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post #241 of 810
11/18/08 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by bierboy View Post

Nice lineup! How recently were these additions made?

WOW, they got theirs all at once.
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post #242 of 810
11/18/08 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by iowahawkeye View Post

Mediacom is adding to the Iowa City headend the following in HD on or about 12/18 as announced in the Iowa City Press Citizen today.
A&E
CNN
FOOD NETWORK
HGTV
HISTORY
SCIFI
TBS
Also FX & SPEED are being added to the Iowa City headend BUT WILL NOT be availble in Iowa City. (To many local IC channels)

Are those additions in Iowa City all in the Family Cable tier?

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Originally Posted by CGBS View Post

When I go to mediacomtoday.com and look under TV listings, for HD channels I only get:

830 ESPNHD
831 ESN2HD
840 UHD
841 HDT
850 HDNET
851 HDNTM
880 HBOHDe
885 STZ1H
890 SHOHDe
892 TMCHD

Apparently, for HD, I don't get USA, TNT, Sci-Fi, etc. That can't be right, can it?

I don't think so...most of those are in the "premium" tiers, not family cable.
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post #243 of 810
11/18/08 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by bierboy View Post

are those additions in iowa city all in the family cable tier?



yes, but you'll need a HD box of some sort from Mediacom to see any of the HD channels except the locals, which are not scrambled.
LL
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post #244 of 810
11/18/08 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by iowahawkeye View Post

yes, but you'll need a HD box of some sort from Mediacom to see any of the HD channels except the locals, which are not scrambled.

Yup....here's hoping they add some here in the Quad Cities. I watch with my TiVo Series 3 with CableCARDS. I'd love me some SciFi HD and FX HD.
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post #245 of 810
12/6/08 at 11:04am
New HD Channels in Des Moines launching on 12/10/2008:

SciFi HD ch 839
A&E HD ch 847
History HD ch 848
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post #246 of 810
12/6/08 at 11:09am
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Originally Posted by djbrettb View Post

New HD Channels in Des Moines launching on 12/10/2008:

SciFi HD ch 839
A&E HD ch 847
History HD ch 848

Have you seen an ad or what?

JDS in Moline.
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post #247 of 810
12/10/08 at 10:48am
New HD channels are now live:

Sci-Fi HD: 839
A&E HD: 847
History HD: 848
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post #248 of 810
12/10/08 at 11:12am
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Originally Posted by djbrettb View Post

New HD channels are now live:

Sci-Fi HD: 839
A&E HD: 847
History HD: 848

Moline had A&E on 747 but I don't see the other 2 at all.
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post #249 of 810
12/10/08 at 12:04pm
As far as I know, today's adds were only for the Des Moines/Ames, IA market.
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post #250 of 810
12/10/08 at 1:01pm
So does this officially make Cedar Rapids' Mediacom service the worst cable tv service in the country?
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post #251 of 810
12/10/08 at 1:34pm
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Originally Posted by Kelud View Post

So does this officially make Cedar Rapids' Mediacom service the worst cable tv service in the country?

no. yours would rank behind the central illinois area(champaign county, ford county).
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post #252 of 810
12/10/08 at 2:32pm
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Originally Posted by djbrettb View Post

New HD channels are now live:

Sci-Fi HD: 839
A&E HD: 847
History HD: 848

hard to believe my podunk little town has had these for a couple months before a large metropolis like Des Moines..
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post #253 of 810
12/11/08 at 6:35pm
I'm curious what everyone is being charged for the HD converter boxes, especially Mediacom customers but also others. I would like to watch the handful of HD channels Mediacom offers, but they charge $10 per month for the HD box. From what I've read online that's more than what others around the country are charged.
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post #254 of 810
12/11/08 at 7:42pm
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Originally Posted by Kelud View Post

I'm curious what everyone is being charged for the HD converter boxes, especially Mediacom customers but also others. I would like to watch the handful of HD channels Mediacom offers, but they charge $10 per month for the HD box. From what I've read online that's more than what others around the country are charged.

The HD box is $10 plus you pay $5 more for the service I think. My daughter got a DVR box and it magically picksup the non-premium HD channels - no extra cost.
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post #255 of 810
12/11/08 at 7:43pm
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Originally Posted by steppinrazer View Post

hard to believe my podunk little town has had these for a couple months before a large metropolis like Des Moines..

whats your podunk?
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post #256 of 810
12/15/08 at 8:14pm
Hm. I'm apparently able to partially pick stuff up now.

Local PBS is on 102-2

HDPPV (just a logo) 104-4

TNT HD (it first came on as tbs hd?) no audio 106-4

This is with a samsung box.

Any ideas on how to tune stuff in?
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post #257 of 810
12/19/08 at 4:43pm
FX and Speed got delayed in the Waterloo Iowa area and my Scifi HD isn't HD how awesome is that.
Oh, and Mediacom didn't know anything about Food HD
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post #258 of 810
12/19/08 at 6:00pm
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Originally Posted by Hotkey View Post

whats your podunk?

annawan.. about 40 east of you population 900
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post #259 of 810
12/20/08 at 6:17am
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Originally Posted by steppinrazer View Post

annawan.. about 40 east of you population 900

My car broke down once in Annawan....
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post #260 of 810
12/28/08 at 11:04am
Did anyone else loose some HD channels via firewire from the STB?

I record NFL off of FOX every Sunday using CAPDVHS. Today there's nothing coming out of the box for FOX, though I tested other locals and they record just fine.

Don't know if this is a MediaCom thing or a FOX thing.
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post #261 of 810
12/28/08 at 11:16am
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Originally Posted by Bobcrane View Post

Did anyone else loose some HD channels via firewire from the STB?

I record NFL off of FOX every Sunday using CAPDVHS. Today there's nothing coming out of the box for FOX, though I tested other locals and they record just fine.

Don't know if this is a MediaCom thing or a FOX thing.

Bob help me here please.

What is "via firewire from the STB"?

What is "CAPDVHS"?
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post #262 of 810
12/28/08 at 11:43am
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Originally Posted by Hotkey View Post

Bob help me here please.

What is "via firewire from the STB"?

What is "CAPDVHS"?

A few years back people figured out the Firewire port on many Motorola cable boxes is turned on. It basically streams a perfect copy of the data your cable box receives and displays on the TV.

The upshot is you can hook up a PC and get a nice clean High-Def recording of shows. Someone wrote a piece of software called CAPDVHS that captures the stream off the box.

I've got a firewire cable running from the cable box to a PC. I set the cable box on FOX, and schedule CAPDVHS to start capturing the data stream every Sunday. After it's done I then play back the file on the TV.

It's great to cut down on the time to watch a game. I skip commercials, half-time, and time between snaps.
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post #263 of 810
12/29/08 at 8:28am
so can you save these recorded programs and burn them to dvd or blu ray?
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post #264 of 810
12/29/08 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by Teisco View Post

so can you save these recorded programs and burn them to dvd or blu ray?

Yes, it saves a perfect copy of the MPEG2 stream coming into your STB. The only problem is, you cannot capture 5C encrypted channels (premium channels, most "cable" channels, etc). The locals are all *supposed* to be unencrypted, but I've had this issue with Mediacom as well. FOX actually captures fine for me right now, but lately here in Ames the local NBC station has been encrypted. I don't know why Mediacom is doing this.
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post #265 of 810
12/29/08 at 8:08pm
If you do a forum search of firewire stb you'll find everything you need to know to hook it up.

I was going to call MediaCom today but then I remembered there are a few things wrong with QAM channels as well (some are muted). So I want to log it all before I call.
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post #266 of 810
12/29/08 at 10:09pm
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Originally Posted by Bobcrane View Post

A few years back people figured out the Firewire port on many Motorola cable boxes is turned on. It basically streams a perfect copy of the data your cable box receives and displays on the TV.

The upshot is you can hook up a PC and get a nice clean High-Def recording of shows. Someone wrote a piece of software called CAPDVHS that captures the stream off the box.

I've got a firewire cable running from the cable box to a PC. I set the cable box on FOX, and schedule CAPDVHS to start capturing the data stream every Sunday. After it's done I then play back the file on the TV.

It's great to cut down on the time to watch a game. I skip commercials, half-time, and time between snaps.

crud. not too long ago i had to trade my motorola in for a newer model - appears to be Pace name brand on front. probably not the same neat "hidden" surprise though eh?

thanks for the details bob.
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post #267 of 810
12/30/08 at 7:39am
Has anyone heard when mediacom may be adding more HD channels to the quad cities? What channels are coming next?
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post #268 of 810
12/30/08 at 7:56am
I got QAM working on my PC late last night, only to find several of the stations in 4x3 mode instead of 16x9. It's like they're begging me to go DISH.
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post #269 of 810
12/30/08 at 9:51am
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Originally Posted by badgers8177 View Post

Has anyone heard when mediacom may be adding more HD channels to the quad cities? What channels are coming next?

I'd like to know that, too. I've checked the most recent bill for any announcement, but there is none.
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post #270 of 810
12/30/08 at 12:59pm
fyi, i just logged into my mediacom account website and it said i should have new hd channels: food, hgtv, fx, and speed

so we'll see when i get home, i'll post an update later

by the way im in central illinois
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