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my 8300HD works fine, has only crashed twice in 2 months, each time during those stupid card games, HDMI works fine, and the single firmware update we've had added eSATA support.

the only complaint I have about the box is that it wastes energy/heat by never shutting down the hard drive. apparently some regions have the ability to have the hd shut off when not in use, but not mine. even though we're both on passport 2.5.

at a total of $2/mo more than analog cable was, it's cheaper than buying a HDTV QAM tuner card that won't get me Discovery HD and the digital channels.

If you really want to stop the hard drive from running, just tune both tuners to channels that are not buffered, i.e. PPV or music channels, before you turn the unit "off", using the "swap" button to switch between tuners. I'm sure you realize that turning it "off" only shuts down the various outputs.

You can even program a good universal remote to run a macro that will automate all those steps every night when you shut the unit down. However, I suspect you waste more electricity every time you open your refrigerator than the DVR uses all night to continuously run its hard drive.

It looks like we are witnessing the a la carte battle in disguise. Judging from the above message TWC is ready to offer NFL network on an a la carte basis. It is their long held view that the 75 percent of their subscribers should not be subsidizing the viewing habits of the remaining 25 percent (sport fans.) Again, these are cable companies' numbers, not mine (and I happen to belong to the 25 percent club!) NFL, on the other hand, must be insisting that they should be included in the basic package to maximize the advertising revenue (which, I understand, among other things, is a function of number of homes reached.)
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Elephants are mating and we are choking in the dust!

So us TWC customers will get A&E and MyNetworkTV in September?
Also, what is Universal-HD? Does that mean TWC customers wont get MHD, Sci Fi HD, or USA HD?

What new channels should we get by the end of the year???

Bear in mind that any agreements negotiated by TWC corporate will not necessarily show up on your local TWC schedule. Every TWC outlet is a different, independent entity and is able to formulate a programming lineup based on their own bandwidth limitations as well as what they think their customer base wants. The desires of us HD lovers for new, available channels often takes second (or third, or fourth,...) place to the perceived "need" to, for example, add more bandwidth-hogging analog Spanish-speaking channels. Complaining to someone like Fred Dressler about your local TWC outlet's refusal to add new HD channels that TWC corporate has approved is like complaining to Congress about the pothole in the street in front of your house.

I hate to be a nuisance and I understand what you are saying but does anyone know what TWC Corporate is up to? What channels are the company working on getting and whats a wild guess as to what we will have by years end?

There is no SciFi HD or USA HD, NBC puts all their cable HD properties on Universal HD.

As far as TWC adding new channels, don't count on much. If you really want more HD, look at Dish Network.

TWC Northeast Ohio's site does not yet have the new lineups...at least 10 minutes before midnight ET.

I would expect when they do show the former Adelphia lineup here, it'll just be the same except for the absence of NFL Network and ESPNU, and the addition of whatever they light up.

At some point, they'll probably move to standardize us with TWC NEO's existing lineup (or maybe even start a new standard lineup).

NFL Network Sues Time Warner To Stay On Systems
Monday, July 31, 2006 02:12 PM - WBEN Newsroom

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - When the clock strikes midnight, the NFL Network will be off local cable systems. Time Warner will take over the Adelphia systems at that time. The NFL Network now is suing to keep the network on Time Warner.

NFL Network spokesman Seth Polansky says the lawsuit is a last ditch effort, because Time Warner will not even answer calls from the network trying to plead its case.


TW so cares about its customers

If we have any insiders here, please tell us Dallas customers when we can expect HDNet, HDNet Movies and UHD on our system.

hey kjpjr, you left out this quote from the article:

"Time Warner says that the NFL is seeking a 350% price increase, while only adding 8 games to the station's football coverage."

so how much does the NFL care about its customers by jacking prices by 350%?

It depends on what the original price was, doesn't it, scruffy7?

If it was, say 10 cents a sub, going up to 35 cents a sub, that wouldn't seem too onerous to me -- and I don't even watch the NFL.

you can also compare this to the Starz on Demand situation.

TWC does not have SOD. Starz will give them the channel for the huge sum of $0 as long as it's free to Starz subscribers.

TWC wants to put this in it's Premium on Demand tier which is $6.95. End result, no Starz on Demand.

Taking that into consideration, NFL Network could charge what they like and I'd still back them. Because even if the rates the NFL Network were charging were completely reasonable I doubt TWC would carry it free to air anyway. They want it in that sports package and they would rather cut off their nose than have it any other way.

It is a lot more than 8 games, it is every preseason game -- live or tape. It is pre and post game shows. And it also now includes two or three college bowl games. The 350% is a TW number -- I have trouble believing anything they say.

It also is getting nasty check this link

http://www.nflgetreal.com/

This is a TW link

I wish I could have a dish and then TW could do what ever with its remote.

25 cents x 14.4 million is quite a chunk of change.

my point is that i don't think anyone here is privy to what the actual negotiations are and i don't see NFL caring any more about the fans than TWC does about its customers. it's hard to justify a position on either side with what we know.

all i can say is that the people who think TWC ought to just eat the cost are obviously not TW shareholders.

scruffy out...

I'd think the NFL do care about the fans. Ad rates go up, presumably, with more viewers.

Disregarding meaningless preseason games and endless reruns, the NFL channel offers about 35 to 40 hours of programming over an entire year (8,760 hours). It's a terrible waste of precious cable channel space.

We could make the same reply to any network. Most of what we have is not watched. We get, for example, 40 music channels and listen to 3 at most. The other 37 we don't need. We get who knows how many shopping channels and never watch or buy anything from any of them. We never use the on demand services because we use Netflix. The list goes on. Ala carte is good maybe -- if it would let us get what my wife and I want to watch and not what TW thinks is good for us. What worries me about Ala carte is that TW will still control the master list and I may still not have NFLN or ESPN2HD or something else then Ala carte is not any good. Most people only watch about 20 of the channels that come into their home. We have all the religious channels and Fox news blocked because we don't want any of that in our homes. But TW will not block them at the headend. So we don't really have any choice -- TW can take the heat about NFLN and people leave and get a dish but if they don't want to carry it, they won't and people like me who can't have a dish are stuck.

There's one difference between NFS and all those channels that you don't watch; from what I understand, NFL feels that it deserves more money than other channels.

Big question. Was LA under Adelphia or Comcast and how long did you have ESPN2-HD? Why do you guys get to keep it, now that TWC has taken over? When Comcast added ESPN-2 to their line up back in June, they left it off their DFW system.

My hero!

dallas has both (twc took over from comcast)

wonder if they'll be gone after 30 days though

Wait, it has nothing to do with bandwidth, but CinemaxHD is going to cost TWC more money to carry? A channel owned by TWCs parent company? Im not buying that.

Haven't you noticed yet? EVERYTHING costs TWC more money...they just don't want to pass it on to us poor subscribers...

As a non-NFL fan, I feel that a sports pack would be a great way to settle this dispute. For the fans that really want the channel, you can still get it, without having to hike up the rates of people who aren't clamoring for this channel (and believe me, there are a lot of those)