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post #421 of 2705
9/10/07 at 1:28pm
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If i do recall correctly it is RG-6, but i am not positive. I must say that in my own defense i wasnt really thinking when i purchased it, and it was an impromptu Home Depot purchase of the cheapest coax...

I only have one coupler and its going to one outlet, no splitters etc.

Check to make sure you don't have any insulating wires touching the core wire on any of your splices.
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post #422 of 2705
9/10/07 at 1:47pm
Does anyone with Comcast HDTV service have two converter boxes - either DVR or just STB? We have a DVR and added a STB last month. At the time, I was told the cost would be $7 per month. When we received this month's bill, the $7 HDTV Converter charge was there along with another $6.95 monthly fee described as Digital Outlet.

While no one mentioned this second charge when I inquired about getting the box nor when I picked it up, the CSR I spoke with said I should have expected it. I'm supposed to receive a call back from a supervisor soon.

Has anyone else experienced this $6.95 charge? If so did you successfully fight it?
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post #423 of 2705
9/10/07 at 1:56pm
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Has anybody heard anything from Comcast about the network upgrade and when they might have the bandwidth for WSYM's FoxHD feed in East Lansing? (The reps on Comcast's phonebank were very polite but completely unable to answer.)

Oh, duh. Forgot the obvious source. WSYM, who are as anxious as me for this to get settled.

I exchanged e-mail with Lyle Schulze of WSYM, who has been in contact with Comcast engineering. No promises from Comcast, but the buildout is progressing and hopes are to have FoxHD on Comcast by year's-end. Too late for the Lions, but hopefully in time to see which terrorists have it in for LA this year...
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post #424 of 2705
9/10/07 at 2:09pm
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Originally Posted by TTRider View Post

Does anyone with Comcast HDTV service have two converter boxes - either DVR or just STB? We have a DVR and added a STB last month. At the time, I was told the cost would be $7 per month. When we received this month's bill, the $7 HDTV Converter charge was there along with another $6.95 monthly fee described as Digital Outlet.

While no one mentioned this second charge when I inquired about getting the box nor when I picked it up, the CSR I spoke with said I should have expected it. I'm supposed to receive a call back from a supervisor soon.

Has anyone else experienced this $6.95 charge? If so did you successfully fight it?

Very normal and there is no way to fight it, its just one of those hidden fees . You can have as many analog tvs hooked up as you want, but you want a digital box and there is an outlet fee.
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post #425 of 2705
9/11/07 at 9:59am
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Check to make sure you don't have any insulating wires touching the core wire on any of your splices.

I'll have to double check all of my splices, ill do that tonight. Thanks for the tip! That might very well be the problem, hopefully it is!

Ill check tonight to see what type of coax i have, i would have been able to post on the internet at home, but yet again as some of you might know my feud with Comcast. They were suppose to come Friday, then Sat. then yesterday, and guess what no one showed up, and was put on perma hold. So they "might" be coming tomorrow.
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post #426 of 2705
9/12/07 at 5:35pm
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Originally Posted by TTRider View Post

Does anyone with Comcast HDTV service have two converter boxes - either DVR or just STB? We have a DVR and added a STB last month. At the time, I was told the cost would be $7 per month. When we received this month's bill, the $7 HDTV Converter charge was there along with another $6.95 monthly fee described as Digital Outlet.

While no one mentioned this second charge when I inquired about getting the box nor when I picked it up, the CSR I spoke with said I should have expected it. I'm supposed to receive a call back from a supervisor soon.

Has anyone else experienced this $6.95 charge? If so did you successfully fight it?

Well, I fought the $6.95 charge and won. I spoke to three CSRs on the phone over the past several days. All stated I should have expected both charges. Today, I drove down to the Comcast office on Miller Road to return the STB. The clerk I spoke to said the phone CSRs were crazy and immediately removed the recurring $6.95 charge from our account.

I left with the STB in my hand and now have it hooked up to our theater.
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post #427 of 2705
9/13/07 at 11:44am
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Originally Posted by TTRider View Post

Well, I fought the $6.95 charge and won. I spoke to three CSRs on the phone over the past several days. All stated I should have expected both charges. Today, I drove down to the Comcast office on Miller Road to return the STB. The clerk I spoke to said the phone CSRs were crazy and immediately removed the recurring $6.95 charge from our account.

I left with the STB in my hand and now have it hooked up to our theater.

That sure seems like a whole lot of work for you to pay them
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post #428 of 2705
9/13/07 at 11:51am
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Originally Posted by cornell_lingus View Post

That sure seems like a whole lot of work for you to pay them

It was a frustrating experience but at least I have dedicated cable receivers for both our HDTVs now.
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post #429 of 2705
9/15/07 at 1:11pm
ABC is doing the Michigan/Notre Dame game in HD but WLAJ isn't running the feed. Anybody got a number for the WWMT control room?
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post #430 of 2705
9/15/07 at 6:42pm
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ABC is doing the Michigan/Notre Dame game in HD but WLAJ isn't running the feed. Anybody got a number for the WWMT control room?

Its stupid, they switched it over after halftime if i do recall correctly. I got home from the State game, and turned on the Michigan game hoping to see Michigan get its butt kicked again in HD but NOOO, it wasnt! So mad, at both things! hahahah.
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post #431 of 2705
9/16/07 at 10:51am
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ABC is doing the Michigan/Notre Dame game in HD but WLAJ isn't running the feed. Anybody got a number for the WWMT control room?

You have to call WWMT newsline and ask them because they do the master control for WLAJ out of K'zoo.
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post #432 of 2705
9/17/07 at 3:41pm
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You have to call WWMT newsline and ask them because they do the master control for WLAJ out of K'zoo.

I just got an email back from WWMT programming replying to my "Hey! Throw the switch!" emails from Saturday. They tell me that, "ABC does not broadcast every college football game in HD. The primetime games on Saturday nights are in HD, but only a few daytime games are in HD. We 'upconvert' ABC's signal to HD at the local level." (No response from Jim Steffey, WWMT's engineer.)

So, apparently I have bigger problems. Not only can't I read a TV schedule, I can't tell upconverted SD from HD and I completely imagined the "ESPN on ABC" logo and the ABCHD bug. Time to go see the ophthalmologist.
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post #433 of 2705
9/17/07 at 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by SMWinnie View Post

I just got an email back from WWMT programming replying to my "Hey! Throw the switch!" emails from Saturday. They tell me that, "ABC does not broadcast every college football game in HD. The primetime games on Saturday nights are in HD, but only a few daytime games are in HD. We 'upconvert' ABC's signal to HD at the local level." (No response from Jim Steffey, WWMT's engineer.)

So, apparently I have bigger problems. Not only can't I read a TV schedule, I can't tell upconverted SD from HD and I completely imagined the "ESPN on ABC" logo and the ABCHD bug. Time to go see the ophthalmologist.

Yeah, they will always give you a fluff reply a few days later, emails on weekends won't get touched. Have to make the call to get anything done immediately.
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post #434 of 2705
9/19/07 at 9:52am
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Noticed a new digital channel yesterday, 189 GMC, i think was the label. Its a Christian music channel. Odd placement, figured it should be lower with the music channels or up with the church channels
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post #435 of 2705
9/20/07 at 12:21am
Hi, I was hoping you fine gents could help me with a problem. I've got my trusty 19in Dell LCD that I wanted to hook up to my comcast HD box using the DVI output. Unfortunately, I was hit by the plague that is HDCP. My monitor was born before HDCP came out, so it won't work for longer than 3 seconds.

Alternatively, I tried hooking the box up to my pc with a firewire cable and it worked...for just ESPN2HD and the local channels. Everything else was 5C encrypted.

So my question is this: will I have any luck asking Comcast to disable 5C on the other HD channels or should I just pop the extra 200 bucks on an HDCP compliant monitor?
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post #436 of 2705
9/20/07 at 6:29am
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Originally Posted by farhuda View Post

Hi, I was hoping you fine gents could help me with a problem. I've got my trusty 19in Dell LCD that I wanted to hook up to my comcast HD box using the DVI output. Unfortunately, I was hit by the plague that is HDCP. My monitor was born before HDCP came out, so it won't work for longer than 3 seconds.

Alternatively, I tried hooking the box up to my pc with a firewire cable and it worked...for just ESPN2HD and the local channels. Everything else was 5C encrypted.

So my question is this: will I have any luck asking Comcast to disable 5C on the other HD channels or should I just pop the extra 200 bucks on an HDCP compliant monitor?

sounds like you are SOL, does your monitor have Component inputs?
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post #437 of 2705
9/20/07 at 9:26am
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Originally Posted by jefbal99 View Post

sounds like you are SOL, does your monitor have Component inputs?

I agree with Jeff, sounds like you need a more up to date monitor
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post #438 of 2705
9/20/07 at 2:13pm
Ok, so the comcast guy comes out today and checks out my box and says "we don't support DVI connections, if you go back to the office on Miller and get a box with HDMI it should work.

Lo and behold, it gives me the same problem. Thing is, the box says that HDCP is disabled. What else could be causing the problem?
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post #439 of 2705
9/20/07 at 4:00pm
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Ok, so the comcast guy comes out today and checks out my box and says "we don't support DVI connections, if you go back to the office on Miller and get a box with HDMI it should work.

Lo and behold, it gives me the same problem. Thing is, the box says that HDCP is disabled. What else could be causing the problem?

What box do you have? I don't believe that HDCP is disabled on any of the comcast boxes when using DVI or HDMI.

What inputs does your monitor have?
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post #440 of 2705
9/20/07 at 4:10pm
Swapped a motorola dct6200 for a dch3200. The port status menu said hdcp was disabled.
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post #441 of 2705
9/21/07 at 7:39am
When i had my Comcast HD box i had it hooked up for a little while to my Dell 2405FPW, and to tell you the truth i think it kind of looked like crap, no where near as nice a picture as my LCD HDTV (yes i know the difference in resolution between 1333 x 768 and 1920 x 1200), what i would do is get an HD tv card for your computer, but thats just me. hahah
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post #442 of 2705
9/21/07 at 3:12pm
I'll look for an affordable Widescreen LCD monitor with 2-5ms response time and DVI-HDCP. I'm in no situation to be going all on an HDTV just yet, but I can at least spare 250.
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post #443 of 2705
9/22/07 at 12:15pm
WLAJ forgot to go to HD for the Michigan game again.
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post #444 of 2705
9/22/07 at 1:38pm
Just put a different antenna on my roof (to get a better signal on WKAR to record "The War") and did a rescan on my receiver, found WKAR-DT is now running two more sub channels (23-3, and 23-4). I also found WLLA from Kazoo/B.C. on digital channel 45. WLLA maps to channels 64-1 and 64-2, nice strong signal here near Potterville.
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post #445 of 2705
9/22/07 at 7:34pm
Is forgetting to turn on the HD feed a problem with WLAJ?
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post #446 of 2705
9/22/07 at 9:12pm
I live in Howell near Pickney zip 48843. I was hoping to get away with a cm 4221 or at most cm 4882. I am looking for an antenna to use in my attic or indoors for Detroit/Lansing hd/dtv. I currently am using a Radio Shack 15-1892 with so so results. I would like a more stable picture. I don't want to invest a lot of $$$ because when my Dish contract is up I am changing to Directv w/hd. I refuse to pay Dish's upgrade prices and new contract. Most store antennas are junk and if I order one off the internet I don't want to try to return it.
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post #447 of 2705
9/23/07 at 7:39am
Did anyone watch the State game on NBC? I was really shocked at how bad the camera/editing was on NBC, i guess i am spoiled by ESPN on ABC. The announcers were really boring too, and the guy at half time talked for 2 minutes about NCAA (even though he said "Now lets see some NFL highlights from today") and then the rest of the time NFL stuff.

Another thing was this morning i was watching WLAJ and saw an add for "ABC 3" what is going on, are they re-branding ABC 53?
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post #448 of 2705
9/24/07 at 6:28am
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Originally Posted by farhuda View Post

WLAJ forgot to go to HD for the Michigan game again.

I called them during pregame and got the switch flipped. came back from commercial and it was fine. I left the house right after that so i didn't get to watch the game.

If you guys see a station not showing an HD feed, you need to call their news line and ask for MasterControl.

WLAJ is done by WWMT's K'zoo office
WILX, WLNS just call their newsline.

WSYM, I'm not sure because their newsline goes to WILX's office, but with FOX's splicer system, they shouldn't have any feed issues as I believe the network controls just about everything.

Edit in: I added some info for calling news lines and asking for master control to get HD feeds turned on. Please be active and make a call if you see programming issues.
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post #449 of 2705
9/24/07 at 8:33am
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Another thing was this morning i was watching WLAJ and saw an add for "ABC 3" what is going on, are they re-branding ABC 53?

Sure it wast for WWMT CBS 3 in West Michigan, they are sister stations?
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post #450 of 2705
9/24/07 at 10:03am
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Sure it wast for WWMT CBS 3 in West Michigan, they are sister stations?

WLAJ's new brand is ABC-3. Premiering tonight:
ABC-3 news at 6
ABC-3 News at 10 on The CW
ABC-3 News at 11

The "3" is the same logic that WOTV uses for their "4" I guess they think that viewers attach more credibility to single digit VHF style numbers.
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