Lansing, MI - HDTV - Page 3

spotdog14,

Thanks for "taking the arrows" on Comcast E.L. dropping the ESPN/Disc. HD channels. Since I work at home developing web apps and administer over 10 remote web servers, didn't want to chance getting my HSI messed up over a couple of cable channels. Also have real-time stock software hooked up for swing trading.
Certainly get my $ worth out of HSI. Have had very few problems with it over the years.

I agree with jefbal99 and homcom, Comcast is bringing the E.L. area in line with what they've been doing in all areas of the country.
Too bad they couldn't have found a more graceful way to do it.
I'll probably just take the path of least resistance and pay the extra $10/mo for Digital Classic and be done with it.

Got a bad case of the shakes watching Duke/Maryland last night in SD.
Ready to go around the neighborhood with sign - "Will work for HD".
Can I shovel your driveway or mow your lawn to watch a college bball game in HD ?

Make sure hdj has to bring the beer & brats during CFB season, too.

The sanctity of my couch during CFB season might also be violated. I was the first among my friends and family to get an HDTV. Now that most of them have seen mine, or have seen one elsewhere, I have a whole lot of people that want to be at my place for major sporting events.

Anybody on here use Millennium as their cable provider? I'm not going to get the Sunday Ticket this upcoming year, so I'm thinking of switching to cable. Millennium is the only choice in Mason.

Their channel lineup shows that they have all of the local HD channels. They also have an HD DVR. My original HD box (Hughes E86) is starting to go. DirecTV gave me the run around when trying to get a new box. If I can get similar service from Millennium, I'll switch.

It looks like it's the same for the others as well. WLNS has used a subchannel that has been rarely used. My guess is that they've just assigned it a channel instead of having to worry about it. I think that it was used before during March Madness.

I'm in the same boat. I have D*, and MDM is the cable option. Based on my experience with MDM, I would not go with them. They are technically very far behind. I had both TV and internet from them, and they both had frequent outages. The (Non-Digital) picture is horrendous. When I dropped them, they did not have an HD DVR. For my money, I'm sticking with D*, and hoping that the new sats are up soon with plenty of HD content.

If and when they parcel out a subchannel it's not like it will be a secret.

makes me so happy that i am in the East Lansing network....

Confirm New Channels on Lansing network:

"We are happy to announce 3 more HD channels: A&E HD on 200, National Geographic HD on 199 and Universal HD on 208 effective 4/3/07."

My prayers have been answered. Makes me feel a bit better. The Comcast HSI connection was breaking up almost every day for a week and I almost cancelled the service. I guess they were doing some upgrades.

Are we certain that Comcast is upgrading the old 550MHz East Lansing TCI infrastructure?

I haven't heard anything from Comcast and the thread here seems to indicate nothing more than a revision in the billing software at the business office.

The regional HD feeds would be spots except for one featured national HD game each night/at a time if my guess is correct. Some of the pressure for HD space is relieved when national channels pick games up, such as Thursday nights when HD Net broadcasts an exclusive NHL HD broadcast and D* can broadcast NBA games in HD.

Has anybody heard who has the CCHA contract for next season? I'm wondering if the new Big Ten Network might try for it or whether they will be picked up by Fox Sports Detroit again. Doesn't seem like FSD broadcast as many CCHA games this year as last.

Does anybody know whether D* (and other providers for that matter) will make the new Big Ten Network part of the basic package or will we have to pay extra to subscribe to that network (or to it as part of the RSN package)?

Big Ten Network will be part of D* Total Choice package or whatever they are calling it now.

The BTN has said it wants to be on basic cable in the midwest and digital throughtout the country.

can someone explain something to me real quick? As you may know i have Comcast... and now have digital what ever package. Why is it that channel 177 looks so much better than 62? (they are both the history channel).

Actually why is it that 99 and below look like crap when compared to anything over 99? Is it because they are digital channels?

humm, that is strange. I have noticed that we have a few duplicate channels in the EL lineup. Maybe you could field a guess as to why the higher channel looks better, is it because it is "digital" where as the other channel is just regular SD cable?

to tell you the truth i cannot tell the difference between the analog and digital most of the time on my SD tv's (but sometimes i can really tell on Spike when watching Star Trek, it looks like crap even on my SD tv). But i can defiantly tell the difference on my 32inch LCD HDTV between any channel higher than 99 and any channel lower than 99.

So i guess that kinda answers my question, it must be analog vs. digital.

It sounds like a analog vs. digital to me. How are you receiving the signal on each of your tvs, through a STB or directly into your TV. Is ADS fully in place on your system? If ADS in place you should be seeing all channels as digital with a STB.

Another possible quality issue with the analog channels is the format conversions they go through. For cable channels they come into the plant digitally they are just converted to analog but the local stations and other cable channels that come in as analog are converted to digital then back to analog.