $72.99) $77.49
Talk & Surf (was $86.99) $89.94
Watch & Surf (was $118.99) $125.49
Watch & Surf Plus (was $141.99) $148.49
DVR Service (was $11.95) $12.95 (additional equipment rental charges may apply)

I already feel my wallet getting lighter. Maybe it's time i switch to Satellite. I'll decide after i see my bill with the new rates.

My biased opinion is that it's always a good time to switch to satellite. However, other than for the initial new customer deals that both cable and satellite offers, I don't think the long-term costs will be much different for standard hardware configurations and services. IMHO, it'll be better in many, many ways to be with satellite but cost won't likely be the deciding factor once the initial pricing period/deals are over.

Wow, that sure makes netflix sound like a deal... Time to start using all those media center pcs I have...

I actually think CBS looked very good in the past despite some occasional artifacts with fast motion. Now that they have added a sub-channnel though it really looks bad most of the time.

Have you verified that these rate changes are applicable to the Rochester market or is this the general info from Stop the Cap referring to TWC rates in various parts of the country?

Has any year gone by when TW has NOT raised their rates ? ( or any other service provider ? ) As I have posted here before and in another forum.. I play the silly game.. bouncing back and forth between service providers so that I can take advantage of promo offers. My latest DirecTV bill is $26.87 for whole house DVR with two HD boxes. Choice Extra package with Showtime free for a year. My latest $10 a month savings goes into affect soon because my son is getting D* installed this coming Sunday at his new home.

I looked at the site again & the prices aren't for the Rochester Market. More than one local news site says the rate increase is 4%.

But you know darn well that the prices will be going up in the Rochester market. I thought that usually the annual price increases begin in January locally.

But then again, in our economy, almost everything goes up at least a few percentage points a year - energy, insurance, food, medicine. I applaud those that play the game and switch providers each year - personally I'm too lazy and too busy.

Very true. But when it comes to home entertainment/internet costs we have a little bit more control over how much we pay and how much we can lower our bill by switching. I am locked in for 2 years (6/13) on D* now unless TW comes up with some fabulous multi-year offer in another year that would cover my cancellation fees. My second year of my D* deal is only $65.99 a month without any referral discounts. So if I get a couple of folks to sign up, I can still keep my monthly bill on the low side.

On Sunday morning i was recording a movie for my mom & i noticed it only recorded the first minute when it was half over. It started recording the second half of the movie after something made it reboot all by itself. Whatever the problem was never returned after that reboot because i can record normally again. Does anybody have any idea what forced my box to reboot because i didn't do it?

On Saturday my TW remote stopped working with my cable box for 30 minutes but it would control my tv so i tried changing the batteries & it still didn't work with my cable box so i used my vcr's remote to change the channel until i noticed my tw remote was working again. It happened again this morning for 2 minutes & reprogramming the remote didn't help me fix the remote. I had to wait for it to work again on it own. Can i get a new remote from tw if i take this one to their batavia office?

What model? My 8300 flakes out now ant then...

My DVR is Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8240HDC. My TW remote model is UR3-SR3S-TWR


Thanks for posting the new rates. If your bill had a list of their new rates mines should too right?

Can I get some updated opinions on the two sat companies - price, quality, etc? I look every couple of years, but haven't found it compelling enough yet. but I'm always open.

I have had DirecTV since June and I am quite happy with it. They may not have all of the HD channels that TW has, but I will say that everything else about the service is fine. My billing has been absolutely accurate with no errors at all. And I must also say that I like the $100 referral credits that are available. I now have three working for me. I was referred to the service and I referred two other people. You could be my third referral for the service ! (would save you $100 on your bill too) Just pm me and let me know.

As far as picture quality is concerned I am quite pleased. I noticed a positive difference between TW Hi Def and D* Hi Def. I must confess that I am not a TV geek. In other words, I do not get to the nitty gritty of discussing the pluses and/or minuses of the DVR box that I have. All I know is that it works fine for us every time we have recorded a show on it.

When I last looked into it (May 2011) Dish receivers were more flexible than those from DirecTV (like RF outputs to easily feed other TVs in the house). But frankly, dealing with Dish was a royal PIA. I stayed with TW because of concessions that they made, but I imagine that we will be going through this again next May, when the special TW concessions expire.

The next time around, I may try dealing with a Dish dealer, rather than the Dish website (once you give them your phone number, they never take NO for an answer.).

We have to have D* since the Sabres games are not on DISH. I will never knock Time Warner because their service is fine and as I have said in the past , my decisions are based on $$$ and value for the $$$'s we spend monthly for entertainment.

From what I know, I think both satellite services are fine and both have excellent DVR's and services. I've only had personal experience with TWC and D*. The rest of my opinion is based on what I've heard and read.

Dish reportedly has very good DVR's and I know the D* DVR's are good too and the last time I checked both were very superior to TWC's versions. That may have changed recently. DVR's are very important to me because I record EVERYTHING (except sports). D*'s are great. Wasn't always the case but it is now.

Each service has mostly the same channels - with some notable differences, depending what you like. I like football so D* has Sunday Ticket and the NFL Network for Thursday games.

As I mentioned before ,pricing between all providers is similar for similar setups - once you get past enticement pricing that is. So, unless you want to switch all the time (I don't), it's not the biggest reason to switch.

I just got my cable bill & the info from the post quoted above is incorrect. This is what my cable bill says the new rates are for basic & standard service

CABLE RATES
Basic Service: CURRENT $12.00, NEW $13.25
Standard Service: CURRENT $63.95, NEW $67.25

I've confirmed all the rates in lokilarry's PDF Document is correct since they match what my cable bill says. All the new rates will take effect 12/1/2011. Looks like basic & standard cable aren't going down after all.

Perfectly understandable, since you are in a different area. TW's costs for programming is for sure going to be different.

According to my most recent bill, my monthly increase will be $5.00 - which I can live with. I'll look again when things change

That's True TW can have minor differences in rates for batavia & rochester. I throught Standard Cable was always the same price as Digital because the new rates listed in my bill say their not. Or do you have to combined the prices for Basic & Standard Service to get the total price for standard cable?

I agree, I could sure use more quality tv to spend that diminishing time... When was the last time tw added a channel? I'm not sure what I'd want at this point, but there must be something I'm missing.

A big dvr is really good at showing you what you're marginally interested in.