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post #2461 of 8457
2/11/08 at 4:27am
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Yes, I see pixelation in USA HD too.


USA is in 4:3 here
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post #2462 of 8457
2/11/08 at 11:49am
I'm sure this has been hashed and rehashed here, but WTF is up with Comcast's billing? My bill went up $6 from January to February for the same service.......Digital starter went from $55.29 to $58.30 and Digital Classic went from $7.95 to $10.95.....


Also, the only reason I have digital classic is so I get NESN HD and I think 1 or 2 other HDs like TNT and another one or two....Is that still the case? I primarily care about NESN HD. What a ripoff.
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post #2463 of 8457
2/11/08 at 11:59am
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Originally Posted by macd23 View Post

I'm sure this has been hashed and rehashed here, but WTF is up with Comcast's billing? My bill went up $6 from January to February for the same service.......Digital starter went from $55.29 to $58.30 and Digital Classic went from $7.95 to $10.95.....


Also, the only reason I have digital classic is so I get NESN HD and I think 1 or 2 other HDs like TNT and another one or two....Is that still the case? I primarily care about NESN HD. What a ripoff.

Its called the yearly price hike.
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post #2464 of 8457
2/11/08 at 12:50pm
I thought the hike took affect already, my bill just escalated from $122 to $125 a couple of months ago, I thought. Just checked, my bill escalated in October. Now again in January?
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post #2465 of 8457
2/11/08 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by macd23 View Post

I thought the hike took affect already, my bill just escalated from $122 to $125 a couple of months ago, I thought. Just checked, my bill escalated in October. Now again in January?

I'm not sure, but could you have had one of those 12 month intro rates?
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post #2466 of 8457
2/11/08 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by macd23 View Post

I'm sure this has been hashed and rehashed here, but WTF is up with Comcast's billing? My bill went up $6 from January to February for the same service.......Digital starter went from $55.29 to $58.30 and Digital Classic went from $7.95 to $10.95.....


Also, the only reason I have digital classic is so I get NESN HD and I think 1 or 2 other HDs like TNT and another one or two....Is that still the case? I primarily care about NESN HD. What a ripoff.

Not that it'll make you feel any better about it, but up until about 6 or 7 years ago NESN cost about $10 just by itself & you had to rent a box on top of that to get it. So just to get NESN cost almost $15 (and that was just analog!).
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post #2467 of 8457
2/11/08 at 6:11pm
My one year rate is "Up" in May. I have the $159 deal. If I cannot get it renewed its back to Digital Proffered and Internet (but adding HBO when Entourage and Big Love return) or an equivalent tier on Fios
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post #2468 of 8457
2/11/08 at 7:54pm
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Originally Posted by macd23 View Post

I'm sure this has been hashed and rehashed here, but WTF is up with Comcast's billing? My bill went up $6 from January to February for the same service.......Digital starter went from $55.29 to $58.30 and Digital Classic went from $7.95 to $10.95.....


Also, the only reason I have digital classic is so I get NESN HD and I think 1 or 2 other HDs like TNT and another one or two....Is that still the case? I primarily care about NESN HD. What a ripoff.

You don't need Digital Classic to get NESN HD.

You DO need it to get TNT HD, ESPN HD, MOJO, HD Theater, and a couple others.
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post #2469 of 8457
2/12/08 at 4:06am
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Originally Posted by chitchatjf View Post

My one year rate is "Up" in May. I have the $159 deal. If I cannot get it renewed its back to Digital Proffered and Internet (but adding HBO when Entourage and Big Love return) or an equivalent tier on Fios


What gives you any hope that the one year teaser rate will be renewable ?

-Ken
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post #2470 of 8457
2/12/08 at 12:18pm
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Originally Posted by kenvt View Post

What gives you any hope that the one year teaser rate will be renewable ?

-Ken

FIOS!
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post #2471 of 8457
2/13/08 at 10:41am
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Originally Posted by therob006 View Post

Chn 852 is being launched tonight for both home and away games for the Celtics.

I have also been told that Sci-Fi and Animal Planet HD are being launched next week but I have not been told which channels numbers these will be.

any news if this is going to happen this week?
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post #2472 of 8457
2/13/08 at 11:47am
I love valentines day
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post #2473 of 8457
2/13/08 at 12:42pm
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Originally Posted by L Supreme View Post

I love valentines day

I'm not much of a code breaker, but I think he might be saying that Sci-Fi and A.P. are coming tomorrow. Either that or he is telling us something personal about what he is doing with his Valentine tomorrow.

Mickey
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post #2474 of 8457
2/13/08 at 6:27pm
According to the NY Times, Comcast and RFD-TV have signed a multi-year distribution agreement, and Boston is mentioned as one of the markets that could get the channel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/bu...0cnd-imus.html

The focus of the article is that Imus' "new" radio show is carried on RFD-TV, but I'm looking forward to other programming on the channel. I used to love watching the Big Joe Polka Show when I had Dish.
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post #2475 of 8457
2/13/08 at 7:09pm
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Originally Posted by MickeyGee View Post

I'm not much of a code breaker, but I think he might be saying that Sci-Fi and A.P. are coming tomorrow. Either that or he is telling us something personal about what he is doing with his Valentine tomorrow.

Mickey

Me thinks i will be checking around 1230 or so.

862 confirmed for Sci Fi
863 confirmed for Animal Planet
882 confirmed for HDNet
883 confirmed for HDNet Movies -well we can only dream
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post #2476 of 8457
2/13/08 at 7:42pm
Sci-Fi NICE!!
HDNet / HDNet Movies NICENICENICE!!!
Awesome news!
FREAK!
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post #2477 of 8457
2/13/08 at 9:18pm
I'm in Boston and I definetly just got SciFi HD. I wasn't expecting anything and was flipping through stations and noticed that SciFi now had an 8-- equivalent. I googled about SciFi in HD for Boston and got this thread). My DVR still doesn't have a show schedule yet... so it must just have happened. Hooray, final season of BSG in HD
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post #2478 of 8457
2/13/08 at 11:47pm
I don't see HDNet or HDNet movies yet. If they do show up I will seriously reconsider staying with Comcast over FIOS. Not sure what I will do to be honest as they will both be pretty much on-par with what I desire.
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post #2479 of 8457
2/14/08 at 4:13am
SciFi HD (862) and Animal Planet HD (863) are live in Manchester, NH.

The HD Net comment above is just a joke.
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post #2480 of 8457
2/14/08 at 4:44am
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Originally Posted by macd23 View Post

I'm sure this has been hashed and rehashed here, but WTF is up with Comcast's billing? My bill went up $6 from January to February for the same service.......Digital starter went from $55.29 to $58.30 and Digital Classic went from $7.95 to $10.95.....


Also, the only reason I have digital classic is so I get NESN HD and I think 1 or 2 other HDs like TNT and another one or two....Is that still the case? I primarily care about NESN HD. What a ripoff.

I called Comcast CRS yesterday and told them I was sick of the price hikes and I was going to change to Direct TV, they gave me a promotion price which is $20 less per month for 1 year, so I am staying with Comcast.
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post #2481 of 8457
2/14/08 at 5:08am
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Originally Posted by chrisgeleven View Post

SciFi HD (862) and Animal Planet HD (863) are live in Manchester, NH.

The HD Net comment above is just a joke.

though i wish it wasn't
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post #2482 of 8457
2/14/08 at 5:26am
I'm very glad that we got SciFi-HD in time for the the final BSG season...

Good job, Comcast!
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post #2483 of 8457
2/14/08 at 5:52am
Do I need to have any level of service besides basic to get digital preferred? I have expanded basic and digital preferred with a cable card, but in light of the HD channels available I rarely watch the expanded channels.


Please disregard the above question. Upon further research I found the answer.
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post #2484 of 8457
2/14/08 at 6:38am
Any word on TLC-HD or Science Chanel-HD?? I rarely watch Sci-Fi or Animal Planet so these additions aren't that big of a deal to me. Better than nothing tho.
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post #2485 of 8457
2/14/08 at 9:10am
862 and 863 live in Bristol County as of last night. Chitchat,when you scan on your QAM tuner are they located at 68-1, 68-2 and 68-3? (for CSN-HD too.)
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post #2486 of 8457
2/14/08 at 4:24pm
So far I have seen nothing on Sci-Fi that is in HD. Everything is 4:3 SD material. Also on Animal planet the aspect ratio seems to be some type "zoom", NOT true HD material either.
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post #2487 of 8457
2/14/08 at 4:59pm
If you look at the Comcast guide, you'll see that Stargate: Atlantis is in HD and it looks like some of their movies are shown in HD.

According to the guide, tonight's showing of The Bone Eater at 9PM will be in HD...
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post #2488 of 8457
2/14/08 at 5:19pm
Yeah, Sci-Fi's made for TV movies are usually HD. I would have liked to have caught their Tin Man movie they ran a few weeks back- I'm sure they'll run it again.
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post #2489 of 8457
2/14/08 at 7:03pm
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Originally Posted by JoeBloggz View Post

So far I have seen nothing on Sci-Fi that is in HD. Everything is 4:3 SD material. Also on Animal planet the aspect ratio seems to be some type "zoom", NOT true HD material either.

Meerkat Manor and that Canadian guy who likes to bother dangerous animals were in HD, along with a show about tigers in a magic act.
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post #2490 of 8457
2/14/08 at 7:59pm
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Originally Posted by mgpt6 View Post

862 and 863 live in Bristol County as of last night. Chitchat,when you scan on your QAM tuner are they located at 68-1, 68-2 and 68-3? (for CSN-HD too.)

They're all encrypted.

In Lawrence CSN is at 487.75 = ch 68

Sci Fi HD is at 349.75 ch 45
Animal Planet is at 367.75 ch 48

See my next post
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