TWC Consumer Input Thread - Page 23

Originally Posted by Marky_Mark896

When I lived in SC, I loved TWC. That was back when Diana (The person that started this thread) was still involved on AVS. Diana was awesome. I moved to Ohio about the same time as she moved to Connecticut, and my area was a former Adelphia area. We stayed with them for almost 3 years, and had very, very few HD channels added, and a couple taken away. I have been fed up for the last few months and called a local D* installer. I waited until the installer had the SWM available and all our local channels in HD. I had them install last week, and it's awesome. We had a snow storm this week, and never lost a single minute of signal, or picture quality for that matter. I was afraid to change to them, but now I'm thrilled I did. I am waiting for an all out thunderstorm this spring to see how resilient my signal is, but I won't even be disappointed if it does cut out during a major downpour because it's worth it to me to get the huge numbers of HD channels available on D*. I figure if TWC ever adds some HD in the future, or gets SDV in my area, I may try them again after my contract is up. But for now, I love my D* and am keeping TWC only for roadrunner. Make sure you research your installer before you get D* and don't just call 1800directv and get some moron installer if you do decide to change though. My installer went above and beyond for us and we have very strong signals and a well mounted dish. Rambling over.

Originally Posted by Crazywoody

I agree about Diana. Wonder what happened to her. If she even is still working for Time Warner. Anyone know?

Make sure you research your installer before you get D* and don't just call 1800directv and get some moron installer if you do decide to change though.

Originally Posted by B7k

I am annoyed with TWC NEO when i signed up for "Digital Cable" I was excited but my excitement soon faded as i had learned how to enter the main os (SARA, I have seen super Nintendo games with better graphics) and check the mpeg status of a channel and found out that their were some digital channels. But most of them were still in analog. Although the on demand app is new and very good it just dose not make up for the lies the customer rep told me "Ya all channels above 100 are all digital" That was a bunch of BS If only i could get U-verse.

Originally Posted by jcalabria

It would be extremely unusual and very doubtful that much of anything beyond channel 78 (550MHz) was analog. That is almost universally true across all operators, with the notable exception of Cox, which pushed analog beyond 550MHz in some systems.

Beyond that, many (not all) TWC systems have all or nearly all of the "analog" channels 2-78 simulcast in digital, albeit with 12-16 channels stuffed per QAM channel. Although this can vary among systems (especially in systems acquired from other operators such as Adelphia), it has become somewhat common to find STBs in TWC systems without analog tuners, meaning that those systems have 100% simulcast in place - EVERYTHING delivered on those systems by digital STB is digital.

Originally Posted by B7k

I want everyone too know im a novice just learning how this digital cable works but I had forgot to mention the area i did move into was built on an old adelphia infrastructure and im going to list some of these so called digital channels beyond 100 using my favorites http://www.twclineup.com/lineups/NEO...dLU_102407.pdf

SARA INFO
LOTS and LOTS of software Anomalies
Mostly WARNINGS! about an IPG Daemon ??
Current QAM status
ch106 cartoon network freq:477.000MHz Tuning Mode:Analog
ch113 hallmark freq:321.000MHz Tuning Mode:Analog
ch114 tvland freq:429.000MHz Tuning Mode:Analog
ch115 american life tv freq:711.000MHZ Tuning Mode:QAM-256Bs (Digital)
ch130 discovery freq:405.000MHZ Tuning Mode:Analog
ch132 science channel freq:765.000MHz Tuning Mode:QAM-256Bs (Digital)

ok i think you can grasp what is going on the rest of my favorites past 100 are like that hit or miss. What i think is going on here is most of the channels past 100 are clones of the basic cable analog setup the more i read up on this technology of cable systems the more informed i am when talking to customer support and they usually have no idea of what im talking about so i usually get passed off too tier 2or3 support lol Then found this forum so i though what the heck signed up and found this topic so now i hope to find better answers here then the cable company

Originally Posted by jcalabria

You appear to be correct about the clones... you will note that the three channels listed as analog all have relatively low RF frequencies... below the Ch 78/550MHz boundary I mentioned:

• Display Channel 106 = 477 MHz = RF Channel 66
• Display Channel 113 = 321 MHz = RF Channel 40
• Display Channel 114 = 429 MHz = RF Channel 58
• Display Channel 130 = 405 MHz = RF Channel 54

It looks like the analog channel is just mapped in the box to the higher display channel.

I would think that you being on an ex-Adelphia system has a huge bearing on things like this... first, Adelphia really ran their systems into the ground before they packed it in. Second, the channel mapping probably helps getting the channel lineups closer to the "real" TWC systems in the area until the system can be upgraded and the regulatory hurdles jumped to allow the systems to truly become one.

Originally Posted by B7k

you have confirmed what i have believed i hope it dose not take too long to get the network upgraded as i had mystro where i lived before but it was an old twc area and every thing was digital and enhanced. but as for the internet for $45/mo i have no complants and i did not sign up for the turbo service with power boost i should only be geting 4-5Mb/s down Residential - 6Mbps/512Kbps as for my upload it has stayed the same i was able to reset some things in my SB5120 modem i bought @ microcenter i have no idea what i did or why i got such a spike in my downstream but im not complaining sometimes i wonder why i even use the cable too watch tv with such services as hulu and a good graphics card output with s-video i find my self only watch things ondemand lol

Originally Posted by lasko

Been using an antenna and basic cable on my HD sets. Decided to look at Sat, Fios and digital cable HD. It seems to be the same with all of them. They claim to offer a million channels but when you look at their packages you really get a bunch of junk.
example - digital cable:
Music channels most people could care less about.
Just about every free HD channel is dupicated in the basic, standard and digital basic in SD.
But wait there's more....You also get free faith and spansih channels.
And how about all the shopping channels? Just what we all like to do is just shop from the comfort of our living room.
They then break out some of the HD offerings from the three basic lists, again dupicating channels and make little extra cost tiers out of them.
I understand they are looking to make money, but offer something people really want.
These overpaid TV provider execs that setup these packages need to look for a new career.
HD is now the standard but we still get to pay for the old analog signal. Its like coming out with color TV and telling us we have to pay to watch a program in color. All we want is good HD programming wthout all the other junk. But they keep telling us we get 200+ channels, only thing is 150 of them are garbage!
Buffalo, NY