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The baseball playoffs are in HD though, so it's well worth it for me.

Every time I tuned into CNN HD today, it was in SD. Does anyone know what time frames they actually show a HD newscast?

Last night from 8 PM - 9 PM and then 10 PM - midnight was in HD. This morning, "American Morning" from 6-9 AM is in HD. From what I've seen so far it seems like most of their studios for the primetime programs are equipped for HD.

Yes. Larry King (9-10pm) was not in HD (probably just as well), but the HD studio shows look very good.

Mickey

Everybody Loves Raymond was not in HD (stretched) either, although I'm not sure of its original format. Oddly enough, TBS did show some HD commercials...

anyone know if an ATSC tuner can pick up TBS straight from the cable or is it encrypted and needs to go through a box?

Just guessing, but only network TV goes through unencrypted (ABC, CBS, NBC), so I'd say it would have to go through a box.

It would be nice if I could pick up TBS-HD at all... still stuck at the "One Moment Please." They had a tech at the local Comcast pay center, and they're having the same problems. So, they're aware of it .

Well I'm picking it up, but it keeps freezing and macroblocking. It was doing this the other night too and its the only HD channel that does it.

I'm getting freezing/macroblocking on the 2 new HD channels. One tv has the HD box , the other has CableCard.

Freezing isn't too often, about 1/4 of a second about once or twice a minute.

I'm in Lowell, BTW

I am nearby - North Chelmsford, no issues for me.

I am in Billerica - I have been having some problems on 831. Not bad - see it every few minutes, although it seems to be getting less frequent. I did report it to Comcast.

The macroblocking on 831 seems to be a common problem around the Boston area. Somewhere at Comcast they must have a piece of equipment that is broken or not set up correctly. It is very similar to the problems we had on ESPN-HD a few months back.

I didn't have any PQ problems with 831 yesterday, out here in the western suburbs.

Mickey

It seems some people in the Boston area are getting pixellation on TBS-HD, and some people aren't. I wonder what the problem is?

I might be in a minority, but I have a perfect TBS picture. No skipping or pixelation to speak of. But then again, I've had excessive problems with Fox and TNT (although this one might just be a broadcast/compression issue, not a Comcast issue). CNN HD has yet to appear on my guide, what gives?

Anyone notice that NBC has recently had some underscan problems? Just recently with the new season there's a nice big yellow bar on the left side of the screen. My roommate's TV does the same thing. Fox used to have this problem on the top, but now that has been fixed.

I'm in Brookline, btw.

Has anyone had the following problem: Sound dropping out on HD channels or when changing channels, the TV Guide stays frozen for 5 seconds on the screen. Lately the box seems to be lagging when I give it commands (change channel, go into My DVR, etc.).

The command response lag is a known bug with these DVRs, thought to be caused by the large amount of guide data that needs to be stored and updated.

Mickey

No TBS HD in Cambridgeport last night for my Game 1 ALDS party. Boy was I pissed. Only a "This channel should be available shortly" message. I tried hard booting my DVR a couple of times and then called support. They told me TBS HD was not going to be available at all for my zip code. Today I had a chat session with a support rep who claims it is now on for 02139 - I'll have to check when I get home.

I'm so excited someone else is getting the "shortly" message. Although I'm in 02494. This is getting ridiculous.

Having a rep "hit" it did nothing, unplugging and plugging it in did nothing. Very annoying.

Cool thing though, Don Orsillo's announcing the Philadelphia-Colorado game.

I have cable cards..3 of them. And not one of my devices get the TBS HD. Now I have to wait for them to come over and replace all 3 cards as all other tries have fixed nothing.
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Let us know how that turns out because I'm pretty sure all 3 cards aren't bad. Sometimes the tv needs to have something updated in the menu for the cable cards, sometimes just the right hit from the office but not all 3 cards going bad at the same time. There are a couple good techs in Weymouth (I think that's where you are) so cross your fingers.

I have CableCard on a Samsung DLP and it has a feature called Channel List Re-organization within the Cablecard setup menu. This always does the trick for me.

THanks I tried both on the Sony and the TivoHD. No luck. I have had other new channels come in since the cards went in a while ago. This is the first time new channels did not show up. The techs were here for 2 hours yesterday so tomorrow all that is left is to let them replace the cards.

Still no TBS HD in Cambridgeport. Same lame message. It's painful not to be able to watch the Yankees choke in HD, and no HD for tomorrow's game either. I'm so pissed at Comcast.

I'm still getting it here for 5 seconds at a time. i've called Comcast 3 times and everytime is the same old sh*t. Unplug the box, reset the box remotely etc. not sure what to do at this point

Looks like there we will no TBS HD in candia, nh. I watch the game at a bar last night and just turned on the 831 to see the yankees and got the available shortly message. I just called comcast and they said I won't have it until 11/17! I believe my headend is out of manchester or maybe derry, both large cities and you would think these headends would have TBS HD. I have never had a channel not turned on when it was available to the rest of new england.

831 was fine tonight in Billerica. I would like to think that Comcast has corrected this problem. Great to watch the Yankees loss in HD!

TBS HD is mysteriously working this morning in Needham, at the cost of TNT-HD... that's gone to the "One Moment Please"; CNN-HD is also not working yet.

Anyone here using Windows Vista Media Center edition and the ATI TV Wonder digital cable tuner? I'm wondering how much hair the Comcast tech will lose when they come out next week to install a CableCARD in the ATI box ...

Tony

Apropos nothing, I have been enjoying watching the WSOP in HD because I can finally get a good enough view of the poker chips to see that they are indeed Paul-Sons chips this year.